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 # '''Ascension: Rapacity''': The company of others has lost its savor, though few can now resist the allure of the Fifth Mark that lies upon me. Every day brings a new fling, each more passionate and intense than the last. I would stop, but the choice is no longer mine.
 # '''Ascension: Rapacity''': My body craves ever greater thrills, but my mind is still. My desires have become necessities, as essential and dull as breathing air. The Sixth Mark coils around my mind like a wreath, or a collar.
-# '''The Ruination of Substance:''': There is only hunger now. Though I engage in greater debauchery with each passing day, I feel no pleasure, and yet I cannot stop. Only the Mendicant's touch is real now, a hand resting gently on my shoulder as I dream. I will never be Crowned, but neither will I ever leave this world.
+# '''The Ruination of Substance''': There is only hunger now. Though I engage in greater debauchery with each passing day, I feel no pleasure, and yet I cannot stop. Only the Mendicant's touch is real now, a hand resting gently on my shoulder as I dream. I will never be Crowned, but neither will I ever leave this world.
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 === Cult ===
-'''The Appetent Fellowship''', home to the '''Suppliants''': When one tires of the ordinary pleasures life has to offer, one joins the Fellowship. There can like-minded people be found, people who similarly hunger for deeper sustenance and find solace in each other's presence.
+'''The Appetent Fellowship''', home to the '''Suppliants''', is the most prominent cult of the Mendicant Without and lies within [[the Fourth History]]. When one tires of the ordinary pleasures life has to offer, one joins the Fellowship. There can like-minded people be found, people who similarly hunger for deeper sustenance and find solace in each other's presence.
 === Mark ===

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 The Mendicant permits no Name and recognizes no servants officially. Despite this, several of its worshipers have risen to some degree of prominence. Those who embrace the Mendicant's ways will find themselves elevated to the rank of the Diffuse - immortal beings of tremendous vitality whose appetites anchor the soul to the body. Unlike the Long, the Diffuse can never enter the Mansus, as they are no longer able to dream above the Wood's treetops; in exchange, they gain a much more personal link with their Hour of worship, allowing them a level of privilege not ordinarily enjoyed by most Long. As such, a few have gained some particular prominence among the Diffuse.
-==== The Germane ====
+==== The Germane, who Embraced ====
 The Mendicant Without appoints no representative in [[the Temple Nil]], and cares little for the affairs of [[the First City]], yet its chair is not vacant. Ever the last to arrive and the first to stand, the Diffuse who styles himself the Germane never misses a meeting. Possessed of mirth, energy and passion unbounded, he acquires opinions and discards positions as suits his mood. There is more to him, of course, but, as he'll tell you, he's not here to talk about himself.
 == Locations ==
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 Few locations are of particular significance to the Mendicant, as its cults have rarely been sufficiently organized or long-lasted to erect permanent worship sites. Despite this, there are a few sites that bear retain some link to it:
 * '''The Hollow by the Street:''' an artificial cave in the midst of a major city of the Fourth History, dug out over the course of generations by forgotten occultists. It possesses many entrances, but few exits.
 == Relationships ==

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 # '''Ascension: Rapacity''': The company of others has lost its savor, though few can now resist the allure of the Fifth Mark that lies upon me. Every day brings a new fling, each more passionate and intense than the last. I would stop, but the choice is no longer mine.
 # '''Ascension: Rapacity''': My body craves ever greater thrills, but my mind is still. My desires have become necessities, as essential and dull as breathing air. The Sixth Mark coils around my mind like a wreath, or a collar.
-# '''The Ruination of Substance:''': There is only hunger now. Though I engage in greater debauchery with each passing day, I feel no pleasure, and yet I cannot stop. Only the Mendicant's touch is real now, a hand resting gently on my shoulder as I dream. I will never pass the Tricuspid Gate, but neither will I ever leave this world.
+# '''The Ruination of Substance:''': There is only hunger now. Though I engage in greater debauchery with each passing day, I feel no pleasure, and yet I cannot stop. Only the Mendicant's touch is real now, a hand resting gently on my shoulder as I dream. I will never be Crowned, but neither will I ever leave this world.
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 === Servants ===
-The Mendicant permits no Name and recognizes no servants officially. Despite this, several of its worshipers have risen to some degree of prominence. Those who embrace the Mendicant's ways will find themselves elevated to the rank of the Diffuse - immortal beings of tremendous vitality whose appetites anchor the soul to the body. Unlike the Long, the Diffuse can never enter the Mansus, as they are no longer able to dream above the Wood's treetops; in exchange, they gain a much more personal link with their Hour of worship, allowing them a level of privilege not ordinarily enjoyed by most Long.
+The Mendicant permits no Name and recognizes no servants officially. Despite this, several of its worshipers have risen to some degree of prominence. Those who embrace the Mendicant's ways will find themselves elevated to the rank of the Diffuse - immortal beings of tremendous vitality whose appetites anchor the soul to the body. Unlike the Long, the Diffuse can never enter the Mansus, as they are no longer able to dream above the Wood's treetops; in exchange, they gain a much more personal link with their Hour of worship, allowing them a level of privilege not ordinarily enjoyed by most Long. As such, a few have gained some particular prominence among the Diffuse.
 == Locations ==

