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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. Attwell Family

Steal material form here Now where did 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

Remember to collect the Pact WoG Vestige suff

Pact Art Work

This looks like a job for the High Priestess of Cloacina

Ogre Practioner

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

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-<!--It kind of always bothered me a ton that in whatever series where you go back in time or when magic was available, the protagonists are like, "Oh yeah, D-day? That was us."
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-So if I were to lean in any direction in terms of giving official word, it would be that the world wars were affairs of men. Great efforts were spent to keep it that way- both from Others that secretly hoped it was the start of the end for mankind and the forces working in the background to keep Others and practitioners from trying to sway events. Were there practitioners and Others? Of course. but not in the midst of things, and they largely canceled each other out.
-World leaders in general don't buy into practice- for those who would or wouldn't, look to those who openly admit to believing in magic. In most cases, practitioners will try to form hidden departments and factions where they can influence and advise, mainly in the selfish interests of protecting national powers and practices. Making powers and Others a big deal has a way of, wait for it, making Others a big deal- its' risky to bring them into the forefront of public knowledge or the upper ends of politics, commerce, science, faiths, or wars. What ends up happening is something will ride the chain of successes and find its way to a place near the top of the hierarchy. Do people try? Of course. But it's a crab-bucket style trying and it's never simple.
-Keep in mind, and this is pretty big, that practitioners aren't necessarily aligned with the nation. If you have an American practitioner family but the family has deep-set roots going over to eastern Europe, it's very possible that they could be aligned with the Axis rather than the Allies. This very much complicates efforts to just say, "Let's get all our practitioners together and go stop the bad guys!"
 Going off of incarnations, could a country be a incarnation? Would these incarnations engage in battle to save their own hide, or were they powerless to do anything?
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 A country does have a spirit, however. Powerful city mages & nomads sometimes commune with these spirits. These spirits don't tend to go to war any more than a city will uproot itself and fight. It will negotiate, bargain, threaten more nebulous consequences, and do so in reflection of the spirit of the people. It can be swayed and it can be broken or occupied by foreign sentiments.
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-Spirits like the Eye from the Toronto Fire are common-ish in wartime. They generally reflect lingering trauma and sentiment.
 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?