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The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex

The Sixth House Skull Painting by Gregory Manchess

**The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex** is a short story set in the Locked Tomb Universe written by Tamsyn Muir. Centered around Sixth House characters Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect, TMSoDS takes place before the events of Gideon the Ninth. The illustration was done by Gregory Manchess, and it was edited by Carl Engle-Laird. It can be found on Tor.com.

## **Synopsis**

*Each of the Empire’s houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the Sixth, every secret is a mystery, and every mystery is a puzzle to be solved or a paper to be published. Deep in the bowels of their house, one such secret is about to reveal itself. The study of the famed academic Donald Sex, sealed since the moment of his death, is about to open, and archivists are ready to dissect what he left behind. They are not ready for the macabre surprise that awaits them.*

*Enter Palamedes Sextus and Camilla Hect, age thirteen.*

## **Plot**

Thirteen-year-old Scholar Sextus and thirteen-year-old Aspirant Hect find themselves on the exciting experience of opening a sealed room with Archivist Zeta: the study of Doctor Donald Sex. Within the room, and behind a maze of Sixth House red tape, their team finds a room untouched for hundreds of years, except for one pair of severed skeleton hands.

As the majority of the team leaves to fetch the required paperwork necessary to use necromancy in the room, Palamedes and Camilla investigate the study and determine that there must be a skeleton in the maintenance vent. With permission, Camilla makes her way through the vent until she discovers the rest of the service skeleton crouched in the ceiling above the desk of Doctor Sex.

Determined to prove himself, Palamedes thinks through the bizarre scene without the aid of his psychometric necromancy and determines that the late Donald Sex has been transfigured into a revenant and had been controlling a rogue service skeleton in attempts to complete his last project. Though the professionals question each step of his logic, Palamedes is decisive, thorough, and proved correct on all accounts. His work earns him an extra grade point, and his eidetic memory earns him the contents of the concealed scrap of paper the skeleton has nearly freed from its puzzle lock: a partial note to a future Lyctor.

## **Characters**

* Palamedes Sextus
* Camilla Hect
* Juno Zeta
* Donald Sex
Our Lady of the Passion

**Our Lady of the Passion**, usually referred to as **Pash**, is a member of Blood of Eden and serves as We Suffer's bodyguard.

## Appearance and Personality

### Appearance

Pash is compact and average-sized, her cheeks littered with shrapnel scars and her nose crooked. She keeps her hair buzzed on one side and long on the other, dyed a bright blue. Nona describes her face as "super-cool and fierce and handsome", though Nona's descriptions are often subject to opinion. Despite referring to The Nine Houses' use of swords as "complete fucking hand-me-down insanity", she always carries two machetes, claiming the reason is to intimidate zombies.

### Personality

Pash is a quintessential Edenite; short-tempered, violent, and aggressive. She hates necromancy and everything related to it. It is likely that because Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead is her aunt, she was promoted faster than she would have been if she was not related to her, hence Corona referring to her as "what happens when nepotism and bullshit collide."

## Relationships

### Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead

Pash is Wake's niece, and appears to have had a close relationship with her. During Wake's time as Blood of Eden commander, she carried around a photo of Pash holding her submachine gun in her pliers case. When Pyrrha tells Pash about this detail, Pash listens with her eyes closed, and Nona observes that she "looked as though she was having a religious experience." Wake claimed that Pash took after her, and Pash appears to grieve deeply for Wake. She mentions Wake's advice frequently, such as when The Angel tells her beheading necromancers to ensure that they're truly dead is superstition, and Pash responds, "Aunty always told me it was ninety percent superstition and ten percent for the fun of it." Pash is committed to upholding Wake's legacy and contributing to the mission of Blood of Eden.

### The Angel (Aim)

Pash is The Angel's bodyguard. Though she seems to be frustrated with her appointment, she takes her duties seriously, if a little reluctantly. When Nona, Pyrrha, and Paul decide to return to the Ninth House, Pash surprises them by saying she's tagging along due to the Angel's desire to join, stating, "I go where [she] goes". While Pash does sometimes act unconventionally when it comes to her duties as bodyguard, she follows the Angel's direct orders and appears to respect her.

1. ↑ "Nona the Ninth", Act IV, 18
2. ↑ "Nona the Ninth", Act V, 22
3. ↑ "Nona the Ninth", Act III, 13
The Fifth House

## Fifth House

The Fifth House Icon

> *"Five for tradition and debts to the dead"*
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**The Fifth House, The Heart of the Emperor, The Watchers over the River** is the fifth planet to be reborn and central planet of the Nine Houses System. Home to the Koniortos Court, the Fifth House is a cultural superpower among the houses.

