The Half-Turned

The Half-Turned
"'We call upon the Half-Turned, who demands conclusion."
Origin	God-From-Mist
Titles	The Anticyclone The Cycle-Of-Seasons The Cockatrice The Winged Leviathan The Omnialatus
Names	Jev, The Opening-Act 24 Septa, The Pre-Finale 24 Barch, The Playwright 24
Aspects
Date of arrival	Unknown. (Between 1873-FNORD)
Owner(s)	Beast

The Half-Turned (The Anticyclone, The Cycle-of-Seasons, The ) is the feral eleventh Hour of the Second Fansus, represented by Death. It emerged from Sea-Of-Mists in an inverse to the The Knife's Edge and The Storm-Tossed; born when The Hunter’s corpse and The Ink’s tears mingled with man’s memory of the Subsumption. It waits watching beneath the waves, gazing upon the storm with interest and impatience. Its aspects are Winter, Moth, and Forge.

The Half-Turned ushers in greater tension and higher stakes with every wingbeat, fanning the flames of conflict towards an abrupt and beautiful conclusion. It ends every journey to make room for those that must follow.

Description

History

FNORD.

Appearance

It’s upper half is often depicted as old, wild turkey with massive wings. The wing feathers, as well as all the feathers, are spear to just be more wings. It is often shown rising from a vast gray sea, sometimes with a circus or theater nestled beneath it.

The less revealed lower half often appears as a vast worm or eel of sorts, with bits of it rising out of the sea behind the main body.

Principles

The Half-Turned is an hour of Forge and Winter; unmaking the old to make way for the new, but making no attempt to ensure something new follows. What is and isn’t old to the Cockatrice is solely based on a thing’s ability to entertain. Those without struggle quickly grow dated in its eyes, while those up to their waists in conflict are all but immortalized.

The Half-Turned is not counted as an hour of Edge, but before it left the sea it could have been. Its might cannot be denied or controlled. It’s endings are as indifferent as they are catastrophic. Only by appealing to its longing for fresh conflict to can the beating of its wings be postponed.

It is the Hour of restlessness and the changing of stories. It is a patron of actors, but not of play-writes. Its favor is an unpredictable power for all orders and movements. No story can stay fresh forever. Likewise, no establishment, or movement, can stay in its favor forever. When unrest persist but fail to usurp, who the Half-Turned favors rests solely in who entertains it best, and even then it will tire of both eventually. Where The Storm-Tossed lingers, the sound of its wings can be heard. Where its gales near their peak, The Knife's-Edge soars. Round and Round and Round they fly.

Worship

Cult

FNORD

Mark

1. Temptation: Phrase: FNORD
2. Dedication: Phrase: FNORD
3. Ascension: Phrase: FNORD
4. Ascension: Phrase: FNORD
5. Ascension: Phrase: FNORD
6. Ascension: Phrase: FNORD
7. Ending: FNORD

Servants

Featureless Flocks

A Featureless Flock

Gliding beats part the sea. Swaying caresses ripple the sky. The mass echos with a swishing, flapping murmur. Here, the whispers of figures never once renown. There, the rumors of deeds never seen nor done. When the writhing haze passes, nothing will be quite as was.

10

10

10

Summon a restless child of the Half-Turned.

FNORD

FNORD

4

8

8

Names

Jev, the Opening-Act

The first Name-Fragment of the Half-Turned; the piercing voice of the Half-Turned given freedom and flesh.

Jev serves as the herald of the Impatient Act—the bringer of its will. A colorful, inflated-looking jester, donning a chromatic jingling cap and a joyful golden mask. He enters with an assortment of instruments in hand, not to bolster his power, but to concentrate and control it. Each sound he makes is both note and key, with his every word opening ears and doors alike, bearing the world to the wings of his master.
Though not a sign of doom, his arrival is a warning of one that may soon come.

When uninvited, he is a definite threat.

Jev, the Opening-Act

"Life is the grandest of theaters,

its every soul a play."

"Though its shows, some may cut,

none shall be delayed."

