Some time ago, as I played Cultist Simulator, I made this exercise of trying to apply Papus theories to the Tarot of Hours. Now, after recently starting to play Book of Hours, I wonder how much its new lore will change my initial thoughts. Maybe I write another text, maybe not. But I thought it could interest to the people here, so I translated it to english (my native language is portuguese) for you to maybe enjoy it. It can be read here: Yet about Papus and Alexis
I wrote and illustrated an English-language Cultist Simulator fanfic in the form of a Hush House apocryphon.
It contains lore spoilers for Cultist Simulator and Book of Hours.
English is not my native language, so I used a translator.
All ritual material below is fictional and non-actionable.
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After the War of the Roads, the Roads Did Not End
De viis post bellum
A monastic testimony on the remnants of roads
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[Later cataloguer's note, Hush House]
This text originally carried no title. Its grey white cover bore three lines: the first in iron gall ink, the second in pencil, the third washed out by water until only an indentation remained. Under raking light, the indentation can be read:
Roads have never submitted to victory or defeat.
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The present section has been assembled from these fragments:
I. A kitchen ledger from the monastery, lacking thirty two pages.
II. The corner of a prayer book page, likely from a hymnal used by servants of the Sun-in-Splendour.
III. A letter addressed to an "aunt" of the Sisterhood of the Knot. The recipient's name has been scraped away.
IV. An unsigned Latin index, where the phrase "War of the Roads" appears again and again.
V. Five lime tokens, marked respectively with Wood, White, Stag, Spider, and Peacock.
VI. A single sheet instruction titled Procedure for Lateral Pilgrimage.
VII. The confession of N. Two copies survive. The shorter copy is clearer. The longer copy is more credible.
VIII. An unfinished marginal note:
"Do not let the door know it has once been defeated."
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In the long wake of the War of the Roads, many believed that roads had been restored to roads, and doors to doors. This opinion was especially popular among priests, watchmen, and the lovers of catalogues. Victors require a passable world. The defeated require a world able to bury them. Observers require a world they can understand.
So they announced that the roads had completed their service, that the war had fulfilled its use, that bloodstains might be covered with whitewash, and that oaths might be absorbed into Sunday sermons.
This doctrine holds in mortal courts.
It has no force in the Mansus.
The roads continued to grow. Some bent inside walls. Some disguised themselves as old roads in dreams. Some left fine burrs in human habits. The lower passages of the monastery, the soles of pilgrims' shoes, merchants' walking sticks, and rainwater gathered in the cracks of stone bridges all preserved something of the roads' afterlife.
One fragment states:
After the war, walking itself became suspect.
A man going from the kitchen to the chapel might already have crossed a portion of the Wood.
A man reaching the White Door in a dream might only have walked around a table while awake.
A man offering the correct answer to the Stag Door might only have put an old key back into an old drawer.
The Spider's Door drinks blood.
The Peacock's Door demands mirrors.
The Wood favours beginners.
Doors have temperaments.
Roads have stomachs.
After the war, they learned to pass as architecture.
A later correction has been inserted here:
"Architecture is a route permitted to remain silent."
N. first appears in a kitchen ledger. At that time he was no adept, no Long, no Name. He was responsible for salt, wax, bread, wine for the sick, and keys for the guest rooms. In the ledger his hand is steady and his numbers regular. He often uses very small Latin abbreviations to save paper.
He was well suited to become the witness of a disaster.
Those best suited to witness disaster usually lack the means to prevent it. Their virtue is dullness. Their sin is the same.
After the War of the Roads, small errors began to occur in the monastery.
The south gate withdrew inward by half an inch after matins every day. No one moved the hinges.
The graveyard path gained six steps in fog, then lost one in clear weather.
A boy sent to carry wine from the barn to the well took three days and nights to return. He came back neither hungry nor thirsty. He only said there had been a stag by the well, and that in the stag's eyes were lamps of winter.
A pale stain appeared on the wall of the confessional, shaped almost like a map. At every full moon, a road to "yesterday" surfaced upon the stain. Yesterday had no house number. Yesterday had wind.
A kitchen maid sifted a lime token from the flour. It was marked "White." She gave it to N. He entered it under miscellaneous items, valuation zero.
N.'s first error began with valuation zero.
He had filed the white token as property. It belonged to passage. Once a passage enters a ledger, the ledger demands more passages to complete itself. In the following six weeks, N. found four more tokens: in the storeroom, by the well rim, in the bell tower, in the old infirmary, and in a guest room sealed after a fire.
Wood. Stag. Spider. Peacock.
When all five were present, an unfamiliar hand appeared on the inside of the ledger's back cover:
The Wood makes one begin.
The White Door makes one silent.
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Tell me adept,what is pure?
i'm playing cultist simulator on ios, medium? dlc. i have all the remnants but one and it's been driving me nuts so i checked the wiki. i swear ive visited all those locations and found all those items! can anyone tell which remnant im missing and help me troubleshoot? here's what ive tried:
- another post on the subreddit makes me think its shadowless segment im missing, but ive visited the tombs of the shadowless kings twice since finding that out and no dice. is it a problem that i didnt visit all the other level 10 locations before going?
-i've moved every card on my board around twice to make sure nothing was being hidden (nope)
-i've clicked on the memory spot in the ritual to see if anything would light up (nope)
is this a bug or am i missing something else obvious? the op of the other post with the same issue eventually used console commands to add in the remnant they needed, but im on ios so that wont work. added screenshots of my game in the hopes it would help
Found on /painting
When it comes to how the aspect of Creation, Transformation and Destruction has incarnated into the world through the ages, we've seen how the Primary Incumbent Hour has been usurped by the Rising New Hour. Meant to represent how old technology is discarded when newer technology is invented/discovered.
If that's the case, should we expect a new Hour (Perhaps even a God-From-Steel) to replace The Forge of Days as the head hour regarding Creation, Transformation, and Destruction?
Keeping with the theme of it still being an F named aspect, I think Foundry makes the most sense with the removal of single specialist smiths doing individual work, and now broadening to encompass the whole system/facility that embodies how things can be created, transformed, and from these creations of war; destruction.
Also we can redeem the aspect of Sky from the depths of Flint 's shattered remains as now our Foundry's churn out steel aviforms that are unlike any beast before, who can sail the winds and heavens and perhaps even allow council with the stars once more?