## **History**

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## **Characters of the Fifth House**

* Abigail Pent
* Magnus Quinn
* Augustine the First
* Alfred Quinque
A Little Explanation of Naming Systems

**A Little Explanation of Naming Systems** is an appendix to Gideon the Ninth, released with the paperback edition 14 July 2020. This appendix contains information on the naming systems present in the culture of the Nine Planets System, as well as a pronunciation guide and explanation for Muir's thought process in naming her characters.

## **The Two Name System**

### The First Name

* The first name is a familial name, given to a person by their parents and often in reference to a family connection.
* "Double-barrelled" names such as Jeannemary and Coronabeth point to "heirloom name particles" (Also visible in the shared "hark" of Harrowhark and Priamhark).

### The Second Name

* The arithmonym, or number name, is the second name of a Nine Houses inhabitant and is referential to the House a person belongs to.
	+ Specific arithmonym naming conventions are different for each House.
* This name is rarely shared among families (eg: Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Pelleamena Novenarius, and Priamhark Noniusvianus do not share a second name).
* Twins may gain a "unit" name, such as the Tridentarii (or, more uncommonly, the Asht brothers).

#### Marriage

* Second names are not changed with marriage.
* A non-necromancer marrying into a new House must choose their affiliation.
* It is tradition when marrying a necromancer to affiliate with the necromancer's House.
* Children are of the settled House.
* Necromancers cannot marry out of House.
* *Sixth House only:* any person, regardless of necromantic aptitude, marrying any member of the Sixth House (also regardless of necromantic aptitude), becomes a member of the Sixth House. This binds them to the Sixth House for the rest of their lives; additionally, any subsequent children they might have are for the Sixth, even if their current partner is not of the Sixth House.

## **Character Naming Inspiration and Pronunciation**

If available, character naming inspiration and pronunciation will be with their Character Page.
Noodle

Noodle from the Nona the Ninth book cover illustrated by Tommy Arnold.

**Noodle** is the canine companion to Nona.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Noodle has nice fur and awful breath. Noodle doesn't enjoy wearing his pattens and will chew his feet when they are on. As he is a good boy he will stop when told to stop.

## **Trivia**

* Editor Carl Engle-Laird describes Noodle as "a dog [Nona] knows."
* Tor confirms Noodle has six legs.

## **References**

1. ↑ @EngleLaird, Twitter.com.
2. ↑ @TorDotComPub, Twitter.com
Harrowhark Nova

Harrow Nova illustrated by @ennecorreia (gipki)

> *"I'm your superior in every way. I do not possess your size—I do not possess your strength—but I have trained for one singular purpose, and I will not be denied this chance."*
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**Harrowhark Nova** is an imagined or hallucinatory combination of Harrowhark Nonagesimus and Gideon Nav's history. Cavalier secondary to the Ninth House, Harrow Nova exists only in Harrow's imagination as she is dying of a rapier wound during the Battle of the Mithraeum.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Refused weapons by her house, Harrow climbed the Anastasian monument and stole Samael Novenary's off-hand, a black chain. For this, she was stripped and whipped by the Reverend Father until his Daughter and Heir interceded on her behalf—at which point Harrow was allowed to keep the chain.

### **Harrow the Ninth**

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Harrow Nova, challenges an warped version of Ortus Nigenad to a duel for the position of cavalier primary and the chance to serve the Reverend Daughter at First House. Ortus, a skull scarified onto his face, implores her to see reason. He readily admits that she is the greater swordsman and better cavalier, but claims that the Reverend Mother and Father would never allow Harrow to serve while he lives. Harrow readies herself to kill him when Crux rushes in. Crux berates Ortus for drawing his sword on sacred ground and bids him *"rush to [his] cuckoo's side."* As Ortus flees, Crux instructs Harrow to apologize to the pilgrims. She goes over to the two pilgrims and realizes they are Abigail Pent and Magnus Quinn. They tell her *"this isn't how it happens,"* and the vision shifts.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Harrow's appearance is not described, but assumed to match the original Harrowhark Nonagesimus.

In personality, Harrow appears to resemble Gideon Nav—brash, argumentative, and tough.

## **Relationships**

### Ortus Nigenad

Harrow Nova's relationship with Ortus Nigenad is fraught. Harrow is jealous of Ortus's position and despises that he has achieved it despite being the lesser cavalier. She does not truly have any problem with him as a person, but his position makes it impossible for her to get along with him. Harrow Nova retains her namesakes hatred of Ortus's obsession with Matthias Nonias.

### Marshal Crux

Harrow Nova's relationship with Crux remains unchanged from Harrowhark Nonagesimus. He is the only person that she believes has any stake in her sanity and success.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Harrow the Ninth," Act V, Ch. 40
Construct

**A Construct** is any object or creature created through necromancy to serve an adept. Most commonly, constructs take the form of cleaned and reanimated skeletons (partial or whole) which function as a source of manual labor or military assistance to the necromancer. The construct is entirely dependent on the necromancers skill and power despite occasionally appearing "autonomous."

