As the clouds rose before us, the sailors raised a yearning shanty, and close-hauled the sails to best use the painted wind. I voyaged half its length last night with a stern-faced captain beneath a rust-red sail. Erudition: A lesson learnt The Painted River runs from a great chamber near the White Door, far through the Mansus, to its far edge where it enters a painted delta of far cloud.Now that I'm awake, I see those colours still. The sail of the ship was amber and the captain's eyes the green of new barley and the river, aquamarine. She saluted, and the motion was like the layered movement of clouds. I met the painted eyes of a painted captain. Painted ships passed upon the Painted River. Fascination I dreamt of the Mansus behind the White Door, of the great space above the Orchard, the space that overlooks the Bounds, the space where the Vagabond once painted her River.The chill of it had cracked the window-glass. It has been sacred to the Meniscate and the Sun-in-Rags since the Intercalate, when the true Sun was divided. A Bitter Atmosphere ( Winter 10) I visited the Ascent of Knives last night, that harshest of roads through the House.When I woke, that pain remained with me - a pain I could employ to occult purposes, if I hurry. Each step is blood.' I did not climb far. A Furious Air ( Edge 10) Of the place my dreams took me last night, this has been written: 'The ascent is glass.I did not approach I made no sound I only observed. Empousai - some shaped like men, many shaped like women - wait beneath the glass of the stairs to satisfy their hunger. It draws a tithe of blood from the feet of those who ascend. If one is to look beneath the stair, as I did last night in my dreams, one understands that last name. An Urgency of Appetite ( Grail 6) The Ascent of Knives is called the Sharp Stair, and the Mother of Mirrors, and the Feast of the Grail.But I remember the shape of the fissures in the Stag Door, and for all of today, doors will fear my touch. I wish I had died in the world.' I have forgotten what else he said. We were the first Know.' He begins again to weep his molten tears. 'Before the Gods-who-were-flesh, the Mansus was forbidden to mortals. 'Our company it was that shattered it,' Ghirbi says suddenly. Subtle Rupture ( Knock 10) In sleep, I ran my fingers along the ridged edges of the Stag Door's scars.In the dream, my skin peeled and blistered, but only in the dream. I scooped up his molten tears in my cupped palm. A Trembling Heat ( Forge 6) Ghirbi was weeping again.I listened, until his stories tailed off again into weeping. He spoke in his siege-engine voice of the histories he'd overheard in the waking world. A Forgotten Chronicle ( Secret Histories 6) Last night, Ghirbi was talkative.Only one card can be chosen the other two will be revealed and then destroyed. You must click and drag a card to the Gate. The card representing The Stag Door will be face up, while the two representing the Ascent of Knives and The Painted River are face-down. You will also receive one Reason.ĭreaming on Way: Through the Stag Door with Reason will bring you to the Mansus where you must choose one of three cards. Only once you answer the riddle correctly will you receive Way: Through the Stag Door. However, upon reaching the Stag Door, you will be posed with the Stag Door's Riddle. You can reach the Stag Door by Dreaming with Way: The White Door and your Desire. The Witch and Sister entered the Mansus through the Painted River. It was painted by the Sight-Thief, before her expulsion from the Mansus. The Painted River is a river on the border between the Wood and the Mansus. Those of the Dead who pass it can become Maids-in-the-Mirror. The Ascent of Knives, also known as the Sharp Stair, is the way up from the Stag Door to the higher reaches of the Mansus. False dreams pass through the Gate of Ivory, while true dreams pass through the Gate of Horn. The Stag and White Doors correspond with the mythical Gates of Horn and Ivory. Ghirbi was originally one of the first human occultists, who broke open the doors of the Mansus, probably as part of the Lithomachy. It is guarded by a Name called Ghirbi, a huge disembodied head who bars passage to any who cannot answer his riddles. The Stag Door is the first door by which one may enter the Mansus properly without the restrictions of the White Door.
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