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-[[Category:Grail]]
+[[Category:Grail]][[Category:Fansus I]]

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 == Relationships ==
 * [[The Anaconda]]: After the Mendicant disobeyed the Great Serpent's decree, breaking the truce within the Fourth History, the Anaconda was the Hour which exiled the Mendicant from the Fansus. Only the Delver's interference prevented the Anaconda from slaying the Mendicant on the spot; if the Delver was to be harmed by the Mendicant, that safety would surely be nullified.
-* [[The Elder Sister]]: The Witch-of-the-Woods sees in the Mendicant the same intriguing qualities that give her a fondness for humans. She would love to invite it into her Court, and never allow it to leave.
+* [[The Aged Bones]]: The Mendicant Without has been witnessed wandering by the Aged Bones' stained glass windows, where they occasionally hold a brief conversation. Sometimes the Aged Bones passes on secrets that she allows the Mendicant to spread among its followers.
 * [[The Apple-of-the-Eye]]: Once permitted to the topmost parts of the House, now loathed and exiled for an unknown slight. Never again will the Apple permit him.
 * [[The Bright-Delver]]: The Delver interceded on the Mendicant's behalf to prevent its death by Anaconda, and is doing her best to teach it how to be a proper Hour.
 * [[The Insidious]]: The Insidious is on good terms with the Mendicant, having formed a secret alliance with it for mutual protection against some of the older, more established Hours.
 == See Also ==

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	=== Mark ===		=== Mark ===
		+	Those who embrace their insatiable appetites will find themselves branded with the '''Marks of Rapacity''', which fill the body and empty the soul.
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		+	# '''Temptation: Rapacity''': There is a greater satisfaction to be found.
		+	# '''Dedication: Rapacity''': I have dedicated myself to the search for absolute contentedness. I must satiate my deeper hungers, whatever the cost.
		+	# '''Ascension: Rapacity''': The Mendicant Without has altered my appetite. Food will no longer fill me, yet I must not starve. I know this to be the Third Mark.
		+	# '''Ascension: Rapacity''': The Fourth Mark has removed my need for sleep. There is an unnatural vitality to my movements. A haze has entered my mind and will not leave.
		+	# '''Ascension: Rapacity''': The company of others has lost its savor, though few can now resist the allure of the Fifth Mark that lies upon me. Every day brings a new fling, each more passionate and intense than the last. I would stop, but the choice is no longer mine.
		+	# '''Ascension: Rapacity''': My body craves ever greater thrills, but my mind is still. My desires have become necessities, as essential and dull as breathing air. The Sixth Mark coils around my mind like a wreath, or a collar.
		+	# '''The Ruination of Substance:''': There is only hunger now. Though I engage in greater debauchery with each passing day, I feel no pleasure, and yet I cannot stop. Only the Mendicant's touch is real now, a hand resting gently on my shoulder as I dream. I will never pass the Tricuspid Gate, but neither will I ever leave this world.

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 Near the edges of the Mansus, particularly its Gates. As a result of its reduced status, it is one of the more accessible Hours, often delighting in conversing with mortals, who rarely remember its words.
-Thanks to help from [[The Bright-Delver|the Bright-Delver]] and the [[The Architeuthian|the Architeuthian]], the Mendicant has managed to regain access to the Aquarium, where it spends hours talking and even swimming with the Delver in its tank, learning ever more about the world, the Hours and the Glory.
+Thanks to help from [[The Bright-Delver]] and the [[The Architeuthian]], the Mendicant has managed to regain access to [[the Aquarium]], where it spends hours talking and even swimming with the Delver in its tank, learning ever more about the world, the Hours and the Glory.
 === The Histories ===