They say Augurs know the Empire’s plans before the Queen does, but this is a half-truth; they know everyone else’s plans, too. Whether they hear it all “through the pipes”, or they truly possess the gift of prophecy, is much debated.

Either way, it’s all for sale.

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2021-11-17

Paper Masks, the church’s inquisitor-surgeons, steal faithless and vagabonds into their secret tunnels, and search their shells and lymph and hearts for sigils of purpose or meaning. The countless leftover husks are worn as decorations, or brought to some deeper place.

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2021-07-31