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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. | | 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> | | '''Cydnidae''', more specifically its Volume IX retells the tale of a traveller who helps in a dig. It references the events 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> | | '''Ephemeroptera''''s Volume II retells how a traveller was involved in an aerial assault. The devils appeared as mechanical airships. It may be a refernce to the 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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| '''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> | | '''Isoptera'''. 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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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
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| ==Miscellaneous Entries== | | ==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>
| | '''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> |
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| ==The Book of Roses== | | ==The Book of Roses== |
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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.i:''' And when the Traveller was allowed to finish, all present looked to the Roof with hope in newly buoyant hearts.<br> | | '''Addendum 11:15.i:''' And when the Traveller was allowed to finish, all present looked to the Roof with hope in newly buoyant hearts.<br> |
| '''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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| | ==Isoptera: Volume XIII== |
| | <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> |
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| ==References== | | ==References== |
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