The House of the Serpent
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The 0th Hour, associated with absence, void spaces, and what is not. The Meatgrinder rent it limb from nonexistent limb, but didn't kill it, because how can you kill something that isn't even there?
- Mind Screw: It exists only in its absence.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Unbodies the principle.
- Numerological Motifs: 0.
- Power of the Void: It is the Hour of the space in between where actual things are.
- Tarot Motifs: Its card is The Fool.
The Aged Bones
A God-From-Flesh created from the bones of the Empress Irene. She presides over history and what it remembers.
The Caladrius
A God-From-Light who seeks to protect and preserve human life, though it has little understanding itself of what that life entails.
- Tarot Motifs: High Priestess.
The Bright Delver
One of the two Heirs of the Serpent, along with the Snake-Tail-With-Appendages. She is the Hour of love, mercy, and compassion. The Bright Delver is a God-From-Blood created after the Great Serpent's unwise journey to Nowhere.
- God of Good: Played completely straight.
- Heart Is an Awesome Power: Her great empathy means she feels others' pain as if it were her own. She can make other people feel her pain as if it were theirs too.
- Tarot Motifs: Her card is The Empress.
The Architeuthian
The Fifth Hour of the First Fansus, ruler of the ocean depths, and creator of the many monsters found there.
- Eldritch Ocean Abyss: God of this.
- Tarot Motifs: The Emperor.
The Engine of Cycles
The first of the Gods-from-Steel, and the patron of cycles, change, and revolution. Created by a nameless engineer in the Sixth History. There is no Sixth History. and this is why.
- Deus est Machina: The very first of them.
- Apocalypse How: Destroyed his entire history in his ascension.
- Kill the God: Killed the Anvil and the Maker when they tried to punish him for destroying the Sixth History.
- Tarot Motifs: The Heirophant.
The Vizier
A Vizier of the ancient empire of Albion who betrayed his liege to gain Hourhood. Made a deal with the Peacock which probably won't work out well.
- Evil Vizier: Well, not so much evil as 'amoral and super untrustworthy', but he's essentially the Hour of this trope, and backstabbing politicians in general.
- Tarot Motifs: It was The Lovers. Then he made a deal with the Peacock, who got the Lovers arcana while he got the Peacock's backing.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: 'Well-Intentioned Traitors' are part of his purview.
The Harvester
'Child' of the Engine of Cycles, which destroys the strong and integrates what is destroyed into itself.
The Watcher in the Window
The Ninth Hour, patron of nostalgia and the desire for what is lost.
- Tarot Motifs: Strength.
Apple-Of-The-Eye
Hour of beauty admired from a distance.
- Tarot Motifs: The Hermit.
The Archivist
The Hour of collection and preservation.
- Tarot Motifs: The Wheel of Fortune.
The Elder Sister
The Hour that nobody, not even other Hours, wants to deal with. She is the Hour of fancy, yearning, and of taking what is fancied. She is highly whimsical and quickly bores of what she's taken and desires new things.
- The Scottish Trope: Visual variant. You don't depict the Elder Sister visually- she might like it and take the picture and the artist with it.
- Time Abyss: As a God-From-Stone.
The Silver Owl
The Hour of Freedom and Independence, born of the souls who would not submit to the Engine of Cycles and instead fused to create the Unbound.
- Tarot Motifs: The Tower.
The Old Tarnished
I think you might have heard of this guy- in his mortal life, he was one Hernan Cortez, who in the third history got stuck in the Golden City in the Mansus. He wages constant war on the Mansus, seeking to overthrow it in favor of humanity, but his nature ultimately prevents it as he must always return to his city.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: At least in one history.
- Conflict Killer: Serves this role in the Fansus. Anyone gets too uppity, he rides out and steamrollers both sides.
- Pro-Human Transhuman: Even as an Hour, he seeks to prevent the others from interfering with humanity.
- Tarot Motifs: Death.
