Editing Trussed (section)

== Variations ==
=== Beset ===
More likely to be Others these wardens are locked in combat with their charges, despite this they do take on features around them as they continue their duel.<ref name=":8.1">'''Beset''' are Trussed who are trapped in a space with a force that they have to combat, and have had to combat for a long, long time.  They are more likely to be Other, because few practitioners are strong enough to withstand the long battle, are not typically rooted in place, and instead take on the nearby features of the area as a part of a more offensive setup - they may be goliaths, with crenellated wall built into them, or burning trees, or stone armor from a statue.  Aggressive and frustrated, they lean more heavily into the offensive practices and offensive warding. - [[PactDice]]: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvukMJfW_Ci6_rsqrigpeDBhBsBqFajWmTEyL-b3XCU/edit Bestiary: Trussed]</ref> Seen as especially cruel.<ref>He’d read about situations like this in books.<br><br>Two powers, fighting endlessly in some confined space.  It was used for some brutal kinds of sealing practices.  If something was too strong to be locked away and left alone, then it could be given an opponent, sometimes equally strong, sometimes not- but still immortal.  Keeping it too preoccupied to apply its full strength against the wards and seals.<br><br>A kind of hell, two beings tearing at one another for decades, hundreds of years, even thousands of years, until power sources finally dimmed, or paradigms changed. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/08/26 Excerpt] from [[Finish Off 24.17]]</ref>
=== Buttressed ===
Less then five are known to exist, these are advanced versions of the trussed stronger in many ways keeping even greater threats at bay at inaccessible points in the world.<ref name=":8.3">'''Buttressed''' is a casual term used to refer to the Trussed of multiple occasions.  When a Trussed is moved and set to a new task, they can continue to grow and take on environmental details.  The strengths compound exponentially, and weaknesses remain stable.  One might point to a cathedral with a tree growing out of it, tree and building blending at the interior, into the visage of an old, bent, and forgotten saint; the Trussed-affected depression surrounding the site is the scale of a small country, removed a step from Earth, and access requires passage through multiple small settlements with their own practitioners keeping an eye on matters.  Only three or four are known to exist, and are the pride of the families or organizations that maintain and support them.  For less formal naming or reference, they are often referred to by name and title instead of any general term for a category of Other. - [[PactDice]]: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvukMJfW_Ci6_rsqrigpeDBhBsBqFajWmTEyL-b3XCU/edit Bestiary: Trussed]</ref>
=== Grasping ===
These agile wardens ended up covetously guarding their [[Collector|collections]] or [[alchemy|alchemy labs]], more likely to be practitioners whose loss of [[Connections|links]] to the outside world has cut them off from reality.<ref name=":8.2">'''The Grasping''' are less Warding focused and more general to Materials practices; those who lose too many connections while maintaining too many to their objects of focus (be they alchemy, collections, treasure) may lose touch with reality and start to be bound to the items and objects.  They, like Trussed, are wretched, time-lost Others of specific knowledge, but are typically faster, more dexterous, and far less resilient. - [[PactDice]]: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wvukMJfW_Ci6_rsqrigpeDBhBsBqFajWmTEyL-b3XCU/edit Bestiary: Trussed]</ref><ref>Zed paused on a frame, hit a key combination, and went back a few more frames.<br><br>It was a skinny, gangly man with skin that looked like tarnished silver, eyes cataract white, carrying a bag on his back, full of things.  Other objects were wrapped around his arms and legs, until he looked like a pile of junk somehow collected around a person dying of starvation.  He had things like necklaces and bracelets, but they weren’t worn in the usual way; the bracelet lay against the elbow, three pieces of fine sliverware and a flashlight wedged between arm and bracelet in a way that, together with surrounding junk, locked everything haphazardly in place.<br>[...]<br>[Zed] logged into the Atheneum, search terms bringing up about twelve texts, which he quickly narrowed down to three.  One had an image, with a similar figure with a bloated belly, various wedding dresses wrapped around herself rather than worn, streaming around her, and a portrait mounted on her face, so the head and shoulders mostly lined up with hers.<br><br>Zed paraphrased from the screen.  “It’s called a Grasping, it’s a visceral Other.  Lots of practices have a fail case.  You know, you’re looking to get power, or solve some issue, but if you lose your humanity along the way, screw up, you become something Other. [...] Grasping are Collectors gone wrong.  Sometimes someone does a ritual to draw items to them, and they reach too far, or they get too weak in Self to manage their collection.  They knit together with the collection.”<br><br>“So that thing’s a bundle of magical items with arms and legs?” Antlers, Avery’s Hat, asked.<br><br>“Yeah, basically.  We were worried this might be the sort of Ritual Incarnate where Others become a part of it and make things way harder.  So that’s one.  I think it’s pretty advanced.”<br>[...]<br>The Grasping Other with its trove of magic items sunken into flesh and strapped on in a complicated way limped its way closer.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/25 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.z]]</ref>