## **Abilities**

Constructs only possess as much motor control and finesse as is instilled in them by their necromancer(s). The larger and more complicated the construct, and the more complex the task, the more power and skill will be required in its creation.

## **Non-Constructs**

### Canaan House Servants

> *"The sheer amount of complex programming each skeleton followed would have taken all of the oldest and most gnarled necromancers of the Locked Tomb months and months to put together."*
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The skeleton servants at Canaan House are originally believed to be extremely advance constructs. In their investigations, Palamedes and Harrow come to realize that the servants of Canaan House are a fully intact souls (revenants) anchored to preserved bones. The servants therefore experience true autonomy and independent thought/movement. As such they are not considered constructs. Palamedes refers to them as the "hideous corpse" (in contrast to the "beguiling corpse").

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gideon the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 9
2. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 32
Camilla's Shuttle

### Purpose

Transport Camilla and her team to find Harrowhark Nonagesimus and complete missions for Blood of Eden

## History

### Notable Passengers

Coronabeth TridentariusJudith Deuteros

> *"It was also thoroughly battered and singed: you would not have flown it ten feet above the ground, let alone into atmosphere or the black depths of space."*
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**Camilla's Shuttle** is a shuttle acquired by Camilla Hect, presumably from the Blood of Eden organization, in order to travel the galaxy in search of Harrowhark Nonagesimus and to complete other missions.

## **History**

Camilla's shuttle is a small, undistinguished shuttle lacking any Cohort or Nine Planets affiliation. She uses this shuttle to track Harrowhark Nonagesmius near the Mithraeum, and eventually find a chance to talk to her alone and gain her aid. It is unknown how long Camilla has traveled with this shuttle or if she retains it after completing her mission.

## **Locations**

A small ship of only three bodies wide by three bodies tall, Camilla's shuttle is construct of a shiny steel covered in a heat shield. There are no distinguishing characteristics, but it is remarked as being singed and damaged. There is a cargo-bay door, and the interior is largely furnished with engines and storage boxes.
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Postulants to Canaan House

**The Postulants to Canaan House** refers to the group of necromancers and cavaliers called to Canaan House nearly a myriad after the Resurrection.

* Judith Deuteros
* Marta Dyas
* Coronabeth Tridentarius
* Ianthe Tridentarius
* Naberius Tern
* Isaac Tettares
* Jeannemary Chatur
* Abigail Pent
* Magnus Quinn
* Palamedes Sextus
* Camilla Hect
* Dulcinea Septimus
* Protesilaus Ebdoma
* Silas Octakiseron
* Colum Asht
* Harrowhark Nonagesimus
* Gideon Nav
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Anastasia

## Anastasia the First

> *"You could not trip in the Ninth House without falling over an Anastas, an Anastasia, or an Anastasius; or, in later years, bumping into their niche."*
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**Anastasia the First** *(An-ass-TAYS-iya)* is the necromantic scion and founder of the Ninth House. Her attempt to ascend to the rank of Lyctor went wrong, and it is not clear how successful she was or how long she lived afterward.

## **Biography**

### **History**

According to the Emperor, Anastasia was the only one of the eight original necromancers to fail to ascend properly, as she had "researched it too much." He first claimed that when she spoke the Eightfold Word it went "fundamentally wrong," but later admitted that she had nearly achieved the perfect Lyctorhood that would allow her and her cavalier to both live. He claimed she panicked midway through, and that both her and Samael's lives were at risk, so he killed Samael to save her. Augustine recalled that she had worked closely with Cassiopeia on the process.

Anastasia never properly ascended to Lyctor and is not known as a Saint to any but the Ninth House.

According to the Emperor, after they had cleaned up, she asked him to kill her and he refused. An unknown amount of time later, he asked her to take charge of the Tomb.

She worked with the Emperor to design The Locked Tomb, a monument designed to contain the body of his greatest enemy. The true protection of the Locked Tomb was intended to be a ward that, according to the Emperor, opens only to his blood.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Mercymorn, upon studying Harrow's face, stated that she was "not as pretty as Anastasia."

She was apparently studious, as the Emperor noted that over-researching was "typical Anastasia."

## **Relationships**

### Alecto

Anastasia is one of the few of Gaius's desciples established to have had a personal relationship with Alecto. Anastasia was interred in The Locked Tomb along with Alecto, left behind to guard it as the first in the Ninth House line of tombkeepers. As Alecto, in Nona's body, approaches the coffin of The Locked Tomb, she spies Anastasia's skeletal remains against the wall and claims to remember her. Later, addressing Harrow, she "swears to [her] as [she] swore to Anastasia", implying some sort of vow of service pledged to Anastasia by Alecto.

