Star Father

A Star Father is created when a practioner attempts a big ritual and it collapses. If the spirits inside are powerful enought to be intelligent it gains sentience similar to a ritual incarnate.<ref>“Rituals tend to involve spirits, and a big ritual involves a lot of spirits.  Spirits that, to varying amounts, are aware or capable of responding to prompts.  More so when there’s more.  If a practitioner tries to do something too big, then there’s a chance it collapses.  And if it collapses and there’s enough intelligence among the forces inside?  It can gain an awareness.  Like a ritual incarnate, but, hmmm, singular.  Personified with more person.” - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.z</ref><ref name>Star Father

The Star Father is a governing force often referred to in the texts of practitioners who work in Astrology, or large scale, celestial diagrams.  When diagrams reach sufficient scale aond[sic] complexity, the spiritual forces that govern and manipulate them can consolidate into a figure, which may or may not be male and is often somewhat abstract.

Star Fathers border the spiritual and divine, and manage the complex diagrams, drawing in power or attention, in a way that can give rituals a force of their own and make them stronger... or harder to remove or end when the proceedings are done.  In other cases, they ascend and move the ritual with them, sometimes pulling those who engage in major rituals into a pocket realm, stitching reality together as they pass.  In some cases, such as Aztec mass-sacrifices, they have received their own attention and been elevated as minor gods.  A Star Father that takes over is a common sign the practitioner has engaged in a ritual too 'big' for them. - Wildbow by Discord</ref>

Nature

Normally when created other forces such as innocence or a governing force like a Lord or a Judge will attempt to push back against it. To escape this pressure they will often seclude themselves in another realm.<ref name=":0">“Most of the time, when a ritual goes bad like that,” Avery murmured, “the Star Father or Star Mother or Star Parent will recognize that Innocence and the other forces of the world around it, like Judges and Lords, will push back, senses that resistance, and puts power into secluding itself in a pocket world or escaping into some convenient realm with a lot of elbow room.  Sometimes they’re places between realms, the gaps when two adjacent realms don’t fit well together.  But the Paths are a pretty convenient option too.  I guess Charles alleviated the pressure and gave her a spot with the elbow room she needed.” - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.z</ref>

Sometimes appear on The Paths.<ref>“There are some Star Fathers on a Path I read about,” Avery explained - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.z</ref>

Abilities

Capable of creating and then destroying minature universes.<ref>The Star Mother carried on creating mini-universes where the small figure was a localized god, they’d bloom like flowers around her, and then collapse just as easily, the contents recycled and carried forward. - Excerpt from Let Slip 20.z</ref>

Notable Examples

• Star Mother - One of the Lords created or enabled by the Carmine Exile was a Star Mother who teamed with another figure, presumably he won her loyalty by smoothing the way for her creation and existance.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Du0">Then she saw. They’d left one region and passed into another.
  
  The area was slowly changing tint, in the same way everything around could look blue if the sun was shining directly onto a giant blue object.
  
  But the object wasn’t giant. The tinting drew her eye over, and she saw a distant figure on top of a water tower, dressed in blue, wearing a gold crown.
  
  A gargantuan shape, easily capable of standing taller than the water tower, even grazing the clouds above, was visible only as blue tint, see-through where there was none. It looked like a woman without arms, or a woman with a cloak or dress that draped down in a way that hid her arms from view. She walked so she stepped on rooftops, skipping when she needed to cross a street.
  
  The huge, translucent woman bent down by the water tower, as if bringing her ear close enough to hear something being said. She nodded.
  
  Both the huge woman and the little crowned figure on the water tower watched their car as it moved down the highway, cutting past a town smaller than Kennet. - Excerpt form Wild Abandon 18.8</ref>

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