“Something terrible happened, of a scale that words cannot easily convey.
Perhaps because of the drawback that nothing comes for free, and this power, this knowledge, and these promises come with an expectation. Who could say no? After all, Others and those inducted into Other ways cannot lie, and they say it’s okay. Those strange Others can give up shares of their power and teach their secret knowledge. Find or be found by the fey things, the goblin things, the things that used to be ghosts and became something more, the things that used to be human and became something less. The last way, the old way? The road we’re going down? To make that deal directly. The risks are pretty cut and dry when you’re going it alone and ignorant in a world where people feel it’s necessary to hide arcane texts, or where one’s predecessor was killed by something Other that might come after them and their new trinket.
To find a book hidden in a library, or an object both strange and powerful at a crime scene where the deceased was killed by something not human nor animal. But the drawback to that is having to deal with family, and old families have their own problems. Families are very good at keeping these traditions going, establishing that repetition, and ensuring that each successive generation is appropriately awoken and given everything they need. These words that bring forth nightmares and these symbols that speak to the wind are the product of centuries of deals being made, repeated until they become expectations and assumptions, provided the person has been awakened to that world and made the necessary agreements. One of the common ways is to be born to it. Make the right deals, learn the right words to say or symbols to write down, and you can make the wind listen to you, exchange your skin for that of a serpent, or call forth the sorts of monsters that appear in horror movies. There are ways of being inducted into the practices, those esoteric traditions that predate computers, cell phones, the engines industry, and even paper and bronze.
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