Abbess Sunset (The Sun-Eyed Maiden, She-Who-Vowed) is the fnorth Hour of the Fansus, created by Anaconda With Sword. Her aspects are Lantern, Edge, and Winter in decreasing order of importance. Abbess Sunset primarily presides over the journey of the soul after death, but is invoked by doctors, priests, caretakers of the dead and by those seeking to learn the future. Military strategists and teachers of the arts of combat also call upon her.
| Abbess Sunset | |
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| Origin | FNORD |
| Titles |
Abbess Sunset The Sun-Eyed Maiden She-Who-Vowed |
| Names | Thurifier, Aspergifer, Shangdi-Zhi, Nushen Hao, Kuma |
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| Date of arrival | circa FNORD |
| Owner(s) | Anaconda With Sword |
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Description
Appearance
When seen in the Wood Within the Walls, Abbess Sunset typically appears as a great, jade-green, red-eyed mantis shepherding the shapeless souls to their rebirth. For all purposes that she is called upon for, this depiction suffices. The memories of the Dead view her in as many different shapes as there are souls in existence, and perhaps some besides. The caretakers of graveyards and catacombs, as well as priests and doctors, use images of her as a red-eyed, stern-faced, female religious leader. When diviners and oracles decorate their shrines to her, they choose a starving waif dressed in rags, with red eyes that seem to glow.
Principles
Lantern, for the clarity of purpose and vision; Edge, for the strength to cut the path; Winter, for the conclusion that cannot be avoided. Everything has its place, and Abbess Sunset will guide it along the path to where it must go. The principles that make her well-suited to guarding the souls of the dead from all who might take them make her a fierce and unstoppable warrior when needs be. Although she is not Death itself, she can be challenged by the dying for possession of their soul. Her game of choice is sparring. No one has yet defeated her, but it is only necessary to make a good enough showing that she does not feel that her time has been wasted. What one chooses to do with their soul after winning it from her- and if they can keep it -are none of her concern.
Worship
Cult
The Abbess is the primary Hour of the Keepers of the Pale Gate. Their leader's title is the Prophetic Swordmaster.
Mark
FNORD
Servants
Names
The Thurifier
"..."
Aspects: 12, 12; Devourer
Temptations: 10, 2, 
4
Summon a misty Name of the Abbess: The silent Thurifier wields his weapon with implacable might, ever-cognizant of the sins he must purify. Lantern will light his path here, and the chill of Winter will inform him of who he must serve. The faceless man says nothing, even now. The great thurible simply moves back and forth upon its golden chain. With spikes on every inch of the thurible and hooks forged into the links of its chain, it's a mystery how he holds his weapon without shredding his hands.
The Aspergifer
"Do you have what is Owed?"
Aspects: 12, 12; Deciever
Temptations: 10, 2, 4
Summon a patchwork Name of the Abbess: The mismatched Aspergifer has ever taken the Toll when her mistress is occupied, and cannot be denied. Lantern will light her path here, and the sharpness of Edge will inform her of who she must serve. Her form is a bundle of carved bones, wood, and other mismatched bits and pieces tied together with a tarnished silver chain; hardly anything one might expect of a Name of the terrible Dusk-Archer.
Shangdi-zhi
"Please keep moving."
Aspects: 12, 12; Devourer
Temptations: Unsummonable
The delicate Shangdi-Zhi patrols the wall around the Abbess' domain, aided by mirrors and mazes of bronze that bewilder and disorient any that would breach the wall and avoid the Gate and its Guardian. This little paper Name is sometimes many things, and yet he is sometimes but a single thing. Right now he is a single, origami mantis, made of paper as sharp and sturdy as the finest steel.
Nushen Hao
A grinding of gears. Nothing more?
Aspects: 
12, 12; Deciever
Temptations: Unsummonable
The watchful Nushen Hao keeps count of the Dead, those within the Abbess' domain and those that are bound for it but not yet within the walls. Sometimes, when the Abbess is occupied and the need is great, it leaves the ground. A blue metal loops and twists around itself like a tangle of vines, or a bramble thicket. At the very top, Nushen Hao's great unblinking eye stares towards the path which all the Dead must walk. Sometimes it pulses out eldritch messages to the sepulcher beyond.
Kuma
Silence, as always and as ever.
Aspects: 12, 12; Devourer
Temptations: Unsummonable
The weary Kuma once bore a different name, in another time, but there is only one who would remember that now. Sometimes it lifts itself up from the soft earth and trundles one place or another in its mistress' service. Usually, it sleeps. The mossy rubble was something, once. Here and there one can trace out the carvings left behind by those Dead and Dreaming who didn't know better than to leave the traces of their existence behind.
Locations
The Fansus
FNORD
The Histories
FNORD
Items
Tools
FNORD
Ingredients
FNORD
Books
FNORD
About the Wassail
How They Feel
What happened has happened, and she cannot change the path. It is clear that their killer was not preoccupied with fairness and law. There will be consequences for that act, some day.
Who They Blame
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What They Hide
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Relationships
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