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	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.		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.
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		+	==== Librarians Radiant ====
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		+	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 ===		=== Cults ===

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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.		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.
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		+	===== Twice-Navigator =====
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		+	{{Aspect\|Lantern\|12}} {{Aspect\|Edge\|12}}
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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 ====		==== The Shattered ====

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 ==== Chantry of Truth ====
-{{Aspect|Lantern|8}} {{Aspect|Histories|8}}
+{{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.

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 {{Aspect|Lantern|10}} {{Aspect|Edge|10}}
-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. 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.
+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.
 ==== The Shattered ====
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 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...
 === Cults ===

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 == Appearance ==
-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 its form.
+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.
 == Principles ==
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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. 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.
 === Cults ===
 === Marks ===
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 == Relationships ==
-* [[The Architeuthian]]: FNORD
+* [[The Architeuthian]]: My not-dear sister does have quite poor taste in friends. Despotic, boring monarch. Perhaps temptable, however...
 * [[The Anaconda]]: A rivalry, an enemy-ship. Some would say friendly, some of the dearly deceased that is
 * [[The Engine of Cycles]]: The Engine was once its... not friend, ally. But then it ate the Tail. As it can be imagined, the Tail is not to pleased about that
-* [[The Peacock]]: FNORD
+* [[The Peacock]]: Sibling! 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]]: FNORD
+* [[Old Tarnished]]: Not so easily malleable a tool, then, unfortunately. Needs more Nowhere
 * [[The Spark]]: FNORD
-* [[The Cuckoo]]: FNORD
+* [[The Cuckoo]]: Weirdo. Quite, quite nasty.
 * [[The Silver Owl]]: FNORD
 * [[The Watcher in the Window]]: FNORD
 * [[The Elder Sister]]: FNORD
 * [[The Apple-of-the-Eye]]: FNORD
-* [[SWOUP]]: FNORD
+* [[The Diagram]]: Curious! Very curious! Enlightenment? Needs more Nowhere.
-* [[The Archivist]]: FNORD
+* [[The Bright-Delver]]: Dear sister! If only she enjoyed the not-being more. Still good to meet for a cup of tea and cake every now and then
 * [[The Harvester]]: FNORD
-* [[Blank|<nowiki>[&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;]</nowiki>]]: FNORD
+* [[The Insidious]]: Quite possibly the dullest of our family. Needs more sentience.
 * [[The Snow-Stained]]: FNORD
 * [[The Fanged Bramble]]: FNORD
 * [[The Aged Bones]]: FNORD
-* [[The Mendicant Without]]: FNORD
+* [[The Mendicant Without]]: Oh, dear sibling, you do need to learn how to be more properly of our homeland
 * [[The Anvil]]: FNORD
 * [[The Maker]]: FNORD
 * [[The Deceiver]]: FNORD
 * [[The Huntsman]]: FNORD
-* [[The Great Serpent]]: FNORD
+* [[The Great Serpent]]: Me! Absolutely me!

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 “A curious place. Words for words, secrets for secrets, places for places.”
 Your head spins, your ears bleed. You do not remember what you told him, but you remember what he told you, where to go.
 ==== A Visitor from Nowhere ====
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 '''Description:'''
 It seems to be doing something like smiling. And smiling. And smiling. Somewhere new to open? New things to visit? It'd be delighted...
 ==== Unravellers ====
 After the Engine betrayed it, the Tail did not take such a thing lightly. When the war ended, it asked its erstwhile allies for only one thing. The corpses and wrecks of the destroyed Names and machines of the Engine, strewn across the carcass of the Fifth History. With its spoils, it experimented and poked the machines, attempting to restore some sort of life to them, to perhaps create a Nowhere-tainted twisted mirror to the Engine. It did not succeed. Not completely. But it made these. Nowhere-corrupted machines, not an Hour, but monstrous creatures restored to a facsimile of their former function. Not great automata bristling with glowing energy like the Engine's children, but shattered cogs and gears and ruined pistons and scraps of machinery twisting and writhing in a ghost of function, but blessed with an almost terrifying determination and the ability to with just a handful of them, assemble from nearly anything thousands and thousands more. They nibble away at the structure of the Mansus, their exponential growth only impeded by the efforts of many Hours, and at the Engine's innards, seeking to usurp its place. Hours slay them delicately. Too many and the Engine's attentions will be turned away from preserving itself from the Unravellers, too few and the Mansus may collapse...
 === Cults ===

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 | arrival = c. 960 .C.E.
 | owners = SRN
-}}'''The Snake Tail With Appendages''' ('''The Feckless Opener''', '''The Wrong-Serpent''') is an Hour, created by SRN. It a God-From-Nowhere. Its aspects are [[Knock]] and [[Lantern]].
+}}'''The Snake Tail With Appendages''' ('''The Feckless Opener''', '''The Wrong-Serpent''') is an Hour, created by SRN. It a God-From-Nowhere. Its aspects are [[:Category:Knock|Knock]] and [[:Category:Lantern|Lantern]].
 == Appearance ==

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 {{InfoboxHour
 | title = The Snake Tail With Appendages
-| card = File:Anacondasayshi.jpeg
+| card = File:anacondasayshi
 | origin = Nowhere
 | titles = The Snake Tail With Appendages<br />The Wrong-Serpent<br />The Feckless Opener