Editing Alcazar (section)

== Usage ==
They are one of the subjects taught at [[BHI|Blue Heron Institute]].<ref name=":0">–Immaterial Realms – Visting Ruins, Storm, creating an Alcazar for diagnosis.<br>[...]<br>Stickemupp[Avery]:<br>realms are interesting to me<br>what’s an Alcazar?<br><br>A Literal Cat[Verona]:<br>a wooble search says it’s a kind of castle.<br><br>L♪Ell[Lucy]:<br>The big question is if its useful for what we’re doing. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/20 BHI Information Packet & text group]</ref> The BHI has several materials to make preparation easier.<ref>[[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref> 

Can be dangerous if the object in question has a dark past,<ref name=":2" /> whilst inside the practitioner must be careful about what they change and say as the object can resist you.<ref name=":3" />

An alcazar can be used as [[Demesne]], which can greatly expand the capabilities of the ritual.<ref name=":1">Sebastián is a Complex practitioner who finds, creates or encourages the creation of Incarnate Spirits that are enriched by being set on the world, then collected and stored in cards. For him, the Contrivance is the deck of custom-made cards, each card a binding for the specific Other, and the deck as a whole a battery for power he can gather, with the cards taking on color and additional detail as they divide up the power between them. He finds he spends enough time in the Alcazar constructed of his deck that he decides to formalize the arrangement, creating a Demesne where the Alcazar is forever erected.<br>[...]<br>The Complex practitioner Sebastián finds that the Demesne space is a refuge. The contrived situations, the deck of volatile Others, and the number of outside parties who want the cards for themselves are a constant onslaught, and the Demesne is a contrast to that; a place of rest and a vault few can penetrate. Because it is an Alcazar, he can spend this leisure time examining the deck for imperfections, taint, and influences, something he cannot do in the hectic day to day elsewhere, and he can remove any taint or alter any cards while within. Rules are adjusted to put the specific requirements of each card on hold while Sebastián and the deck are within. Later he expands this effect to ease the strict requirements for a time after leaving. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/12 Demesnes Text]</ref>

They can be used by the practitioner on themselves,<ref>“Alcazar.  Familiar with that?”<br>[...]<br>Matthew answered, “I am, but that’s only where you’d be turning yourself into one.  And that’s in a book my dad had me read more than half my lifetime ago.  I’d think guidelines are similar.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref><ref name=":3"/> specific specializations of [[Hollow]] practices such as a [[Host]], [[Heartless]]<ref>There are no realms directly associated with the Hollow Practices, but Alcazar practices can be used as a diagnostic tool, opening up one’s own Self and turning into a place that may be explored.  When something goes wrong or needs repair, or if a Heartless practitioner creates a void that something else tries to occupy, the Alcazar can be a means of handling that. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0 PACT DICE]</ref> or even [[Hyde]] will likely use this ritual or something broadly similar in the course of their careers.<ref>Hydes do not have a realm that they specifically tap into, exactly, but the Self is where their focus turns, and in the throes of a struggle with their Hyde, they may find the stage set not in reality, but in an Alcazar of their own Self, which may be the only place they can have a prolonged engagement with their alter ego.  Such Alcazars could also be sought out by the practitioner themselves as a means of diagnosing or handling longer-term issues. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XnItPOgCkPmtI6T34F5_SkwHjqyuJq1NisyfaElIv-w Hyde document]</ref>

A Receiver has a specialized section of [[The Paths]] that in many ways apes an Alcazar.<ref>One of the early offshoot practices from the ‘Dreamer’ practices, the Receiver initiates their practice not by putting down items to key into a Path, but by connecting to the Paths by other means and putting down core items to key into ''themselves''.  The ritual flings them out onto a structured arrangement of the Paths: first one very personal to them, then a central area, informed in part by their success and choices on the first Path.  From this central area, they can explore outward to twelve (sometimes seven) different Paths, with success in one area providing an opening to another.  This may be something like a personal Alcazar, replacing the usual symbolic representations with Paths that cover major dilemmas and aspects of character.<br>[...]<br> 

[Aisling] manages to narrowly escape, entering a hotel that the [[the finder
doppleganger won’t enter.

The receptionist there told her she could call home if she liked, but she suspected nobody would answer.  Still intent on exploring, she wandered the hotel, and found it consisted of a lobby and an elevator with twelve floors, each marked with a symbol.  Most of the buttons aren’t lit.

:''Aisling has found her reception area.  Assuming Aisling is a player in a Pactdice game, the GM may not wish to have to make twelve paths all at once, so he sketches out three and leaves the rest unlit.  These are easier, introductory ones.''

- [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aQSvQOcIm8pf54IsZacsajMIEIGr7CCPOxKk-rKd8zw Receiver]</ref>
===Alcazar Castellum===
An advanced version of the practice involving the alignment of the elements, echos and other fragments within an item (or items) into a more fortuitus alignment to bring out the best aspects of it.<ref>By way of the Alcazar ritual, an item can be turned into a place.  Within the ritual, the item may have aspects represented by figures or personalities- echoes housed by the item, representing history and sentiment.  These same aspects are what is pulled out with a hatching ritual.<br><br>And, for the enterprising practitioner, in what is sometimes called the Alcazar Castellum, aspects within an item already internally divided, or the aspects of multiple disparate items may be found and bound together by some fashion.  This is a ritualized practice that involves creating a scenario where the disparate forces can be forced into alignment; succeed, and the items (or aspects of an item in conflict) can be united together.  Fail, and they may be sundered. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>