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"Notes of Melanie King concerning the Fear-based

Powers or Entities from my world. Official recording date

unknown, day 6 of my stay in Mathias Township."

The Magnus Institute ➤ Based in London, established by Jonah Magnus in 1818 ➤ Researches the esoteric, strange, and paranormal. ➤ The Library: collection of books on the supernatural ➤ The Archives: collection of statements, first-hand accounts with the supernatural ➤ Artefact Storage: collection of strange and dangerous (sometimes magical) items. ➤ Once you contract with them, you're tied to the institute, and the Entity it serves, The Eye. ➤ There are 15 known Entities which represent the personification of a varying number of fears, all with their own various influences on our reality, rituals that would allow them to take over our reality. Each Avatar and Agent of an Entity have abilities that relate to their chosen patron. Supernatural phenomena in our world typically can be traced back to the Entities.	The Eye ➤ Also known as The Beholding, The Ceaseless Watcher, and It Knows You. The Eye's Ritual is called The Watcher's Crown. The last known Avatar was Jonathan Sims, The Archivist ➤ The Eye is the fear of being watched or followed, of yourself or your secrets being exposed; it also holds the drive to know and understand, even at your own peril and beyond a sense of self-preservation. ➤ It tends to manifest as eyes or security cameras, mirrors, a person or creature that keeps constant watch and appears most frequently in libraries or otherwise around books.	The Web ➤ Also called The Spider, The Mother, or Mother of Puppets. The ritual is unknown as, thus far, The Web has never attempted one. The last known Avatar was Annabelle Cane. ➤ This is the fear of being controlled or trapped, being forced to do things against your will, and being manipulated. ➤ The Web manifests as spiders, spider webs, web-like patterns, and puppets
The Spiral ➤ Also called Es Mentiras or It Is Lies, The Twisting Deceit, and It Is Not What It Is. The last known Avatar of The Spiral was Helen Richardson, The Distortion. The ritual is called The Great Twisting. ➤ This is the fear of madness and losing your mind, your grip on reality. The fear that the world you know is wrong and your mind is lying to you, of lying and deception and your senses not matching up properly. ➤ The Spiral likes, well-- spirals, odd patterns, fractals, and often manifests in the form of a hallucination or illusion. It also likes doors. If you find one where it shouldn't be, and it makes no sense for a door to be there, it's probably The Distortion coming for a visit.	The Stranger ➤ Oh, I bloody hate this one. The Stranger also goes by I Do Not Know You. It's ritual is The Unknowing and it's a bitch to stop once it starts. We averted it back home, and that was the second time they'd tried. The last known Avatar was Nikola Orsinov. ➤ The Stranger deals with the fear of the unknown, the unfamiliar, and the uncanny-- yes, as in the uncanny valley if you're familiar with that. Just this incessant feeling something isn't quite right. It's quite disturbing, actually. ➤ These buggers have a sort we just had to call The Not-Them. They- they're... people, I guess, but also sort of a shapeshifter, who just swans in and takes over someone's life. Replaces them, alters the people around the orignal's life so they remember them and not the real person, but-- there's always one person who can see through it, and I was one of them. It. Was. Awful. No one believed me and I thought they were all gaslighting me or something. [There's a soft huff of annoyance at the memory of Not-Sasha.] ➤ The Stranger tends to also manifest as, with, or around mannequins, wax figures, masks, and taxidermy-- human taxidermy in some cases, to be specific. They like theatrics. Circuses, theaters, anywhere with a stage.	The Dark ➤ Arguably one of, if not the oldest of the fears, The Dark also goes by Mr. Pitch, and The Forever Blind. It's ritual is called The Extinguished Sun, and it's attempt was stopped. Last known Avatar was Callum Brodie. ➤ As you can guess this one's pretty on-the-tin: Fear of the dark and what can't be seen, and tends to manifest as shadow-men, dark-shrouded creatures, blindness-- [There's a laugh full of derision, there.] coldness and dark water. ➤ The People's Church of the Divine Host is a...pseudo-religious organization connected to The Dark. Members of the Church hold to a symbol of a curved line with four lines coming out of it-- a sort of closed eye. Many of the members had pendant depicting the eye in the center of an open-palmed hand.
