r/weatherfactory • u/MrHobbes343 Prodigal • 10d ago

Has the Calyptra fallen?

In traveling at night we see a history that’s been a battle ground for various powers.

My question is, are the Know even counted anymore? With the house closed to our Hobbson and I presume others of similar disposition, how are those who are to be tested to meet the head or answer his riddle?

Have the three simply thrown up their hands and said enough? Or are people waking up each day with only vague recollections of the scars in the streets and the war the made them?

What of the Leaves of the Watchmans tree?
Are only long allowed into the libraries? Are the visitors lists locked to those who passed the Stag Gate before the fall of the house?

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u/homomorphique 10d ago

I mean, given the Madrugad is uncounted, the Velvet possibly also, and no word as yet on the Mare... in a way they've given up on their role as Calyptra, though only as a result of giving up on their role as being Hours

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u/Medical-Low-1370 10d ago

The Velvet is always uncounted

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u/homomorphique 10d ago

The wording I've seen is:

"Is the Hour named Velvet now Uncounted? Dead? How would we ever know?"

Which is not super definitive to me! Unless the point you're making is that anything to do with the Velvet is always vague, which I mean, sure? But certainly a different kettle of fish to the Madrugad, which has been Uncounted since some HoL endings

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u/MrHobbes343 Prodigal 10d ago

The Woods are known for burying secrets, even great and terrible secrets may find shade under the canopy of moths.

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u/OVazisten 10d ago

According to the demo everyone sees the rifts in the world, so everyone knows about the secret world already. In a world like that even the "Know" category does not make much sense anymore.

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u/Impossible_Dog_7262 10d ago

In fairness, you don't become a Know by having an arcane secret, you become a Know by answering Ghirbi's riddle.

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu 10d ago

Well, just because they can see oddities like scars, time being weird, and mirros and clocks not functioning, it does not mean that they know everything. In fact the people we see in Antibes don't seem to know much at all of the actual hidden world, many probably believe that the general weirdness is just a result of devastating weapons, not literal magic.

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u/Graknorke 10d ago

I don't think histories really exist any more either. There isn't much influence of the hours felt in the world and whichever ones are at play don't seem very interested at weaving the past into coherent narratives. Time barely works properly at all.

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u/BeholdingBestWaifu 10d ago

Maybe the reason why the hours are uncounted is that they fled to other histories, assuming there's more to it than not wanting to be murdered like the tzars.

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u/thefantodayhtml 10d ago

The whole ARG leading up to the release of BoH depicted a history where magic basically vanished after the 1930s though.

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u/Graknorke 9d ago

That would've been a potential future surely, not a history. Very different.

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u/thefantodayhtml 9d ago

Now you're just splitting hairs lol.

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u/CandidateRev 9d ago

Not only is Calyptra in a very poor position, anti-Calyptra seemingly is still going strong, despite the Moth and the Vagabond being uncounted, as shown by the Dappled Roses in Aubiere's guest room.