Verities
The verities are aspects and truths that can define the capabilities of Celestials, the characteristics of a person, and the properties of an item or event. There are twelve main verities, one forgotten one and one created by the wonderful @mimi-creates.
Basilia
"Salt and silver; nectar and poison; fuel and ash; scalpel and thread; illumination and madness. Balance, necessity, rebuke. The truths, conflicting as they are, are all governed by the night."
The verity known as Basilia may not have been the first truth, but its still all-encompassing still governs all universal truths. It is the law that brings the night, the law of balance and travel, of unity and connection, of all-consuming diseases.
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Crowns and governing
Paths and travel
The night
Consumption and sickness
Arachnids
Limina
"The key shapes gates and shatters doors. With the right key, anything can become a door, for every lock seeks its key, and every wall seeks its door, but what they've kept within must remain hidden."
The secret truth that reveals itself to those who find their way beyond the lock. It often draws power from the verity of division to open its doors. This verity was once the other mother of felines.
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Secrets
Doors, locks and keys
Openings
Cats
Voluptra
"The boundaries between flesh, breath, and pleasure are equally contingent. There is no hunger without beauty, and there is no pleasure without pain."
The verity of the body, of desire, blood, seduction, birth, and thirst. Its truth is so pleasant upon the ear. One could listen over and over. These are the words that make sacrifice sweet. There exist some pleasures intense enough to corrupt the laws of the physical world.
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Sensations, pleasure
Hunger, thirst
Blood, sweetness like nectar
Irresistible charm and seduction
Birth and drowning
Mosquitoes, leeches
Obumbra
"Feathers and silver, glass, and talons alike - all bringers of conflict and all conflicts are fought at the edge. All truths are defined by their opposition to other truths, just as we are defined by the battles we choose."
The forbidden truth, words of torment and destruction, bird-cries, and talon-wounds. This verity conceals its nature with many names and masks, but its skin is never its own.
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Conquest, battle
Assassination, violence
Edges and knives
Shadows
Masks, costumes, wearing others' skin
Duality born from division and not permitting union
Silver and smoke
Birds
Chrysa
"In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni. Hive, nest, and chrysalis are all elements of the lower world. Two of these three know the sweetness of fire. The third, restless in its pursuit for change, forsakes what it no longer needs."
Chrysa holds the truth of whimsy and chaos. It governs the fervent chase of our desires and the shedding of unnecessary things. The creatures that abide its word are drawn to the thickest woods and the darkest nights.
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Lighthouses
Moths and other insects
Shedding, change, metamorphosis
Barbers and hair
Restlessness, fervor, obsession
Praenitea
"A paradox of illumination. Light reveals, but light can also blind. Even the most mundane knowledge can become a weapon in the hands of the mad. Even the most dangerous knowledge can be rendered useless in the hands of the ignorant."
The corrosive truth of the verity that corrupts, the light that blinds the mind.
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Delirium, delusions, madness
Devotion
Centipedes
Triquetrobora
"Nature's first lesson: look up. What starts as weather ends in soil, what starts with breath ends in the world. Nature's second lesson: look down. Know your thorns. Know your poisons. There's no point thinking about tomorrow when one doesn't expect to live through today."
Triquetrobora holds the truth that weaves life and death in one inseparable thread. It is the verity of nature, of binding, of eternity.
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Nature
Life and death
Nectars, poison
Eternity
Serpents
Alacrifila
"The depths of the sea, the waves upon the shore, their relentless symphony echoes in birdsong, in dance, and in the joints of sailors. Joyous, the heart beats to the rhythm to preserve the skin of the world we know."
Alacrifila dictates the rhythm of the song that gives the heart life. It is an unstoppable truth that vitalizes the rest. In turn, some verities have woven their influence to protect it. Triquetrobora would be its most fierce guard.
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Music, dance, drums, string instruments
Heart
Happiness
Life and death as separate events
Sea and sailing, sea life, sirens
Azotherea
"Flame and sulfur, flesh, and mercury. What has been broken can be reformed. What has never been broken must be reformed."
Azotherea is the verity of the fire that both changes and consumes. Its work powers the inner mechanisms of the world, but every flame demands fuel.
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Fire and power
Smithing, blacksmiths
Factories
Clockwork and mechanics
Steampunk basically
Chemistry
Salamanders
Lapida
"Sky, stars, bone, soul, and gemstone - all these things can, have, and must be, shattered. What is whole can be broken. What is mended must be broken."
The truth of separation and misconception, the words that divide.
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Separation, amputation
Miscommunication
Bats
Gemstones
Caves
Shastra
"Death alters, snow endures. Memory dies, silence outlives. At times, light persists, but no fire lasts without fuel."
Certain knowledge can be expressed only through the particular quality of silence. Otherwise, the lips crisp with frost, and their meaning falters.
Related:
Winter, snow, cold
Silence, emptiness
Memory, forgetting
Endings
Hunting
Canines
Inlustra
"The stars are wisdom, and the night is their parchment, and the dawn is ignorance. There might come a day when the dawn is gone once more, for mercy is found only at dark."
Inlustra is the truth brought from the light of the Compass that leads both the willing and the unwilling. Its purpose is to enlighten and to document.
Related:
Lanterns
Celestial bodies (especially the sun, the moon, and the stars)
Knowledge, books, recording history
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This year, October 13 falls on Friday.
Let us make early preparation for this day.
10/13/23 may be known as 10 + 13 = 23.
October 13 is day 286 of the calendar year. We follow the solar and lunar paths to 13.
Lunar path: (1 + 3) + (2 + 8 + 6) = 20
Solar path: 2 x 8 x 6 = 96
96 - 20 = 76
7 + 6 = 13
Why must we follow these paths to 13?
Because together they form one circular path, endless, and therefore offer a promise of eternity. This is known as the Circle Path, observed during Circle Days.
The number 13 is the ruler and placeholder of a 12-month cycle; we never reach 13 because the cycle begins anew.
The number 13 holds 12 in place thusly:
13 x 12 = 156, and so 1 +5 + 6 = 12.
These wonders transpire in week 41 of 2023.
41 is the 13th Prime Number.
From these wonders we learn that Friday the 13th functions as an unspoken incantation: "we rule our days as our days rule us."
This incantation of the Circle Path recalls the Ring of Lucifer, referenced in a sacred Latin palindrome, which reads (both forward and backward) “In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni."
Translation: “We enter the circle at night and are consumed by fire.”
This palindrome holds a riddle:
The passage of time is a cycle of days, each day ends at night, a year of days is consumed by a revolution around the sun, the great fire. That the original Latin reads forward and backward, as an endless cycle, is testament to the power of this incantation.
This is a Circle Day advisory message from the Oxbourne-Welling Town Council
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