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This is one of the more interesting urban fantasy stories I have read. I know I am spoiled by good writing like the inimitable China Melville and J.K. Rowling; good writing and worldbuilding speaks for itself. I am not sure I will be able to be as serious here as on worm but I will give it the old collage try.

Steal material form here Now where did I put it Implements and demesnes<ref>(1) To the best of my recollection he can let the familiar out, so he has implement and familiar that can be independent things, but he has the familiar within the implement generating and managing power most of the time, and that's the job he has his familiar at most of the time.

You can blend as a more permanent thing (not what Laird does). You can have a familiar plus demesnes for a more intelligent demesnes. A familiar plus implement for an object with a personality. An implement plus demesnes for a demesnes you could bring with you. Generally you take a pretty significant hit to power in exchange for some degree of utility. You also lose standing with practitioners and Others. I think I've posted on this before. If you have a talking motorcycle you're giving up 90% of the power of a proper implement and 90% of the power of a proper demesnes, but you're getting an implement that's more weighty and a comfortable seat that isn't limited to one place. And because you're a practitioner that's flouting convention then convention helps you less, so your practice in general isn't going to be all that.

(2) Benefits are you get more clout in the east, more suprises for your enemies since you could have a wider variety in your tricks and what you can bring to bear, though you'd want to maintain a theme or some kind of pattern so you're not too scattered, as it'd be something that would impact your practice. You also get to manage other kinds of forces without being tapped into those same forces, which affords more protection. You do have far less in the way of camaraderie and link to your pets, and your pets can be turned against you if freed. If you employed it in the West, it'd impact your standing with practitioners and Others and it'd be less likely to work - especially as Others may end up being less willing to play ball if captured and told "You guard this place until I say otherwise".

(3) It's stronger when bucking patterns and conventions, but it's less that being random is going to give you power, and more that being deft and surprising your target is going to give you power. You're bucking convention and pattern not by being carefree, but by adopting a new, secret set of patterns and convention, that others don't know as well and can't guard against as easily. - stuff to add</ref> Make another category for natural others to differentiate things a bit

This looks like a job for the High Priestess of Cloacina

Ogre Practioner

Change ==History== sections into ==Chronology==

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 The worm that joahnnas is mentioned to have talked to in judgement
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 I'm a little sketched out by the use of 'sexual tension' there. In general, there would be massive redistributions and shifts in power. Practitioner communities would be very much concerned with trying to manage and deal with these shifts in power.
-With technology becoming more and more pivotal in warfare, did we begin to see the true birth of technomancy as a respected practice?
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-Technomancy always existed, it's just tended to perch on the cusp of new technology, with waves and reinventions of families sort of capitalizing on each new age or forward advancement.
-The astrologer would've been a 'last generation' practitioner. The practitioners of today will be 'last generation' in a couple dozen years. Some families are better than others at riding the wave.
-The technomancers of the WWI/WWII era would be more industrial than computer. They wouldn't likely capitalize on 'computers' becoming a thing until computers entered the public awareness.
 Could trenches be claimed as demesnes, and did Practitioners use that to their advantage to ensure that that side of the trench was truly taken?
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 If there was anything big attempted, it was probably combated by other practitioners and Others.
-The way I would approach it-
-The war is a backdrop. The battlefield is too volatile and doesn't lend itself to practice, and if practitioners help, it's either in negating the negative influences (Others in the trenches, the big efforts of opposing practitioners) or it's negated by the same.
-In reality, the true battle is one of ideology, allegiance, and secrecy. Practitioners are clandestine and they don't work that well together at the best of times, being ready to stab each other in the back, or having long-standing oaths or agreements that complicate their intervention. It's a fight to even reach the point where humanity can handle this on its own and expectations are low - your focus isn't on winning the war, it's on taking what feels like it might be an inevitable loss and keeping the real monsters out there from making it worse, exposing practitioners and/or opening the floodgates for horrible things to unfold.
-It's a fight for ideology, against a backdrop where tens of millions of lives are being lost. The various factions disagree on how this should be handled, can in no way even trust other American practitioners or Canadian practitioners, and these are the waters that must be navigated. If you tell the President that practice exists and hand him the keys to practice... maybe the augurs read the bird guts and they figure out that if this happens, the other side will do much the same, only they have a diabolist hidden among their secret societies and groups.
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-Now where did [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ti2MftECN9PloDlHdjTGlMbwXPxf0GGOyNl-c4OYKCs/edit|I put it]
+Now where did [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ti2MftECN9PloDlHdjTGlMbwXPxf0GGOyNl-c4OYKCs/edit| I put it]
 Implements and demesnes<ref>(1) To the best of my recollection he can let the familiar out, so he has implement and familiar that can be independent things, but he has the familiar within the implement generating and managing power most of the time, and that's the job he has his familiar at most of the time.<br><br>