This idea was stolen from White Wolf's Changeling: the Lost game. I was reading the book and it got me thinking about that dern Faery Magic.
As always, anything for the World of Darkness series tickles my Chaote pickle, but this especially had me thinking about some legit spellcrafting ideas.
Contracts.
Idea in simplicity is taking two things into account:
1) Animism
2) Things happen only because we agree that they do.
K. Follow me here.
So, it's given that in the land of Faerie, everything is based upon contracts - you don't breathe if you and Air didn't make a contract that allows you to; the sun doesn't shine unless you've agreed that it will, and that lovely campfire can be used as a beanbag chair but unless you and it have agreed to work as you assume it should (fire = warm/bright/burn), you're gonna freeze to death.
Point.
So, why can't this work for us normies? Well, it can, it has, it does. Tried it. Was amused. The more your soul enjoys all things Faerie - beauty, mystery, innocence, fantasty, etc. in the flavor of the Fair Folk, the better this seems to work. Or insert applicable animistic scenario.
Yeah. Point then.
Pick up a dollar bill. Walk outside. Close your eyes. Relax. Identify the dollar bill as symbolic for the 'spirit' of money, or what-have-you. Get a clear connection. Formal introductions might be beneficial. This example may work best on a Full Moon night.
Form a contract with the spirit of money, possibly in exchange for something.
Ex: "I do enter into a binding pledge of Alliance with ye, Spirit of Wealth. In exchange for your Boon and Blessing, I shall give up to you one piece of Art my own hands have craft, to be transferred by method of fire or water on the night of the Full Moon each month. If this contract be broken, the offending party will pay penalty by being marked by a period of ill-fortune. This penalty will remain until proper compensation has been made or a Year and a Day has passed since the formation of this contract. This contract is in effect, and binding for exactly a Year and a Day from the moment it is struck."
I tried this with other things, like making a pledge with 'Cold' for it not to string me and I warmed up quickly. I hate smoking cigarettes in winter wind.
Anyway, thoughts?
I'm more interested in people trying this out and sharing results.
Viva le Gentry.
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