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|Alias = The burier and hanger of children | |Alias = The burier and hanger of children | ||
|Age = The era of [[Seal of Solomon|the Seal]]<ref name=BM/> | |Age = The era of [[Seal of Solomon|the Seal]]<ref name=BM/><ref name="bus1"/> | ||
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|Status =Alive | |Status =Alive | ||
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The Beorgmann is a burier and hanger of children, currently trying to escape binding.<ref>“Lord of the Nipigon region,” a child called down. “The burier and hanger of children would barter.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> | The Beorgmann is a burier and hanger of children, currently trying to escape binding.<ref>“Lord of the Nipigon region,” a child called down. “The burier and hanger of children would barter.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> | ||
==Personality== | ==Personality== | ||
While uncommunicative it seems content in its work. | |||
Willing to loosen its hold on victims as part of a rise to escape its captivity. | |||
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===Relationships=== | ===Relationships=== | ||
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It is able to make tree houses out of branches and bits of wooden, it can also make gardens and other hiding places.<ref name=BM>“Beorgmann. Person of the mounds. It’s an old Other. Probably from the era of the Seal,” Milly explained. “Lures children in. This one used to make gardens and hiding places, but it started to make treehouses and that seemed to work for it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It uses these to trap children by locking them in walled gardens without an exit or removing the ladder of a tree house so they can't escape. It's captured at least forty children this way and even more underground.<ref>“And toys, trinkets, trickster lights. Or it would snatch up the kids from their rooms. They put the kids in these little contained zones. Walled gardens without exits, burrows in hillsides, or treehouses. Gets kids inside, then removes the ladder. Magic keeps them from leaving. We think this one got enough kids that it’s why this area never developed more. If you venture inside the territory, there’s about forty treehouses across four acres. Most of them are lit by candlelight at night. Kids peering out through the windows. That’s just from the era where treehouses have been a thing. There’s more in the mounds, and gardens, other hideaway spots, around here.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> The children that are trapped are unable to be properly freed, as the Beorgmanns [[claim]] on them "is too strong".<ref name=":0">“Why not mount a rescue mission?” Sullivan asked.<br><br>“Because the kids are the Beorgmann’s. Its grip on them is too strong, and it can’t die, doesn’t relinquish them even if we hurt it. And it is apparently really strong- it always eventually breaks free of confinement. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It is so inviolable that it can interfere with other magical workings even indirectly.<ref name=":1">“No, but there’s some discomfort. We hoped to keep them trapped for longer, but as it happens, there were three children on the premises. A stronger entity had a firm grip on all three, to the point that our attempt to surround and contain the house couldn’t succeed.”<br><br>“I can’t even latch onto them,” [[Bridge]] admitted. “No grip.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes,” Bridge replied. “From the clutches of an Other who hasn’t fully released his grip.”<br><br>“Does that mean that if they’re out there on their own, and if they wander, they might end up veering right back into that place they were captured from?”<br><br>“Yes,” Rook replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> | It is able to make tree houses out of branches and bits of wooden, it can also make gardens and other hiding places.<ref name=BM>“Beorgmann. Person of the mounds. It’s an old Other. Probably from the era of the Seal,” Milly explained. “Lures children in. This one used to make gardens and hiding places, but it started to make treehouses and that seemed to work for it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It uses these to trap children by locking them in walled gardens without an exit or removing the ladder of a tree house so they can't escape. It's captured at least forty children this way and even more underground.<ref>“And toys, trinkets, trickster lights. Or it would snatch up the kids from their rooms. They put the kids in these little contained zones. Walled gardens without exits, burrows in hillsides, or treehouses. Gets kids inside, then removes the ladder. Magic keeps them from leaving. We think this one got enough kids that it’s why this area never developed more. If you venture inside the territory, there’s about forty treehouses across four acres. Most of them are lit by candlelight at night. Kids peering out through the windows. That’s just from the era where treehouses have been a thing. There’s more in the mounds, and gardens, other hideaway spots, around here.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> The children that are trapped are unable to be properly freed, as the Beorgmanns [[claim]] on them "is too strong".<ref name=":0">“Why not mount a rescue mission?” Sullivan asked.<br><br>“Because the kids are the Beorgmann’s. Its grip on them is too strong, and it can’t die, doesn’t relinquish them even if we hurt it. And it is apparently really strong- it always eventually breaks free of confinement. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> It is so inviolable that it can interfere with other magical workings even indirectly.<ref name=":1">“No, but there’s some discomfort. We hoped to keep them trapped for longer, but as it happens, there were three children on the premises. A stronger entity had a firm grip on all three, to the point that our attempt to surround and contain the house couldn’t succeed.”<br><br>“I can’t even latch onto them,” [[Bridge]] admitted. “No grip.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes,” Bridge replied. “From the clutches of an Other who hasn’t fully released his grip.”<br><br>“Does that mean that if they’re out there on their own, and if they wander, they might end up veering right back into that place they were captured from?”<br><br>“Yes,” Rook replied. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> | ||
