The Swords of Night
The physician-saboteur Casimir Delmar conceives unnatural weapons, modeled after the horrors of Nowhere he encountered during the Great War. Scurried writing in the flyleaf insists the Great War must be called a Worm War, but remains dubious on whether it is the Second or the Third.
I’m Reading…
Delmar mentions ‘fungal limbs’ as reliable agents of famine. He attempted to hybridize Old and New World specimens to create a more controllable and discerning variant, but failed due to ‘the dilution of nobility’ they underwent in the centuries since the Conquest…
I’ve Read…
Delmar discusses the infiltration of the shapt, which he considers the weakest part of the soul, ‘as the gate in the city walls.’ A proposal is made for a ‘spinning-fog’ which widens the gaps of the soul, making one vulnerable to outside suggestion, or even eroding one’s will entirely…
Effect: Memory: Hindsight
Mastery: Lesson: Meontological Glimpses x1