List of Others

This is a list of Others that while mentioned in the Otherverse are not explicated.

Compiler Error

Weird tech things, very very dangerous things that happen when you mess with things when you deal with the Self.<ref>In the medium-sized circle, about ten feet across, a chest freezer, old television, and what could have been a computer server rose out of the floor. They were all gathered together, the freezer left partially open, the television cracked, and the computer server a bit battered. Within the freezer, dark behind the television screen, and in the gaps of the server, Lucy could see pink, translucent, skinless flesh threaded through with blue and canary yellow wires, periodically with dull illumination, as if a faint, flickering lightbulb had lit up in the recesses. She could see something curled up within the television, with an exaggerated, outstanding spine that threaded out of the television and into the server, the ridges and points of it exaggerated and tangled up with the blue and yellow wires. The machine hummed audibly and the organic part of it breathed, a part of the server expanding and contracting, bodily fluids running out of one part to the floor as one gap widened. A single red light on the server blinked regularly.
[...]
absorbed by a Compiler Error and extruded, brain damaged, into the nearest appliance or container…”

As she walked by the techy Other, the freezer jerked, sliding toward her, and cracked open, fluids bubbling from one corner. Mrs. Durocher reached across the circle and gave it a full-bodied shove, putting it right back where it had been.
[...]
“This is a Compiler Error. It results from a failed attempt at transplanting or translating an Other or a Self to a system. There are different kinds in Alchemy, like Seethes and Boils, and there are other kinds in ritual circles gone wrong, like the Dark Design or Umbrage. Variants on the Compiler Error include the Overflow Error and the Resource Error. It is material, feral and corrupts.”
[...]
The fridge thing jerked, then dragged itself forward. It rose up, bulged with flesh, and popped, a printer or something bulging out the side. Something that looked like intestine with wire running through it spilled out of it, pooling on the floor.
[...]
The thing loomed, growing, and touched the wall. Wires behind the wall were ripped out, veins and wires snaking along their length, flesh expanding around the holes that had been left behind. The chest freezer had opened, and flesh-tainted computer parts were spilling out on a tide of ambiguous, translucent flesh.

It approached Durocher, reaching.

“No,” she told it, with an edge to her voice.

It backed off, approaching students instead. Durocher remained on stage, unflinching, watching.
[...]
More limbs were circling around the walls, films of skin reaching over windows. The door- she looked back and saw it was already sealed, a hand growing out of the flesh, pressing against it.

It smelled, now that it was out of the circle. Like meat that was a little off, like burning, and like there was metal in the air. - Excerpt from Cutting Class 6.1</ref>

Dwarves

Others that could be called Dwarves can be found throughout the western world.<ref>Goblins of the European countries met and mingled with the little people of the wilderness here, as did a grouping of dwarves. The ferocious mingled with goblins, and the canny mingled with dwarves. Another sort of establishment. - Excerpt from Summer Break 13.2</ref>

Selkies

Those seals that can take human form.

Mobile Wards

Fan term is navigators but unknown if they are canon.

Moonstruck

Creatures tied to insanity.<ref>

Catherine was forced to establish a careful relationship with a Bedlam Belle, otherwise known as a Moonstruck or the unsavory term Lunatic, in 1690. Infected with contagious madness that could spread if conditions were met, the Belle was prone to disturbing the construction of levies, dams, and bridges. As her influence spread across their small town, she bid others to do the same, and had some effects on reality. Catherine lacked the knowledge to bind the Belle, got little help from Other and practitioner, and could not convince the Belle to be bound, nor could she slay the girl that had been taken in by the church, using its protection. The familiar relationship was a compromise, and Catherine bound the Belle to herself, in a proportionate dynamic.

Catherine’s life from that point on was an ordeal, as the Belle jockeyed with her for power in their dynamic. She moved inland, which distressed the Belle and turned it hostile, and whenever it rained or if she spent too long looking into water, her own sanity would slip. With her passing of pneumonia at 46, the Belle was freed, and bid three families to drown themselves before passing herself, as a carriage was driven off a bridge and she died in the crash. - excerpt from Famulus, quoted in Bonus Material: Famulus Text</ref>

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