It's immortal and will always break free eventually,<ref name=":0" /> being something older then the seal of Solomon and able to bar major [[Incarnate]] forces like the [[Pillars of Human Existence]].<ref>“It’s old, pre-seal, nasty. It’s been bound for a long time, but when you bind it, you have to encompass all of its realm, which is an expanse as big as some national parklands. The entire place is littered with cellars, treehouses, and other holding cells for children. He takes them and keeps them just to have them. They don’t age, don’t change, Death, Nature, Time, Fate, and War can’t get past the Beorgmann to reach them.” | It's immortal and will always break free eventually,<ref name=":0" /> being something older then the seal of Solomon and able to bar major [[Incarnate]] forces like the [[Pillars of Human Existence]].<ref name="bus1">“It’s old, pre-seal, nasty. It’s been bound for a long time, but when you bind it, you have to encompass all of its realm, which is an expanse as big as some national parklands. The entire place is littered with cellars, treehouses, and other holding cells for children. He takes them and keeps them just to have them. They don’t age, don’t change, Death, Nature, Time, Fate, and War can’t get past the Beorgmann to reach them.” | ||
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> Despite this it still compares unfavorably to creatures like [[Primeval]]s it is still a highly dangerous and powerful Other.<ref>“If we were more evil, we could threaten to open the cages. It wouldn’t be all that different from what Mrs. Durocher does when she summons her creatures. If what she summons is a handful of nines out of ten on the danger scale, we could let loose a ''whole lot'' of six, sevens, and one or two eights.”<br>...]<br>“Don’t cross the barrier under any circumstance. In fact, stay ten or twenty paces back from the barrier. Don’t invite it. Don’t entreat it. This is a solid eight out of ten on the danger scale. If this storm acts up and lightning starts striking every second? Deal with the lightning, don’t go running up to that barrier.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> | - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/14 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> Despite this it still compares unfavorably to creatures like [[Primeval]]s it is still a highly dangerous and powerful Other.<ref>“If we were more evil, we could threaten to open the cages. It wouldn’t be all that different from what Mrs. Durocher does when she summons her creatures. If what she summons is a handful of nines out of ten on the danger scale, we could let loose a ''whole lot'' of six, sevens, and one or two eights.”<br>...]<br>“Don’t cross the barrier under any circumstance. In fact, stay ten or twenty paces back from the barrier. Don’t invite it. Don’t entreat it. This is a solid eight out of ten on the danger scale. If this storm acts up and lightning starts striking every second? Deal with the lightning, don’t go running up to that barrier.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref> | ||
==Chronology== | ==Chronology== | ||
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[[Bridge]], possessing [[Milly Legendre]], was planning to bind the Beorgmann again,<ref>“Stay with Milly Legendre for now. Go get that barrier in her territory working again. Avery may be able to help you.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> but this was not carried out. | [[Bridge]], possessing [[Milly Legendre]], was planning to bind the Beorgmann again,<ref>“Stay with Milly Legendre for now. Go get that barrier in her territory working again. Avery may be able to help you.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> but this was not carried out. | ||
Close to the deadline [[Dropped Call]] interceded with [[Avery]] asking that she let the Beorgmann stay unbound and eventually leave.<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.8]]</ref> Avery contrived to let Milly escape her captivity,<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> and the Beorgmann | Close to the deadline [[Dropped Call]] interceded with [[Avery]] asking that she let the Beorgmann stay unbound and eventually leave.<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.8]]</ref> Avery contrived to let Milly escape her captivity,<ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.9]]</ref> and the Beorgmann was bound again.<ref>"That was the Dropped Call. Lord of one of the areas. If we stopped, he was going to take issue with the fact Milly got free on her own and stopped the Child-thief, the Beorgmann.["] - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/04 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.3]]</ref><ref>[[Crossed with Silver 19.12]]</ref> | ||
==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
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The Beorgmann is a burier and hanger of children, currently trying to escape binding.<ref>“Lord of the Nipigon region,” a child called down. “The burier and hanger of children would barter.”- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.y</ref>
Personality
While uncommunicative it seems content in its work.
Willing to loosen its hold on victims as part of a rise to escape its captivity.