| quote = We call upon the Zabbaleen , who collect what is discarded, who neither forgive nor forget, who find purpose for all lost things.| origin = God-from-Blood, God-from-Flesh

| names = The Rag-picker, Sand Emperor/Empress, The Rag-picker Myrmeleo| aspects = {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|EdgeMoth}} {{Aspect|SHEdge}}| arrival = Before the Collision, from (wip) the History of Water Salt and Sand.

The Zabbaleen are the Hour of things lost , discarded and purposeless, of natural cycles and recycling, of man overpowering nature and discardeddealing with consequences, created by Viktor.

They have lots of Names, some they collected from the lost Hours, and some of them have been discarded by their Hours. They collect other Hours' forms that they no longer use, too. The lost and abandoned things always eventually end up in their domain, the Garbage City of MokattamDust, sooner or later, with help or by chance, fished out of the waters of the River of the Rocks, or from the shifting sands around the City. The Chiffonnier accepts everyone and everything. Very rarely, and quite incomprehensibly to the Zabbaleen themselves, there are those who leave ''them''. Such lost ones are welcome to return, and would only require a little bit of tinkering to be fixed. Otherwise, the Bone-Grubber searches for those with fiery fervour and tries bringing them back; ''clearly'', the reshaping process was faulty, and they need fixing again.

An Egypt-like country was destroyed by a rival empire, based on Venice, some time around the the 15th century, during the Renaissance. The Zabbaleen arose from the wishes of the people to fix what was broken, from their need for a new purpose. In fact, the Scarabeus has always existed within [[The Antecedent]], whose blazing rotation was halted by the Rag-picker, which caused it to hatch, birthing the Zabbaleen and shattering the aspect of Wheel into precursors of Forge, Moth, Grail, Heart, and Winter.The Hour salvaged the big part of an entire History to make a new one, where the country has never been defeated, and prospered. Their work was almost done when the Histories started clashing and dividing: from three, six; from six, twelve; from twelve, four, twoone. The Zabbaleen's History was once again bashed to pieces and dispersed, but with that calamity came all the other Histories, with their people, things and places that were now lost and without purpose. Thus, the Zabbaleen expanded their goals. The City of MokattamDust, it seems, is all that is left from the Zabbaleen's History, apart from an odd artifact here and there. Everything else was reforged beyond recognition.  The Collision didn't change them that much, apparently; one might say it empowered them, but they had nothing to do with causing the cataclysm. In fact, the Glory being damaged almost spoiled their grand plan: to ascend higher, to become of Light, and to merge with the Sun above the House. They ''are'' different, now, though; they found themselves unable to let go of who they are, and thus they prolong their Great Work, introducing small, almost insignificant flaws into their every creation, so that they never run out of things to tinker with. And once they do, their time will come, and they will be mummified in their Ziggurat (with the help of their new Name, the Mantle, who was once known as the Hour called the Embrace), becoming the dormant Hour called the Abeyant for a short while. Then, the Ziggurat will finally reverse into its proper position and lift them up towards the Glory. In their wake, they will leave multiple heirs, including [[The Glorious Child]] (who will inherit the Sun), [[The Promised Mooon]] (who will inherit the Moon and the tide), [[The Rag-picker]] (who will inherit the recycling, repurposing, and the lost things), the Obelisk of [[The Stone Meridian]] (who will inherit time and pearl), and [[The Embrace]] (who will inherit the Dead).

The Zabbaleen have many forms, some of which they have re-purposed to fit their needs once they received them from other Hoursor beings.Their main form, however, is an amalgamation of things the Zabbaleen are working on, things they have gathered recently, their own Names and Long, and whatnot. It is covered by fabric, with many limbs poking out from beneath, and it might associate someone with a scarab beetle, which are is another one of the Chiffonnier's symbols. They can send the Names and Long out to gather things, or serve as envoys, etc. Another symbol are the raccoons, and some speculate that they were created by the Zabbaleen for some strange goal.

#{{Aspect|Forge}} ''Forge'', to repairfor the treasures of the earth, rebuildand their revelation and transformation in fire; for forging and reforging, re-purposeremaking and repurposing; for their ingenuity and industriousness; for their ambition and vision.#{{Aspect|EdgeMoth}} Edge''Moth'', to offer revenge for their inner change and yearning for perfection and ascension; for nature; for shedding unnecessary things and a second chanceskins.#{{Aspect|SHEdge}} Histories''Edge'', to encompass everythingfor their strong leadership, for nothing can be left behindoffering new purpose, second chances and revenge, ''nothing''for their determination and their struggle to achieve their goals.

==Servants==The Zabbaleen have many servants that they have been gathering ever since they have hatched from the Antecedent. ====The Hirsutes====ServantsThe Hirsutes, also known as the Mapachins, are the raccoons that serve the Zabbaleen, doing small menial tasks and digging in the sands and waters around the City of Dust. ====The Scarab Beetles====Wip ====The Ushabti Golems==== Wip ===Names===The Zabbaleen have many Names, many of which were discarded by their own Hours, or simply lost after their Hours' death. Some, however, are the Zabbaleen's creations. ===={{Aspect|Moth}} {{Aspect|Forge}} {{Aspect|SH}} The Rag-picker====wipEmanated from the Antecedent, an Orpheus-like figure that stopped the wheel of the Antecedent from turning, allowing it to hatch (mirroring the myth of Orpheus stopping the wheel of Ixion from turning with his songs). At that point, he had another name. Later, he was named the Rag-picker, and for all intents and purposes, he is the same as his master, but more human, their extension in the world. The oldest Name of the Zabbaleen, he serves as their envoy at the Stone Meridian. Sometimes he does leave the Shelter and wanders the Wake (often with the travelling merchant Caravans), and he can also be encountered in the City of Dust. He is one of the Names that bring back the most lost and discarded things for their Hour to tinker with and recycle. He has many shapes, almost always humanoid, and he switches them as if they were ragdoll-esque full body costumes; alternatively, the Zabbaleen themselves reforge him for his every mission. When he speaks, or his expression changes, the rags of his face twist and peel off, revealing more faces beneath, or the patterns of his cloth change. His blood is dappled lymph, the colour of types of wine - rosy, pale, and dark. That part is partially inspired by the poem of Charles Baudelair, the Rag-picker's Wine.

