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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.

An ecumenical reconstruction of urban fantasy

Steal material form here Make a timeline at some point, mention this

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

Pact art[edit]

Pact Art Work https://the-blakeguard.deviantart.com/
Blake and Rose: https://aerryi.deviantart.com/art/rake-509081374
Other Maggie: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-Maggie-585742920
Eva: https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6h71ur/fanart_eva_the_witch_hunter_being_a_psycho_as/
Other Evan: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-Evan-586768484
The Hyena: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-The-Hyena-590040710

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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.<!--http://pact-web-serial.wikia.com/wiki/Special:InfoboxBuilder/Infobox_chapter?useskin=oasis-->
-[https://booksandchainmail.tumblr.com/174505006904 Some art]
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 [https://redd.it/8snyme Steal material form here]
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 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyrd
+-->Make a timeline at some point, mention [https://redd.it/8upije this]
-With so many countries itching for war, how would this have been reflected onto others and incarnations like Conquest? Would they be absurdly powerful, or would they be going insane with all the international politics version of sexual tension?
-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.
-[]
-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?
-Not how a demesnes works. It's a place you own and it's a place you commit yourself to for a lifetime, in spirit and in lifestyle. Trenches are temporary, they're won or lost. You'd gain next to nothing and you'd likely lose your Self when the trench was taken.
-The Geneva Convention and the treaty of Versailles. How did this affect the practicing world?
-Big deals might well have gone hand in hand with practitioners striking deals on what was allowed and not allowed, ratifying them and enforcing them across practitioners as a whole, insofar as that's possible.
-Was Hitler's rise to power endorsed by Other's or Practitioners? If yes, was he aware of that fact?
-Some probably liked the idea, but that's sorta beside the point. He was a petty, stupid man who drew on a lot of very disparate pieces of knowledge to kludge together an ideology, which he put a lot of money and influence into then selling. So you had elements of Norse mythology, Christianity, some dabbling in the occult, and rather than have this be an underpinning of things, it would generally be a bunch of individual elements trying to influence him from the corners, while not giving him anything substantial.
-Assuming that Scourges, Diabolists, Practitioners specializing in Ghouls and Goblin Kings exploited the shit out of Trenches, then how could Germany have defeated such a large grouping of some of the meanest, most diabolical (no pun intended) practitioners the world had ever seen?
-Don't do that! Stop. No. That isn't Pact. Not how trenches were a thing or approached, either. No. Demons aren't included in the same sentences and groupings as other Others.
-Unfortunately, Eastern Practitioners don't tend to follow the same trends western practitioners do. How did the practitioners fighting for America circumvent this issue?
-By not really going to war in that respect. Individually, yeah, some practitioners had sons (or daughters) go to battlefields to try to do something when the whole world was at stake. Some families acted on their own, sure, but most of their time practitioners fought among each other and disagreed over the best ways to handle the subject.
-Was there a magic version of Project Manhattan?
-If there was anything big attempted, it was probably combated by other practitioners and Others.
-https://redd.it/8upije-->
-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>
-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.
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-(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".
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-(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. - [https://redd.it/8hx8vn stuff to add]</ref>
-Make another category for natural others to differentiate things a bit
-[https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/09/americas-sewage-crisis-public-health/405541/ This looks like a job] for the High Priestess of [[Wikipedia:Cloacina|Cloacina]]<!--oens a company that services the sewer, Junesque body type hipster with a tattoo strong.-->
-Ogre Practioner
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 Pact [http://pabelandnine.tumblr.com/tagged/pact Art Work]
 https://the-blakeguard.deviantart.com/<br>
-Green Eyes: https://aerryi.deviantart.com/art/green-eyes-510850898<br>
 Blake and Rose: https://aerryi.deviantart.com/art/rake-509081374<br>
 Other Maggie: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-Maggie-585742920<br>
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 Other Evan: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-Evan-586768484<br>
 The Hyena: https://sandara.deviantart.com/art/Pact-The-Hyena-590040710
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-http://regerem.tumblr.com/post/143256643364/thalias-writing-masterlist
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7xd9c0/some_clarification_about_evangelism_in_pact/du7y1e7/
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7hijz4/pactspoilers_what_can_shamans_and_their_spirits_do/
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7xd9c0/some_clarification_about_evangelism_in_pact/
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7okwqi/trying_to_create_an_ogre_practioner_and_could_use/
-https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7z4rk0/why_are_diabolists_in_pact_taking_flak_from/dumdi6a/
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