The Cuckoo
Hour of Selfishness, Deceit, and Why We Can't Have Nice Things. Became a Long after killing and disguising herself as her sister, but when she was found out, she was punished by becoming a Long very different than the glorious beauty she wanted. She later became an Hour by stealing faith from the others, and created the Peacock in a plan gone horribly wrong.
- All Take and No Give: Describes her to a tee.
- Bad Boss: As the Hour of Selfishness, she never gives anything to her followers. The most she'll do is harry their enemies.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain.
- Eats Babies: She committed the Crime of the Sky and became an Alukite even before becoming the twisted bird-crone she is now.
- Satanic Archetype: Committed a great betrayal and was cast out of the Maker's sight, likes disguising herself as being more appealing than she really is, tempts mortals into evil (she prefers self-righteousness, because if she can get them to sacrifice material goods to prove their holiness then she can take the stuff) and takes everything from her followers/dupes.
- Tarot Motifs: Reversed Temperance, as she wants to take everything from others and hoard it all for herself.
- Villainous Glutton: Likes temperance in other people, because that means there's more for her.
The Fanged Bramble
The Snow-Stained
Once there was an occultist who took a lead pipe from the plumbing of the Mansus and beat Time with it, saving the world from a now-destroyed History. In the process, he became the Snow-Stained, god of violence and change.
- Badass Normal: Was once a normal human who straight up broke time with a lead pipe.
The Spark
The Hour of hope and inspiration, and the only Forge Hour left after the Engine of Cycles ascended.
- Tarot Motifs: The Star, naturally.
The Ferryman (Dolomedes)
The Hour of Balance, Dreams, and Equal Exchange. It made a deal with the First Men, taking their immortality in exchange for granting them access to the Mansus.
- Tarot Motifs: The Moon.
The Anaconda
A God-From-Flesh and the Hour of stealth, curses, and assassination. Acts as the executioner of the Mansus.
- Friend to All Children: Yes, really. She's known to have a soft spot for kids.
- Tarot Motifs: Judgement.
The Great Serpent
Former ruler of the Mansus until it was divided into the Bright Delver and the Snake-Tail-With-Appendages. Loved to explore, which was its downfall when it tried exploring Nowhere.
- Posthumous Character: By the present, it's dead and the Heirs were born from its death.
- Tarot Motifs: The World.
- Top God: When he was alive.
The Synapse (Mr. Alden)
The Hour who really didn't want to become one. Formerly a Flat Earth Athiest who, after becoming a Name entirely by accident, tried to commit ritual suicide to prove he wasn't a god. This did the opposite of what he expected, actually turning him into an Hour. Freaked out so hard at this he flung himself into Nowhere.
- Springtime for Hitler: The story of his life.
The Void-In-Skins
The Peacock
An Hour of love, joy, and life twisted by the Cuckoo killing him shortly after birth into a God from Nowhere. Now, he's essentially Slaanesh-the-bird.
- The Hedonist: Believes there's no such thing as 'too much of a good thing.'
- Tarot Motifs: The Lovers, which he took from the Vizier.
Snake-Tail-With-Appendages
Also known as the Wrong Serpent. Very hard to describe, except as "a jerk". On average, appears more as a snake tail with various appendages sticking out, hence the name.
- Things Man Was Not Meant to Know: The Hour of this trope.
The Insidious
Hour of shadows and hidden things.
The Mendicant Without
Hour of rapacity and longing. Always seeks something which he never had and appears beautiful but really has nothing to offer. Was kicked out of the Mansus for bad behavior and subsequently taken under the Bright Delver's wing, so she could teach him how to be a proper Hour.
- Affably Evil: He may be a God-From-Nowhere and an embodiment of empty pleasure, self-destructive appetite, and yearning for something he doesn't know, but he's generally friendly and likes to talk to mortals, though they rarely remember his words.
The Unmirror
Once the Hour of True, Unchangeable Self before it was killed and became a God-From-Nowhere.
The Maker
It's all in the name, really.
