Editing Binding (section)

=== Other Types of Binding ===
* Ainsley Behaim knew an elaborate [[Chronomancy]] binding that wore down the target's vigor by connecting them with weaker past and future versions of themselves, focused by sticking pins into a candle, she had to do the ritual methodically and in sequence with any errors affecting the binding distractions got in the way but rhyming helped.<ref name="bind6">Ainsley drew a striped candle from her purse with one hand, and it lit itself. She already had needles in her other hand.<br><br>I couldn’t imagine many situations where one of my enemies using needles was a ''good'' thing.<br>[...]<br>Ansley slid a needle into the candle, right at the base.<br><br>“Zero hour,” she murmured, “Let us begin.”<br>[...]<br>“Hour one,” Ainsley said, sliding a needle in at the first stripe. “I bind your legs, Blake Thorburn. I bind the pigeontoed that first held you up. I bind the legs you wear as a man, now, and the crooked weary hips that will be yours when you’re old.”<br>[...]<br>“I reject your binding,” I spat the words, “Because I have sources telling me I won’t fucking make it to old age. Your third point doesn’t stick.”<br><br>“Doesn’t matter,” Sunglasses said.<br><br>Ainsley nodded, grave.<br>[...]<br>She found another needle. “Hour two. I bind your legs with the folly of childhood, the trials of adulthood, and the frailty of age.”<br>[...]<br>“Hour three,” Ainsley said, “I bind you in place, the cradle with its bars. The career with its trappings. The cage of the body, the deathbed, the coffin.”<br><br>“I reject your binding,” I gasped, as I slumped down. “I rejected it once, I reject it again. I was never going to be able to hold a career, I can’t now, as a diabolist and a target for just about fucking everyone. I’m probably not going to die an old man, either. I reject it, I reject it, I reject it!”<br><br>“This isn’t about you,” Sunglasses said. “It’s about saying things that other forces understand. But by all means, please keep going.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/ Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.12]]</ref> However, it could only affect a single target.<ref name="16.6" /> 
* A lawyer for [[Mann, Levinn, and Lewis Firm]] employed a binding that caused each step to be less effective than the last. Ainsley Behaim was able to reveal it's underpinning with her pins and link it to her candle flame, then snuff it out.<ref name="16.6" />
* Several students at the [[Blue Heron Institute]] were taught to [[spellbind]] [[human]] [[Practitioners]] by [[Lawrence Bristow]], with the basics of repetition and word, repeating claims of binding and details about the target. However, this required the target to be severely weakened through combat or wasting their own [[power]] to be effective, making it not very useful unless the battle was already over.<ref>[[Cutting Class 6.7]]</ref>
* A "life-binder" can alter [[connection]]s using ritual [[diagram]]s with enough information about the targets. For the right price, this can ensure an arranged marriage goes smoothly, or at the highest end even turn a stranger into a close family member.<ref>''Jie'' practices as a Binder, using information and secrets gathered about individuals to tie them up in connections or alter those connections. He works as a life-binder, using his everyday profession to get detailed information about families, family histories, businesses, and delves into the wealth of social media of everyone still alive to decipher a family, codify it into a ritual space, and then weaves customers into that space. For the very highest price, a man may be a stranger one day and a familiar and loved natural born son the next. Most of his contracts ensure and compel arranged marriages. He creates his Demesne as a system to visually map out the relationships and webs of any given project that he is working on. - excerpt from [[List of Books#Demesnes|Demesnes]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/12/demesnes-text/ Bonus Material: Demesnes Text]</ref>