Editing Curse (section)

===Curses and Others===
Others have been known to cast curses even restricted as they are by the [[Seal of Solomon]] and other accords. Some are very good at it, such as making items as discussed above or casting them directly. Some Others give curses if they're killed, such as [[Dog of War#Black Dog|Black Dog]]s.<ref>“Another kind. For every twenty or so of the rest of us, you might see one Black Dog, one Rag Tag. They come from civilians like I come from soldiers, but… they come from wrongs, from pain, attrition. They’ll look like kids. Or like old men or women. Kill them, you get sick, or something twists inside you and you can’t eat enough anymore, or… you get cold and you can’t warm up. A curse. The strong ones, you can’t even hurt them or say an unkind word without them laying something on you in turn. And they come back too. They protect us, walk into firefights, stop other kinds of binding than just the circles. They give us direction, motivation.”<br>[...]<br>“Our Black Dog. My friend,” he answered. “She filled the empty hours of the day and kept me entertained, she watched terrible shows. Not, uh, not so clarified. Black Dogs, they don’t take lives, not easily. Only if they give someone a curse of revenge and that curse kills. But what was there was… rich. [...] I was the one who took Yalda’s life in the end. I was cursed. I carried it with me for years. Then Charles carried it for a short while before they figured out how to break it. If I was going to hate anyone, I’d hate myself, and I spend too much time on my own to spend it stewing in hatred.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/23 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.5]]</ref>

In some cases even a sapient [[Other]] might be considered a living curse one way or another. Such as metaphorically,<ref>There's been theorizing that [[James Corvidae|he]] was a curse bestowed on us from the First Nations, over some slight. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/13 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.7]]</ref> or in a more literal sense where the the curse has gained sufficient complexity to become sentient and even sapient.<ref>“I am Inomenos. I am a wrong, made by man, released against men. I have earned a name for myself.”<br><br>A curse, given life, I thought. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/11/20 Excerpt] from [[Execution 13.7]]</ref><ref>[[Ogre Mages|The ___ Flare attack]] is [Thomas Black']s filler if no attack fits or if he needs something to get started off, and his black cat familiar is a living curse that trips enemies up so everything's just a little more likely to land, but he can have it become something similar to a flare, to serve as emergency filler at the cost of no longer granting its ambient effect for the remainder of the combat. - [https://redd.it/7okwqi Wildbow on Reddit.]</ref>

One can place a curse in prepared [[vessel]]<ref>Outside the school, the carcass of a cat with what looked like an axe wound in its forehead, eye inset into the axe wound, walked awkwardly across the top of the snow.  It might’ve been roadkill, body exploded, then wrapped in a plaid colored sack to keep the guts in.  Bells were attached to the ends of the ears, and it smiled wide.  It looked ''dark'', even to Camilla’s eyes, which lacked Sight on their own.<br>[...]<br>“That’s Nicolette’s.  It’s a curse thing, I’d bet.”<br><br>[Ms. Kim] smirked at [Seth].  “It’s a curse moppet.  Did you learn nothing at this school?”<br>[...]<br>There were more moppets, and one Moppe, large size, filtering out through doors, and even climbing out a window, in one case. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/12/31 Excerpt] from  [[Hard Pass 22.a]]</ref> much like a magic item though these are called curse moppets with the larger ones called Mopes.