Mocedades del Dorado
Or ‘The Youthful Deeds of the Golden.’ A compendium of the Lionsmith’s exploits across Africa, performed before his ascension to an Hour, as recorded by Mago of Gadès.
I’m Reading…
Here he battles with Antaios, the earth-blooded colossus. Here he learns the iron wisdoms of the Forge. Here he contends with the monstrous beings of Nowhere.
I’ve Read…
As he sails back to the Shadowless Empire, he is waylaid by ‘umbrous sea-servants’ who wish to sacrifice him to the Eightfold Queen. He invokes ‘his eldest nature,’ and from his shadow arises a ‘horn-skinned beast’ to savage his foes. After carrying him to shore, it retreats into the ocean to guard evermore against ‘the hungers of the abyss.’ **Effect: **Memory: Impulse **Mastery: **Lesson: Transformations & Liberations
Aspects
- Mystery: Forge 16
- Written in Greek
- Subject: Transformations & Liberations
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Unmade Cathedral