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| origin = God-from-Calamity
| titles = The Shelter Adamantine<br /> The Moving City<br /> The Sky-Pearl<br />
| names = The Obelisk<br> The Minister in Black<br /> The Diplomat in White<br /> The Twister of Tongues<br /> The Viceroy<br /> ''among others...''
| aspects = {{Aspect|Heart}} {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|Secret Histories}}
| arrival = During the Collision
| owners = [[User:Worm architect|worm architect]]
}}
'''The Stone Meridian''', also known as '''The Shelter Adamantine''', '''The Moving City''', and '''The Sky-Pearl''', is an Hour born in the moment of greatest peril, at the apex of the Collision. It was molded into the shape most desired by the thousands upon thousands of wounded hearts. And as they begged, it shall remain, no matter what.
===History===
A big FNORD
Fought with [[The Fair Mire-Maiden's Remains]] and was victorious.
===Appearance===
The Sky-Pearl is a city of impossible geometry and dwarfing, awe-inspiring architecture. In its bounds, the horizon is fuzzy, and the countless waterways pierce the landscape like a web. Outside, one can’t look at it directly, but if it’s there, it will always be seen in the corner of one’s vision. It resides in the Mansus, but sometimes it bleeds into the Wake, and, occasionally, it can be seen drifting into Nowhere.
====The Palace====
FNORD
====The Alabaster Spire====
A towering building that protrudes from the City like a broken rib, etched with familiar motifs and bas-reliefs. It's the headquarters of the Minister in Black, as well as the seat of the Ministry of Ash, a law enforcement agency that oversees peace and order on the streets of the Sky-Pearl and does things that are not to be discussed in the open.
====The Tourmaline Embassy====
FNORD
====The Chitinous Office====
FNORD
====The Parliament of Cogs====
FNORD
====The Ziggurat Reversed====
FNORD
====The Pearl Orchard====
The Orchard is mostly a flat garden with sparse tiered "hills" with buildings on top of them. There is an ungodly amount of songbirds. The walkways are made out of beige stone and they all merge with each other in the same way the rivers do. The visitors to the Orchard will always end up in the center if they walk forward; they will always end up in the city proper if they walk in the opposite direction from where the pathways lead.
There are small canals that feed bigger ponds. The place where the Obelisk herself resides is a geometrical body of water that is somewhere on the borders between being a large pond and a small lake. There is a singular bridge-like thing that extends all the way to the Obelisk but doesn't touch her. The size of the pond/lake, the bridge, and the Obelisk herself is inconsistent - she may be an absolutely dwarfing, two-kilometers tall tower, or the diametrical opposite of that.
The Groundskeepers, the Obelisk's Long, can be seen landscaping, maintaining the gardens, or doing less coherent things.
====The Splendid Collegium of Abyssal Findings and Archeologic Endeavours====
Known to the overwhelming majority of the City as the Archeologic Society,
====The FNORD====
FNORD
===Principles===
The Stone Meridian embodies the very principles that brought it into being. It is hopeful, for nothing can remain for long without hope. It brings home, shelter, and comfort to those who are desperate for it, for home is essential if one is to persist. It brings purpose for those who were robbed of it, it gives second chances to those who were misled, and it reshapes those who are beyond the reach of mercy. And, at last, it remembers, for sacrifices fade, too.
==Worship==
===Cult===
===Names===
The Stone Meridian is connected to its Names on a deeper level than most other Hours. Without them, its face is blank: they are its expressions.
====The Obelisk====
The Obelisk is the fuel that keeps the City going. She is also FNORD
<div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">{{ElementDescription
|image = File:TheObelisk.png
|title = The Obelisk's Shadow
|description = The shadow speaks, but its words are hollow, like that of the dead in the Mansus-soil, and at the same time, they emanate an unparalleled heat. The Obelisk won't leave the Moving City under any other guise.
|aspect0 = Follower
|aspect1 = Summoned
|aspect2 = Tutor
|aspect3 = Devourer
|quantity3 = 12
|aspect4 = Forge
|quantity4 = 12
|aspect5 = Knock
|quantity5 = 12
|fansus = 0
}}</div>
<div style="margin-top: 20px; text-align: center">{{RecipeDescription
|verb = Work
|title = Summon a shadow of a powerful Name-emanation of the Stone Meridian
|start_description = For the Obelisk to lend her power, the room must be smoldering with the radiance of Forge, but the fire must be merciful, lightly touched by Heart.
|description = Her shadow stretches on the walls, flickering like it would behind a bonfire, but all the flames went away the moment she appeared.
|aspect0 = Ritual
|aspect1 = Knock
|quantity1 = 5
|aspect2 = Forge
|quantity2 = 10
|aspect3 = Heart
|quantity3 = 2
|fansus = 2
}}</div>
====The Minister in Black ====
The Minister in Black is the resilience of the City. He is also FNORD
|image = File:TheMinisterInBlack.png
|title = The Minister in Black
|description = "'Let's make this quick, I have important matters to attend to."'