### Samael Novenary

While the precise details of Anastasia and Samael's bond are unknown, his willingness to follow her to First House and attempt untried, potentially fatal necromancy speaks to his dedication and loyalty. When their Lyctorhood failed and Samael was killed, Anastasia asked the Emperor to end her life. Though she eventually accepted his refusal and went on to found the Ninth House, she entombed his black chain upon the Anastasian monument—a tomb reserved for the most revered of Ninth House warriors.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 20
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 5
Nigella Shodash

**Nigella Shodash** *(NYE-jella SHOW-dash)* is the cavalier primary to the Fourth Saint to Serve the King Undying, Cassiopeia the First.

## **Biography**

### **Pre-resurrection**

Prior to the Resurrection, the scientist John Gaius worked with a crew of enigmatically named friends. Given that their initials align with the names of those who later became his Saints, the similarly gendered pronoun, and the fact that the cohort known as “N—“ was in an intimate relationship with another cohort referred to as “C—“ (presumably Cassiopeia), it appears likely that Nigella was the one referred to in his recounted story as “N—“.

N— and C— had a poorly-kept secret relationship, and were later wed, with Gaius officiating. When Gaius decided to go public with his supernatural powers, N— provided eyeliner and a cape for his new role as a self-proclaimed Necromancer.

N— was shot to death shortly after C—, during the events that immediately led to the Resurrection.

### After the Resurrection

Nigella Shodash and her necromancer, Cassiopeia, were among the first disciples to serve the Emperor at Canaan House following The Resurrection.

Together, Cassiopeia and Nigella founded the Sixth House, known as The Emperor's Reason and The Master Wardens.

Nigella and Cassiopeia's contribution to the Lyctoral megatheorem was to do with psychometry and revenant souls. As part of their research, they created Teacher and the skeleton servants of First House.

Nigella Shodash died as part of Cassiopeia's ascension to Lyctorhood, but the details of their ascension are unknown.

## **Appearance and Personality**

There is no known description of Nigella Shodash's appearance or personality, however, Mercymorn notes that she *"always thought Nigella was prettier [than Pyrrha Dve]."* Additionally, Nigella and Cassiopeia's Lyctoral study is rather unkempt and stuffed full of research materials.

## **Relationships**

### Cassiopeia the First

> *"Try getting a look-in with Cassy around, though."*
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While the precise details of Cassiopeia and Nigella's bond are unknown, Augustine talks of Cassiopeia as a protective necromancer. As with all Lyctor pairs, Nigella's willingness to die for her necromancer speaks to her dedication and loyalty.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 30
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Religion (The Eight Houses)

**The Religion of the Eight Houses** is based around The Resurrection and The Necrolord Prime.

## **Prayers**

The Eight Houses have a singular common prayer that goes as such:

*"Let the King Undying, ransomer of death, scourge of death, vindicator of death, look upon the Nine Houses and hear their thanks. Let the whole of everywhere entrust themselves to him. Let those across the river pledge beyond the tomb to the adept divine, the first among necromancers. Thanks be to the Ninefold Resurrection. Thanks be to the Lyctor divinely ordained. He is Emperor and he became God: he is God, and he became Emperor."*
Cytherea's Plan

### Result

The Emperor escapes.The death of Cytherea, as well as Marta Dyas, Isaac Tettares, Jeannemary Chatur, Abigail Pent, Magnus Quinn, Palamedes Sextus, Dulcinea Septimus, Protesilaus Ebdoma, Silas Octakiseron, and Colum Asht.

The ascension of Ianthe Tridentarius and Harrowhark Nonagesimus to Lyctorhood through the consumption of their cavaliers, Naberius Tern and Gideon Nav respectively.

**Cytherea's Plan** is a plot devised by Cytherea the First—and potentially the Blood of Eden—to lure The Emperor back within the halo of the Dominican System so that he can be killed. Due to her death, many of the circumstances and motivations around this plot remain unclear.

## **History**

Between Y1 and Y1000, Cytherea is invited to Canaan House to serve as disciple to The Emperor, John Gaius. She joins her fellow necromancers in researching what will eventually become known as The Eightfold Word, or the theorem behind Lyctorhood. Due to her advanced and terminal illness, Cytherea's cavalier, Loveday Heptane, sacrifices her life in the hopes that Cytherea would be healed in immortality.
Appendices

**The Appendices** are a number of extra content features added to Gideon the Ninth with the release of the paperback on 14 July 2020. They primarily serve to expand on the world of the Locked Tomb and provide new information of it's characters.

### **Glossary**

The contains a list of terms and definitions from the book from "necromancer" to "lyctor." On the wiki, this list is expanded to include links to key terms and concepts from novels published after the Gideon the Ninth paperback.

