Editing Establishment

'''{{PAGENAME}}''' is the magic of the position, the upkeep and the nailing of definitions to reality. In short the power of precedent.

==Specifics==
Essentially the power of precedent and what is already decided. Things that already have a foundation in the wider cultural understanding of humanity and practitioners.

Things lacking precedent can be weak such as technomancy.<ref>Adrian explained, “Technomancy simplifies.  Usually at a cost to establishment.  Because tech is new, the patterns and grooves for the practice aren’t worn in.  So you can do stuff fast and easy, but also… it can break easy, or doesn’t last long, or you don’t get much power out.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/21 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.8]]</ref>

Can also mean the 'way things are' those tied to establishment means they lose power and position by overturning it.<ref>“Few others could have or would have done what you did, because they either lacked the power, or they had the power but they were tied to establishment.  Having those men fall in the way they did was not my intention.  Had I been around, I would have steered you in different directions.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/21 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.6]]</ref>

==Examples==
The right establishment means that [[Demesne]] can stay even if the original practitioner is deceased or unavailable.<ref>“This demesne goes unclaimed, belonging to none by right or establishment…” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2015/02/28 Excerpt] from [[Judgment 16.12]]</ref> Some have exploited this fact.<ref>“Okay.  Changing subjects, the Bardanes realms? [...] A family overseas devised a trick, and the powers of that region allowed it,” the Alabaster explained.  “The family’s practitioners claim demesnes linked to one anothers’, give full access to family, and then before they die they make themselves immortal, living statues.”<br><br>“Reminds me of something a [[Witch Hunter]] had.”<br><br>“One and the same recipe.  The Witch Hunters use it as a form of binding the visceral.  The family uses it to their advantage.  The result is a fairly extensive realm, at this stage, getting more extensive as the family grows and leaves a more or less permanent legacy, grafting each new demesnes to the last, like an endless, forking collection of bridges extended over void.  There are entire segments of the Bardanes family who never leave, intermarry and breed with family.”<br><br>“Isolated, weird locations, interbreeding… Oddfolk?” Lucy asked.<br><br>The Alabaster nodded.  “Yes.  Some.  It’s become one of the larger practitioner-made realms that interconnect with the rest of the world.  Tendrils extend past the ocean and toward us, and are even invited to extend, and…”<br><br>“And we say no,” the Sable said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2023/02/14// Excerpt] from [[Go for the Throat 23.5]]</ref>

Family can also be seen as a type of establishment.<ref>'''Pattern''', '''Power''', and '''Establishment '''are key principles that drive practice.  Over generations, multiple practitioners using the same runes to evoke the same effects creates the repetition needed to create a ''pattern''.  They put power of some sort into it, whether blood, energy, or something symbolic, and over time, runes, diagrams, and many other approaches to practice can become ''established''.  [[List of Books|Spellbooks]] and families help carry on these traditions.<br><br>These principles are behind a wide variety of practices.  A practitioner lineage may make a point of creating dolls with a ritualized process, ingredients with power and meaning, and make their desired results (living dolls) clear to the spirits and the spirits will oblige.  Over time, as this process gets more set in stone, the dolls become more effective and consistent. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0 PACT DICE]</ref>

[[ogre]]s, mages and otherwise, are tied into the [[pattern]]s and rhymes of the world; thus they also need to mind establishment.<ref>[Ogres] are often simple, prone to rhythms and patterns in keeping with their nature.  These rhythms and patterns can be exploited.”<br>[...]<br>“The gifts we gave weren’t sufficient.  The Ogre Magi refused on principle, and told us to depart by noon the next day.”
“What the heck kind of principles are those?”<br><br>“The principle of establishment.  If they allowed such meager gifts to merit their help and support, the next guest might come with less.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/04 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.10]]</ref>

A [[Law Magus]] will work with such establishment too when dealing with peculiarities of practice.<ref>“You said you wouldn’t delay me further,” Musser said.  “You do know Rexroad and Chaucon?”<br><br>“We are aware of the precedents established elsewhere.”<br><br>“Circumstances were unforseen, I withdraw my claim as a result.  Gainsaying me while I’m in hostile territory would lead to my potential demise.  If this is established as pattern, it discourages attempts to make Lordship seats, which contravenes the wording of the Seal.  You ''must'' facilitate, not discourage.”<br>[...]<br>“And, as established by Lucy Ellingson, you’ve abandoned claims, there is room for interpretation that you’re playing a game with the rules.  Nothing in the Chaucon or Rexroad disputes influence the duration of the claim.  We intend to gainsay you for twenty-one days.  The time of that gainsaying would count from when you’ve found safe ground.”<br><br>“Nonsense.  Three days is the precedent, I speak as a student of claim, backed by the Musser establishment, with no less than two hundred and twenty rituals pertaining to claim under my belt.  Three.  I must insist.”<br><br>“This is what you wish to stress, with all of that?”<br><br>Musser shook his head.  “It is only its own establishment.  We have worked with the rules, we know the rules, we, Musser, in no small part, ''are'' the rules of claim.  We are internationally known and can sway interpretations and influence results.  Three. [...] It is [Abe Musser] prerogative, by right of establishment,” the Aurum Coil said, coiling some at his high spot by the window.<br><br>“So the powerful get to interpret the rules?  And get more powerful?”<br><br>“Or less weak,” Avery said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/04/06 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.1]]</ref>

