Editing Incarnation (section)

=== Origins ===
An incarnation can come into being when a person [[Summoning|summons]] and melds into it, or a major event helps crystalize it.<ref>“He’s an incarnation,” Rose said. “A being tied to the intrinsic workings of the world, at least on an abstract level. They have no technical beginning or end. They just ''are''. What we see is kind of a crystallization of that essence. Some jackass decided to invoke a force and absorb the force in question into themselves and fucked up, they gave themselves over to the force for some reason or another, or a big event helped it come into being. Now it’s autonomous. You can weaken it, but you can’t really kill it. He’s… major enough to count, I think.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/04/29 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.1]]</ref><ref>“And the host?” I asked. “I learned my lesson last night. Fuck of a lot easier to deal with something that’s human at the core.”<br><br>“Conquest was human once,” she said.<br><br>“I almost forgot,” I said.<br><br>“Kind of similar, really. Let a mote get carried away, you end up with something that isn’t recognizable as human. Our advantage is if this thing isn’t that far gone, there might be something human at the core.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/ Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.4]]</ref> Another scenario would have an [[echo]], one that gained enough power and influence, which might become a site for an Incarnation to emerge.<ref>“A boy drowned in a dip in the river, when the water level was high enough the flow was pronounced. There was a drop in the water flow, and it formed a tube that trapped him inside, flipping end over end. Enough of a violent and remarkable end to create an echo. Enough left unresolved around him that it encouraged spirits. He became a petitioner spirit, plaguing people by the water with whispered questions.”<br><br>“Like a ghost by the side of the road who asks for a ride,” Verona said.<br><br>Verona sounded so casual, in the midst of this. Like she didn’t care about where they stood. Avery was unsure if she was a good actor or so focused in on the practice that she’d lost sight of the danger.<br><br>“Yes. But he wasn’t mature or coherent enough to ask good questions. If such a spirit learns to ask questions with a design, or to attach a pattern of action to the questioning, the actions can gain strength. Your roadside spirit could gain enough strength to punish the wrong or unwanted answers with a push, putting the victim in the way of incoming traffic. He wasn’t that strong. He whispered nonsense about being caught in the wash. Left to his own devices, he could have become a wraith, a spectre, a malign spirit, or connected to a thing of the Abyss, or enough collective sentiment to become a spot for an incarnation to emerge. I burned him, ending him.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/ Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref>

Nascent Incarnations in [[the Ruins]] may absorb neighboring [[Others]], such as appropriate [[Echo]]es, that are associated with their concept until they have enough strength to emerge in reality.<ref name=":5">“The Others native to [[The Ruins|this place]] are predators that feast on echoes,” Miss said. “Echoes will find their roots here, what you see in reality as the tips of the icebergs, if they’re complex or multifaceted enough to have icebergs. When they’re spent, they dissolve out here, reduced back down to spirit stuff, if they aren’t taken apart for other purposes.”<br><br>“What purposes?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Some might make Others and send them out. Others might be similar to Alpeana, building nightmares or scenarios, like a funnel spider might build a web, but using scenes and memories instead of webbing. Nascent incarnations might seek out echoes that tie to their natures, an Incarnation of Innocence eating child and elderly Others until it has the strength to take form in our world. [...] Incarnate practitioners who specialize in things like the Hungry Choir ritual or dealings with a specific Incarnation, such as Dream or Bondage, will have cause to come here.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/27 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.6]]</ref> Upon emergence the pseudo-Incarnation matures and clarifies itself.<ref name="de5">Incarnations and incarnate things aren’t even a single clear concept when they emerge, and absorb a lot from their surroundings in early days. If a Desire isn’t healthy, she can reflect something stunted, something frustrated, or something loveless.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/27 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.6]]</ref>

Incarnations with enough strength to take human, sapient form are always fairly powerful; Practitioners generally accommodate them rather than fight them.<ref name=":9" />