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====The Silver Leaf====
{{Aspect|Lantern |6}}, {{Aspect|Moth 6|8}}, Tool, Mirror.
Look into it, and see yourself scarless and brittle and beautiful. This is what Narcissus felt.
====Jeweled Branch of Hourai====
{{Aspect|Lantern |8}}, Tool.
The land of Hourai and the Long that inhabit it could not have existed in any daylight History, but the jewel-fruits of its trees are sought by adepts to this day.
====Lone Vajra====
{{Aspect|Moth |12}}, Tool.
A nameless Tibetan monk is said to have fully understood the essence, nature and power of the world. This was his only weapon, tool, and compass.
====‘The Apple-of-the-Eye’====
{{Aspect|Lantern |8}}, Tool.
Here is Narcissus, beaming and beautiful.
====‘The Glorious Lie’====
{{Aspect|Moth |8}}, Tool.
Here is Narcissus, breathless and broken.
====Shimmering Dew-Drops====
{{Aspect|Moth |4}}, Ingredient, Pigment.
It is said that fairies fly through the Wood when neither beast nor man nor plant can hear them, and shed tears for each desire that remains unfulfilled. Their tears glitter with the colours of broken starlight.
====Lake-Water====
{{Aspect|Lantern |4}}, Ingredient, Pigment.
Here is a liquid desired by both artists and opticians, clear like the inside of one’s own eye.
====Odes, &c. for certain occasions====
A Geminate Invocation ({{Aspect|Heart |8}})
The plausibly pseudonymous poetess and stargazer Heron Maribelle presents an epistolary romance between members of warring factions. The writing, while cliché, is heavy with occult undertones.
====Notes on Travel Through Distant East====
Formulae Concursate ({{Aspect|Lantern |10}}), Hearn’s Flat (A Vault)
The private journal of Samuel Shine’ his long-winded journey through Tibet, and the only eyewitness account of a nameless monk’s achievement of complete knowledge of the world in its essence, nature and power. A lot of the journal is made up of numbers - prices, mostly - and Samuel’s numerological observations.
Seven days after they met, the hermit falls to an unclear illness. Samuel writes that while the monk had always had an aura to him, it became all the more tangible with his passing - he describes the rainbow colours emanating from his corpse as the colours of jewels. Over the next seven days, the body of the monk shrinks and shrinks, until only his tool and the seven colours remain. ‘I should bring the vajra back with me, as proof of what happened. It’s not as if the man will need it anymore. I wonder what that paranoiac Hearn will make of it…’
====On Bishamonten and the Amanojaku====
The Alignments of Murder ({{Aspect|Edge|12}})
A thorough account of the punishments administered by the wealthy guardian-god Bishamonten upon the heavenly demon - [[The Mendicant Without|the amanojaku]].
The amanojaku, wearing the human skin and likeness, came to a Buddhist temple claiming to seek enlightenment. It was permitted, but, unknowing and unwilling, the amanojaku broke a sacred rule of the temple. As punishment, Bishamonten stripped it of its skin and likeness, revealing its demonic nature. Angered at the deception, Bishamonten made the amanojaku suffer a thousand deaths. These deaths and their method are described in vivid and repulsive detail.
‘The amanojaku, being both heavenly and demonic, walks at the border. So, it is both living and dead. Bishamonten was unable to fell it, and so forbade the oni any and all entry into the temple. It is said that the amanojaku still waits at its gates.’
=== Rites ===