'''The Ancient Circle''' is the association of those who will not forget. Historians and archaeologists here rub shoulders with the foulest kind of fascist and reactionary. Members of the Ancient Circle are blessed... or cursed, with a vise-like memory that lets nothing escape and a knowledge of histories that they should not know. Recently, however, faultlines have begun appearing in the Ancient Circle between those who seek to remember history and those who seek to restore it. Some whisper that this reflects a conflict between the Monument's mind itself, a struggle for the very fate of the Hour...

'''The Pale Knight''' An empty, hollow suit of bone-white armour powered by ancient magics and sorceries and machinery, this was the first of the Highest Laboratory's children to be reawakened.It serves as the foremost military Name of the Monument, its strange runic sword carving eldritch, ancient scars and the machinery within it hiding a dozen secret weapons and techniques, in the form of gulfs of impossibly radiant fire, plumes and spires of black magic, and other, stranger things...