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==Use by Practitioners==
Many old [[Practitioner]] families, even those that are not primarily Historians, will make use of their own notable ancestors in this fashion.<ref name=":5" /> They are arguably part of the [[establishment]] the empowers a family.<ref name=mix>“Anyway!” Verona interrupted. “''Heroic entities'' are kind of a mix of all three. They make a mark on history, leave a whole big beautiful picture of emotions around them, that’s the echo part. They get recorded by history and in the public memory as this big role they played. The conqueror, the betrayer, the genius. That’s the Animus part. But obviously the picture is incomplete, which gives us the…”<br><br>“Vestige part,” Lucy finished.<br><br>“And because [[power]] has to go somewhere, it bleeds out into family lines, which gets into patterns, seventh son of a seventh son being like mini-heroes…”<br><br>“Which is pretty icky when it becomes a justification for superior bloodlines or whatever,” Lucy said. “Lots of debate on that. Feels like something the Musser family would be into.”<br><br>“Yep, ''but,'' here’s the thing, if you think of people calling on some old Cardinal who tried to kill the pope or something, sure, it’s basically a whole lot of history and old emotion filling in this role. Like pouring molten metal into a sword-shaped hole. [And then we’ve] got [[Denizen|''these'' guys]]…” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/04 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.7]]</ref>


While practitioners are able to [[bind]] then it is difficult given how they can be called.<ref name=bind/> They are by definition complex creations as they at minimum have three sources worked into them, but there exist practices to put different sources in as well.<ref name=bind>Heroic spirits would be a mess. Hard to bind on their own- they were a bit vestige, a bit echo, a bit spirit, and other stuff besides, and you needed the right recipe to counter them. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/11/12 Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.10]]<br><br>Much like how heroic figures are a combination of spirit, Self, vestige, echo, and other things - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0#heading=h.rckfgw7ri5ed Pact Dice]</ref>