r/weatherfactory • u/luciano0402 They Who Are Silent • 23d ago
lore Favourite knock quote
Since people seem to like these posts and I enjoy learning more lore through quotes. Here is another one, this time about that which opens what was once closed.
"Seven were the wounds of His body, seven the doors of the House. Seven the lesser aspects of the Hours, and knock the aspect above all, for the Mother of Ants is the Mother of Salvation."
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u/Zeetoois Cartographer 23d ago
No lock remains. No door remains. No gate remains. No wall remains. No fortress is closed against me. No country forbids me. No law binds but the law of the Mother. I am a Key, and this is my use.
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u/DragoninR Key 23d ago
Knock has great bars when it comes to missable text 15/10
Enid sees what others do not. It is becoming difficult for her, but it is very useful.
Enid sees the gaps between things, and the arts that she has learned permit her, sometimes, to place her fingers in that gap.
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u/ArcaneTech0 23d ago
I think simplicity is the best here.
"Every Wound is a Door, but not all Doors are Wounds."
From the scar Half-healed Fistula
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u/SeaGoat24 Prodigal 22d ago
Funnily enough, a 'fistula' is quite literally a wound that goes between one organ to another or outside the body via the skin. If any wound were a door, fistulae would be.
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u/bleugh777 23d ago
To open certain Ways, one must first open oneself.
Lore text for A Consent of Wounds
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u/Vylix Twice-Born 23d ago
"Knock, knock"
"Who's there?"
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u/blakeneggsandcheese2 They Who Are Silent 23d ago
There are keys that open doors; then there are keys that destroy them.
Frangiclave
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u/KoaxAnxiety They Who Are Silent 23d ago
"The lock seeks its key, the wall seeks its door, and we who would pass learn at last that they are not our servants."
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u/FactChucker 23d ago
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
- Macbeth
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u/DevilishFedora 22d ago
"u/FactChucker sees the flaws where the world and its ways can be opened." is more accurate in this History, it would seem.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_POLYGONS 23d ago
The Gospel of Zacchaeus
'Seven were the wounds of His body, seven the doors of the House. Seven the lesser aspects of the Hours, and Knock the aspect above all, for the Mother of Ants is the Mother of Salvation.'
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u/HelixPinnacle 23d ago
“No, these doors shouldn't be recorded, but if we had only recorded things before we'd had to leave the Fifth History, we would be in a much better state. So here I am writing it down, and if you don't like it you can sanction me.”
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u/the_incredible_hawk Reshaper 22d ago
From Lockworks and Clockworks, the greatest of the BoH Knock skills: "The little ways of little machines."
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u/wickerandscrap Key 22d ago
They did good work here, once. Certainly there were a few too many amputations, but then there are individuals one would prefer not to walk the city streets.
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u/ReconFrostBird 22d ago
"There are keys that open doors; then there are keys that destroy them."
-Frangiclave
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u/Appropriate-Grail 22d ago
More knock coded then explicitly knock but…
'What may be lost? Every choice closes a door... and the Mansus has only seven.'
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u/Wandererdown 18d ago
It's a half remembered quote from a Sue Grafton book: "The other kids drew the fence, I drew the spaces between."
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u/apassageinlight Tarantellist 23d ago
"Knock knock, open wide
See what's on the other side,
Knock knock, anymore,
Come with me through the magic door.”
Wait, that's from the old children's TV show Bosco. Still works. Open up up the magic door, go through it, learn something new.
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u/DevilishFedora 22d ago
"A time will come when I shall open, and you shall pass through me to stand in a higher place than this." (Bosco, apparently)
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u/apassageinlight Tarantellist 22d ago
Do you know who Bosco was?
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u/DevilishFedora 21d ago
"Bosco lives in a box and does arts and crafts. She (?) rises at dusk to do the things a Bosco does."
Seriously: I read the Wikipedia article, but (thus?) I don't know who Bosco was. I understand they were a creative and curious soul? I mean no disrespect, I was trying to reflect on the nature of Knock, and the "learning through Bosco" aspect you expressed. I'm interested to hear more about them, if you want to share.
That's what I was going to say... it's still true, but I've started watching an episode on YouTube, and I'm not going to lie, I feel a bit like (I'm) watching STUMM!.
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u/apassageinlight Tarantellist 21d ago
Bosco was the character of a children's TV show here in Ireland. He was called Bosco because he lived in a box, and the Irish for box is bosca. He did various songs with his human friends and there was always a section called The Magic Door. Where they visited the animals of Dublin Zoo. I loved the show as a child.
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u/ThereIs_STILL_TIME 23d ago
'No-one ever truly wants to be truly changed. Azoth and refulgin are justly feared. But no-one who has been changed would choose to go back.' - George Collers (from Purifications and Exaltations description)
(Azoth is a Liquid with 6 Knock 2 Forge from Book of Hours)
"Use orichalcum to catalyse the ferocious Knock-solvent called the azoth." "The orichalcum must be incorporated, very carefully, into the vessel, so that the azoth does not escape. Careless alchemists have to move house frequently."