loci

Though he is never called to testify, Key is the genius loci of this suit.

Genii protect individuals and places: springs, hills, cities, and army barracks all had a genius loci, a genius of the place.

For Isabel Otis the genius loci had a more powerful and enduring magnetism than any man or woman she had ever known.

But the genius loci here impresses on the trade in discarded odds and ends a peculiar character of its own.