How would one describe something like this? A creature almost designed to not be described. "A jerk," the Anaconda would describe, and some, may would agree. It shifts and twists and seems almost painful to watch, but sometimes it settles into a form like a severed snake tail, dripping blood, with several long black sinuous limbs growing from it. Thus its name. This form, however, is but the average of the bell curve. Rarely, it has appeared as something as even an ordinary ''human'', or something similar to it. It is the Snake-Tail with Appendages. It does not suffer the constraint of common form.

The common Name of the Tail is the Voyager. The possibility that did step into Nowhere. They manifest misty and intangible, having shed all their form, but normally wield a single strange, tangible weapon, crossbows, swords, lances, but also macuahuitl, shuriken, and the like; convention is no limit. They serve as the shock-troopers of the Tail, when it, oh-so-rarely go to war. Although intangible, their lack of form and inability to easily adopt new ones renders them particularly vulnerable to law, requiring much Nowhere to sustain them. Their weapons distort material chemistry and physics, requiring only the minimal amount of force to move and shearing through anything without resistance. Formidable, their fragility renders them rarely seen outside Nowhere. ===== Twice-Navigator ===== {{Aspect|Lantern|12}} {{Aspect|Edge|12}} First among the Voyagers, the Twice-Navigator is favored of the Tail among the Voyagers. Few enough occultists dedicate themselves towards the Tail. Fewer yet take the plunge and become both Voyagers and Not-Voyagers. Only one both fell from high into Nowhere and walked away, only for the latter possibility to return anyway and also plunge into Nowhere's colourful embrace. Once one of the explorers to venture forth with Cortez, then the first to be seduced by the gods of the new land, the Twice-Navigator now is the strangest and mightiest of the Voyagers. More a torching, burning plasma than a mist, it is not merely the burning flesh of the creature that singles it out, but its dual nature. Every act it does twice, each of the twinned selves of it acting with all vigour. ==== The Shattered ==== {{Aspect|Heart|6}} {{Aspect|Knock|6}} Sometimes someone spurns the attention of normal Hours. Perhaps they have unusual desires. Perhaps they were touched by something strange. Perhaps they understood too much. Sometimes, those people acquire the attention of the Hour that destroys doors, that opens all possibilities, that is the yawning maw of enlightenment. Sometimes they do not and cast themselves into Nowhere before they are ready. The Shattered never find a possibility where they are sane or coherent again. They endure, perpetual, for they quintessentially are-not, but never again have stability or full existence and thus are quite harmless besides. The Tail keeps a small court of them, it favours these mad fools who sought to kick down doors that they really, really should not have. They serve as little more than meat-shields and gateways for more powerful creatures of the Tail. Individually, they are quite benign, but their presence means that the Tail has taken an interest, and greater beings will follow through it... ==== Chantry of Truth ==== {{Aspect|Lantern|8}} {{Aspect|Secret Histories|8}} Led by Ioannes, the Chantry of Truth are Long of the Tail that embody its other aspect: That of enlightenment and horrible truths that must anyway be acknowledged. More like adepts and mortals, every part of them, everything they do serves that horrible enlightenment. Their flesh is inked with ancient script and terrible lore, each word, even a request for more tea, is a burning incantation. To merely be in their presence is to know, and sometimes, you do not survive that knowledge. ==== Librarians Radiant ==== The Glory is enlightenment, but sometimes the Glory is not as it was. The Tail claims to possess a different enlightenment, a superior enlightenment, and sometimes, flecks of the Glory do not precisely defect. These beings are Glory turned sour and given mind, knowledge knowing itself.

* [[The Architeuthian]]: FNORDMy not-dear sister does have quite poor taste in friends. Despotic, boring monarch. Perhaps temptable, however...

* [[The Peacock]]: FNORDSibling! Dear dear friend! Strangely attached to the dead Forge-Hours. If I have to bring down the gate... Well, he will thank me later!* [[Old Tarnished]]: FNORDNot so easily malleable a tool, then, unfortunately. Needs more Nowhere

* [[The Cuckoo]]: FNORDWeirdo. Quite, quite nasty.

* [[SWOUP]]: FNORD* [[The ArchivistDiagram]]: FNORDCurious! Very curious! Enlightenment? Needs more Nowhere.* [[The Bright-Delver]]: FNORDDear sister! If only she enjoyed the not-being more. Still good to meet for a cup of tea and cake every now and then

* [[Blank|<nowiki>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]</nowiki>]]: FNORD* [[The Insidious]]: FNORDQuite possibly the dullest of our family. Needs more sentience.

* [[The Mendicant Without]]: FNORDOh, dear sibling, you do need to learn how to be more properly of our homeland

* [[The Great Serpent]]: FNORDMe! Absolutely me!