The Book of Knots - Jags

Encounter Threat
Medium. She is rarely deadly (that would be shirking) but often highly
inconvenient or even dangerous to encounter. She is good at detecting
lies and one rarely knows what the right answers are to her questions.
However, some people have placated her by guessing answers (if
she’s really frustrated she might ‘lead the witness’ in her polling) or
by explaining some “reason” for their personal anomalies. Finally,
sometimes when she’s encountered, she may be useful (she often carries
many things and people and knows lots of facts).
Dramas
The Typeist’s Dramas center on Actors whom she has taken for
categorization (sometimes their relatives will seek her out to get them
back). Sometimes they center on questions she is trying to answer and
she is a “guest” in someone’s home while observing them.
She is also quite familiar and friends with the Liebrarian.
The Black Rose
Side: Deconstructionist
Overview
On the far side of the Basalt Mountains, near the Mare Imbrium coast,
there is a temple. It is now overgrown with vines that bear flowers whose
scent is that of dreams, whose nectar tastes like warm compliments from
someone you admire, and whose leaves are a multi-hued hypnotic green.
Wind-sanded idols stand ancient watch at the gateways and there are
many stairways, many terraces, and inner courtyard after inner courtyard.
There are monks who tend the temple and there are the sea-villagers who
know of it … and there are those who come and seek it out. In the center
of the temple, in the Exalted Inner Courtyard, stands a single perfect
rose, its pedals a color that is described as Infra-Black. It is a color that
makes one think of blood so deep red that it has become black—of a
lightless heart that beats within a mammoth chest. The rose is the subject
of the temple. The Temple is the Temple of Secrets.
When Shadows come here, sometimes sent by Magicians, more often
sent by members of the Underground who wish to see global Infection,
in order to learn, they must pass through several chambers of testing
and several trials of the terrible secrets. These are rooms where the
hieroglyphs are, once understood, shattering to the person who reads
them. They are the Truths we fear. They are what our Loved Ones
Really Think. They are our most Frightening Desires set in stone. The
supplicant must decipher the writing and re-write it with brush and
parchment and ink wet with tears.
The Black Rose is a teacher—it is a teller of secret truths, and it is a
destroyer. If Llamed had been successful, it would have taken the world
in a super-storm of unreality and it would have engaged the cannons
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Book of Knots - The Caretakers