Editing The Beorgmann

{{Character Infobox
|Name = <!-- Actual full legal name -->
|Image =The Beorgmann.png 
|imagecaption=Made by [https://www.reddit.com//u/flowerafterflower/ Flower After Flower]
|Alias = The burier and hanger of children
|Age = [[Ancient|Around]] the  era of [[Seal of Solomon|the Seal]]<ref name=BM/><ref name="bus1"/>
|Gender = Male
|Status =Alive 
|Classification = Other
|Affiliation = Self
|Family = 
|Occupation = Kidnapper
|Chapter = [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]
}}

The Beorgmann is a burier and hanger of children, currently trying to escape binding.<ref>“Lord of the Nipigon region,” a child called down.  “The burier and hanger of children would barter.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

==Personality==
While uncommunicative it seems content in its work, seeing children as resources that it can cultivate and keep for its own purposes. Destroying and killing people is perfectly acceptable to it as long as it's goals are achieved. 

Willing to loosen its hold on victims as part of a rise to escape its captivity.
===Relationships===
====Deals====
Is willing to give up children if it furthers his goals
==Appearance==
Roughly ten feet tall with disproportionately long limbs, its body is covered with short black fur excepting its bald pate and uncovered face that is starkly white, instead of eyeballs its sockets hold the deepest shadow which no light can illuminate.<ref>Its long legged body was covered in short black fur, making it disappear into the gloom, but its face was white-skinned, and- it was really hard to describe, and really hard to remember.  It looked like the face of a gaunt, horrible man who’d play the villain in every movie.  A face like a gravestone mixed with a skull, mixed with a bald drill sergeant.<br><br>But its eyes, as it drew closer- it had no eyes, only shadow, and its expression around the lack of eyes was gentle enough to tug at her heartstrings.<br><br>It moved fluidly, silently, and very fast.  Like a wild animal springing out of underbrush, but it was ten feet tall.  It held pieces of wood, strips of bark, and branches in one hand.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

==Abilities==
It's immortal and will always break free eventually,<ref name=":0" /> being something older than the [[Seal of Solomon]] and able to bar major [[Incarnate]] forces like the [[Pillars of Human Existence]].<ref name="bus1">“It’s old, pre-seal, nasty.  It’s been bound for a long time, but when you bind it, you have to encompass all of its realm, which is an expanse as big as some national parklands.  The entire place is littered with cellars, treehouses, and other holding cells for children.  He takes them and keeps them just to have them.  They don’t age, don’t change, Death, Nature, Time, Fate, and War can’t get past the Beorgmann to reach them.”
 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> Despite comparing unfavorably to creatures like [[Primeval]]s it is still a highly dangerous and powerful Other.<ref>“If we were more evil, we could threaten to open the cages.  It wouldn’t be all that different from what Mrs. Durocher does when she summons her creatures.  If what she summons is a handful of nines out of ten on the danger scale, we could let loose a ''whole lot'' of six, sevens, and one or two eights.”<br>...]<br>“Don’t cross the barrier under any circumstance.  In fact, stay ten or twenty paces back from the barrier.  Don’t invite it.  Don’t entreat it.  This is a solid eight out of ten on the danger scale.  If this storm acts up and lightning starts striking every second?  Deal with the lightning, don’t go running up to that barrier.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

He's able to suck in the life essence of the children within his domain and draw power from them.<ref name="hale"/> By exhaling he's able to [[Creation|create objects]] he can use to alter his domain with.<ref name="hale">
He drew in a deep breath, and the breath pulled in not air, but sustenance.  The gasps, already leaving throats, became something more essential, pulled out of each of his captives like knotted ropes they’d been made to swallow, now pulled out of them with more strength than they could ever hope to fight back against.  Soul.<br>[...]<br>He exhaled, a deep, low exhalation that reached into the dirt, and stirred up Creation there.  He breathed existence into material.  Nails and glass and other sharp things into dirt. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/29/in-absentia-21-7/ Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.7]]</ref> There are certain places in his realm that he can't affect easily; "warts" that don't react to his changes to the space. These can be used to get a handle on the space when exploring or escaping.

It is able to make tree houses out of branches and bits of wooden, it can also make gardens and other hiding places.<ref name=BM>“Beorgmann.  Person of the mounds.  It’s an old Other.  Probably from the era of the Seal,” Milly explained.  “Lures children in.  This one used to make gardens and hiding places, but it started to make treehouses and that seemed to work for it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It uses these to trap children by locking them in walled gardens without an exit or removing the ladder of a tree house so they can't escape. It's captured at least forty children this way and even more underground.<ref>“And toys, trinkets, trickster lights.  Or it would snatch up the kids from their rooms.  They put the kids in these little contained zones.  Walled gardens without exits, burrows in hillsides, or treehouses.  Gets kids inside, then removes the ladder.  Magic keeps them from leaving.  We think this one got enough kids that it’s why this area never developed more.  If you venture inside the territory, there’s about forty treehouses across four acres.  Most of them are lit by candlelight at night.  Kids peering out through the windows.  That’s just from the era where treehouses have been a thing.  There’s more in the mounds, and gardens, other hideaway spots, around here.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> The children that are trapped are unable to be properly freed, as the Beorgmanns [[claim]] on them "is too strong".<ref name=":0">“Why not mount a rescue mission?” Sullivan asked.<br><br>“Because the kids are the Beorgmann’s.  Its grip on them is too strong, and it can’t die, doesn’t relinquish them even if we hurt it.  And it is apparently really strong- it always eventually breaks free of confinement. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It is so inviolable that it can interfere with other magical workings even indirectly.<ref name=":1">“No, but there’s some discomfort.  We hoped to keep them trapped for longer, but as it happens, there were three children on the premises.  A stronger entity had a firm grip on all three, to the point that our attempt to surround and contain the house couldn’t succeed.”<br><br>“I can’t even latch onto them,” [[Bridge]] admitted.  “No grip.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes,” Bridge replied.  “From the clutches of an Other who hasn’t fully released his grip.”<br><br>“Does that mean that if they’re out there on their own, and if they wander, they might end up veering right back into that place they were captured from?”<br><br>“Yes,” Rook replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> It may even be an issue if the Mann is destroyed.<ref>“There’re commromises.  If you kill that burgerman thin’?  Not easy, but if you do?  Those kids’re his, ''his!''  Through and through!  ‘N they’re free now?  Tha’ll do a lot more harm.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/10/18 Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.5]]</ref>