|aspect0 = Follower
|aspect1 = Summoned
<div style="margin-top: 20px; text-align: center">{{RecipeDescription
|verb = Work
|title = Summon a Terse terse Name of the Shelter Adamantine?
|start_description = The Minister in Black will come when his way is paved with an act of great strife, but only if shown the hungers of the Grail he knows so well.
|description = The Minister in Black rises slowly from the ground, enveloped in clouds of thick black smoke. His robes are soaked in blood.
|image = File:TheDiplomatInWhite.png
|title = The Diplomat in White
|description = "I assume there is some talking to be done, yes? I shall teach you a trick or two after we're done, I think you will find them useful on your future endeavours and, maybe, a bit unfair... After all, diplomacy is a web of lies, intrigue, and an occasional truth, when the former fail."'
|aspect0 = Follower
|aspect1 = Summoned
<div style="margin-top: 20px; text-align: center">{{RecipeDescription
|verb = Work
|title = Summon a Jovial jovial Name-Emanation of the Sky-Pearl?
|start_description = The Diplomat can enter when the ground itself moves with Heart's power, and when shown a way with the Lantern-light.
|description = At the first glance, The the Diplomat in White looks like an ordinary mortal, but there is a rhythm that cannot be resisted when he speaks, when he moves, and his eyes are deep as the ocean...
|aspect0 = Ritual
|aspect1 = Knock
|fansus = 2
}}</div>
====The Twister of Tongues====
|image = File:TheTwisterOfTongues.png
|title = The Twister of Tongues
|description = "'Sometimes they call me The the Lord-Lady, sometimes they call me The the Inkblood. I am, perhaps, both; I am, perhaps, neither. You should decide on your own. Now, shall we wager on a secret or shall we wager on a name?"'
|aspect0 = Follower
|aspect1 = Summoned
<div style="margin-top: 20px; text-align: center">{{RecipeDescription
|verb = Work
|title = Summon the Most Deceptive most deceptive Name of The the Moving City?
|start_description = The Page-Trail will hear your call if presented with Moth's yearning, but they will answer it only when given a delightful secret as a show of respect.
|description = Sometimes, The the Cloaked Secret enters the room from worrying angles, but they are always abrupt or unexpected in their coming. The Dappled-Steps loops their tongue around their neck several times, like a scarf, and their robes are patched with names and words in languages long gone.
|aspect0 = Ritual
|aspect1 = Knock
** Aspect: FNORD
===Books===
===Rites===
* The Rite of Desperate Deeds
** Gives: FNORD
==Relationships==
* [[They]]:* [[Humming From Elsehere]]:* [[The Briarsalt]]:* [[The Transfinite Question]]:* [[The Nizvestier Within]]:* [[A Stock-Woven Watcher]]:* [[The Fulminate]]:* [[King of Keys|The King of Keys]]:* [[The Wispy Tress]]:* [[The Scoriantheme]]:* [[The Modiste-and-Mannequin]]:* [[The Zabbaleen]]: frend* ---* [[The Harrower]]:* [[The ClepsydraeDemiurge]]: enemy* [[The Old WyrmHearthkeeper]]:
* [[Her Scarred Serenity]]:
* [[Mother Songbird]]:
* [[The ConfectionistOld Wyrm]]:* [[The Glorious Child]]: perhaps fremd?* [[The Transfinite Question]]:* [[The Nizvestier Within]]:* [[The Navigator]]:* [[The Fireside]]: * [[The Listless KingTINT]]: * [[The Fool'Demarq-s Gold]]:
* [[The Faustian Alchemist]]:
* [[The Glorious Child]]: an unlikely ally
* [[The Chimaera]]:
* [[The Jahwian]]:
* [[The Legion Lamentful]]:* [[The Fireside]]:* [[The Fool's Gold]]:* [[The Stone Meridian]]:* [[Shade|shade]]:* [[The Listless King]]:* [[The Crimson Temptress]]:* [[Little Lady Liver-Licker]]:* [[The Clepsydrae]]:* [[The Navigator]]:* [[The Perditarch]]:enemy* [[A StockThe Confectionist]]:* [[The Toymaker]]:* [[The Mannequin-and-Woven WatcherModiste]]:
* [[Its Incarnadine Virulence]]:
* [[The ZabbaleenUnfettered]]: wary of* [[The Shattered Star]]: perhaps fremd?* [[The Wispy TressWelkin]]:* [[Little Lady Liver-LickerThe Abstraction]]:* [[Deep|The Stone MeridianDeep]]:* [[TINTThe Tatterdemalion]]:* [[shadeThe Ash]]:* [[King of Keys|The King of KeysChainbinder]]:
* [[They]]:
* [[The Fair Maiden]]:
* [[The Fair Mire-Maiden's Remains]]:
==Secrets==
FNORD