The Panopticon

The Panopticon
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Origin	Stone
Titles	The Vision Vitreous
Names	Many, none who remain
Aspects
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The Panopticon is a now-dead Hour, who strived to know everything there was to know, and to preserve that knowledge for the future. It prophesied that the rekindling of the Glory was not the first, and that it was bound to be snuffed out and reborn as the Mansus was abandoned and reawoken in an eternal cycle. It knew that it had been made before the current Mansus, to preserve knowledge, but that it had forgotten all that nowledge by the point the light of the Glory awoke it. The Panopticon thus vowed to record everything there was to record of the current Mansus, and every secret it could uncover about the Other Place, and then find a way to preserve them for all eternity.

History

The Panopticon was a God-from-Stone, that awoke when the light of the recently rekindled Glory touched it. To its great horror, it had forgotten everything it used to know about the Other Place, except for the fact that it was created to be a repository for this very knowledge it had lost. It had, however, retained the power of Lantern, allowing it to view the world and the Mansus from within the Chamber of Visions that it created for itself. It never cared much for the other Hours or their machinations, preferring to observe and record rather than to interact. Exceptions were The Monument, who it envied greatly for remembering even the most minor scrap of what the Other Place was like, The More-Opened whose endless exploration intrigued it almost as much as its lack of interest in what it explored saddened it, and The Rotted Ox, with whom it was rumored to have secret dealings concerning the end of the Mansus, which both hours saw as an inevitability.

Why it was shattered is a great enigma, as is whether it consented to this shattering or not, and whether it knew this shattering would lead to the formation of The Myriad-Masked. What is known is that the More-Opened was seen near the Chamber of Visions shortly after the shattering. This shattering also coincided with the More-Opened's delvings into the human mind, with the raw knowledge and Lantern released from the shattering entering the minds of the newly opened minds and leading to the creation of the Hour known as the Myriad-Masked.

Appearance

The Panopticon manifested as a grand, glowing ball of glass floating in mid-air. It resided within the Chamber of Visions within the Mansus, where its light touched the floor and the benches, and made them gleam like mirrors and reflect the countless things it saw. Alternately, it manifested as a frozen lake or sea, in which revelations and sights could be seen.

Worship

Mark

1. Temptation: X:
2. Dedication: X:
3. Ascension: X:
4. Ascension: X:
5. Ascension: X:
6. Ascension: X:

Items

Tools

Seeing-Shard: 12 Sometimes, it remembers the light of the Glory that awoke it from its slumber, before its shattering. If we look deep enough into it, we may remember too.

As a gift: To be kept near the skull, so that you'll remember when it remembers

Vitreous Record: 8 Since the Panopticon's shattering, even the memories it froze into glass have started to forget its light

As a gift: To be kept cold, and not allowed to thaw

Rites

Shattered-Glass Rite: Lore Influence 🗡Tool This ritual recounts the Panoptoicon's final lesson: When the right thing is shattered, at the right time, in the right place, power may be born