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====='de Gomara', a Voyager-Twice===== <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">{{ElementDescription|image = File:fnord.png|title = The Twice-Voyager|description = Once he was the most loyal servant of a golden king who conquered an empire, once he betrayed that king. None of that, of course, ever happened, but it happened in a different somewhen.|aspect0 = Follower|aspect1 = Summoned|aspect2 = Tutor|aspect3 = Devourer|quantity3 = 12|aspect4 = Knock|quantity4 = 12|aspect5 = Edge|quantity5 = 12|fansus = 1}}</div> Once upon a time, an explorer set forth with Cortez to conquer a distant land. He made a deal with a terror in his dreams and helped his leader to victory. But on the precipice of a fell ascension, Cortez hesitated, and the explorer betrayed him. He walked Nowhere, into the embrace of the Wrong-Serpent, and the he who did not do that did it too. None of this happened, of course. But the one calling himself the Twice-Voyager skips through time as a small child does through space, and he is there and was there and will be there. Both of him. ====='Calliope', Which is not her Name===== <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">{{ElementDescription|image = File:fnord.png|title = Calliope, Nameless|description = Who is this person? Why is she in your home? And yet you have already forgotten her and that massive golden greatsword. Forgotten who?|aspect0 = Follower|aspect1 = Summoned|aspect2 = Tutor|aspect3 = Devourer|quantity3 = 12|aspect4 = Knock|quantity4 = 12|aspect5 = Edge|quantity5 = 12|fansus = 1}}</div> They say that there was a Name of the Great Serpent who made many enemies; an assassin or warrior of the Snake. When her master disappeared, they say that those enemies took their opportunity and hunted her, but she evaded them all one by one. Still they persevered and still they continued. Until one day, as she burned down a workshop of the Maker she had been hiding in to cover her tracks, she met a different master, but the same master. That being told her that it could help her. It could make it so that she could never be properly remembered, except by it and its associates. Her enemies would forget what she truly was. Their minds would fill with misinformation and misconceptions, and she could wreak her horrible, horrible vengeance. All it desired was her services. Gleefully, she accepted, and so Calliope, the Nameless, was born. But that of course, is just a possible tale. Probably, it is a lie. Probably, Calliope is not even really her name. She cannot be recorded; words viscerally refused to describe her, and she cannot be remembered; memories rearrange and reshape themselves if they relate to her. Only the Tail knows now. She slays as she did as a Name of the Great Serpent, simply with rapier and poison. Probably. But what is almost certain is that many enemies of the Tail have been slain in broad daylight, butchered horribly, while bystanders squabble and dispute over what happened with almost no agreement... ====='Al-Avaz', Obviously Glory Personified===== <div style="text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px;">{{ElementDescription|image = File:fnord.png|title = 'Al-Avaz'|description = The light is wrong. The light is wrong. The facsimile of an elderly man the light is coming from looks at you impatiently.Heart gives you no comfort.|aspect0 = Follower|aspect1 = Summoned|aspect2 = Tutor|aspect3 = Devourer|quantity3 = 12|aspect4 = Lantern|quantity4 = 12|aspect5 = Winter|quantity5 = 12|fansus = 1}}</div> Law and Glory is poison to the Wrong-Serpent, and it is wise enough to practice Mithridatism, at least in one of its servants. Al-Avaz was once a scholar in Baghdad's golden age who dreamed of the Glory, and dreamed too hard. He did not ascend in service of an Hour, but to the Glory, and immediately regretted that as the law seared him and tore him apart. But the Tail took notice, and sacrificed a hundred Visitors to reach into the heart of the Glory, the heart of Anathema and drag him out. With Nowhere, it rebuilt the scholar's form, Glory and Nowhere intermixed within itself. When he returned to consciousness, he was different. Both law and unlaw lived and churned within him, and expressed itself in him. Now, Al-Avaz is one of the least strange Names of the Tail. He too is a being of Law, but of a different Law. This law permits no opposition against the Tail. He can nullify and deaden aspects, invocations become nothing than hollow words when said against the Tail's interests, artifacts nothing more than their physical force. Though Tail despises any law, it somewhat happily tolerates this, one of its most interesting powers, but uses him sparingly. His manifestation represents the utmost interest of the Wrong-Serpent ====='Alexander', an Arc of Possibility=====
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=====A Venturer, Deep=====
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|title = The Deep-Venturer
|description = Space is broken around it. It is a place and a person and all the places.
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|aspect1 = Summoned
|aspect2 = Tutor
|aspect3 = Devourer
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|aspect4 = Knock
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|quantity5 = 12
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The Deep-Venturer was probably once a human, and that is a lie, but it was not. Once a human delved to deep, too hungrily, and was erased in the past and in the future and a scrap of Nowhere returned. The Deep-Venturer is space, broken. It is a place, and it could be any place and he steps forth, envelops, and consumes someone as it is suddenly the heart of the sun.
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