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== Appearance ==
How would one describe something like this? A creature almost designed to not be described. "A jerk," the Anaconda would describe, and some, may would agree. It shifts and twists and seems almost painful to watch, but sometimes it settles into a form like a severed snake tail, dripping blood, with several long black sinuous limbs growing from it. Thus its name. This form, however, is but the average of the bell curve. Rarely, it has appeared as something as even an ordinary ''human'', or something similar to it. It is the Snake-Tail with Appendages. It does not suffer the constraint of common form.
== Principles ==
The common Name of the Tail is the Voyager. The possibility that did step into Nowhere. They manifest misty and intangible, having shed all their form, but normally wield a single strange, tangible weapon. They serve as the shock-troopers of the Tail, when it, oh-so-rarely go to war. Although intangible, their lack of form and inability to easily adopt new ones renders them particularly vulnerable to law, requiring much Nowhere to sustain them. Their weapons distort material chemistry and physics, requiring only the minimal amount of force to move and shearing through anything without resistance. Formidable, their fragility renders them rarely seen outside Nowhere.
==== The Shattered ====
{{Aspect|Heart|6}} {{Aspect|Knock|6}}
Sometimes someone spurns the attention of normal Hours. Perhaps they have unusual desires. Perhaps they were touched by something strange. Perhaps they understood too much. Sometimes, those people acquire the attention of the Hour that destroys doors, that opens all possibilities, that is the yawning maw of enlightenment. Sometimes they do not and cast themselves into Nowhere before they are ready. The Shattered never find a possibility where they are sane or coherent again. They endure, perpetual, for they quintessentially are-not, but never again have stability or full existence and thus are quite harmless besides. The Tail keeps a small court of them, it favours these mad fools who sought to kick down doors that they really, really should not have. They serve as little more than meat-shields and gateways for more powerful creatures of the Tail. Individually, they are quite benign, but their presence means that the Tail has taken an interest, and greater beings will follow through it...
=== Cults ===
==== The Impossible Circle ====
Very few seek the Tail's patronage. Those that do find some of the fastest, most volatile paths to power. They rise high very quickly. Sometimes they do not fall as quickly. The Impossible Circle advances the cause of Nowhere, of the wild, mad liberty of un-being. With this cause so anathema to many Hours, they usually do not survive long, but if they do, they can grow immensely powerful.
=== Marks ===
== Relationships ==
* [[The Architeuthian]]: FNORDMy not-dear sister does have quite poor taste in friends. Despotic, boring monarch. Perhaps temptable, however...
* [[The Anaconda]]: A rivalry, an enemy-ship. Some would say friendly, some of the dearly deceased that is
* [[The Engine of Cycles]]: The Engine was once its... not friend, ally. But then it ate the Tail. As it can be imagined, the Tail is not to pleased about that
* [[The Peacock]]: FNORDSibling! Dear dear friend! Strangely attached to the dead Forge-Hours. If I have to bring down the gate... Well, he will thank me later!* [[Old Tarnished]]: FNORDNot so easily malleable a tool, then, unfortunately. Needs more Nowhere
* [[The Spark]]: FNORD
* [[The Cuckoo]]: FNORDWeirdo. Quite, quite nasty.
* [[The Silver Owl]]: FNORD
* [[The Watcher in the Window]]: FNORD
* [[The Elder Sister]]: FNORD
* [[The Apple-of-the-Eye]]: FNORD
* [[The Harvester]]: FNORD
* [[The Snow-Stained]]: FNORD
* [[The Fanged Bramble]]: FNORD
* [[The Aged Bones]]: FNORD
* [[The Mendicant Without]]: FNORDOh, dear sibling, you do need to learn how to be more properly of our homeland
* [[The Anvil]]: FNORD
* [[The Maker]]: FNORD
* [[The Deceiver]]: FNORD
* [[The Huntsman]]: FNORD
* [[The Great Serpent]]: FNORDMe! Absolutely me!
