The Curtain's Falling
| The Curtain's Falling | |
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| "We call upon the Magnificent Conclusion, who constantly polishes / Who is eternally passionate / Who remembers all your mistakes." | |
| Origin | From-Nowhere |
| Titles | The Magnificent Conclusion, The Jealous Gentleman, The Magpie-In-Diamonds |
| Names | Unloving Charisma |
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| Date of arrival | Before you. (Not really.) |
| Owner(s) | Yours truly. |
The Magnificent Conclusion is a Winter-Moth Hour of magnificence, perfectionism, vanity, the strange, jealousy, spite and beautiful endings.
This Hour will never be used.
Contents
Description
History
The Magpie-In-Diamonds rose from Nowhere out of the unresolved ambitions of mortals.
Appearance
The Magnificent Conclusion takes a variety of forms. Most prominently, these two:
- An Eurasian Magpie, with four wings whose feathers end in exquisitely carved silver blades forged from tears of pain and frustration. Its gilded eyes have patterns resembling ♣️, and are always crying tears of flawless garnet and diamond. Its face bears a permanent expression of disgust. On its head it wears a golden crown of gears with gems inscribed with masterful poetry, shaped like scorpions and cups.
- A young, pale-skinned man with the head of a black dog, whose left eye is a dark purple and right eye a perfect gold. Its ears are like a jackal's, cartoonishly long and pointed, pierced with jeweled gilded chains,and earrings in the shape of cups and staves. Its hair is black with checkered patterns in lilac and a single white streak. Its left arm is full of scars which are constantly spilling ink like open wounds. It wears a dark blue (beyond navy) suit with a lilac tie and lighter, muted blue stripes. It wears a pin with a [И] sigil and a mantle of magpie feathers, and a necklace with an expensive fountain pen. Its clawed hands are full of luxurious rings worth more than what half the people of the world earn a month. It wears a black-and-violet jester hat with a crown for a base over its left ear. Its long, spiralling tail holds a lantern whose light is an eye. It looks at all others with a condescending expression, like a person looks at a foolish child.
Principles
The Magpie is your stolen inspiration. It is unending creation which rises ever higher, which runs up the endless stair of perfection thirteen steps at a time. It is your mission. It is the most beautiful ending to a perfect book written in silver and onyx.
Worship
Cult
The Template is worshipped by the cult known as the Soaring Corvid Society. Not much is known about them other than the fact they have absurdly strict and ever-changing rules for initiates, and they are extremely exclusive.
Mark
- Temptation: Magnificence: I was born with a Mission. I know what i must do. But when?
- Dedication: Magnificence: I've decided to dedicate myself to forging a legacy above that of all my ancestors. I will become a magnificent conclusion.
- Ascension: Mastery: The Work does not end. But when does it begin?
- Ascension: Mastery: I will burn my past, and its ashes will write my future.
- Ascension: Mastery: I will freeze my future, and its shards will forge my path.
- Ascension: Mastery: I will walk the path i have forged, and its shards will tear at my skin and reveal that beauty which lies beneath.
- In the Dazzling Halls: My imperfect skin is torn to ribbons. Beneath i am glittering diamond, my face perfectly angular, my crown radiant as those of the mighty emperors of old. I am as complete as i will ever be. This is a worthy ending for one like me.
Servants
Names
Unloving Charisma
Locations
The Mansus
The Dazzling Halls
Every curtain is the finest silk, every seat is glass, every table is diamond, every cushion is wild-cotton. Its inhabitants have jeweled skins and spend all their time writing beautiful poems and listening to incredibly niche and intricate compositions. They most certainly have no time for you.
The Histories
Sometimes, it exists in the Wake, in a hopeless lesser city to the east of the land of silver and corruption.
Items
Tools
- A cursed pen
- Aspects:
12 12
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Ingredients
- A single drop of inspiration
- Aspects: 12
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Influences
- A passing envy
- Aspect:
13
- Aspect:
Books
- The book of Neph
- Description: A dusty tome, each of its words sewn onto ebony paper with silver thread. It contains the secrets of the Magpie.
- Start Text: The book is absolute hell to read - It trails off into wildly descriptive paragraphs of flowery words over the smallest things. It never seems to end.
- End Text: It is the most beautiful thing i have ever read - Yet, it brought nothing of value.
- Gives: Takes 100 seconds to read. Only gives 2 Fascination.
Secrets
- neph hour
- neph hour
- META
