Editing Heartless (section)

=== Viscera ===
A Jekyll-and-Hyde type Halflight practice, overlapping with [[Alchemy]]. Begins with a herbal concoction known as the Sixberry admixture, which allows for temporary molding of one's body.<ref>A man dons an animal skin and stalks a forest trail.  Another drinks an 
alchemical admixture, and becomes a beast of another sort.<br>[...]<br>The Sixberry admixture is the basic ritual for the Viscera approach, and paves the way for future progression.  A simple and flexible herbal concoction, softening those parts of the Self that are firm, and scouring away that which is disposable.  Taken as a triple dose, one might soften their own bones and features enough to mold them, but should expect up to a month of aches and pains after the admixture’s effect wears off, as the body fights to return to normal. - [[List of Books#Quasi|Quasi]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/4-5-spoilers-bedtime-reading/ Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading].</ref><ref name=":1">Four basic rituals are listed, in order, as per the Viscera (Otherness stemming from within),  Mien (Otherness starting at the outside), Calendar (Otherness at set intervals), and Unfettered (Otherness from detachment) categories. - [[List of Books#Quasi|Quasi]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/4-5-spoilers-bedtime-reading/ Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading].</ref> This type of magic can even be employed by the unawakened, but risks eroding the Self to the point you could collapse and be left a [[Vestige]].<ref>“Dreg is a vestige.  Was Aware enough to dip into some Jekyll and Hyde type alchemy, eroded away a good chunk of his Self.  Only a fragment of the person was left, other stuff took up residence.”“I was almost a doctor,” Dreg said.  “A sip of this, a drab of that, to bring out the sharpness of my mind and my attention to details and diagnosis.  I was an angel to hundreds of people who had nothing.  But the same drug made me frail, and some people broke me to pieces so they could take my stash of herbs and chemicals.  Then I had only the frailty, a shattered body, an old self I’d forgotten, and dashed dreams of what might have been.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/05 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.6]]</ref>