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| titles = The Open Mouth, the Hungry Gate, the Thirsty Bird
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| aspects = {{Aspect|GrailKnock}} {{Aspect|KnockGrail}}
| arrival = Before the Collision
| owners = [[User:Ael|Ael]]
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The Stained Key is an Hour of opening wounds, the body's gates, such as the opening of theseand blood sacrifice. His ambitions are the fulfillment of his hungers, and the increase of his power, which he does by various means. He is an Hour of [[The Fourth Fansus]]
==Description==
===History===
The Thirsty Bird commonly takes the shape of the body he originally resided in, after his fall, though it may shift in width and height. Sometimes, he whispers, just as a desire. Other times, he appears as a corpulent king, feasting at the Bloody Gate.
===Principles===
The Stained Key represents is both an Hour of Gates, and Wounds, an Hour of Knock, and an Hour of blood, especially the sacrifice of it. He guards the Bloody Gate, the only gate his own close to the Mansus that can be reached through Glory, and will require a sacrifice of the body. Thus, he represents the aspect of Grailone who wants to pass it, for both his hungers and the Bloody Gateonly he can open it, and Knock, for he will only open it when he can open said gateis satisfied.
Because he hungers for power, and because he draws his power from the grief of Alukites, he tries to disgrace Names of other Hours with the help of his own Names, who are assigned a new body that constitutes the Crime of the Sky, usually. It is said that he even has affairs with other Hours, though this might not necessarily be for power's sake.
He is the one Hour managing all cases of the Crime, too, which is why many desperate Alukites worship him, hoping to be forgiven for what they have done.
==Worship==
===Cult===