Beetlewing Rhyton
A glittering ceremonial vessel donated by the Baroness Ravensdale, whom the Dottore came to know at the Congress of Faiths; she acquired it after attending an excavation of a mountain temple near Hamadan.
Initial Location: Historical Exhibit
I’m Studying…
When the Carapace Cross were denied the right to the Sun, they could remain in the world no longer, not as they were. It is said the Mother of Ants, the Hour who understands the passages of History, took into her brood those Cross willing to shed their old forms. From the wings they clipped, the scales they shed, they shaped treasures in honor of their savior…
I’ve Studied
Inscriptions along the rim describe a ceremony which celebrates, or perhaps facilitates, the Cross passing into humanity. Central to this is the liquor known as leathy, which may be prepared by softening a beverage with adequate Moth, and the guidance of the Mother into their new forms. ‘For us to shed our past,’ the rhyton reads, ‘it is necessary that we forget what we were.’
Effect: Memory: Impulse
Mastery: Lesson: Fermentation & Sustentation (x2)
Aspects
- Mystery: Moth 10
- Written in Deep Mandaic
- Artifact
- Readable
- Thing