I'm shameless in admitting that I get a lot of my terminology from the pen-and-paper RPG,
Unknown Armies, and in this instance, it's no different. I don't recall the exact definition of a proxy, and I've loaned/lent my sourcebook to a friend to prepare for a campaign, so my own memorised definition is:
"proxy: an object, word, person or creature that symbolically 'stands in' or represents a person they are bonded or linked to".
Right off the bat you can see the kind of things I'm talking about. Voodoo dolls are proxies, anagrams of your name are proxies, your hair could be a proxy. Theoretically, servitors, constructs, familiars and thoughtforms could be proxies too, could they not? And as such, could the bond proxies and the person they signified by exploited in some way? For example, say I'm in a war with the completely made-up, hypothetical mage named Bras Drisingr. Suppose she has a servitor designed to ******** around with my finances or something, to make my money start fizzling away or whatever. Would it not be possible to somehow exploit the connection she and her servitor have so that I could have the servitor turn back on her? (Those of you who've read the
Fleeting Faces ritual thread can probably see why I'm asking this).
My question is this -- are there any stories, rumours, gossip, anecdotes, factual accounts, experiments or the like that feature this kind of exploitation of a magickal link between things? If its your own personal experience to something-you-read-in-this-one-book, I'd like to hear it.
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