[[Faerie_Courts#Winter|Winter]] [[Glamour]] is well known for it's use of establishment.<ref>“So what’s the danger, or what concern, exactly, are we dealing with?” Lucy asked.<br><br>“Pride,” Guilherme responded.  “Earned pride, but pride nonetheless.  This power, carelessly wielded, can do much damage, and is sought after.  Winter glamour is used by various other courts, mixed into their own workings, to make them stronger and more permanent.  A court noble might mix a bit of bartered-for Winter into her workings to curse another Fae.  It’s a deception, something to use so that someone who expects to crash through a quickly wrought glamour does so… but into a web of silver strands, wrought inside it by Winter.  A web that does not shatter, but seizes.  A sudden and undeniable punctuation mark on spiraling works.”<br><br>“It’s powerful,” Lucy said.<br><br>“Yes, yet as you told me in your answer earlier, Lucille, power has its price.  Winter establishes.  That trick is bought with establishment.  Done once, it might forever curtail a Fae’s workings.  The fae cursewright who laces their curse with Winter finds their hands subtly tied to wreak more curses.  The glamour aesthete who uses Winter to create a silver spiderweb inside another glamour may find themselves less able to create things that aren’t webs, while the webs come easier.”<br><br>“Sounds like that’s a fast track to Winter,” Lucy noted.<br><br>“Which in itself is why the use of Winter’s glamour can be so emphatic and bold,” Guilherme told them.  “Powerful, but costly.  A perception endures that humans, across their short lives, pay less of that cost, so humans may disrespect glamour’s use.  Some would try to enforce that respect through certain ''agents''.  Most of the people who use Winter’s glamour do so sparingly, and are tracked from the moment they make the purchase until the glamour is spent.  There are no eyes on us yet, but there could be, and you’d have more than a ''sparing'' amount, as you have access to ''me''.”<br><br>“Got it,” Lucy said.  “I’m a bit worried it’s not the clearest thing in the world, yet, just what would tick off those agents and what wouldn’t.”<br><br>“We’ll discuss it as I teach you.  Part of the reason I gave you that to handle today is to see to it that you respect its heft and how pervasive the cold of it is.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/31 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.2]]</ref>

===Terms and categorization===
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Labels]]''</blockquote>
The 'established' descriptions of certain Others take on a power of their own<ref name=SB13.2>She could have left it be, let them sort it out with their own judgment, but in the doing, it would be the loudest, the most established, and the strongest who would win in all things.<br><br>She still licked wounds from recent decades, watching Man establish.  Watching Man grow in strength.  Watching Man win by its own strength.  Even now, Man brought slaves here.  Invaders conquered, fought, and exchanged bitter plague and sickness with those people who had been here since before she had manifested, well before she had taken this throne.<br><br>Goblins of the European countries met and mingled with the little people of the wilderness here, as did a grouping of dwarves.  The ferocious mingled with goblins, and the canny mingled with dwarves.  Another sort of establishment. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/07 Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.2]]</ref> letting the appropriate practice work on them.<ref>“Don’t know, doesn’t exactly matter,” Milly replied.  “Basil would be better at explaining this.”<br><br>“Would I?” Basil asked.<br><br>“Labels, Others, old Others, constraints and confinement.”<br><br>“Ah.  Yeah.  Some say that we invent labels and constrain Others by those definitions and ideas tied to the label.  We categorize Fae and then Fae are obliged to act a certain way.  That because these categories exist, when a new Other comes around, they tend to go in a bucket.  Or mostly in a bucket.  Pretty relevant to what I do, because I deal with a lot of Others who are pretty nebulous up until they bucket themselves.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref>

This also applies to practitioners.

===Important Rituals===
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Defining Rituals]]''</blockquote>

As important as they are in part because of the firm precedent backing them, numerous variations and combinations that also exist are weaker because they are not backed by establishment, precedence and pattern.

==Trivia==
* This is also a pact dice term, it is used in almost every sense of the word.<!--
Establishment:  The character’s relationship with Others, Karma, and the extent to which the practitioner and their family are positioned in terms of the local Others and prerogative for practice.  At Supreme, a player may make one of the three subcategories top tier, one good, and one okay.  At moderate they could strike a balance between good and bad for the following subcategories.


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