### **A Sermon on Cavaliers and Necromancers**

Credited to "the collected works of M. Bias," this sermon extemporizes on the nature of the bond between a necromancer and their cavalier, and the modern corruption of this bond including granting the title of cavalier to unskilled swordsmen and romantic relationships between necromancer and cavalier.

### **Cohort Intelligence Files**

An intelligence report assembled by Judith Deuteros ahead of the events of Gideon the Ninth, these files include many details on the childhood training of the postulants at Canaan House and the Captain's estimation of their character.

### **A Little Explanation of Naming Systems**

This appendix contains information on the naming systems present in the culture of the Nine Planets System, as well as a pronunciation guide and explanation for Muir's thought process in naming her characters.
Samael Novenary

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**Samael Novenary** *(SAM-ay-el No-VEEN-ary)* is the cavalier primary to Anastasia the First, and part of the original sixteen disciples to serve the Emperor at Canaan House after the Resurrection.

## **Biography**

### **History**

Samael Novenary and his necromancer, Anastasia, were part of the second generation of disciples to Canaan House (along with Cyrus and Valancy Trinit, and Cytherea and Loveday Heptane). The circumstances of their invitation to join the Emperor are lost to history.

As Anastasia and Cassiopeia delved into the mysteries of necromancy, they became convinced of the existence of "perfect lyctorhood," or the ability to ascend to Lyctor without ending the life of their cavalier. When Anastasia and Samael decided they were ready to attempt their theory, they invited the Emperor to spectate.

According to the Emperor, they had the theory correct, but something went wrong. Anastasia was panicked and was unable to get Samael's soul fully inside of her. He claims that both were in mortal danger and that he killed Samael to protect her.

## **Appearance and Personality**

There is no known description of Samael Novenary's appearance or personality.

## **Possessions**

* **Black Chain**: Samael Novenary's black chain is described as chain of "death's head" made of black, Drearburh steel, weighted at one end with lead-filled pelvis. After his death, the black chain was preserved atop the Anastasian monument.

## **Relationships**

### Anastasia the First

While the precise details of Anastasia and Samael's bond are unknown, his willingness to follow her to First House and attempt untried, potentially fatal necromancy speaks to his dedication and loyalty. When their Lyctorhood failed and Samael was killed, Anastasia asked the Emperor to end her life. Though she eventually accepted his refusal and went on to found the Ninth House, she entombed his black chain upon the Anastasian monument—a tomb reserved for the most revered of Ninth House warriors.
The Resurrection

**The Resurrection** is the name given to the event in which the Emperor restored life to the system that would become known as the Nine Houses System or the Dominican System and established its presence as a thanergetic Empire of necromancers.

## **History**

Little is known about the events that led to the death of the system. The Emperor claims only *"rising sea levels and a massive nuclear fission chain reaction..."* Blood of Eden Commander Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back To Reality Oops There Goes Gravity expands on this claims imply that the bomb was the Emperor's fault and that it in some way the ten billion resulting deaths gave him power.

Following the death of the system, the Emperor resurrected the star, which he named Dominicus, the Nine Planets, and his companion, Alecto. Following these resurrections came a more staggered resurrection of the people killed in the bomb—wave by wave they were restored to life (aside from a number kept in a sleeping state as a safeguard).

The Emperor has never shared the secrets of resurrection with his disciples, however, he explained to Harrowhark Nonagesimus that the circumstances of her birth closely resembled resurrection—*"To all intents and purposes, your mother and father committed a type of resurrection [...] They did something nigh-on impossible. I know, because I committed the same act, and I know the price I had to pay."*

## **Results**

The Emperor's first human resurrection, Alecto, suffered greatly from her resurrection. Described as *"monstrous,"* it is agreed that her mind did not come through whole and well. This is assumed to have been fixed as the Emperor's Disciples and the rest of the inhabitants of the Nine Houses have suffered no known ill-effects.

Dominicus and the Nine Planets are widely believed to be a successful resurrection with the only consequence being the planets changed nature to a thanergetic system—the nature that enables necromancy to exist. Unknown to the inhabitants of the system, the death of the planets and their subsequent resurrection created the Resurrection Beasts or planetary revenants.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Harrow the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 37
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act V, Ch. 50
3. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 2
4. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 14
Cassiopeia

**Cassiopeia the First** *(Cass-ee-oh-PAY-ah)* is the founder of the Sixth House and the Fourth Saint to Serve the King Undying.

## **Biography**

### **Pre-Resurrection**

Prior to the Resurrection, the scientist John Gaius worked with a crew of enigmatically named friends. Given that their initials align with the names of those who later became his Saints, the similarly gendered pronoun, and the fact that the cohort known as “C—“ was in an intimate relationship with another cohort referred to as “N—“ (presumably Nigella), it appears likely that Cassiopeia was the one referred to in his recounted story as “C—“.

