Editing Toronto (section)

===Past===
Toronto was a site of conflict in the past, with the English conquoring the native population; and then struggling with other colonial powers, most notably in the War of 1812 where Toronto was a major site. This conflict birthed and fed the [[Incarnation]] of [[Conquest]] who came to rule the city as [[Lord]].<ref>“I wouldn’t imagine Conquest is a great fit for Toronto,” I said.
“It was, once.  The English presence in North America is young, and 
Others can be very old.  For some, it wasn’t long ago at all that we 
wiped out the Aboriginal people and took their land.  It wasn’t long ago
 that there was war over what European country would claim sovereignty 
over this land.  Toronto was a site in the war of eighteen-twelve, and 
Conquest continued to gain power after it was released, with immigrants 
coming in to reaffirm the invader’s claim to the land.”
- excerpt from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref>

[[Rose Thorburn Senior]] visited the city a few times, and was well known there. Her bloodline carried with it permissions to be in the city.<ref>"Even having you here, I feel like we’re hurting ourselves.”
“But?” I asked.
“But your grandmother has visited from time to time, and I can’t 
refuse you and yours an invitation, now that her titles have passed on 
to you, along with the according rights.”
- [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/06/28 Excerpt] from [[Void 7.10]]
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As a teenager, [[Charles Abrams]] provided a growing teenage gang in Toronto with bloody supernatural assistance, until one of their victims returned as a [[Revenant]] and wiped them out.<ref>“Mine were human,” Charles said.  “Well… technically, it was a revenant.  She came after us, licked with flame like she’d just been set on fire.  This was… I was barely over sixteen, I think.  A gang in Toronto was on the rise, and whenever they got stumped or ran into something strange, they’d come to me.  I’d tell them, hm, you know, I’m thinking of one particular asshole, he’s a real monster.  If you want to leave an indelible mark in their minds and hearts, this would be just the bastard. [...] Revenant came tearing through.  Horror movie stuff, custom endings for each of us, starting with the lowest rank guys, then moving up.  Attacked our business, our alliances, stock, money, revealed secrets.  [...] She got the third, second, and the top guy.  I pulled out all of my tricks.  A few of my monsters, and she still got me.  Decided I wasn’t directly involved enough to die, so she’d leave it up to fate.  Handcuffed me in the electrical room of an abandoned warehouse with a lot of the evidence.  Cops eventually came, and I got my first stint in prison.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/gone-ahead-7-x/ excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]<br /></ref><ref>I got to my mid-teens, my mother never changed, I got fed up paying for her and me, I left too.  Met some kids who would find isolated houses where the families were going away, break in, and throw big parties with a small entry fee, trash everything, three hundred people who’d steal everything that wasn’t bolted down.  One of the houses had books on practice.  I took as many as I could load into the car.  They stopped throwing the big break-in parties after we had too many burglar alarms in a row, used the money they had to start selling drugs instead.  We amicably parted ways.  Then I started summoning Others to help them out for a cut of profits.  I’d tell them I knew someone scary that’d deal with any problems they had.  That ended badly. [...] Me summoning Others opened the door for a revenant to rise up to get revenge against them, I think.  It hurt their innocence, left them vulnerable.  It was a wake up call for me.  I started trying to do better, be better. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/10/false-moves-12-6/ excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.6]]</ref>