Editing Animus (section)

===City Personifications===
Tied closely with [[City Mage|City Magic]], such anima are representations of the people and the cities they personify.<ref>When we left that day it was with the added company of Kennet’s Anima Corporeal. The spirit of the city made flesh. <br>[...]<br> I could imagine the city or township spirit taking over the council– many city spirits are in fact Lords and trade on the power of how distinct their city’s image is. <br>[...]<br>At the same time however Ken is our town in totality… including parts I don’t tend to grapple with. I knew those parts existed because of the customer service side of my work at Buckheed but now I face it daily. In lieu of family Ken turns his focus to tiredly minding the spirits of Kennet. He does have a drinking problem. He does have a drug problem. These things are (usually) background.<br><br>If Lis is the average of a small group then Ken is that stretched out to Kennet as a whole. The dynamics and effects are similar but reversed: Lis extends herself out and Ken can (if he wants) divide himself down into rough regions.<br>[...]<br>More than anything however is that Ken cares about the people and well being of the town - [8.7 Spoilers:] [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/04 New Other Correspondence]</ref> Useful and diverse they have drawbacks to their use as does everything. Importantly a personification does not have the manifest as an animus, as it can take other forms such as purely spiritual.<ref>Too many bad things happen if an old practitioner f- messes up, and other practitioners don’t know they’re dead or worse, when they had responsibilities we were all counting on them to do. [...] Like the perimeters. Like protecting a population, or a specific object that would be catastrophic in the hands of the wrong Others. Spirits can manifest as representations of a major city. What happens to that human representation of Windsor can be extrapolated out to the city in general. Just imagine what happens if that manifestation becomes regular, and goblins get their hands on it.”<br><br>“Or the wrong practitioners,” Lucy said.<br><br>“Or- yeah. Probably more likely to happen, even.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/12 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.4]]</ref> They'll generally be ignorant of practice, as they tend to represent [[innocent]] populations.<ref>You call on the city spirit, thinking that your textbooks say that they’re oblivious, preoccupied, average in intelligence.”<br><br>“And you’re not.”<br>[...]<br>“Most are oblivious about practice because they represent towns that are oblivous about practice.  But… here we are.  Two boys go looking for a haunted arcade the teenagers at the high school have been talking about, and find the Trenchcoat Mouse.  Magic creeps in.  Everyone in this town has noticed things.  The weird moon, the row of stone penises by the water, the rumors of haunting downtown, from our big influx of wraiths and spirits.  Something feels ''off'' to them.  The way it was so hard to get back in, easy to leave.”<br><br>“And you represent that increasing awareness.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/21 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.y]]</ref>  
*[[Ken]] of [[Kennet]]
*The [[Alabaster Assembly]] of Ontario