C— was from England, and was drawn into Gaius’s company by investors, given the responsibility of overseeing their contracts. She quickly found herself in a poorly-kept-secret relationship with N—. Gaius later officiated their wedding, creating endentured flowers for their bouquet.

C— was the first shot during the events that led to the Resurrection.

### **After the Resurrection**

Cassiopeia was one of the original eight Lyctors of the Emperor, and their primary expert on spirit magic, the River, and Resurrection Beasts. Her first time in the River, Cassiopeia was capable of being fully awake and performing necromancy, a feat only one other person, Harrowhark, has replicated. At Canaan House, she worked closely with Anastasia in an attempt to figure out perfect Lyctorhood, though neither of them successfully achieved this feat.

Cassiopeia went on to found the Sixth House.

She was a good cook, and wrote down many of her recipes, including one for soup that was later used by Harrowhark. Despite this, she once took half her finger off while preparing a coconut, and served the resulting meal to her fellow Lyctors anyway.

At some point, Cassiopeia told Mercymorn that a blood ward can be spoofed with a thalergy burst and the blood of a close relative. This information was essential in Mercy's later scheme to open The Locked Tomb.

Doing battle with the Seventh Resurrection Beast, Cassiopeia had the idea to lure its physical form into the River. She remained submerged for nearly seven minutes, before being destroyed by ghosts. The Resurrection Beast was not harmed.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Cassiopeia's physical appearance is unknown.

John described her as "brilliant and sensible and careful."

Cassiopeia's fellow Lyctors have a great respect for her knowledge and prowess, and repeatedly use her as the standard for what is necromantically possible. She had a large ceramics collection. She was also a lightweight, under the table after a single glass of wine.

## **Relationships**

### Nigella Shodash

Nigella was Cassiopeia's cavalier.

Augustine said that when Cassiopeia was around, it was hard to get "a look-in" on Nigella, implying that the necromancer was protective of her.

## **References**

1. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 6
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 30
Aisamorta

## Sister Aisamorta

**Sister Aisamorta** *(EYE-sa-mor-tah)*is a Nun of the Locked Tomb, sister to Sister Lachrimorta, and great-aunt to Harrowhark Nonagesimus. The sisters were blinded in their service to Ninth House, and keep the family's darkest secrets.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Sister Aisamorta participated in the plot to create a great necromantic heir through House genocide. She and her sister spent weeks carefully calculating and measuring the organophosphates that would need to be pumped into the Ninth House nursery in order to kill every child and release their precious thanergy. The poison they released caused them to go blind.

### **Gideon the Ninth**

#### Act I

Aisamorta attends the muster called by Harrow. She sings a hymnal with her sister, but otherwise does not participate in the dramatics surrounding the announcement of the Emperor's summons.

One the day that Harrow and Gideon depart for the First House, Aisamorta and her sister attend the sending-off gathering and pray silently on their beads with rest of the attending Ninth House.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Gideon first describes Sister Aisamorta as thus:

> *"Blessed Sister Lachrimorta and Blessed Sister Aisamorta were unaltered. They were still tiny, their faces still tight, grey-painted dribbles, and as the Ninth was free from miracles, they were still blind. They had black bands tied over their faces with white, staring eyes painted on the front."*
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The sisters are incredibly dour and serious women. Their devotion to their House is ironclad, and they have proved they will unflinchingly perform the most heinous of acts to protect their House.

## **Possessions**

* **Prayer Beads:** Aisamorta possess two sets of prayer beads (knucklebones, threaded on cords).
* **Blindfold:** Aisamorta and her sister wear identical black bands with white eyes painted on them.

## **Relationships**

#### **Lachrimorta**

Aisamorta and her sister have an incredible close bond—one that sees them acting as a unit rather than separate people. Though little is known about the specifics of their relationship, they have never been seen apart or acting individually.

## **Trivia**

* "Aisa-" is taken from the Greek word for fate or destiny.

## **References**

1. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 3
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 3
3. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," A Little Explanation of Naming Systems
The Seventh House

## Seventh House

The Seventh House Icon

> *"Seven for beauty that blossoms and dies"*
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**The Seventh House, The Joy of the Emperor, The Rose Unblown** is the seventh planet to be reborn in the Nine Houses System. Victim to a hereditary blood-born cancer, The Seventh has developed an obsession with the beauty of death. The house hopes to "perfect" their illness and harness the thanergy present within their own bodies to become more powerful.

## **History**

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## **Features**

The Seventh House is one of the two planets; along with the Sixth House which is closer to Dominicus than the First House.

## **Characters of the Seventh House**

* Dulcinea Septimus
* Protesilaus Ebdoma
* Cytherea the First
* Loveday Heptane
Kevin

**Kevin** is the youngest member of Hot Sauce's gang.

## **Biography**

### **History**

Kevin is assumed to have been born on a planet that was attacked by Cohort forces, then evacuated to New Rho.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Kevin is a small seven year old boy.

