Editing Lawrence Bristow (section)

==Abilities and Art==
Bristow is a practitioner with a wide breadth of experience. He has advanced knowledge when it comes to many levels of [[Bindings]], has a working knowledge of [[Law Magus|Law magic]] and there for Karma,<ref>'''Edited to add:''' Because of the heavy lean on 'establishment', you may draw comparisons to collectors or one certain 'collector' from Pale (establishing a collection - kind of like what Verity arranged), and to the pillars of humanity: Death, Fate, etc (which may fall closer to Theobald). It'd be okay to have a Law Mage touch on that sort of stuff. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/lv9ijy/_/gpb0t7n Trying to write law magic, tips appreciated]</ref> but chiefly he considers himself a [[Collector]].<ref name="6.3 a"/>

While he claims to be a collector of titles among other things, his threat in the story stems from his collecting of people, specifically [[Aware]].<ref name=":0" /> He has the ability to arrange his tenants so that they balance or compliment each other; making their stay in his apartments easier, or making them synergize to devastating effect on missions. His tenants have such strong [[connections]] to him, reinforced through deals and agreements, that he is confident they can never leave his control.{{Cite}} To this end, he has arranged his [[Sargent Hall|Sargent Ave Hall apartment complex]] as a massive diagram filled with [[List of Bristow's Tenants|a collection of Aware Tenants]] and feeding power into his [[Demesne]].<ref>“He keeps strange tenants. Some are complicated. A gilded lily, who stumbles on magic items by accident on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Many are cursed. Someone who saw something so bent and broken it drove him around the bend. A child of a witch hunter who survived the rest of her family, who knows something is afoot in the shadows of this world. The pattern of that family seeks to wrap her up in its flows.”<br><br>“Why does he do it?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“To the best of my knowledge, the entire building is laid out as a diagram,” Alexander said. “The people draw power into and through it.”<br>[...]<br>“It’s like that. He moves people between rooms to balance the diagram out. Maybe restructures the building to add or remove rooms. He feeds it into his demesne, so that’s one thing.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/15 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.8]]</ref> He uses the complex not only as a source of power, but also a storage place for Aware agents who obey him in exchange for cuts on the rent, and hopeless cases he takes care of for his wide network of contacts.<ref>“He does errands for his landlord in exchange for a cut on rent. One of a few that do.”<br><br>“So is that his strength?” Verona asked. “A bunch of people that run errands, and then the rest are just there, pumping power into his place of power?”<br><br>“There are other things. He buys interesting items from the Gilded Lily, who runs an online store. He maintains relationships with powerful practitioners and problem solvers. With Witch Hunters, with secret societies of non-practitioners, who use him and his facilities as a trash receptacle for human problems they don’t know how to deal with. He holds out-of-season holidays at his apartment complex, and uses these days as rituals to bring tenants closer together, stir the pot, lets them ping pong off one another or allows problems to flare up, and then uses the power to make big moves. Often opening doors.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/15 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.8]]</ref><ref>[https://old.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/q6pleh/at_what_point_does_innocence_break/ Some stuff on innocence]</ref> These agents will return to him after missions thanks to the long-established [[pattern]] of doing errands and other missions for him.<!---out going call--->