BOOK OF HOURS Achievements

• The Songs of Caer Adar

  I eavesdropped on the Aviform Hours and live, still, to sing their songs.
• Les Neiges D'Antan

  Neither rags nor riches soothed my soul. But at last I found peace in Hush House.

• Look on my Works, Ye Mighty

  I spoke the name 'Calyptra' and lived. I won the last revolution, and I am free.
• Apology Accepted

  They had hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions. I know that now. I made, at last, amends.
• A Third Way

  I walked beneath the Sun, and I walked within the flesh. At last I found my final home.
• A Reckoning Postponed Indefinitely

  I was hunted. I was afraid. But now I am safe, and prepared.
• Map of the Empire

  I plumbed the depths. I plotted the impossible. I completed my masterwork, and mastered the Mansus itself.
• Perfectly Monstrous

  Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. I went and read and mastered all.
• Naming the Shadow

  I have faced my Crime and the Curse it freed. At last, I am whole.
• Numen: That Old Lost Music

  Every song ever sung still lingers in wind and echo, untouched by the demands of Eternity…

• Numen: A Final Understanding

  Eternity and History cannot be reconciled. Freedom cannot be perfection - not unless we understand the paradox of the eternal ending...
• Numen: Back into Balance

  When the travelling Carapace-kinds passed beyond the wave and the sky, they made arrangements for their return...
• Numen: Three Rules

  If we know those deepest rules, we know what even the Chancel and the Calyptra may not do...
• Numen: Loopholes

  When Eternity came into the world, certain prudent powers arranged loopholes. Those loopholes may open again...
• Numen: The Sun's Weakness

  The Sun's sins and the Sun's scars are our salvation. There are Histories where they will trap us...
• Numen: the Bells of Ys

  Ys, by her arts, found the strike-tone that shakes the Hours. A bell cast with this secret could speak the Ys-note…
• Numen: the Great Counterfeit

  The Sun-in-Splendour and the Forge of the Days could not be joined. But Sunset Celia and the Swan King could...
• Numen: Weaving the World

  The Histories, they say, are braided like hair - or tangled like roots. What is the shape of that knot...?

• Numen: an Irresistible Feast

  Hunger made Worms of Dragons. But without the savour-secret of the Carapace, their hunger would not have been sufficient...
• Numen: a Merciless Alteration

  The fundamental flaw; the irresistible shortcut; the hate that heats; the change that mars; the scar that opens...
• Numen: Inescapable Confinement

  There's only one place you're safe from Eternity and History, and it's not a place anyone would want to be...
• Numen: the Paths of the Sun

  The Sun has charted his Paths - paths beyond walls and woods and Bounds. When we are ready, all of us will enter Eternity...
• Destiny

  I unlocked the Wheel of Fortune card.
• Folly & Mania

  I unlocked the Fool card.
• Assured Success

  I unlocked the World card.
• Occult Forces

  I unlocked the Moon card.

• That Which Is Predestined

  I unlocked the Devil card.
• Hope & Prospects

  I unlocked the Star card.
• Ends & Mortality

  I unlocked the Death card.
• The Unknown

  I unlocked the Empress card.
• Summons & Rebirth

  I unlocked the Judgement card.
• Vigilance & Treason

  I unlocked the Hermit card.
• Material Happiness

  I unlocked the Sun card.
• CATASTROPHE

  I unlocked the Tower card.

• Compromise & Adaptation

  I unlocked the Temperance card.
• A Knowledge In The Look Of Things

  I followed in the footsteps of Solomon Husher.
• Evening Falls

  I lived out my days quietly, as the Librarian of Hush House; and I was happy.
• The Affair of the Messenger's Casket

  In a hidden fold of the mountains above the city of Cluj lies the enigmatic relic they call Saint Mihael's Coffin...
• The Affair of the Grunewald Provision

  The assets of Grunewald's Permanent Circus were disposed of by the Bureau. In hindsight, this was a mistake...
• The Affair of the Oriflamme Heist

  Oriflamme's Auction House is never robbed. But what if it has been?
• The Affair of the Second Skin

  The labhite Abecassis has begun a dramatic and dangerous metamorphosis...
• The Affair of the Endless Guest

  An 'inhabitation of Worms' is never to be taken lightly...