He acts very much like the young boy he is, often portrayed playing with dolls and other toys. He eats leftover food regardless of its source and reliably goes down for long naps after a meal. The older members of the gang assist him on his bathroom trips, as he often locks himself in the stall. Nona describes him as "normally very serious."
We Suffer

**We Suffer and We Suffer** is the current Commander of the Blood of Eden (BOE). As BOE works primarily in secrecy, there is little to nothing known about the life or actions of We Suffer. As with all BOE, We Suffer is presumed to have no necromantic ability or attachment to the Nine Houses System.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

All that can be assumed about We Suffer's early life is that she has been involved with BOE activities for a lengthy period of time. During this time, she ascended to the role of Commander.

### **As Yet Unsent**

As Judith Deuteros, Camilla Hect, and Coronabeth Tridentarius arrive at a BOE ground camp, We Suffer holds at least one conversation with Camilla about the prior involvement of Sixth House with BOE and an object known as "Source Gram."

## **Appearance and Personality**

Ranking officials of BOE wear masks. As such, there is nothing known about the appearance of We Suffer.

## **Relationships**

### Camilla Hect

> *"Ever since we were moved into We Suffer's remit, Hect has let herself be persuaded into listening to propaganda."*
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Through Camilla Hect, We Suffer has made a connection back to Sixth House—one that it appears not to have had for some time. It is unclear how important Hect and her position in Sixth House is to We Suffer, but it is a relationship We Suffer is actively pursing.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Harrow the Ninth," As Yet Unsent
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The Locked Tomb (Book Series)

**The Locked Tomb** is a series of (new) adult science fantasy books by New Zealand author Tamsyn Muir. The series consists of four main novels as well as one short story (with more expected in the future).

The series follows Gideon Nav, Harrowhark Nonagesimus, and the cavaliers and necromancers of the Nine Houses System, as their deity and Emperor, The Necrolord Prime, calls for new Lyctoral Saints to support his army. The deeper they delve into the hidden history of their civilization and the limits of their necromantic powers, the more secrets they dig up.

## **The Books**

* Gideon the Ninth (2019)
* Harrow the Ninth (2020)
* Nona the Ninth (2022)
* Alecto the Ninth (2023)

## **The Short Stories**

* The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex
* As Yet Unsent

## **Publication**

The Locked Tomb Trilogy is published by Tor.com, a registered trademark of the Macmillan Publishing Group.
Vicky Dove

### Personality

Shrewd, selfish, impolite, bossy, remorseless, cruel, nasty, spoiled, argumentative, girly, mean-spirited, illiterate, arrogant, unforgiving, sadistic, pushy, uncompromising, cowardly, insensitive (towards Lilo), rude

### Goal

To marry Bridal Shotacon by any means necessary

### Allies

Olive and Penny, Bridal Shotacon (sometimes), Jack the Shotacon (sometimes), Opal Evans, Sparks, Mindy the Lady in cleaning

### Enemies

Bridal Shotacon (sometimes), Jack the Shotacon (sometimes),

### Likes

To play wedding ceremony with Bridal Shotacon, Dolls, wealth, being the center of attention, having a circle of friends to boss around, being more valuable than Bridal Shotacon, normal things, snowballs

### Dislikes

To be rejected, To be told to leave, Her face to get mashed into the cake, Being humiliated, laughed at, anyone wooing Bridal Shotacon, anything she considers weird, Not being perfect,

### Paraphernalia

Her fan, Tuxedo outfit

Vicky Dove is WS's rival and a recurring antagonist in the Kisekaeverse. She was an arrogant and chauvinistic hunter who was greedily determined to have Bridal's hand in marriage, even by force if necessary.

## Background

### Personality

A girl in tuxedo is always getting on Bridal Shotacon' nerves. She is attracted to Bridal Shotacon and is stubbornly confident in the belief that she will marry him when they are adults, but he clearly has no interest in her. Groom Lolicon admires Bridal Shotacon in his pretty wedding dress. She always tries to improve Bridal Shotacon and his manners, but only succeeds in annoying him. She claims to be 'the prettiest, most beautiful kid in the universe' (which she is). "Honey-con" she bellows as she bullies them into playing by her rules. She was an anti-hero towards Shotacon and his gang.

### Physical appearance

She has long straight black hair, grey-black eyes, and a circular head. She wears a black tuxedo with a pencil skirt and white gloves. For her casual clothing, Vicky wears the qipao, a Chinese dress imported over from Manchuria. She also wears black shoes and with black pantyhose with her qipao.

### Origin

Lolicon dressed as a groom to participate at playing wedding ceremony. By doing that, she has taken on the role and has to cross-dress. Groom Lolicon goes through various enemies she has made throughout her life, and Jack the Shotacon was the first suspect on her list.

