Haruspex

## Symbol

A bloody sword

> Yet there were some who chose to reject the family lines. Kyrielle and Tanwari, long friends and lovers, chose to turn aside from their families. The birth of their twins resounded through the cosmos, and many thought that, like the dreamer before them, it would bring peace. But unbeknownst to all, the Twins had secretly made something far worse: that most accursed beast of slaughter and prophecy. The hungry one stalked the newborn twins, and before any could act, struck out in violence and malice. In one stark moment, the whisperings of loyalty fell from the eyes of the Tuatha, and they turned against Megwandir and her ilk, casting them out as the Morrigan, now standing on its own as the fourth great family. Even Jorð was appalled, and sent fire and frost, mountain and sky, all to crash down upon the Crow with great vengeance and furious wrath.
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### Firestorm Peak

**Author:** Aarti Apurva

> And so it was that Jorð's faithful laboured under warring heavens to erect a titanic monument, desiring to rip the divinity from the god of prophecy. But therein lies the problem: a god of prophecy is not often taken unawares. In secret, the Morrigan and their followers infiltrated the project: a glyph changed here, a word changed there. It was only when Jorð and her children stood high on the peak, watching the raging sun and the warring stars, did they notice the malicious incantations weaved inside. But even the Morrigan were taken aback at what happened. Divinity was torn, not just from the unnameable horror, but from the very soul of the world. In one horrid blast, the earth split in two. Many were obliterated, more were blasted out into the cosmos. The fate of many is still unknown, but all agree on two facts. One: the target of the spell, the gore-seer, was blown to pieces, shattered and fragmented into a thousand bloody shards. Two: the spell had been sabotaged, and rather than casting something out, had allowed something in.
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### A Report on the Cult of Haruspex

**Origin:** Scattered Papers of Bral Library

> …certainly, it is to be hoped that the offspring of the rose and the vine, this third abomination, was formed by mutual craft, or by dint of their grandfather’s wizardry, rather than by that most unnameable of sins. But it is perhaps the case, for she is a cruel and merciless master, in whose name thousands are killed in search of prophecy and answer. Perhaps in this manner she takes after her mother, who also loves misery and pain, and seeks it in duet with pleasure...
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### Journal in the Tower

**Origin:** Kyrielle's room in the Tower of Aryavarta

> The door refuses to open. It requires blood now, and I have none left in this pale carcass. Here I die, and my skull will be added to the ring…
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## Shards of Haruspex

### Known Splinters

#### Imogen

Largest currently-known shard of Haruspex. May or may not have been the same shard that the party fought before Ravnica (looked the same as the Imogen in Ravnica).

**Status:** Bound by the God Keeper and handed over to Indrani. She plans to throw Imogen into the Shardpatch with the other splinters she has fought and subdued. The Shardpatch is "where Imogen came from."

#### Splinters Found By Nacarat

Through the years, Indrani has been hunting down splinters of Haruspex and throwing them into the Shardpatch.

**Status:** Presumed destroyed in the Shardpatch.

#### Cordelia

Found in the blighted temple in the Murugandan Feywilds, wearing the same style of armour as Imogen.

**Status:** Defeated during the Battle of the Blighted Temple before the God Keeper could be used. Currently residing on the Ethereal Plane.

### Possible Splinters

#### Cyhyraeth

Socks asked the party to hunt and presumably kill four cyhyraeth. When the first was killed, we discovered that she was not, in fact, a cyhyraeth but rather an eladrin under the power of Cacoethes. The party was initially uncertain if this means that the "cyhyraeth" are splinters of Haruspex, among other theories.

**Status:** One discorporated, three freed from the collars that bound them to Cacoethes.

**Theory status:** Disproven—these four eladrin are physical manifestations of the seasons and minor deities of their own.

## Relevant Items

### God Keeper

**Relevance:** Used during the Battle of Ravnica to capture Imogen, a large splinter of Haruspex.

**Description:** While equipped on a Celestial, that creature is Incapacitated.