=== Known children include ===
*Alona
*Betty Fricks (free?)
*Billy the Sissy (free?)
*Eilee Avila (free?)
*Gus Riley (free?)
*Katie Spicer
*Ruth Washam
*The Boy Wizard

==Chronology==
It has lived for an incredibly long time, while in Canada it settled into the Nipigon region and was bound and being contained by the Legendre family.

Roughly two decades ago [[Hugh Legendre]] offered up his nephew, Cabe Legendre, in return for the Beorgmann being bound again.<ref>“Your father accepted the deal, once.  Twenty years ago.”<br><br>...<br><br>“He accepted.  The barrier went down.  Hugh Legendre called for reinforcements, but they struck a deal before the reinforcements came.  He named a child and kept the reinforcements from attacking.  In exchange, the child-stealer went, took only the one, and returned, allowing itself to be bound.  It was cleaner.  The mess was contained.”<br><br>...<br><br>“The child was Cabe Legendre,” the child in the treehouse said.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

The previous time it escaped was eight years ago when an [[Aware]] that had had his brother stolen and was focused on freeing people had stumbled across it, he made a deal with the Beorgmann to be able to search inside it's tree houses and whilst that was happening it managed to get free.<ref>Eight years ago was the last time the Beorgmann had escaped.  Some jackass Aware had come into this region of about two hundred people, meddling.  A man who’d lost a brother.  Time and time again, he’d run into Others who would know things about the brother.  Or who stole children.  Dark Fall Fae.  The Beorgmann.  He was uniquely equipped to defeat them, to free children, and to surround himself with surrogates.  [[Fate]] was on his side.<br><br>But the Beorgmann had sidestepped that, and made a deal instead.  It had let the man search among the stolen children for his brother, and it had slipped free.  Taking two to a treehouse.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

When Milly was attacked by [[Thunder Bay Council]] members it offered its services to her against those that attacked her, agreeing to release three children and return to be bound again.<ref>“Deal with us, Lord of the Nipigon region,” the child called down.  “Let us out and let us serve.  For this one time, we’ll make you an offer you must accept.”<br><br>...<br><br>“Three children, returned in better condition than they left.  They’ll remember nothing and they’ll be given over to you, healthy, whole, innocent, human, and sane.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It only agreed to wait one month and fought off the Thunder Bay members nonlethally.<ref>“Stall them, do no lasting harm!” Milly called out.  “Take no children, release the three I named, in the condition you promised!  Return when done, and wait to be bound again.”<br><br>“The child-stealer will wait for one month, no longer,” Eilee Avila said.  She was right beside the Beorgmann. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It maintained its claim on the three children that were released and had a good chance of reclaiming them.<ref>“It upsets a lot more than that.  Those kids who ran-?  They were released from the woods?”<br><br>Rook looked at Bridge.<br><br>“Yes,” Bridge replied.  “From the clutches of an Other who hasn’t fully released his grip.”<br><br>“Does that mean that if they’re out there on their own, and if they wander, they might end up veering right back into that place they were captured from?”<br><br>"Yes,” Rook replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref>

It was last seen carrying off [[Ann Wint]],<ref>Milly saw the Beorgmann, still wrapped in chains, work his way up a tree, carrying Ann with him- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> though she has returned none the worse for wear even claiming the abandoned Nipigon region lordship.

[[Bridge]], possessing [[Milly Legendre]], was planning to bind the Beorgmann again,<ref>“Stay with Milly Legendre for now.  Go get that barrier in her territory working again.  Avery may be able to help you.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> but this was not carried out.

Close to the deadline [[Dropped Call]] interceded with [[Avery]] asking that she let the Beorgmann stay unbound and eventually leave.<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.8]]</ref> Avery contrived to let Milly escape her captivity,<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> and the Beorgmann was bound again.<ref>"That was the Dropped Call.  Lord of one of the areas.  If we stopped, he was going to take issue with the fact Milly got free on her own and stopped the Child-thief, the Beorgmann.["] - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/04 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.3]]</ref><ref>[[Crossed with Silver 19.12]]</ref>

With the ascension of the [[Alabaster Assembly]] this Beorgmann changes its strategy, waiting for the alabaster to act against it. 

==Trivia==
* 'Beorge' means barrow or mound and mann is simply an alternative spelling of man, as such person of the mounds is a perfect descriptor of the creature.<ref name=BM/>
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