The Order of Hamsa

Seal of The Order

The Order is an organisation that recruits people who have gone through a supernatural experience and can use that to help battle supernatural entities and forces, both those that are native and those that are invasive phenomenon from The Otherworld.

To find the category of order members go here.

## Schools

### Mages

Most Mages are proficient in many types of magic. In the podcast, usage isn't clearly delineated, and instead what mages can do seems only determined by the strength of their 'spark'.

#### Reclaimers

Reclaimers are able to reawaken and communicate with the dead. They can also calm and direct them, with some effort.

They principally gather the stories of those who have died from a supernatural encounter, so that other Order Members can find and kill whatever was responsible. This is done through Remembrances, which are mystically transferred memories from the dead. In the past these would only be held in the mind of the Reclaimer (who would pass them onto their apprentice), but in the present they are now being committed to wax cylinders, which have been found to be the only things that can record them .

#### Diviners

Also known as Seers or Readers, Diviners have insight into the future, and are able to predict supernatural events.

#### Artificers

The artificers were known as the Chapter of Wheels . They are now mostly extinct, and in the past created things.

### Hunters

Hunters are individuals that locate and kill individuals and entities.

"The Four Swords

Blades silver and gleaming

Blades ferrous and cold

Blades brass, hot and steaming

Blades mournful of gold "

#### Silver Blades

Silver Blades are the Order Members that kill monsters.

#### Golden Blades

Golden Blades are the Order Members that kill humans.

#### Iron Blades

The Cold Blades specialized in hunting fae and fairy folk, but this group became largely defunct when the fae left the world.

#### Bronze Blades

It is currently unknown what this sect hunted/hunts.

### The Venerim

The Venerim are the leaders of the Order. It is currently unknown how many of them there are, or how the body functions within the larger Order.

### The Hamsa

The Hamsa are entities who inhabit human bodies that are compatible, and bond with their soul. They have extraordinary power and are the backbone of The Order. To find more extensive information about them, go here.

### Apiarists

Tend to The Apiary. The only known individual to do this is Emea, and it isn't clear if they are the only one to do this, and have always done it. This is possible, given their status as Hamsa.

### Observers

Observers are individuals who consented to have their brain lobotomised so that they can sense supernatural events. This destroys who they were, and they are often treated as meat-shields by members of the Order .

### The Grey Team

The Grey Team is essentially a SWAT group who perform tactical strikes on people of risk .

## Known Members

### Full Membership

#### Mages

* Owen Voncid (Master Reclaimer and Hamsa)
* Luca (Reclaimer)
* Mayberry Jules (Technomancer)
* Olivia Biers-Weather (Venerim and Hamsa)
* Nijal Delang (Mage)
* Olivia Biers-Weather (Venerim and Hamsa)
* Dalton (Olivia's predecessor and Hamsa)
* Ida (Voncid's Predecessor)

#### Hunters

* Mikhail Rugen (Iron Blade in the past, now regular Hunter)
* Nash Faraday (Silver Blade)
* Margot Angiers (newly sworn Golden Blade)

#### Other

* Delia (Therapist)
* Emea (Apiarist and Hamsa)
* Conrad Callaway (Underwater Subsidiary)
* Cosa (Librarian)

### Initiates

* Kat (initiate Hunter)
* Charles Baybridge (initiate)

### Associates

* Phillipa James (Diviner)
* Benjamin Scott (Grey Team member)

## History

### Season 1

#### Volume 2

Charles Baybridge attempted to break into The Vault, killing members as he went, but was halted by Cosa before being killed by Voncid .

## Locations

### Lodges

The Order has 7 different lodges that are scattered across the world.

#### The Ardent

This is the Order location where the main characters of the podcast reside. In Episode 44 - Disintegrate it is separated from reality in preparation to banish The Cypher. Voncid explains that the building is now located *nowhere*, and even if it looks the same outside, if you were to leave you would be 'lost'.

##### The Apiary

The Apiary has a massive tree in it, from which Phantoma travel to and from with their soul-nectar.

Moonlight here behaves differently, it is *thicker* and brighter .

## References

1. ↑ This distinction is not laid out in the podcast, although it is underlying, and as such this terminology is made entirely for this wiki based on discussions on the *Far and Tall Tales* discord.
2. ↑ Welcome to Ghost Wax - Trailer
3. ↑ Episode 44 - Disintegrate
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Shared on the *Far and Tall Tales* discord.
5. ↑ Episode 20 - Our Unburied Dead
6. ↑ Episode 7 - Kill Team
7. ↑ Episode 45 - Our Home
8. ↑ Episode 38 - Apiary