De Furta Sacra
Gabriela Ber’s historical survey of various ‘holy thefts’ - that is, the appropriation of saintly remains.
I’m Reading…
‘The Ordine di San Marco began not as an order of chivalry, but as a group of conspirators who enacted the theft of St Mark’s bones from Alexandria. For their success, Venice honored them with the construction of a grand chapel. Their higher arts of the hammer are secret, but for the right price, they may wield them in service of another.’
I’ve Read…
‘The ignorant may question the sense behind stealing bones - they are but dead things, after all. But bones are both the portal and the key into our futures and our pasts, for is there not a Door of Bone, and is that Door not the first step into the House of the Sun?’
Effect: Memory: Pattern
Mastery: Lesson: Door & Wall x2
Aspects
- Mystery: Forge 8
- Written in Latin
- Subject: Door & Wall
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Frustum