The Synapse

The Synapse
Origin	Nowhere
Titles	The Look-Unlike The Clueless Clue The Unciphered
Names	Mr Alden
Aspects
Owner(s)	Erised

Contents

Appearance

The Synapse is a colossal, pale, stern severed head. From its empty sockets, hundreds and hundreds of animated blood vessels and nerves surge and writhe in an unsettling harmony, tangling and crossing. Most of the time, they idly graze and grasp whatever they can latch onto – the air, the rocks of the lunar landscape or the occasional visitor. Sometimes, though, they curve and tangle themselves in such a way that they form a few broken lines of cursive text ; a few poetry rhymes, fragments of equation, or directives for his scions.

Worship

"Worship" is one of the words most despised by the Synapse and those affiliated to it. All of those who heed the call of the Look-Unlike share the conviction that blind abasement of a rational species such as mankind before the supernatural aberrations that each and every one of the Hours is nonsensical and humiliating at best, and dangerous at worst. They dream of a world freed from belief and the supernatural, in which the Hours' supremacy would be bound and limited by scientifical, rational principles.

All disciples of the Synapse display (or learn to hone) an acute sense of critical thinking, coupled with enough rhetoric to undermine and dismantle the thesis of anyone who starts a debate against them. Therefore, half of Synapse followers are (most being philosophers, mathematicians or logicians or The fields from which a the rest is journalism, law, press or publicity.

Cults

The School of Names originated in the Second History.

Mark

Servants

Names

Emanations

Locations

The Fansus

The Histories

Items

Tools

Ingredients

Influences

Books

Rites

Relationships

• The Architeuthian:
• The Anaconda:
• Snake Tail with Appendages: Destroy the Mansus' structure? Great idea. Destroy the very possibility of rational organization? The worst idea ever. The Synapse acknowledges the prominence of the Tail within the Gods-From-Nowhere, but only begrudgingly: it approves its methods, but not its end goal.
• The Engine of Cycles:
• The Peacock:
• Old Tarnished:
• The Spark:
• The Cuckoo:
• The Silver Owl:
• The Watcher in the Window:
• The Elder Sister:
• The Apple-of-the-Eye:
• SWOUP:
• The Archivist:
• The Bright-Delver:
• The Harvester:
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• The Insidious:
• The Snow-Stained:
• The Fanged Bramble:
• The Aged Bones:
• The Mendicant Without: In his search for occult principles to corrupt, The Synapse often tried to eavesdrop on the lessons that the Bright-Delver shares with the Mendicant. In spite of failing in that particular endeavor, his enquiry has made him quite interested in (and oddly admirative of) the Loss-Unknown. The Mendicant may very well be the first of the Gods-From-Nowhere to become something other than an Hour. Something more.
• The Anvil:
• The Deceiver:
• The Huntsman:
• The Great Serpent: