The Demarq-s

The Demarq-s
"Describe a thing by boundaries, and you have described it whole; describe it by differences, and you have understood it utterly."
Origin	Flesh
Titles	The Partition The Legend The Turncoat The Map-Maker The Ink-Scarred King The Taxonomarch
Names	The Gatekeeper The River Barons The Kakushibori
Aspects
Date of arrival	Some dreams have yet to be deciphered...
Owner(s)	A certain infrequent author...

The Demarq-s, known as The Partition, and The Legend among others...

Description

History

The Demarq-s was once a Name of the Navigator...

Appearance

Skin made of indecipherable diagrams outlining impossible places, many implausible even for the Mansus, understood by none but themselves and their Names, who sometimes scribe fragments in forms mortals

Worship

Most commonly invoked by sentinels, explorers, and map-makers, though surgeons, taxonomists, and tailors have been known to call upon the Divisive Hour.

Mark

1. Temptation: Distinction: It has occurred to me that I hold the key to greatness.
2. Dedication: Differentiation: I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of a fullness of understanding. I must know the difference, whatever the cost.
3. Ascension: Demarcation: The Demarq-s has marked me; the need for precision darkens my humors and cuts through thoughts. I know this to be the Third Mark.
4. Ascension: Definition: I can see the subtleties in fracturing stone; the quiet boundaries maintained in a couple's embrace; the weaknesses in flesh. My complexion smooths, and winds feel stronger. This is the Fourth Mark.
5. Ascension: Delineation: Ink stains my skin and will not be washed off. One may determine the Fifth Mark either by extent of the patterns, or by their detail. I suspect I would meet both criteria.
6. Ascension: Division: My flesh spreads itself to keep the symbols from spilling off. My tears leave black trails behind them, and in them I see reflected the components of others. It is difficult not to test how they fit together differently from one another. The backs of my hands bear maps to places I've never been. My left thigh informs me, in elegant calligraphy I do not remember writing, that this is the Sixth Mark.
7. The Map And The Territory: I have split myself in twain, becoming more than the sum of my halves, and drawn my innermost essence in symbol upon the walls of Mansus. The Demarq-s sees the opposition that my selves now bound, and follows my map back to find me. They shall bear me upon their skin for ever more, and remake my body in perfect representation. so will I live forever twice, setting right the world's touching.

Servants

The Kakushibori

The Kakushibori

It has no voice with which to speak, but images beyond seeing.

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Summon a colorful servant of the Partition

"Knock, to peel apart the way; Moth, to give it form; and secrets, to bribe it to look."

"Ink and dye, without paper, as flat as flayed skin and thinner than thought. No fixture may bar it passage."

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Items

Tools

• A Broken Needle:
  • Description: It still bears a use in breaking other borders.
  • Aspects: 2
• An Ink-Stained Blade
  • Description: Once, it was used to carve the history of a world onto flesh.
  • Aspects: 4 8

Ingredients

• Marching Magenta
  • Description: It has grown unclear, with time, whether the Partition's Blood became Ink, or whether their Ink became Blood.
  • Aspects: 8

Influences

• A Discordant Accord
  • Description: All present agree: nothing can be agreed.
  • Aspect: 2

Books

• The Fourth Indictment
  • Description:
  • Start Text:
  • End Text:
  • Gives:

Rites

• The Rite of the Territory's Division
  • Description: A place or time of power must be circumscribed and precisely detailed by use of specialized ingredients, before being torn in two in recognition of the Map-Maker.
  • Requires: Rites are the more unique bits of Cultist Simulator. They may require tools, objects, lores, living beings, and so on. Some of the items used for the rite may be destroyed, and proper aspects are needed. Do specify all the details!
  • Gives: Glorious boons. From summoning to spawning items to other beneficial effects.

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