Trussed

The Trussed are those tied into being a barrier against a threat.

Nature

Become part of the landscape itself.

Abilities/Behavior

Dependent on their 'source material they could have any number of abilities.'<ref>

- Bestiary: Trussed</ref>

Weaknesses

They tend to be focused on the long term and environment and as such can miss what is immediately present around them.

Formation

Martyrs are those who give up their existence to keep threats away from the rest of humanity, civilization, and the world.

Use By Practitioners

Some members of practitioner families will be selected to contain a given threat.<ref>Brie went on, “There was another scenario, sort of related, it’s not a binding in a person, but sometimes when there’s something really awful, you get someone who drags the scary Other or the practice that’s gone out of control into an area and they lock themselves in with it. Shut out Death itself, make themselves custodians and long-term wardens of this seal they need to keep shut. They’ll stay there so long, cut off from the rest of humanity, so tied into the upkeep of the wards and stuff, that you get people who become one with the area. A guy turned partially to stone, melded into the chair he’s sitting in and the floor, watching over the hole in the ground with some demon or something in it. They’ll do it on purpose, because it’s that important, or the practitioner family will pick someone to handle it and shove them in there before locking the door. [...] Sometimes you gotta plan for the worst case. Sometimes you have to account for the fact you’re going to get consumed. You aim to do one thing, like keep someone or something safe, or keep the thing that’s inevitably going to destroy you from escaping.” - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.3</ref>

Best to be used as a Familiar only when the threat they contain is dealt with. can empower their practitioners but also really slow them down.

Variants

Beset

More likely to be Others as they are trapped in eternal conflict with creatures.

Buttressed

Less then four are known to exist, these are advanced versions of the trussed.

Grasping

those that endup guarding collections and such, more likely to be practioners cut of from reality.

References