Editing Incarnation (section)

=== Anthro ===
In wiki term for those incarnations that are anthropomorphic personifications of their incantation literally. Some cults actually form to turn an individual into an incarnation.<ref>Incarnations traditionally choose or naturally come across vessels that allow them to refresh themselves.  These can be those who are well suited to wearing a mantle of a particular concept, it can be an agent of the Incarnation that works as a kind of underling grim reaper or custodian of time (etc.), and it can be a way of dealing with 'wrinkly' individuals who have, by practice or circumstance, become very difficult to deal with, existing outside of Nature, Time, Death, War, etc.  By absorbing the (sometimes unwilling) individual the incarnation can better understand the wrinkle.<br><br>There is another means, however, and it is one that has seen exploitation.  The Incarnation can be made, often by choosing a representative vessel and preparing them with the tropes, symbols of office, and some process that distills the incarnation in them.  This is rarely pleasant, and depending on the approach, can mean scourging and altering the individual to reduce the individuality and make them a better vessel, and/or it can mean creating a state through ritual, surgery, and the efforts of community.  Chemicals fed into the body to maintain a sustained primal state, being held on the threshold of death for a prolonged time, etc.<br><br>Someone researching these processes is likely to come across references to various *pilaster* sects.  These sects, not necessarily related to one another, tend to manifest from the same core ideas and feelings, which is that the commonly recognized major pillars have an obvious absence that they need to fill... commonly faith, almost always the *pilaster sect's* faith, sometimes tradition, and rarely something else such as liberty or a counterpoint to one of the major pillars.  The rule of thumb is that the pilaster sects are fanatical and unflinching.<br><br>Unfortunately, the rule of thumb is also that they as groups or larger communities will attempt to forge an incarnation, often by choosing someone from the population to 'raise up' onto a pedestal. Wildbow on Discord</ref>