Editing Realm (section)

===Depressions===
Many of [[Greater Powers|the most powerful Others]], artifacts, or major workings will create their own minor Realms around themselves, as their weight and power warps the world around them and seeps into the landscape.<ref>Raquel’s eyebrows went up.  “Oh, you missed that one.  Uhhh, so like, the biggest, most serious Others, including Incarnations, gods, great spirits, and whatever.  They have a weight to them.  He had this visual demonstration.  Put something heavy down on a sheet of fabric, and it creates this dip.  I might be explaining this badly.”<br><br>“Finish explaining and we can tell you if it’s a bad explanation,” Lucy said.<br><br>Yadira jumped in.  “Big things, metaphysically, can create their own realms, just by ''being''.”<br><br>“Like gravity?” Avery asked.<br><br>“More like the world’s a plastic bed,” Raquel said, “and you sit on it and it makes a dip, and if you pour water onto the bed it’ll settle in around your butt where the dip is.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/0 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.3]]</ref><ref>This power has a weight but it’s not a physical, real-in-our-world type of weight. It’s about being able to make the rules or influence things. If the spirits pay a lot of attention to you then you can say ‘screw you mother Nature, I’m going to do my thing’ and she’ll say okay, sure. The rules start bending, the spirits start doing the equivalent of walking on the other side of the street instead of messing with you, and the ground basically dips under the weight of your ovaries/cohones.<br><br>These dips fill in with the excess power of whatever is making them, and that’s how a lot of Others make spmething that’s very similar to a demesne. This can be a natural defense, creating a mini-personal realm that the Other carries with them, making practices harder to apply to them because those practices are working on their turf for the last few inches, feet or miles.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ Excerpt] from [12.7 spoilers] [[Knots and Depressiosn]]</ref><ref name=":4">What gets interesting is when you have someone powerful. Can be anything: a dragon, a god, a Carmine, a practitioner. The important thing is that they’ve got power to spare.<br><br>This power has a weight but it’s not a physical, real-in-our-world type of weight. It’s about being able to make the rules or influence things. If the spirits pay a lot of attention to you then you can say ‘screw you mother Nature, I’m going to do my thing’ and she’ll say okay, sure. The rules start bending, the spirits start doing the equivalent of walking on the other side of the street instead of messing with you, and the ground basically dips under the weight of your ovaries/cohones.<br><br>These dips fill in with the excess power of whatever is making them, and that’s how a lot of Others make something that’s very similar to a demesne. - 12.7 [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ Bonus Material: Knots & Depressions]</ref> This is often compared to [[Demesne]] of a Practitioner,<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5">Our judges have a territory that covers a lot of western Ontario + eastern Manitoba. This actually backwards from what we just established. Instead of getting powerful, having spirits move out of the way, and having rules start bending, there’s a kind of big, prearranged deal where the spirits and karma and everything will cooperate with anyone who takes the seat. So you don’t go from powerful to gradually becoming influential & having a demesne-ish space you carry with you, you take possession of the throne that’s the helm of this massive depression and you then get the power.<br><br>You don’t technically have to be strong to make a claim for the seat, but it’s hard to make a play for one of the fours seats if you aren’t. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ 12.7 Bonus: Knots & Depressions]</ref> although this isn't entirely accurate; the chances may be more universal and dramatic.<ref name=":6">“Please watch your step, and do keep moving.  Lingering can expose you to other effects here.  So can a misstep.  Things broken here do not always mend as you hope they would.  You can hastily patch up a wound that may take a lifetime to heal, or you can allow things to become something else altogether, after the breaking.  I doubt you want to do either, if you happen to fall through the floor and break a leg. [...] To be in Conquest’s domain is to be in a constant state of transition.  Emotions rise and fall, there is fire and rebellion at first, then we make peace with the state of things.  Broken things erode away, and then there is only defeat.  But to be the Conqueror is not a simple thing either.  They either take on a different role, which my lord cannot do, or they find new territory to seize, people to subjugate.  The territory changes as he finds new ground.”<br><br>“I didn’t know a demesne could be this… out there.  I mean, I read about apartments covered in flesh, but…”<br><br>“This isn’t a demesne, as you understand the term,” he said.  “Some beings are strong enough to influence their surroundings simply by residing there.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/collateral-4-2/ excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.2]]<br>[...]<br>“It’s this place,” I said.  “It’s an extension of him, not a demesne.  It bends rules, to be generally uncomfortable.  To conquer us physically and mentally, by steadily wearing us down.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/08/collateral-4-3/ excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.3]]</ref>

These twisted places vary widely; they may be static or follow the being around, they may be radically or subtly warped, they may be small or large, etc.<ref>Different types of power mean different types of influence in a depression. The Judges seem to have a lot of shallow influence over a wide area, and some major influence in terms of things they focus on: karma, deciding whether someone’s forsworn, the creation of new Others that they have affinity for, yadda yadda. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ Bonus: Knots & Depressions]</ref> In some cases a depression is tied to a seat or role, rather than an individual, meaning that even a personally weak being could take control of it, although generally one has to be powerful in order to manage it.<ref name=":5" /> 

*The [[Judge]]s tend to have small realms reachable by travelling for a day, then by following things like a wounded animal which would appear on the edge of the road. They also have a large territory tied to their role within which they have a lesser, but still significant, influence over everything.<ref name=":5" />
*[[Trussed]] and variants have a weight of their own, making the places they're situated in hard to find for anyone be they [[Innocent]], Practitioner or Other.<ref>Because they take on a particular weight, Trussed have a way of making accessing their location hard; they create a depression of sorts, which acts as an extension of themselves and their realms, and the way in may be dark, hazardous, labyrinthine, and exceedingly difficult for the Innocent.  Entire forests may gently deflect entry, getting less gentle as one bears deeper in.  Specific Others may be inclined to set up shop nearby.  A strong and alert Trussed may wear opponents down with a kind of attrition.  Those who reach the final chamber may be cold, wet, starved, or bewildered as they face this time-worn goliath. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GoqVRmaGzRCfmoOuZkB40Udq1kgt3ayidC9hgxf_iRo Trussed]</ref>
*Others which are heavily tied into a particular Realm may bring that Realm with them as a sort of private "garden".<ref name=":3" />
*A [[Wraith]] which grows powerful enough to have a temporary realm form around it becomes known as a Wraith Prince; if it grows powerful enough for it to be permanent, it is known as a Wraith King.<ref>And then there were the situations where a wraith picked up some brains along with the power, or got power of a sort that scared others off and wasn’t easy prey.  In those situations, they could get very big and they could start to get heavy.  Same idea as the Carmine Beast, same idea as a god.  If they got big and heavy enough that the fabric of reality started to crater below them, then that crater could fill with power, and the wraith got its own little pocket demesne or pocket dimension with its own rules.  Wraith Kings.<br><br>Or queens? Verona thought.  But that might be its own thing.  They were princes if the pocket reality was temporary or conditional and there might’ve been something about wraith princesses, but that was weird when she mixed it up with Goblin Princesses like the Tedds.  Stupid gendered language…  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/05/18 excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.6]]</ref>
*[[Conquest]] had formed a personal domain in this way in form of a tower.<ref name=":6" />