The Lonely ➤ Also goes by The One Alone, and The Forsaken. The ritual is called The Silence, and won't be able to be attempted for several decades, maybe even centuries. The Lukas family is tied to it, and the last known Avatar is Peter Lukas. I'm actually not sure anyone else is actually part of it. But that's sort of the idea, innit? ➤ You're catching on by now, yeah? Most of these are pretty self-explanatory, but this is the fear of being alone, lost, ignored and pushed aside, disconnected from everyone you know and society at large. ➤ The Lonely-- [There's a bittersweet amusement in her voice as she explains this one.] if you've ended up in Mathias, you'll be interested to know, manifests primarily as fog, as well as silence, large rooms, and crowds of faceless people.	The Buried ➤ Oh, another fun one. The Buried, or The Centre, Choke, Forever Deep Below Creation, and Too Close I Cannot Breathe. The ritual is called The Sunken Sky. Last known Avatar... you know, I'm not actually sure, on this one. There were never any big names connected to this one, much. [She hums softly.] ➤ This one's associated with claustrophobia, suffocating, drowning, live burial. But it can also be more existential like that heavy feeling where everything is just pressing down on you and it feels like you can't escape it. ➤ The Buried comes in all sort of fun flavors like dirt and graves and coffins... but also financial struggles, and underground passage such a a subway.	The Vast ➤ Also called The Falling Titan, and it's ritual is The Awful Deep. Last known Avatar was Simon Fairchild, an awful old chap who's fond of tossing people off the tops of buildings. ➤ The fear of heights and falling, large open spaces such as the sky, space, and deep bodies of water. And more abstractly: The fear of insignificance and meaninglessness and losing yourself in too much space. ➤ The Vast manifests as a void of open space, vertigo, sensations and the fact of falling both, and it can also make things that should have limited space transformed in such a way that there is no end of it in sight.
The Flesh ➤ Also...Viscera. Lovely, right? The ritual for The Flesh is called The Last Feast and the last known Avatar was Jared Hopworth. Nasty piece of work, that one. He likes collecting bones. ➤ The Flesh is as gross as it sounds, born from that animalistic fear of just becoming meat to add to the pile. Yes, animal's fear comes into play in all this as well. Anything living, I suppose, though I've never heard of any plant or herb-based fears? I wouldn't rule it out. New Entities arise all the time, as fears change and evolve. ➤ Manifestations of The Flesh are very...stomach-turning, honestly. Meat, corpses, blood, bones, bodies being buthcered and twisted into unnatural shapes. Tends to hang around meat-processing plants, butcher shops. I-it's all very disgusting. I always hated statements about The Flesh. Moving on!	The Hunt ➤ I don't think The Hunt goes by anything else, not that I was ever made aware of, at any rate. It's ritual is called The Everchase, though a former colleague of mine who was... particularly prone to it... thinks the ritual has no end, because The Hunt is too focused on the chase to get to the end. ➤ This is another one that's...animal-based in its core nature. Just... the fear of being chased or hunted, becoming prey. Though it manifests a bit differently than the others... perhaps because of the way it thrives on the thrill of the chase... it doesn't appear as something, so much as it sort of...infects people with this driving need to hunt or track or trace something. But it's so beyond the typical scope of needing adventure, it's-- [Pause.] It's in the blood. That's... that's what Daisy always said. ➤ Um... the- the last known Avatar of The Hunt was Alice "Daisy" Tonner. [There's a reluctance to admit it, to a point. She'd kind of always liked Daisy, but... she was lost to The Hunt now, more beast than human.]	The Corruption ➤ Also goes by Filth, The Flesh Hive, and The Crawling Rot. There is no known ritual for The Corruption, though it was on record that one had been attempted, at some point. The last recognized Avatar was Jane Prentiss and... you shouldn't have to worry about her...any more. [She clears her throat.] ➤ The Corruption can manifest as unhealthy love and companionship, sort of- obsessives type behaviors, right? But mostly it's things that rot and decay, mold and bugs and infestations, the... way it feels when your skin crawls, an itch deep down into your bones... [There's a pinched sound to her words.] infection of all types. ➤ Actually, come to think of it, in a way... it's a bit like Pestilence in the Christian biblical sense. Not an exact comparison, but...similar enough I feel confident in drawing the line to it.