Her relationship with Bridal Shotacon is even more mysterious. Its not known when or why Bridal Shotacon started hating Groom Lolicon, as she was able to stalk him at one hand. She is intrigued by his appearence and asks him to be her bride - Bridal Shotacon, who believes this is all a fun game, says yes, when he doesn't realize he is serious.
Ulysses

> *"I'd rather have fought nine more hours and have Ulysses sitting right now, inciting a sexy party."*
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**Ulysses the First** is the Sixth Saint to Serve the King Undying and the co-founder of the Fourth House.

## **Biography**

### **History**

Some years before The Resurrection, a scientist named John Gaius was working on a plan to save humanity from a climate apocalypse with the invention of cryotubes that could be used to safely transport the entire population offworld. For this project, he had the use of a few hundred dead human bodies. His plan fell out of favor, however: his funding was pulled, and the electricity shut off in his lab. Much to his surprise, none of the bodies that he had personally handled decomposed.

Gaius was eventually able to animate two of the bodies. Their birth names — “U—“ and “T—“ — are lost to history, and were dubbed Ulysses and Titania. It was through these two test subjects that Gaius was able to refine and master his ability to manipulate dead matter.

At some point following The Resurrection, Ulysses and Titania were presumably imbued with souls (whether their original or some other are unknown), and went on to respectively become a necromancer and cavalier. Given that Ulysses ultimately ascended to Lyctorhood, it follows that Titania likely died at his hand. Together, Ulysses and Titania founded the Fourth House, known as the Hope of the Emperor and the Emperor's sword.

In his lifetime, Ulysses had a reputation for "inciting" "sexy parties" and making people laugh.

In the fight with the Sixth Resurrection Beast, after Cyrus has drawn the Beast into a black hole, Ulysses took it's dormant brain down to the stoma and disposed of it singlehandedly.

Ulysses died fighting Number Eight. In the battle with Number Eight, the Lyctors attempted to shorten the fight with the Beast by bringing it down to the bathyrhoic layer of the River as fast as possible. However, once down there, the Beast was still too strong to be swept by the current. To defeat the Beast. Ulysses wrestled it through the stoma, damning himself in the process.

## **Appearance and Personality**

There is no known description of Ulysses's appearance.

Ulysses is fond remembered by Augustine as a gregarious—and at times mad—man. Despite his party-animal reputation, his self-sacrifice makes it clear that he took his duty to serve seriously.

## **Relationships**

There is no known description of Ulysses's relationships.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Harrow the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 36
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 29
Donald Sex

> *“We’re going downstairs—to the study of Doctor Sex!”*
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**Doctor Donald Sex** is an acclaimed Sixth House researcher who died some 460 years before the events of Gideon the Ninth. Renowned for his work in Post-Resurrection Psychometry, Doctor Sex has reached "mythological status" in certain research quarters.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Donald Sex's final research project was focused on Post-Resurrection thalergy fluctuations and *"his crackpot theory that there was greater thalergy and thanergy saturation right after the Resurrection"* To the dismay of the archaeology department, this involved grinding up a large variety of valuable objects.

At the end of his life, Donald had a fall that would prove fatal. He made clear his desire to be moved back to his study but passed before anything could be done. His study had slipcovers placed on the furniture, was properly documented, and then sealed. It was not opened again until Archivist Zeta and her collections team received permission to examine his study.

On his death, Doctor Sex was hallowed in the Copper Gardens aside a plinth with a letter of condolence from The Emperor. It was even suggested that he should be moved to the Mithraeum to be interred at the House of the Emperor himself. Over two centuries after his death, an ambassador from Fifth House was allowed to attempt to speak to the ghost of Doctor Sex as part of his research but was thought to be unsuccessful.

### **The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex**

Throughout Palamedes and Camilla's investigation of the study of Doctor Sex, it is revealed that the Fifth House ambassador was more successful in summoning the spirit of Donald than previously thought. Doctor Sex made himself into a revenant and transferred his energy source into a cleaning servitor skeleton construct. Using the body of the construct, Doctor Sex made his way through the maintenance vents back to his office, broke off the skeleton's hands, and nearly solved a wooden puzzle box up that he collected as part of his final project.

## **Appearance and Personality**

> *“That’s been nagging at me. If he was that intense, why did he stop at the last leg? Why not open the box all the way?”
> "[...] He preferred to defer the satisfaction of solving the puzzle fully so that someone in the future could benefit from his final deduction.”*
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Like many in Sixth House, Doctor Sex appears to be a thorough and successful researcher dedicated to his work. The closeness as which he kept his keys and passcodes suggest he was a private and secretive person, although this is not necessarily innate as Sixth House researchers are fiercely competitive.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex"