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| The Book of Hours chronicles the history of Hell. It is constantly added on as events unfold.
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| The Book of Hours itself is an encyclopedia that consists of an unknown number of books. The books are structured by chapters and verses, but the order in which they are in is not necessary consistent - chapters may have verses that should only come up in later chapters and vice versa.
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| As the concept of time is malleable to Hell, the Book Of Hour often contains overlapping or opposed timelines. Errata and Appendices try to clarify which is the correct entry.
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| ==Contents==
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| The '''Book of Roses''' tells the devils' exit from the High Wilderness, guided by the [[The Piper|Egaltine Regent]]. It describes their time in Parabola, their exit to the Neath via [[Irem]] and how they built their city, inside what is now known as Hell. It ends with the Egaltine Regent being overturned by her people.
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| '''Cydnidae''', more specifically its Volume IX retells the tale of a traveller who helps in a dig. It references the [[The Grand Clearing-Out|the Grand Clearing Out]] in London of 1899. The name is borrowed from the family of burrowing bugs.<ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydnidae|Cydnidae|Wikipedia|}}</ref>
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| '''Isoptera''' Volume XIII details how the traveller built a magnificent building. To the traveller it looks like a museum, but to devils it looks like they're remodelling a prismatic exoshell of the Dowager into a symbol of the New Democracy. It may be a retelling of the events that happened during [[The Prelapsarian Exhibition|the Prelapsarian Exhibition]] 1899 (2). Its name refers to the suborder that termites are in. <ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite|Termite|Wikipedia|}}</ref>
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| '''Ephemeroptera''''s Volume II retells how a traveller was involved in an aerial assault in which the devils appeared as mechanical airships. It may be a reference to the [[The London Horticultural Show|Starved War]] of 1899(3). The name refers to the scientific order of mayflies. <ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly|Mayfly|Wikipedia|}}</ref>
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
| *The physical description of a copy of the Book of Hours is here: {{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Purchase_a_book_of_hours|Purchase a book of hours|Fallen London|}} | | *Ephemeroptera is the scientific order of mayflies. <ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfly|Mayfly|Wikipedia|}}</ref> |
| | | *Cydnidae is a family of burrowing bugs. <ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydnidae|Cydnidae|Wikipedia|}}</ref> |
| =Source Texts=
| | *Isoptera is the suborder that termites are in. <ref>{{Citation|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termite|Termite|Wikipedia|}}</ref> |
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| ==Miscellaneous Entries==
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| <blockquote>'''Book of All Hours 2:22:''' They looked into the eyes of their friends and saw nothing. They gazed on the faces of their children and saw nothing. They looked upon the symbols of their faith and the markers of their polity, and all were vacant.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Allow_Hell_its_hour|Allow Hell its hour|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ==The Book of Roses==
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 1:3:''' AND THUS SPAKE THE KING OF HOURS: “For those who wear crowns, let their kingdoms be counted; and for those who wear ashes, let their miseries be counted; and for those who keep this tally, let their debts be counted.” Upon hearing this, the people struck him down.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Brilliant_Future|Discovered: A Brilliant Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 2:1-3:''' AND AMONG THE PEOPLE AROSE a great and fearful clamour, for they did not know what fate awaited them. And from this clamour arose a few great voices to lead them. And among these great voices arose the Eglantine Regent, she who bargains with serpents.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Chilly_Future|Discovered: A Chilly Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 3:7:''' AND THE EGLANTINE REGENT SAID unto the people: “I have signed a bargain with serpents; and I have given us a road to walk; and the mirrors shall open to us; and there we shall make new law; and there we shall draft the plans of a city that is already ours.” And upon hearing this, the people rejoiced.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Dark_Future|Discovered: A Dark Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 4:6-7:''' AND THE PEOPLE SHED THEIR SKINS to squeeze through mirrors. And the people wandered a wasted sky beyond the glass. It was a time of famine and bitter cold, and the people faltered and regretted their flight. And the Eglantine Regent said unto them: "This place Is Not; and what Is Not may not harm us. For we do exist, and we exist more than anything in existence."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Discordant_Future|Discovered: A Discordant Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''The Book of Roses 5:4-5:''' AND IT CAME TO PASS that the people came to the edge of a vast desert. Thus spake the Parlous Knot: "This is the dream of a giant, that we have set aside for you to dwell within." And the people set down their baggage and were still. And said the Eglantine Regent: "Here we shall make camp, but we shall not build our city; for our city has always lain elsewhere."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Jewelled_Future|Discovered: A Jewelled Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 6:5-7:''' AND THE PEOPLE BUILT FURNACES and made maps. They devised new numbers with which to calculate the position of their home. And the Parlous Knot looked upon these works, and saw that they were good. And so said the Eglantine Regent: “Soon we will arrive in Hell.” And the Parlous Knot rejoiced, for it believed that it would accompany them.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Nearby_Future|Discovered: A Nearby Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 7:7-9:''' AND WHEN THE TIME CAME for the people to depart the Is-Not, they made their passage through Irem. For the porous border of the Is-Not is the Will-Be. And from the serpents there arose a death rattle, and the Parlous Knot girded itself for war. And so said the Eglantine Regent: “For the future to arrive one must have a present.” And the Parlous Knot cursed the name of the Eglantine Regent. And the Parlous Knot perished.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Neon_Future|Discovered: A Neon Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 8:4-6:''' AND THE PEOPLE FOUND in this place the broken form of a stone serpent. And said the Eglantine Regent: "Let us repair this serpent of the Will-Be, as tribute to the future that shelters us." And the people disagreed on what shape the future should take. And so it came to pass that they remade this serpent with seven heads, as they could not choose which future was right.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Ruinous_Future|Discovered: A Ruinous Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 9:4-5:''' AND THE PEOPLE STOPPED before a cold and sunless sea. And they saw that the marvels around them were like those in dreams. And some among the people doubted whether they had left the Is-Not. Upon hearing this, the Eglantine Regent struck down one of the doubters, and made things plain.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Silvered_Future|Discovered: A Silvered Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 10:2-3:''' WHEN THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE END of their voyage west, they set down their baggage and began the work of building a new city. And there they made petition to the powers of the Earth, who might set the boundaries of their city. And there the powers of the Earth insisted on sealing this treaty with the planting of a cedar, for a cedar has no blooms.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_An_Abyssal_Future|Discovered: An Abyssal Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| <blockquote>'''Book of Roses 11:5-7:''' AND WHEN THE LAST BRICK WAS LAID on the last wall of Hell, there arose a great and joyful clamour among the people. And there the Eglantine Regent lit the furnaces once again, so that those great voices among the people might devise new laws. And there the Eglantine Regent made a proclamation of her rulership. Upon hearing this, the people struck her down.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_An_Altered_Future|Discovered: An Altered Future|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ==Cydnidae: Volume IX== | | ==Cydnidae: Volume IX== |
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| 'A sword in the dark. A book, impaled. An old man's blood upon the rocks.'<br> | | 'A sword in the dark. A book, impaled. An old man's blood upon the rocks.'<br> |
| '''Addendum 14:3:''' The reader will have experience of this: the same piece of scripture is applicable to many situations. The same sword; the same book; the same blood. But the foe, dying on the rocks, changes with the season.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_A_Saint%27s_Death|Erratum: A Saint's Death|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | | '''Addendum 14:3:''' The reader will have experience of this: the same piece of scripture is applicable to many situations. The same sword; the same book; the same blood. But the foe, dying on the rocks, changes with the season.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_A_Saint%27s_Death|Erratum: A Saint's Death|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| ==Isoptera: Volume XIII==
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| Volume XIII: In which the Traveller is conscripted into the act of construction. The estate is palatial and Neoclassical, yet insufficient for the cause. The Traveller's aid is required: necessary repairs, corridors converted into galleries, statues pulled down and furnishings burned.
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| The ruin differs based on the reader's perspective. The Traveller is permitted only to remember a museum, and how it was built from the house of an old magnate. The devils – for these pages crawl with them – are permitted to believe themselves remodelling a prismatic exoshell of the Dowager, into a symbol of the New Democracy. Both work, unknowing, to reconstruct a ruined Now.
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| <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Book_of_All_Hours:_Isoptera|The Book of All Hours: Isoptera|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ===Chapter I: Labour===
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| In which backs are broken and bones are changed.
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| <blockquote>'''Isoptera 5:1:''' The Traveller was given the tools of destruction, and told to knock down anything deemed superfluous. Walls; bones; organs; laws. The unfit was reduced to ash, and fashioned to meet a new vision.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_I:_Labour|Chapter I: Labour|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ===Chapter III: All Hands===
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| In which hands of clay are lent to the Great Work, and ask for only a song in return.