The Desolation ➤ Oh, The Desolation.... it's known by many names: The Lightless Flame, The Torturing Flame, The Devastation, The Blackened Earth, Asag. It's ritual, called The Scoured Earth, was attempted and subsequently averted recently and shouldn't be able to be attempted for some time now. ➤ This is pure chaos, the fear of pain and loss, burning and destruction. The Lightless Flame thrives on causing senseless tragedy, targeting people with the most to lose.. ➤ The manifestation of this entity is often fire and wax, heat and burns, and all forms of destruction of potential or success. An absolute delight in the ruination of others.	The Slaughter [All through her explanation of this one, there's a wistful note in her voice. She was touched, quite deeply, by The Slaughter, and sometimes? She misses it.] ➤ The Slaughter doesn't go by any other names that I'm aware of, it's ritual is known as The Risen War. It was attempted in 1942, aboard a ship called Nemesis, which held prisoners of war who eventually sucuumbed to the song of The Slaughter and committed a massacre between themselves. ➤ War imagery is heavily associated with The Slaughter: Soliders, wars, murder. It's the fear of unpredictable, unmotivated violence, of sudden, random bouts of pain. It can be the calculated task of a soldier, or the frenzied wild act of a killer. There is a music to violence that not everyone can hear. But oh, it is such a sweet song, and I do miss feeling its comfort. ➤ The...main Avatar of The Slaughter is referred to as The Piper. I... [There's a deep, shaky breath.] I was an agent of The Slaughter for awhile. [Pause. Her voice is a barely-audible whisper.] I still hear its song in my dreams. I miss my knife.	The Extinction ➤ This is a fairly new Entity, in the grand scheme, its other names include The Terrible Change, The Future Without Us, and The World Is Always Ending. No known Avatars of The Extinction exist to my knowledge, and most of the others agree on not wanting this Entity's ritual to pass. ➤ It is tied to the existential dread that comes with catastrophic change, destruction of nature, human skin and tissue, of humanity itself and the subsequent replacement with something else; particularly, the fear that all this will come to pass by mankind's own doing. ➤ That's about all I knew on it, actually. If anything in particular came up about it beyond that, uh- it was after I left the Institute. So. Next.
The End ➤ The End. Well, it's- Death. Terminus, The Coming End That Waits For All And Cannot Be Ignored. As far as we ever figured out, it has no ritual, likely...because it doesn't need one. It happens, whether you like it or not. No one escapes it, no matter how hard they try. The last known Avatar was Oliver Banks. ➤ It is, quite simply, the fear of the inevitable, unstoppable death that seeks us all. It can manifest as bones, and various death-like creatures? Skeletons and mummies and zombies, even, there was a statement about them, once. It likes dreams, and likes to manifest through them quite a bit.	The Library of Jergen Leitner ➤ [There's a sigh. Tired and weary.] Jurgen Leitner, now there's a bloody stupid git. The literal picture of 'too much money, too much time, and naturally it leads to trouble'. He was an rare, occult book collector who, after discovering proof of the supernatural through a few rather...aggressive, magical books, decided to take it upon himself to protect the world by collecting any of these books he could and placing them in his own library. Every book he collected had a bookplate that stated it was From The Library of Jurgen Leitner'. Prideful moron. ➤ [Another sigh, more of a frustrated huff.] I... need to take a moment to explain Robert Smirke. He's headache-inducing at best, but suffice to say, he was an architect whose buildings tended to lend to more...hauntings and paranormal activity. He was one of the only people to ever study the Entities without being actively attached to any of them, and he's the one that gave us the original list of 14. Anyway- [Her voice gets a little rushed, a little pinched.] architect who got obsessed with the occult, Leitner's library was built on his plans, basically, and it was meant to help contain the powers of the books he was collecting. ➤ However, in 1994, the library was destroyed after an attack by various Entities, resulting in the library being burned down, and the books being scattered. Before the destruction of the library, Leitner had 978 books in his collection. Some were just plain books on demonology and the arcane, but a great number of them were supernaturally inclined with terrible effects. ➤ A list of books I know of are: Ex Altiora; The Boneturner's Tale; The Key of Solomon; A Disappearance; A Guest for Mr. Spider; A Journal Of The Plague Year; The Stalwart Hunter's Almanac; An Introduction to Higher Anatomy; The Seven Lamps of Architecture; And an untitled book of Sanskrit poetry about dead animals. ➤ If, by some unfortunate accident, you come across a book with the name Jergen Leitner on them: Do. Not. Read them. I cannot stress it enough. Sometimes, touching them can do things, but reading them is always. A bad. Plan. Do you understand? Leave. Them. Alone.	ETC; ➤ Just some other odds and ends I'd like to note that could potential be, or come into play, if anything from my world sneaks into this place. Call me paranoid, but when it comes to the unexplained, I like to err to the side of caution. ➤ ➤ ➤ ➤

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"Notes of Melanie King concerning Mathias Township and

the people inhabiting it. Official recording date

unknown. This will be a continuously updated recording."

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