Editing Dog of War (section)

==Creation==
They're spawned by especially confusing war zones where people lose track of the living and dead.<ref>[Lucy]’d spent a lot of time with Dog Tags, who had sprung forth from the uncountable and unacknowledged dead, from rounding errors when people had done too much averaging and abstracting, or lost all sense of who was who in heated armed conflict.  She didn’t want to take those who’d died in conflict for granted. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/04/22 Excerpt] from [[Finish Off 24.1]]</ref><ref name=":1"/><ref name=":5" /><ref>Are you going to use the broken souls of the uncountable dead of war to remove a school headmaster from the face of the earth? - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/25 Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.f]]</ref> The Dogs form from bits of pieces of various soldiers on all sides.<ref>“John.  It’s my understanding that you’re a… super soldier?  A Dog of War?”<br><br>“No,” John said.  “Yes, about the Dog of War label, no, I’m strong but I’m not a super soldier, like they appear in movies.  I’ve been told I’m… a stained glass mosaic of a soldier, each segment pulled from someone.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/23 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.5]]</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>Griffin had used a practice on Horseman to bind him, levitating him into the air and splitting him into three- a Horseman that was man, a Horseman that was a blurry, vaguely camouflage-patterned figure, skin of smudged warpaint, holding a gun that was more clear than the rest of him, a red sword emblazoned on it.  A third version of him had him mostly naked, wreathed in tattered flags and standards with insignias that were held in place by wind. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/07/22 Excerpt] from [[Finish Off 24.13]]</ref> They start out without real names or faces, wearing piecemeal uniforms.<ref name=":3" /> They are individuals onto themselves each with different personality traits and more.<ref>“I’ll let you know when this is over and I give myself the chance to decide how it sits with me.  I’m thinking a lot about my old comrades in arms.”<br><br>“Other Dog Tags?”<br><br>“Yeah.  I don’t want to shoot anyone and I think I’ll have to at some point, the way this is going.”<br>[...]<br>“What were they like?” Avery asked.  “Your friends?”<br><br>“Many weren’t friends,” John said, touching the tags at his neck.  “Comrades in arms.  Some were scary, some quiet, some funny.  Many didn’t have faces.  They didn’t get the chance to grow into individuals, and were closer to being shadows of people.  Yalda would-”[...]“-She brought out what little was there.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/26 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.7]]</ref><ref name=":10">“Sometimes his kind emerge naturally,” Musser said, his arms folded, “and they won’t know what’s happening, they’re too aggressive, many don’t even have faces.  Just… blurs, dirt smudges.  They won’t even know what the accords are, they just grandfather into them.”<br><br>“Mm hmm,” Bristow said.<br><br>“This kind of knowledge doesn’t come with the package, or with the clarification as they refine their Self, as if they were taking progressively smaller chunks of clay out of their raw Self, to create more detail,” Musser said.  “He’s either killed practitioners, or he’s seen others of his kind get bound.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.8]]</ref> It's rare for a war to be big enough to form one yet small enough not to form several; generally there will be a group or squad of them in the same place.<ref name=":2" />

It's possible that they are derived from relevant [[Incarnation]]s somehow.<ref name=":8" />