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| title = The Wrong-Serpent
| card = File:anacondasayshi
| quote = We do not call upon the Wrong-Serpent, who is the Burning Liberty consuming all that constrains. Yet it comes, yet it comes.
| origin = Nowhere
| titles = The Snake Tail With Appendages<br />The Breaking-Key<br />Usurper
| owners = [[User:SRN|SRN]]
}}
Here is the Wrong-Serpent. It is an Hour by SRN. It is the Hour of doors that should not be opened, things that should not be known, and horrors that should never have been. If you are here looking for truth or power or sensation, if you are here looking for anything but what you have found, you have made a terrible mistake.
==Description==
===History===
{{Aspect|Knock}} {{Aspect|Lantern}}
Snakes are the quintessential creature of Knock. The Wrong-Serpent is more. There are many aspects to the Knock. There is the sly thief quietly slipping in in the middle of the night. There is the charlatan persuading of a guardsman to open the door. And there is the madman, cackling as he smashes wards and gates to gaze upon a library full of horrors that should never be known. In every unsubtle breaking of a door, in every precept of law violated, in every sentry felled there lies the Wrong-Serpent. There lies the Breaking Key.
The Wrong-Serpent is, in a way, the truest god of liberty. What should not be opened and what should not be done, what should not be understood, and what should simply not be are its domain, and it is a domain it delights in and freely shares with others. The world distorts around it, as the walls of reality shake and crumble, then rot and cave in. Yet despite appearances, it is neither madness nor chaos. While fluid and energy flow into paths of least resistance, in the paths of greatest, the Wrong-Serpent can most vividly be found. And thus it is also the patron of ambition, especially ambition denied. In the sage penning words that will inevitably be suppressed, in the politician scheming against her nation's constitution, in the biologist performing secret experiments by moonlight, there is the Wrong-Serpent's smile.
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