Editing Famulus

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[[File:Famulus.png|thumb|250px|''Famulus'']]'''''Famulus''''' (subtitled ''The Familiar''<ref name="interlude-2x">[[Interlude 2.x]]</ref> or ''The Familiar Bond''<ref name="avery-books">Avery looked over the books, to verify what she’d suspected once she’d seen Lucy’s initial picks.<br><br>''Deft Deflection, Apotropaic Protections, A Practitioner Alone, Walls of Chalk, Blinded Eye, Curse Lifted…''<br><br>Avery paged through the initial stuff there.  Counter-practice, countering the evil eye, dealing with large numbers and forces, warding diagrams, counter-augury, counter-curses.<br><br>She had to walk around the table to Lucy’s other pile.<br><br>''Famulus: The Familiar Bond, Implementum: The Practitioner’s Tool, Demesnes: A Place of One’s Own.''- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/31 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.2]]</ref>) is a textbook on the subject of [[Familiar]]s and the Familiar [[ritual]].<ref name=":2">Another series of books, in a stack in the corner, where the lawyers had left them.  ''Famulus'', ''Implementum'', ''Demesne''.  Orange, purple and green cloth covers, respectively, they all matched otherwise, in size and the script on the spines.  I glanced each one over, then tossed them onto the desk, where they rewarded me with a series of satisfying impacts. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/24 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.3]]</ref><ref name=":3">
:2. Study and enact the ritual noted in ''Famulus''.  The familiar is your greatest ally, and will serve as a tool, a wellspring of power, an ambassador to dealing with more abstract things, and will be a lifelong companion.  Make this choice with the same respect you would with undertaking marriage, only know there is no form of divorce.  The Familiar is to be a part of you for life.  You gain their services, and they gain a chance to be mortal, even if it is a small mortalhood, in addition to whatever other terms you negotiate.  Do not allow your familiar to take the form of a rat or dog.<br><br>
:3.  Study and enact the ritual noted in ''Implementum''.  Your choice of tool will shape how you interact with this world, your craft, and will be your badge in the eyes of many.  The book is dreary, page on page of examples, but study it thoroughly, for there are many meanings, and a poor choice of tool may well cripple you.<br><br>
:4.  Study and enact the ritual found in ''Demesnes''. Baba Yaga had her hut, I have my room.  Unfortunately, the rest of the house has been claimed by our predecessors, and while it is a haven, you will need to find your own place to make your own, where the rules bend as you need them to, and where your power is greatest.  The three rituals noted here are fundamental in determining how you access, hoard and focus power.  Note, however, that your real power will be in how you act with others and Others. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/24 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.3]]</ref><ref name="interlude-2x" /> It is part of a set with ''[[Implementum]]'' and ''[[Demesnes]]''.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name="interlude-2x" />

The book was first conceived among magic tutors in the late 18th century, and has been refined over subsequent editions for over two centuries.<ref name="famulus-2018" />

The [[Thorburn]] library had a copy with an orange cloth cover.<ref name=":2" /> The [[Blue Heron Institute]] had a 2018 edition<ref name="famulus-2018">Famulus is a result of many years’ teaching in private circles.  As it became vogue to hire tutors around the year 1785, powerful members of the community gained a certain prominence, not-insignificant profits, and found themselves wrestling with a great deal of frustration.  This frustration stemmed from the fact that one tutor would teach one thing, which the next tutor would have to correct or account for.  They exchanged correspondence, to find out what had been taught and why, and opened discussions on how things might be done better.<br><br>[...]<br><br>Even after two hundred years of discussion and refining of this material, several ideologies and approaches stand out.<br><br>[...]<br><br>''Casual'' practitioner-familiar relationships are dangerous to the point of irresponsibility, but have seen some growing popularity among young practitioners as of the writing of this (2018) edition. - excerpt from Famulus, quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/29 Bonus Material: Famulus Text]</ref> with a gold-embossed leather cover.<ref>[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/29 Bonus Material: Famulus Text]</ref> 

==Trivia==
''Famulus'' is quoted at length in [[Interlude 2.x]] and [[Famulus Text]].

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