The Demarq-s
| The Demarq-s | |
|---|---|
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| "Describe a thing by boundaries, and you have described it whole; describe it by differences, and you have understood it utterly." | |
| Origin | Flesh |
| Titles |
The Partition The Legend The Turncoat The Map-Maker The Ink-Scarred King The Taxonomarch |
| Names |
The Gatekeeper The River Barons The Kakushibori |
| Aspects |
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| Date of arrival | Some dreams have yet to be deciphered... |
| Owner(s) | A certain infrequent author... |
The Demarq-s, known as The Partition, and The Legend among others...
Contents
Description
History
The Demarq-s was once a Name of the Navigator...
Appearance
Skin made of indecipherable diagrams outlining impossible places, many implausible even for the Mansus, understood by none but themselves and their Names, who sometimes scribe fragments in forms mortals
Principles
Worship
Most commonly invoked by sentinels, explorers, and map-makers, though surgeons, taxonomists, and tailors have been known to call upon the Divisive Hour.
Cult
Mark
- Temptation: Distinction: It has occurred to me that I hold the key to greatness.
- Dedication: Differentiation: I have dedicated myself to the pursuit of a fullness of understanding. I must know the difference, whatever the cost.
- Ascension: Demarcation: The Demarq-s has marked me; the need for precision darkens my humors and cuts through thoughts. I know this to be the Third Mark.
- Ascension: Definition: I can see the subtleties in fracturing stone; the quiet boundaries maintained in a couple's embrace; the weaknesses in flesh. My complexion smooths, and winds feel stronger. This is the Fourth Mark.
- Ascension: Delineation: Ink stains my skin and will not be washed off. One may determine the Fifth Mark either by extent of the patterns, or by their detail. I suspect I would meet both criteria.
- Ascension: Division: My flesh spreads itself to keep the symbols from spilling off. My tears leave black trails behind them, and in them I see reflected the components of others. It is difficult not to test how they fit together differently from one another. The backs of my hands bear maps to places I've never been. My left thigh informs me, in elegant calligraphy I do not remember writing, that this is the Sixth Mark.
- Ending: The Map And The Territory: I have split myself in twain, becoming more than the sum of my halves, and drawn my innermost essence in symbol upon the walls of Mansus. The Demarq-s sees the opposition that my selves now bound, and follows my map back to find me. They shall bear me upon their skin for ever more, and remake my body in perfect representation. So will I live forever twice, setting right the world's unrending.
Servants
Names
The Kakushibori
Summon a colorful servant of the Partition
"Knock, to peel apart the way; Moth, to give it form; and secrets, to bribe it to look."
"Ink and dye, without paper, as flat as flayed skin and thinner than thought. No fixture may bar it passage."
Locations
The Mansus
The Verge
The Histories
Items
Tools
- A Broken Needle:
- Description: It still bears a use in breaking other borders.
- Aspects: 2
- An Ink-Stained Blade
- Description: Once, it was used to carve the history of a world onto flesh.
- Aspects:
4 8
Ingredients
- Marching Magenta
- Description: It has grown unclear, with time, whether the Partition's Blood became Ink, or whether their Ink became Blood.
- Aspects: 8
Influences
- A Discordant Accord
- Description: All present agree: nothing can be agreed.
- Aspect: 2
Books
- The Fourth Indictment
- Description:
- Start Text:
- End Text:
- Gives:
Rites
- The Rite of the Territory's Division
- Description: A place or time of power must be circumscribed and precisely detailed by use of specialized ingredients, before being torn in two in recognition of the Map-Maker.
- Requires: Influence, Consumes Ingredient.
- Gives: Varies
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