Visceral

Visceral is a Practitioner term for magic which is brutal and physical.<ref name=":0">The church, if the church was abandoned for two hundred years.  Wind blew through broken windows and carried choking dust.  Something lay dying and twitching on the broken glass of bodies.

“The visceral.  Physical power.  Brutal, unforgiving, often with a way of biting the hand that would use it… sometimes as an always thing, sometimes it waits for the chance.  The price is that it will take chunks out of you, or your lifeblood.  In goblin practice, it may poison

you after it pricks your flesh.  In the Abyssal, it may cut you deeper,
longer to heal.”  - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6

</ref> These more physical branches of magic have some overlap with each other.<ref>The Citation practice is the basic ritual for the Mien approach.  A paper is prepared and laid into the skin to meet the Self, then removed.  Color may be pulled from a lock of hair, pupils from eyes, or scars from flesh. [...] Removed scraps will take on physical form as papers, mementos and/or things with small power to them, useful in various Visceral practices.  - Quasi, quoted in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading.</ref>

Visceral Practices include:

• Goblin Kings<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Visceral Practices
  

–Material Fundamentals – Basics on Others and practices dealing in the physical.
–Once Human – Peri-, periodic, and post-human Others, practices, diseases.
–Dark Locales – Twisted and Othered locations on Earth, urban and rural.
–Goblins – Goblin summoning, practice, tools, binding, and extermination.
–The Warrens – Goblin realm, day trips, non-Goblin denizens of the Warrens.
–Scourging – Horrors, Scratchings, Bogeymen, and related dark practices.
–Self Defense – Offensive practices, dealing with hostile Others, practitioners.
–Alchemy – Creating Visceral Others and Things through Material practice.

- 4.1 Bonus Material: BHI Information Packet </ref>

• Scourges<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
• Alchemy<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">

Schools: Halflight (Heartless var., Visceral) [...]

A man dons an animal skin and stalks a forest trail.  Another drinks an alchemical admixture, and becomes a beast of another sort.

A feral thing wears his victim’s skin and goes to the man’s home to eat a dinner, his family unnerved but unable to say exactly why.  A gossamer wisp of a creature dresses itself up as a babe using clay by the riverbed and the flesh from a dug-up corpse.  Then it wails, and a woman finds it.  The corpse it dug up was that of her baby, recently lost, and she is stunned to long silence by how it resembles her child. 

She brings it into her home.

Walls separate man and monster.  Artfully addressed, halflight practices aim to capture the best of both at once.  Once we begin the journey, however, the way back to normalcy is hard, if not impossible.

- Quasi, quoted in Bonus Material: Bedtime Reading. </ref>

• Some ("Halflight") Heartless<ref name=":2" />

Visceral Others include:

• Goblins<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
• Bogeymen<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
• Homunculi<ref name=":1" />
• Werewolves<ref name=":2" />
• Dopplegangers<ref name=":2" />

Visceral Realms include:

• The Warrens
• The Abyss

Trivia

To an extent, this term is an in-universe version of the "Material" and "Conflict" columns in PactDice's Practices table:

References

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