====Names====Recently, he has started developing independent personality of his own, which he treasures and hides, leaving behind clues so that each time he is reforged by the Zabbaleen for a new task of purpose, he can easily remember who he was, where he left off. That development has also led him to experience a brand new emotion - he is falling in love with the Obelisk, a Name of the Meridian. When the Zabbaleen turn into the mummified, dormant Abeyant, the Rag-picker will inherit the themes of collecting lost things, giving them new purpose, and recycling.wip=====The Sand Emperor=====

|title = The Sand Emperor

=====The Sand Empress=====

At the impact point ===={{Aspect|Grail}} Myrmeleo==== A former member of the two GloriesAmaranthine Aristocracy, there were – for a brief moment – dents they escaped the Palace Askew and failings in even wandered into the most fundamental of existential laws. Among the laws damaged was something since dubbed ‘the Hierarchy Of Being’, which set the lines between mortals, long, Names, HoursZabbaleen's domain, where they were raised by them and otherwise.Near the end forged into a Name that would take care of this brief momentthings related to love, a man who wasn’t even counted among the Knowsex, who had no understanding of aspects, abruptly found himself counted among the Hoursseduction etc.

The moment passed, and the surviving Hours moved quick to correct these mistakes, but some errors are deeper seated than others, and so the Factotum remains. <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">{{ElementDescription|image = |title = Factotum|description = '"wip"'|aspect0 = Follower|aspect1 = Summoned{{Aspect|aspect2 = Tutor|aspect3 = Health|quantity3 = 12|aspect4 = SkillReason|quantity4 = 5|aspect6 = SkillHealth|quantity6 = 5|aspect8 = SkillPassionF4|quality8 = 5|fansus = 4Grail}}</div> <div style="margin-top: 20px; text-align: center">{{RecipeDescriptionAspect|verb Edge}} The Procyonissimo==== Work|title = Summon The Raccoon Brothers guard their Master's horde and scavenge only the Factotum, one choicest bits of trash in turn. They try to never take the collected Names same form twice, ranging from a horde of raccoons in an ill fitting human suit, to immense clawed monstrosities, to (on the Chiffonnier|start_description = wip|description = wip|aspect0 = Ritual|aspect1 = Knock|quantity1 = 5|aspect2 = |quantity2 = |aspect3 = |quantity3 = |fansus = 4}}</div>surface) humans with masks. They have a tendency to dress well, speak in rapid banter, and fixate on things with absolutely no value to anyone, but they would kill for it regardless.

One of the Zabbaleen's most monumental landmarks. It comes from their original History, and is probably one of the rare things that are readily recognisable as coming from there. It looks like a pyramid that has been planted upside-down into the Mansus-sands, tilted slightly to the side. No one knows its purposeIt will serve as the outer layer of the Scarabeus' chrysalis / cocoon, yetand will house them while they exist in the form of the Abeyant for a while before ascending to the Glory. It is being upgraded constantly at any given moment, and the Zabbaleen consider it their Opus Magnum. It is located in the City of Dust.

====The Garbage City of MokattamDust====Also known as the City of the Dead, and rarely the City of Mokkatam. Remnants of the kingdom of Egypt that once sprawled across Northern Africa, Asia Minor and Greece, now surrounding the Ziggurat. Partially a necropolis, partially a huge garbage disposal area, filled with things that they have gathered. ====The Banks of the River of the Rocks====only constant thing here is ceaseless change. The City spreads wide, and a part of main entrance to it is close to the Alabaster Door, the River. Curious things wash ashore there, all of them carefully collected. This was once the real of another, ancient god-from-Stone; Rocks flows through it is gone, now, its entire being recycled almost completely. All that and the Ziggurat Reversed is left located in the middle of it are the Paper Banks, rich with papyrus and gilded lilies tattooed into the soilCity.

They come from the History of Salt and Sand. It is almost completely gone, now, with parts of it preserved in the form of the City of MokattamDust, some random curios, the Wastelands, and Venice with its Stone Meridian, that the Zabbbaleen helped create.

** Aspects: {{Aspect|SH|12}} {{Aspect|Edge|12}}

** Aspects: {{Aspect|Forge|1}} {{Aspect|Grail|1}}

** Aspect: {{Aspect|Winter|71}}

* [[The Stone Meridian]]: This is what became of the rival empire, eventually. They hold no grudges, since without the Meridian, the Zabbaleen would not have been created, nor would they receive their purpose. They helped create it, and among other things they have gifted one of the obelisks flanking the Alabaster Door, that became the Obelisk of the Meridian, who will eventually become their Heir of Time and Pearl.* [[The Glorious Child]]: The Zabbaleen support the Child, often taking his plans and making them actually useful. Not all of them are given back, and not all of them even share the initial goal.They manipulate him, and groom him to become their Heir of the Sun.* [[Her Scarred Serenity]]: The Zabbaleen taught her servants the arts of mummification, in exchange for something?* [[The Embrace]]: The Zabbaleen have saved her from death, gathering her various pieces and, with [[The Modiste-and-Mannequin]]'s help, weaving them into their existing Name (based on linen), gifted to them by [[The Modiste-with-Spindle]]. She is now known as the Mantle, and will become the Heir of the Dead.* [[]]:* [[]]:

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