The Great Serpent

The Great Serpent (The First Snake, The Sea-Dragon, The Appendage-Shedder, The Door-Key) was the Twenty-Second Hour of the Fansus, created by Anaconda With Sword. It was a God-From-Light, the first to descend from the Glory into the Fansus. Its aspects are Lantern, Knock, and Secret Histories, in decreasing order of importance.

The Great Serpent
Origin	Blood or Flesh
Titles	The Great Serpent The Door-Key The Appendage-Shedder The First Snake The Sea-Dragon
Names	The Anaconda (former)
Aspects
Date of arrival	Unknown
Owner(s)	Anaconda With Sword

Its tarot card was The World.

Contents

Appearance

The Great Serpent was a tremendous snake with glowing scales. It was not clear which color it had, as the light it shed was an intensity so painful that no one could look at it very long.

Principles

The Great Serpent was often invoked as a sign of mastery and ownership, but it was never known to reliably respond to any invocation, and sometimes would respond to invocations not meant for it.

Worship

Servants

• Wani: The Wani is a wide-mouthed creature, each scale a razor-edged tooth. It slips like silk through the water, or through flesh.

Locations

The Fansus

The Fansus was known as the House of the Snake, and it explored its house with great zeal.

Relationships

• The Architeuthian: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Anaconda: The Great Serpent was a patron of the Anaconda from Long to Name. Its disappearance was what instigated the Anaconda's ascension to Hourhood.
• Snake Tail with Appendages: The Tail is a remnant of the Great Serpent and its ill-advised venture into Nowhere.
• The Engine of Cycles: The Ignition occurred long after the Segmenting of the Great Serpent.
• The Peacock: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• Old Tarnished: Old Tarnished arrived to the Fansus after the Segmenting of the Great Serpent.
• The Spark: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Cuckoo: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Silver Owl: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Watcher in the Window: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Elder Sister: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Apple-of-the-Eye: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• SWOUP: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Archivist: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Bright-Delver: The Delver is a remnant of the Great Serpent and its ill-advised venture into Nowhere.
• The Harvester: The Ignition occurred long after the Segmenting of the Great Serpent.
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• The Insidious: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Snow-Stained: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Fanged Bramble: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Aged Bones: The Segmenting of the Great Serpent was the catalyst which allowed the Aged Bones to ascend to Hourhood.
• The Mendicant Without: The Mendicant arrived in the Fansus long after the Great Serpent was segmented.
• The Ferryman: An old acquaintance. Revised the deal made between the Ferryman and humanity after the fact. Made it so that only the Dead as well as slain "immortals" could be collected by the spider, and that the Hours taking humans for eternal servants was not a violation that gave the Dolomedes the right to immediately collect all of humanity's end of the deal.
• The Anvil: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Maker: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Deceiver: These two Hours have not been known to interact.
• The Huntsman: These two Hours have not been known to interact.