• The Affair of the Dappled Rose

  Another man has died in the desert. He raved to the end about gardens, with a flower crushed in his hand...
• The Affair of the Forgivable Debt

  Two Reckoner mobs have gone to war in the unremarkable Lithuanian city of Kaunas. Why? What's in Kaunas?
• The Affair of the Particular Mystique

  The Suppression Bureau has a growing interest in the recent fad for unconventional - often prophetic - religious movements...
• The Affair of the Claw and the Clouds

  From the far monastery of St Tentreto, we hear stories of unexpected visitors - visitors from behind the sky...
• The Affair of the Unfettered Eye

  Messana: a prosperous little desert village that has become a place of pilgrimage. There have been peculiar manifestations there of late...
• The Affair of the Other Horizon

  Sailors have a term for the compass-whirl phenomenon which occurs before sightings of the city Ys...
• The Affair of 'Apollo and Marsyas'

  An upcoming production of an opera with a very ancient pedigree indeed...
• The Affair of the Invisible Opera

  No-one has ever successfully staged an entire performance of 'Wings Within Wings'. But now someone is trying again...

• The Affair of the God in the Wood

  A faddish health camp has attracted attention after many of its clients seem to have developed sudden, sometimes upsetting, artistic abilities...
• The Affair of the Unfinished Lark

  For years a sculptor-adept laboured at his masterpiece. And now, puzzlingly and suddenly, he is dead...
• The Affair of the Royal Endeavour

  The New King has sanctioned the use of the Crown's wealth to fund a visionary new industrial project...
• The Affair of the Threshold Revolution

  The Légion du Seuil recruits from among the Bounds-beasts. How trustworthy is it, really?
• The Affair of the Rising While

  A self-styled oracle preaches 'the truth of nearly now' to her followers. She camps by the Temple of Seven Coils, and hasn't been eaten...
• The Affair of the Sandalwood Saint

  An odd little image in a church in Strasbourg has become a locus for wild claims of healing and haunting...
• The Affair of the Friar's Tapestry

  A tapestry has been stolen from the Haustorium that depicts details of a very old rite indeed...
• The Affair of the Absent Friend

  The Ligeian Medusa is long dead. But she walks the streets of Budapest by moonlight and, for the first time, she's being glimpsed in daylight too...

• The Affair of the Open Reverend

  In a highly specialised clinic, specialists study the ecstatic agonies of the case known only as'the Open Reverend'...
• In the Mist

  What happens in Numa, stays in Numa. Generally.
• In the Isle's Shadow

  I found my way through the storm to Brancrug Village.
• Exit Dewulf

  I restored the sanctuary of the last Baron Dewulf.
• The Curia of the Isle

  I restored the rooms set aside by the Curia for the Librarian.
• The Brothers and Sisters of St Brandan's

  I restored the Abbey Church of the Isle, all the way to its topmost spire.
• Darkness at Noon

  I restored the deepest chambers of the Cucurbit Prison.
• Beneath the Abbey of the Black Dove

  I unearthed the final secret of the caves below Hush House.

• Mastery: Birdsong

  I mastered the Wisdom of music, riddles and miscellanea.
• Mastery: Bosk

  I mastered the Wisdom of the primaeval wood.
• Mastery: Horomachistry

  I mastered the Wisdom of the laws (and disagreements) of the Hours.
• Mastery: Hushery

  I mastered the Wisdom of silence and its sundering.
• Mastery: Illumination

  I mastered the Wisdom of purification of the self and its surroundings.
• Mastery: Ithastry

  I mastered the Wisdom of alchemy, metallurgy and pyrotechnics.
• Mastery: Nyctodromy

  I mastered the Wisdom of the ways and byways of the transmundane.
• Mastery: Preservation

  I mastered the Wisdom of healing and restoration.

• Mastery: Skolekosophy

  I mastered the Wisdom of things that should not be studied.
• Much Is Lost... But We Abide

  I curated a perfect display of Hush House's Librarians.
• Wicke's Waking

  I discovered the source of the fire that ravaged Hush House.
• Deeper Than Did Ever Plummet Sound

  I drowned my book.

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• Across The Wake They Come
• Every Cliff A Fortress
• Only Twins Drown Twice
• Silence After Lightning

• Lamp Above, Rocks Below
• No Sharper In The Dark
• Every Flame Has Its Fuel
• Many Pebbles, One Beach
• The World's Lost
• Hush House Endures
• Second Breakfast
• I Am Particularly Fond Of Muffins
• Stress Cannot Exist In The Presence Of A Pie
• Food And Cheer And Song
• Hot Ice Creams For Cold Days
• Books Are The Memory That Does Not Die
• The Last Homely House