Defamer 12

24

Summon a worrying Name the Half-Turned.

FNORD

FNORD

5

10

2

Septa, The Pre-Finale

Septa, the second Name-Fragment of the Half-Turned; she is the enforcer of the Half-Turned’s will, whom it fashioned from its discarded claws.

Sister and jagged, colorless inversion of Jev, Septa hides their jagged face of claws beneath a silver tragedy mask.
Black as the eyes of the Ox.
White as the heart of the Glory.
Her spear and gaze move to ensure that the will of her maker may not be denied. She is never to be taken lightly, for her very presence signals the Anticyclone's direct intervention.

Should she manifest uninvited, it is already too late.

Septa, The Pre-Finale

"Whose time is up now?"

Defamer 12

24

Summon a dreaded Name the Half-Turned.

FNORD

FNORD

10

5

2

Barch, The Playwright

FNORD.

Barch, The Playwright

"I can't tell you exactly what'll come after that, but I can promise you’ll still have a part to play."

Defamer

12

12

Summon a relieving Name the Half-Turned.

FNORD

FNORD

5

10

2

Locations

The Mansus

The Sea-Of-Mists

FNORD

The Histories

FNORD

Items

Tools

A Restless Quill

It dances in the palm and thrums the brain. Put it to a page and watch your script come forth.

8

Ingredients

Dry Asbestos

The air in the glass is warm as the first night of spring, yet the powdery crystals remain chilling to the touch. The lid refuses to shut once opened

4

1

Influences

An Impatient Wind

The clouds swing indecisively. Crowds walk without aim. Eyes jump from sight to sight. The wind is picking up.

6

A Curtain Call

An applause fills the world. The silence is deafening.

15

Books

• The FNORD Indictment (Indictments correspond to hour number. Everyone gets one but you can have more books than just that)
  • Description:
  • Start Text:
  • End Text:
  • Gives:

Rites

• The Glorious Climax
  • Description: Ancient ritual conceived by the spooky boys of Uh-Shekel.
  • 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.

Relationships

• The Storm-Tossed: FNORD
• The Spirarch: Prelude Character. To be part of the Act of Union. On its Second Showing. Stale and intolerable. To be Retired.
• The Perennial: FNORD
• The Faceless King: FNORD
• The Worm’s Foundations:
• The Masquerade: FNORD
• The Bright Tapestry: FNORD
• The Die-Cutter: FNORD
• The Mother Bear: Prelude Character. On its Second Showing. Stale and only just bearable.
• The Maw Consuming: FNORD
• The Succulent Glow: Background Character. To be Retired.
• The Knife's Edge: FNORD
• The Princess Prominent: Secondary Character, lesser Conflict. Unruly Actor; Remove from stage unless needed.
• The Ultimate Emperor: Main Character(?). To be part of upcoming reversal. Potential producer.
• The Ferric Brand: Secondary Character. To be part of The Act of Progress.
• The Partisan: Central Character for The Act of Progress. To be part of upcoming reversal. Its time will come, just as it will pass.
• The Monument: Unusually sentient Props. Prelude Background Character(?). To soon be Retired.
• The Cub: Prelude Character. On its First Showing. Not yet stale.
• The Ink: The Writer.
• Flint-and-Steel: Prelude Character. Part of The Act of Progress. On its Second Showing. Second least stale of the three, but still quite stale.
• Our Lady Betrayed: Secondary Character. To be kept to the background for now. To be part of upcoming reversal.
• The Fool Unrepentant: FNORD
• The Worm Funktastic: Secondary Character. Main Character in The Act of Jazz. Testing.
• The Rotted Ox: Possible Epilogue. Will come eventually, provided a more fitting character isn’t written.
• The Morning Star: FNORD
• Our Lady's Resolve: Upcoming Main Character. To be kept to the background for now. To be part of upcoming reversal.
• The More-Opened: FNORD
• The Unending Worm: Secondary Character. To be part of The Act of Union, then Retired.
• The Thorned Courier: FNORD
• The Trickster Princes: FNORD