Editing Incarnation (section)

=== Abilities ===
It is an idea given life and thus unkillable with weapons. It is supported and fed through certain ideas, and weakened by taking the strength from that idea.<ref name=":9">“And nobody’s about to remove the local Conquest from the picture, to keep that from happening?”<br><br>“There are bigger things at play, and an Incarnation isn’t a monster you defeat with a sword or gun. It is an idea given life. You support it and feed it through certain ideas, and you defeat it by taking the strength from that idea. Most often, you accommodate them. But anything powerful enough to become sentient and sapient isn’t something that’s going away anytime soon.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/collateral-4-1/ excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref> Multiple copies/versions/emanations exist concomitantly and can absorb the lesser versions of themselves for strength.<ref>Some agencies contrive to bring these incarnations into being to suit their devices. Is there an agency invested in the apocalypse and Conquest’s part in that? Yes, but not in the way you’re thinking. [...] Such agencies want a narrative, and an Incarnation of Conquest arising from Toronto is a weak narrative at best. If such things come to pass, speculation suggests that another, greater Conquest would find, best, and absorb all its lesser kin for strength before taking action. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04 Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref><!----<ref>It created a vacuum.  The vacuum was a currency that could be used to pay certain forces, because they too had roads they had to travel, ways they sustained themselves, and things they wanted to pay for.  Just like Alpeana, they were constantly on the lookout for wrinkles and snarls in the fabric of things, and they sustained themselves by tending to those things. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/21 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.y]]</ref>--->

Incarnations will have abilities based on the thing they embody.<ref name=":8">“But if there’s no war-”<br><br>“He isn’t War, but Conquest. Massed forces, takeovers, forced change. He continues to find power in other ways. Yes, he prefers warfare and bloodshed, but he can draw power from the steady expansion of civilization into nature, from real estate, from business takeovers, government, law, and other small forms of tyranny. As an Incarnation, he can invest his power. Where Death might bring death to things by touching them, or Love might strike a couple through their hearts with a metaphorical arrow given form, Conquest can do the same.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04 Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref> They are among the types of Other that can become powerful enough to affect the area they inhabit as a sort of pseudo-[[Demesne]].<ref>“To be in Conquest’s domain is to be in a constant state of transition. Emotions rise and fall, there is fire and rebellion at first, then we make peace with the state of things. Broken things erode away, and then there is only defeat. But to be the Conqueror is not a simple thing either. They either take on a different role, which my lord cannot do, or they find new territory to seize, people to subjugate. The territory changes as he finds new ground.”<br><br>“I didn’t know a demesne could be this… out there. I mean, I read about apartments covered in flesh, but…”<br><br>“This isn’t a demesne, as you understand the term,” he said. “Some beings are strong enough to influence their surroundings simply by residing there.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/06 Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.2]]</ref>

Incarnations and related Others tend to be somewhat "inevitable",<ref>“That may be the case. In any event, we need protection and security while we call her out and bind her. She’s rooted to a huge power source, and that, to my understanding, makes her ''rough'' to deal with.”<br><br>“If her origin is Incarnation related,” Alexander said, “she’s going to have power like that. Incarnation related others tend to have something inevitable about them.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>or at least give off that impression, tapped into overwhelming power sources or growing stronger each time they're rebuffed.<ref>“The Doom would come back stronger each time. Incarnations and things stemming from them, like omens and the doom, they lean heavily into the inevitable, or the illusion of the inevitable,” Matthew said. “It’s in their makeup.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref><!----This is inpart because they give give over to other incarnations in a cycle <ref>


Incarnations were inevitable in part because they existed in flux with counterparts.  Comedy and Tragedy, Death and Life.

https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/18/dash-to-pieces-11-6/


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