March is Worldbuilding Month! Leave me a question about any of my worlds, and I will do my best to answer it!
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This Fourth one is from inventrix:
Stranded: are there styles of strand-working that are not represented by the Seasonal Siblings?
Yes!
Next question?
Ahem.
Letās see. Autumn is reading the connections, Winter is smoothing them, Spring is tangling things, and Summer doesā¦ little charms, which are really either smoothing, tangling, or making a connection.
In addition, weāve seen a star mapper – who honestly is a combination of reading connections and interpreting potential connections. Like a life adviser with cheat codes.
Thereās also Severers, snippers. Those are – well, they might not be bad people, but itās a bad power. It eliminates connections, as the name would suggest, cutting them off.
Thereās Binders. Thatās different from what Autumn does; itās the power to actually tie a connection where one wasnāt before. (Autumn can strengthen a connection with the right ritual). Tattercoats is a type of binder, knotting people to his will.
There are people who do many variations on the powers of the seasonal siblings as well – a psychic is a star mapper, a curse is what Summer does, and so on.
There are people who can bend the Strands to provide them with energy – not a good idea in the long run – to hide themselves from view by moving sight along other paths, to protect places or people by charming them with a smoother path or a firmer roof.
And there are people out there who can just grasp the edges of what the Strand-workers are doing, but canāt do any of it.
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