The Night-Tipped Needle
A manual of tattooing detailing the usage of strange inks to impart tattoos with mystical properties.
I’m Reading…
Spies of the Shadowless Empire tattooed themselves with the Ink of Containment called catwink to divert attention from themselves. The Unnumbered Legion, the secret army of Rome, later adopted these practices in service to the Chiliarch, said to favor those marked with ‘shadow-scars’.
I’ve Read…
‘The scarred skin of the world is hard to pierce, and even harder to stain. But with the golden blood of the Chiliarch’s first conquest, the white-blue ink blade can be tempered beneath the signs of the Moon. Wield its unseaming words with this iron wisdom.’
Effect: Memory: Contradiction
Mastery: Lesson: Inks of Containment x2
Aspects
- Mystery: Moon 14
- Written in Aramaic
- Subject: Inks of Containment
- Codex
- Readable
- Thing
- Unmade Cathedral