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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 =====
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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 ====
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.
=== Cults ===