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Labels aren't as helpful as they should.<ref>

It’s important to remember that designations between others are artificial.

I wouldn't say so. Designations between Others are so blurry as to be terminally misleading. - /etr301k Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

Rose Thorburn Senior waxes about this subject that one shouldn't be hampered by the labels people give Others.<ref>The being I have named Barbatorem is an entity falling under the classification Insolitus Nex. This author does not believe in stricter classifications, and leaves it to others to label him a devil or goblin as they see fit. It is difficult to impossible to guess as to his origins, but one can speculate that it came about after the dawn of human civilization, given the common elements and the trend in appearances. - Excerpt from Bonds 1.7</ref>

This also extends to practitioners of course. Collectors doesn't just mean curators of private museums but also those who might collect things like people or legends.

Specific examples

Non-Demons
Very Old Thing<ref>Say you're a practitioner in Europe. Your town is hundreds of years old, and it borders a bog. In that bog lives a Very Old Thing. It predates Solomon, it predates tidy labels, and it is nasty, predatory, and prone to kidnapping children to eat. It can't be killed and most conventional ways of binding it will see it throwing itself against the walls of its metaphorical cage until the people who set up the seal give up or people start to notice something's up. /du80qzl Wildbow on Reddit</ref>

References

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 I wouldn't say so. Designations between Others are so blurry as to be terminally misleading. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/cd2pme/ /etr301k Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
-[[Rose Thorburn Senior]] waxes about this subject that one shouldn't be hampered by the labels people give [[Other]]s.
+[[Rose Thorburn Senior]] waxes about this subject that one shouldn't be hampered by the labels people give [[Other]]s.<ref>The being I have named Barbatorem is an entity falling under the classification Insolitus Nex.  This author does not believe in stricter classifications, and leaves it to others to label him a devil or goblin as they see fit.  It is difficult to impossible to guess as to his origins, but one can speculate that it came about after the dawn of human civilization, given the common elements and the trend in appearances. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.7]]</ref>
 This also extends to practitioners of course. Collectors doesn't just mean curators of private museums but also those who might collect things like people or legends.
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+*Very Old Thing<ref>Say you're a practitioner in Europe. Your town is hundreds of years old, and it borders a bog. In that bog lives a Very Old Thing. It predates Solomon, it predates tidy labels, and it is nasty, predatory, and prone to kidnapping children to eat. It can't be killed and most conventional ways of binding it will see it throwing itself against the walls of its metaphorical cage until the people who set up the seal give up or people start to notice something's up. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/7xd9c0/ /du80qzl Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
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