‘El Rey Pascualito’
A pre-Columbian idol from the Nettle-Fenced City depicting the Sun-in-Rags in its deathly radiance. Fray Diego Orgóñez insisted it be kept near the graves to guard against ‘damp avarice’.
Initial Location: Shallow Graves
I’m Studying…
The Sun-in-Rags is not usually invoked as a protector, but his cloak of cold light was known to priests in the Americas for burning away fever and disease. Those who suffered from plague sought his visions, and were honored for nine days when he blessed them - to celebrate the end he would bring to their sickness, and to mourn their eventual, beautiful death.
I’ve Studied
While the Church tolerated the veneration the Sun and his lesser selves enjoyed in the Americas, more puritan members disapproved of his ‘higher rites’ being known by the general populace. A few took it upon themselves to summon ‘Servants of Silence’ to suppress their propagation amongst the laity. Upon the base is a pictograph of the means they employed, emplacing Winter within an empty coil to contain and bind the spirit to their bidding.
Effect: Bittersweet Certainty
Mastery: Lesson: Abjurations & Limitations (x2)