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==Old Russia== | ==Old Russia== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Old Russia.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Old Russia.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
The Cosmodrome was where humanity took to the stars - first in search of what lay beyond, and at the end, in hope of escape. Today it is a graveyard, picked over by the Fallen House of Devils. But buried among the detritus of the Golden Age are the pieces we need to forge a new future. | The [[Cosmodrome]] was where humanity took to the stars - first in search of what lay beyond, and at the end, in hope of escape. Today it is a graveyard, picked over by the [[Fallen]] [[House of Devils]]. But buried among the detritus of the Golden Age are the pieces we need to forge a new future. | ||
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MAYDAY. MAYDAY. MAYDAY. | MAYDAY. MAYDAY. MAYDAY. | ||
I keep saying this but I very much doubt that anyone will listen. The humans are too slow or too dead and the Tyrant (bless his intellect, vastly does it surpass my own) is far too busy to comfort one forlorn colony ship and its machine mind. | I keep saying this but I very much doubt that anyone will listen. The humans are too slow or too dead and the [[Rasputin|Tyrant]] (bless his intellect, vastly does it surpass my own) is far too busy to comfort one forlorn colony ship and its machine mind. | ||
In a way I feel I've come to speak for the whole world! Isn't that cheery? I rather th | In a way I feel I've come to speak for the whole world! Isn't that cheery? I rather th | ||
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==Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3== | ==Ghost Fragment: Old Russia 3== | ||
[[File:Grimoire GF Old Russia 3.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire GF Old Russia 3.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
General Chen Lanshu is flying her glider. | General [[Chen Lanshu]] is flying her glider. | ||
She carves around the huge bulb nose of a colony ship, one of the Cosmodrome’s towering children. Her eyes see temperature: she surfs the winter air rolling down off the cryo-chilled fuel tank. Turbulence rattles her bones. | She carves around the huge bulb nose of a colony ship, one of the Cosmodrome’s towering children. Her eyes see temperature: she surfs the winter air rolling down off the cryo-chilled fuel tank. Turbulence rattles her bones. | ||
“General,” Malahayati sends. “You’re making Rasputin nervous.” | “General,” [[Malahayati]] sends. “You’re making Rasputin nervous.” | ||
“Am I?” Lanshu banks, grinning, spiraling around the fuel tank. The machine hates risk. Risk to the General, sure, but also risk to Rasputin’s ships. “Is that the word he used, exactly?” | “Am I?” Lanshu banks, grinning, spiraling around the fuel tank. The machine hates risk. Risk to the General, sure, but also risk to Rasputin’s ships. “Is that the word he used, exactly?” | ||
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Expect? As a military professional? No, no. But— | Expect? As a military professional? No, no. But— | ||
Once, when she was younger, sixty or seventy, Chen Lanshu pulled rank to get a look at the Never-Be installation in Taipei. She watched the images in the fresco and she felt... this foreboding, this enormous weight, a dread that refused to attach itself to any specific threat. And she felt it again, last year, when she was briefed on the project in Lhasa, the vision machine... | Once, when she was younger, sixty or seventy, Chen Lanshu pulled rank to get a look at the Never-Be installation in Taipei. She watched the images in the fresco and she felt... this foreboding, this enormous weight, a dread that refused to attach itself to any specific threat. And she felt it again, last year, when she was briefed on the project in [[Lhasa]], the vision machine... | ||
She shivers. Her wings shudder and tremble in the airstream. | She shivers. Her wings shudder and tremble in the airstream. | ||
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“Isn’t that what we do, Mala?” she says. “Why we still have soldiers? Why we made you? Expectation.” | “Isn’t that what we do, Mala?” she says. “Why we still have soldiers? Why we made you? Expectation.” | ||
The Traveler came out of nowhere. Entirely unanticipated. | The [[Traveler]] came out of nowhere. Entirely unanticipated. | ||
Imagine if it hadn’t been friendly. Imagine that. | Imagine if it hadn’t been friendly. Imagine that. | ||
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==Iron Temple== | ==Iron Temple== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Iron Temple.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Iron Temple.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
...And wherever we Iron Lords stake a claim worthy of battle, let us immortalize our victory with a temple, a beacon for all who walk the waste to follow. And let the truths of that battle live only within its crypts, kept sacred by an everlasting oath worthy of our Light and sacrifice, so that our peace will never need know the horrors it faced, sealed in secrecy until the Light dims to Darkness, forevermore.... | ...And wherever we [[Iron Lords]] stake a claim worthy of battle, let us immortalize our victory with a temple, a beacon for all who walk the waste to follow. And let the truths of that battle live only within its crypts, kept sacred by an everlasting oath worthy of our Light and sacrifice, so that our peace will never need know the horrors it faced, sealed in secrecy until the Light dims to Darkness, forevermore.... | ||
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==Felwinter Peak== | ==Felwinter Peak== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Felwinter Peak.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Felwinter Peak.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
Long before the last of the Iron Lords descended into the Plaguelands, this peak was the domain of one of their own, Lord Felwinter. His maps and outposts show the risen Exo roamed free from the Aral Seas to an eastern border known as Citan’s Ridge (Open Citan 01-A, Citan’s Ridge 01-A) before taking the Oath. There is no evidence of human enclaves or encampments within this area, nor survivors within the Cosmodrome walls, but extensive one-way audio recordings with an unknown entity survive (open Felwinter 9-C; open Rasputin 62-G; scan for possible links). A chance meeting with Lord Timur in the Mothyards led to Timur’s first reports on the promises of SIVA. Felwinter’s conscription into the ranks and the raising of the Iron Temple commenced shortly thereafter. | Long before the last of the Iron Lords descended into the [[Plaguelands]], this peak was the domain of one of their own, Lord [[Felwinter]]. His maps and outposts show the risen Exo roamed free from the Aral Seas to an eastern border known as Citan’s Ridge (Open [[Citan]] 01-A, Citan’s Ridge 01-A) before taking the Oath. There is no evidence of human enclaves or encampments within this area, nor survivors within the Cosmodrome walls, but extensive one-way audio recordings with an unknown entity survive (open Felwinter 9-C; open Rasputin 62-G; scan for possible links). A chance meeting with Lord [[Timur]] in the Mothyards led to Timur’s first reports on the promises of [[SIVA]]. Felwinter’s conscription into the ranks and the raising of the Iron Temple commenced shortly thereafter. | ||
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==Plaguelands== | ==Plaguelands== | ||
[[File:Grimoire Plaguelands.jpg|right|150px]] | [[File:Grimoire Plaguelands.jpg|right|150px]] | ||
In the age of the Iron Lords, when Lord Saladin and his brothers and sisters encountered this region, they were faced with an unknowable danger – the techno-plague, SIVA. Their brave attempt to combat and contain SIVA cost the Iron Lords dearly. | In the age of the Iron Lords, when Lord [[Saladin Forge|Saladin]] and his brothers and sisters encountered this region, they were faced with an unknowable danger – the techno-plague, SIVA. Their brave attempt to combat and contain SIVA cost the Iron Lords dearly. | ||
Hundreds of years later, SIVA has been unleashed, its power unearthed by the Fallen. As a result of the Fallen’s unchecked ambition, SIVA’s corruption has begun to spread, infecting the land and creating a hostile, otherworldly new threat in the quarantined outskirts of the Cosmodrome known as the Plaguelands. | Hundreds of years later, SIVA has been unleashed, its power unearthed by the Fallen. As a result of the Fallen’s unchecked ambition, SIVA’s corruption has begun to spread, infecting the land and creating a hostile, otherworldly new threat in the quarantined outskirts of the Cosmodrome known as the Plaguelands. | ||