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Hell and the Heptarchy
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The seven standards

Seven objects incompatible in colour, shape and material. Hell has no flag, and that is not an accident.

Hell has no flag. It has seven objects that do not go together — and the incompatibility is not style: it is the political state of Hell made visible (The pact body).

[!important] The rule that governs them No one of the seven is made of the same material as another. None is used in the same manner as another. Three of them do not even rise.

An army under the seven cannot form up. This is no figure of speech: there is no physical way to align a mirror, thirty metres of silk, a bale of leather that is dragged and a sheet of paper on the same front line, and the pactuary commanders spend more time negotiating the order of march than planning the assault.


I — Luzhar · Pride · Karzhar

The Mirror.

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