Editing List of Aware (section)

=== Tested ===
Also known as Wonderings, these are individuals who are caught in a strange event that has twisted the world around them. (Whatever the ultimate origin of this event - [[Practitioner]], [[Magic Item]], powerful [[Other]], something more abstract etc.) Time loops, ironic body-swap curses, falling into alternate timelines, chosen ones, etc. The presence of such a person may indicate you are inside a pocket bubble of reality. <ref name=":5">''There are those who go through a transformational test or event, through practice, pattern, Other, Practitioner, or item.  While these events alter the entire world or the fundamental paradigms of the world around the target subject or victim, they may be the Tested or Wonderings, Aware individuals who are caught in a conflux or strange set of events, that may be occuring in a pocket world or snarl in reality.  These events can be time loops, visits to earths of alternate histories (typically projected within a pocket world and kept there), living life in another person’s body (or many people’s bodies), returning to childhood to relive events, or jumping from childhood to adulthood to experience it.  These events tend to impart a karmic wholeness, as well as (frequently) unusual knowledge or skill, and a deep-seated, soul-shattering existential disquietude over an existence where reality and experience is so fungible.  Or, put in simpler words, the test or the experience makes them (or requires the individual to be) very okay with themselves and where they stand, and also frequently makes them very distant from okay when it comes to a world where such wacky and distressing things can happen. Sometimes these events see the individual’s history or relationships rewritten in the aftermath.''<br><br>''Once an individual is through the test or situation and settles into the world anew, if they retain their old memories and memory of the testing event we call them the Worold, world-weary, or world-wise, with the latter two being dependent on just how they’ve settled in the aftermath.  They often sit apart from everything.  As an example, a reformed misogynist that has the experience of having lived the lives of ten thousand random women across history may have picked up a massive degree of competence and knowledge in countless areas, but while they remain human, they may find it hard to use that knowledge.  The world will resist them getting into politics or doing more than making generous (and ideally anonymous) donations.  The world and circumstance will fight them if they try to uncover ancient treasures or archeological sites or become CEOs with their accumulated skill and ability when it comes to reading people.  The knowledge gained and the transformation in [[Self]] are for them and themselves.  This in itself often proves to be something of a test of character.'' -[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/17 4.8 Bonus Material: Dossiers]</ref> Many shortcuts and escape hatches from this process, both obvious and subtle, are closed to them.<ref>"I tried to take your tools, the first time, in two thousand and three.  I learned my lesson quickly.  I then tracked you into that hole in the ground, where you met your god.  Later, I met your god before you did. [...] He burned me alive both times I ventured down there.  Others had claim over me.<br>[...]<br>

:''There are sections where [Ted] seems intent on turning to faith and belief to rewrite his existence, concocting an alternate reality where he is free of the loop and giving whole lifetimes, age 0 to 35, to this belief, rejecting all observable reality.  The data from these experiments can be reduced down to an amusing anecdote that it appeared to start to work, necessitating intervention and some nudges from the powers that set Havens’ task into motion.'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/22 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.a]]</ref>

If they pass their "test" they become known as World-Weary (see below.)<ref name=":5" />