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| <blockquote>'''Isoptera 8:2:''' The Traveller's resources were leveraged to procure additional workers. The Clay Men were the source of many complaints, as their singing echoed like earthworks; but they had great facility with stone, and with structures that live as well as die.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_III:_All_Hands|Chapter III: All Hands|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ===Chapter VI: Coddling===
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| In which the fears of those who have much to lose must, again, be assuaged.
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| <blockquote>'''Isoptera 3:17:''' The Traveller was forced to appeal to their vanities. This would, after all, be the foundation of a new wonder.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 3:24.i:''' After a thousand such pleas, their vanities were sated. Each wing of the museum would have a sponsor; a thousand names on a thousand plaques.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 3:24.ii:''' After a thousand such pleas, their vanities were sated. They were to be remembered as the heralds of the New Democracy, those brave enough to stand aside. Their names were to be sung though the new White City, when all was said and done.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 3:27:''' Of course, some bowed to cowardice anyway. It is only the way.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 3:33:''' Those who harboured doubts were not easily convinced: the Traveller's words came to nought. The doubters did not even know the Traveller's name. The Traveller was not from here, they murmured, or from now, and as they spoke the words they realised their truth. The doubts that followed unspooled the hours more quickly than ever.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_VI:_Coddling|Chapter VI: Coddling|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ===Chapter IX: Verminous===
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| In which those ideologically opposed to the construction of the new regime must be dealt with.
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| <blockquote>'''Isoptera 9:4:''' And so the Traveller was told to approach the holdouts, whom the other builders regarded as vermin, and broker a multi-part deal.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 9:5.i:''' The Traveller granted the Rattus faber employment among the future museum: administrators, engineers, watchpeople and archivists. Others were paid to leave: in Echoes, and in barley.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 9:5.ii:''' The Traveller granted each royalist a candle from the Lilymire, and the promise of an unfettered birth into the New Democracy. None could be permitted to remain, to tend to the Dowager's halls.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 9:6:''' And so construction continued.<br>
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| '''Isoptera 4:7:''' And the Traveller was rebuffed, neither threat nor honeyed word enough to sway the opposition from their perch. There can be no revolution that does not make enemies, and progress halted while the seconds sputtered and died.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_IX:_Verminous|Chapter IX: Verminous|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ===Erratum: Deliverance===
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| In which building materials are sought by the project, and found in snatches of past and future.
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| <blockquote>'''Addendum 1:14:''' The seconds were improperly stored, and escaped backwards despite the Traveller's best efforts. There was nothing to be done about this: it had already happened.
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| '''Addendum 1:12:''' The Traveller was directed to oversee the transportation of the loose seconds, to ensure they would not escape.
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| '''Addendum 1:7:''' The hours and minutes were unloaded without incident, but it was noticed that the seconds were too fine to be handled by any of the builders' best tools. There was much discussion about what might be done.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_Deliverance|Erratum: Deliverance|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>
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| ==Ephemeroptera: Volume II== | | ==Ephemeroptera: Volume II== |
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| '''Addendum 11:15.ii:''' And the Traveller was never allowed to finish, but sang until the old king fell from the walls. In time, the hives of Hell joined in the song, buzzing new armour against the Chorus. Against so many, even these old powers were drowned.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_Melodies|Erratum: Melodies|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | | '''Addendum 11:15.ii:''' And the Traveller was never allowed to finish, but sang until the old king fell from the walls. In time, the hives of Hell joined in the song, buzzing new armour against the Chorus. Against so many, even these old powers were drowned.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_Melodies|Erratum: Melodies|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| ==References== | | ==Isoptera: Volume XIII:== |
| {{Scroll box|text=<references/>}} | | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Book_of_All_Hours:_Isoptera|The Book of All Hours: Isoptera|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| | ===Chapter I: Labour=== |
| | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_I:_Labour|Chapter I: Labour|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| | ===Chapter III: All Hands=== |
| | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_III:_All_Hands|Chapter III: All Hands|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| | ===Chapter VI: Coddling=== |
| | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_VI:_Coddling|Chapter VI: Coddling|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| | ===Chapter IX: Verminous=== |
| | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Chapter_IX:_Verminous|Chapter IX: Verminous|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |
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| | ===Erratum: Deliverance=== |
| | <blockquote><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Erratum:_Deliverance|Erratum: Deliverance|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> |