Editing List of Others (section)

==Wisp==
A particular type of spirit that's been concentrated to a point, briefly lived but strong they can be made to stay around longer.<ref>“The how is simple.  A lot of lesser Others caught.  Brainless spirits, echoes, and things, lashed to wards or turned into wisps with a void around them they felt compelled to fill.”<br><br>“[...]  Wisps are a form of spirit.  Concentrated and drawn to a point.  Briefly lived but strong.  Some places and things concentrate them.”<br><br>Avery thought of the group thing with Zachariah.  “Statues?”<br><br>“And shrines and natural phenomena.  But a spirit wants to persist.  The circles I would use to form the wisp would create and seal the void, making it part of the wisp.  I would make it so it could only be filled with one thing.  A specific arrangement of things.  Sometimes dust, sometimes branches, and sometimes spiderwebs.  Given time, the dust would gather and concentrate until it was like stone.  The spiderwebs would disappear but the memory of them would remain.”<br><br>“That sounds like a lot of work.”<br><br>“I made a means of collecting spirits small and immaterial enough, and I arranged it so they would be concentrated into wisps without my being there.  Send them out so they would stop just beyond Kennet’s borders.  They would turn away the people who could find them, or outsiders, or cloud scrying attempts.  Each ward a little push for a person, a bit of resistance for an outsider, a speck of dust in the sight of a scryer.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/13 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.4]]</ref>
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