Editing Heroics (section)

=== Estates ===
Estates are [[Realm]]s tied to Named and Heroes. Often fragmentary and shadowy, they may be accessible through the [[Spirit World]], [[Ruins]], and/or require travel to specific locations in the real world. Heroic practitioners often work to clarify them by researching their origins.<ref>''Estates'' are the realms of the Named and Heroes. They are accessed through the realms that echoes and spirits dwell in, but travel may be necessary to get to real-world counterparts. They can exist in fragments, and may be populated with shadows of the named, clarifying with discovered lore. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15JKMkgy4aJCWpN5SmKJmIWIE1CaUCLsfiiV71-w46pE Pact Dice: Heroics]</ref>

One such a place exists at a [[Crossroads]] near [[Thunder Bay]], a European-style castle foolishly constructed at a ruinous cost in the New World, and has been claimed and developed by the [[Faerie Courts|Dark Fall]] as a market.<ref>
Here, some ancient, important lineage had tried to establish a place in the New World.  They’d put servants and workers to the task of creating a massive structure that had all the trappings and style of a castle in England.  Their belief and hope had been that if they built something truly grand, then settlement would spread out around them<br><br>No expense had been spared, except for common sense- that, they’d been miserly in.  They hadn’t expected winter to be as brutal as it was.  They’d probably been warned, but they’d been proud.<br><br>Heroes and Names of note, the practice called them.  Part echo, part vestige, part animus.  The patterns mapped by their lineage was supposed to make them great.  Now they existed in this castle of logs, stone, echo-stuff and glamour that filled in the gaps.  They hosted the market, and were paid for the hosting with things that indirectly helped to support the walls and turn fevered dreams and hopes about what this place would be into a phantasmal reality.  Some of those segments of wall or balcony glowed with their own faint light in the evening. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.z]]</ref><ref>[[Crossed with Silver 19.9]]</ref><ref>[[Let Slip 20.9]]</ref>
<ref>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/11/29 Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.14]]</ref>