Editing The Beorgmann (section)

==Abilities==
It's immortal and will always break free eventually,<ref name=":0" /> being something older than the [[Seal of Solomon]] and able to bar major [[Incarnate]] forces like the [[Pillars of Human Existence]].<ref name="bus1">“It’s old, pre-seal, nasty.  It’s been bound for a long time, but when you bind it, you have to encompass all of its realm, which is an expanse as big as some national parklands.  The entire place is littered with cellars, treehouses, and other holding cells for children.  He takes them and keeps them just to have them.  They don’t age, don’t change, Death, Nature, Time, Fate, and War can’t get past the Beorgmann to reach them.”
 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> Despite comparing unfavorably to creatures like [[Primeval]]s it is still a highly dangerous and powerful Other.<ref>“If we were more evil, we could threaten to open the cages.  It wouldn’t be all that different from what Mrs. Durocher does when she summons her creatures.  If what she summons is a handful of nines out of ten on the danger scale, we could let loose a ''whole lot'' of six, sevens, and one or two eights.”<br>...]<br>“Don’t cross the barrier under any circumstance.  In fact, stay ten or twenty paces back from the barrier.  Don’t invite it.  Don’t entreat it.  This is a solid eight out of ten on the danger scale.  If this storm acts up and lightning starts striking every second?  Deal with the lightning, don’t go running up to that barrier.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

He's able to suck in the life essence of the children within his domain and draw power from them.<ref name="hale"/> By exhaling he's able to [[Creation|create objects]] he can use to alter his domain with.<ref name="hale">
He drew in a deep breath, and the breath pulled in not air, but sustenance.  The gasps, already leaving throats, became something more essential, pulled out of each of his captives like knotted ropes they’d been made to swallow, now pulled out of them with more strength than they could ever hope to fight back against.  Soul.<br>[...]<br>He exhaled, a deep, low exhalation that reached into the dirt, and stirred up Creation there.  He breathed existence into material.  Nails and glass and other sharp things into dirt. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/in-absentia-21-7/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.7]]</ref> There are certain places in his realm that he can't affect easily; "warts" that don't react to his changes to the space. These can be used to get a handle on the space when exploring or escaping.

It is able to make tree houses out of branches and bits of wooden, it can also make gardens and other hiding places.<ref name=BM>“Beorgmann.  Person of the mounds.  It’s an old Other.  Probably from the era of the Seal,” Milly explained.  “Lures children in.  This one used to make gardens and hiding places, but it started to make treehouses and that seemed to work for it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It uses these to trap children by locking them in walled gardens without an exit or removing the ladder of a tree house so they can't escape. It's captured at least forty children this way and even more underground.<ref>“And toys, trinkets, trickster lights.  Or it would snatch up the kids from their rooms.  They put the kids in these little contained zones.  Walled gardens without exits, burrows in hillsides, or treehouses.  Gets kids inside, then removes the ladder.  Magic keeps them from leaving.  We think this one got enough kids that it’s why this area never developed more.  If you venture inside the territory, there’s about forty treehouses across four acres.  Most of them are lit by candlelight at night.  Kids peering out through the windows.  That’s just from the era where treehouses have been a thing.  There’s more in the mounds, and gardens, other hideaway spots, around here.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> The children that are trapped are unable to be properly freed, as the Beorgmanns [[claim]] on them "is too strong".<ref name=":0">“Why not mount a rescue mission?” Sullivan asked.<br><br>“Because the kids are the Beorgmann’s.  Its grip on them is too strong, and it can’t die, doesn’t relinquish them even if we hurt it.  And it is apparently really strong- it always eventually breaks free of confinement. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It is so inviolable that it can interfere with other magical workings even indirectly.<ref name=":1">“No, but there’s some discomfort.  We hoped to keep them trapped for longer, but as it happens, there were three children on the premises.  A stronger entity had a firm grip on all three, to the point that our attempt to surround and contain the house couldn’t succeed.”<br><br>“I can’t even latch onto them,” [[Bridge]] admitted.  “No grip.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes,” Bridge replied.  “From the clutches of an Other who hasn’t fully released his grip.”<br><br>“Does that mean that if they’re out there on their own, and if they wander, they might end up veering right back into that place they were captured from?”<br><br>“Yes,” Rook replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> It may even be an issue if the Mann is destroyed.<ref>“There’re commromises.  If you kill that burgerman thin’?  Not easy, but if you do?  Those kids’re his, ''his!''  Through and through!  ‘N they’re free now?  Tha’ll do a lot more harm.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/18 Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.5]]</ref>

=== Known children include ===
*Alona
*Betty Fricks (free?)
*Billy the Sissy (free?)
*Eilee Avila (free?)
*Gus Riley (free?)
*Katie Spicer
*Ruth Washam
*The Boy Wizard