For Whom the Dead Speak
In which the graverobber-adept Ravina Quaresma argues that the Hours have influenced the propagation of certain funeral rites internationally as part of a War of Knowledge.
I’m Reading…
‘We bury the Dead beneath the soil, inter their bones in tombs, burn away what remains to ash. If Death is the means by which knowledge is locked away, Death is also the means by which knowledge can be released.’
I’ve Read…
Quaresma distinguishes between the ‘rapacious cannibalism’ of the Grail and the ‘reverential cannibalism’ she views as ‘a venerable door to Wisdom’ inspired by a set of Hours who value the minds of the Dead. ‘To consume is to become: so the Contentum feast, and encourage the feast, so that those they feast upon may yet live.’
Effect: Memory: Revelation
Mastery: Lesson: Rhyme & Remembrance x2
Aspects
- Mystery: Winter 10
- Written in
- Subject: Rhyme & Remembrance
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Frustum