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The Locked Tomb

> *"The Locked Tomb's meant to house the one true enemy of the King Undying, Nav, something older than time, the cost of the Resurrection; the beast that he defeated one but can't defeat twice. The abyss of the First. The death of the Lord."*
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**The Locked Tomb** is located on the Ninth House and the reason for its creation. Built by Anastasia the First and The Emperor to hold A.L., The Locked Tomb is purported by the Ninth House to hold the greatest enemy of The Emperor. It is told in the Ninth that if the tomb is ever opened, it would mean the destruction of the empire.

## **Features**

There is an outer door which leads to a passage described by the Emperor as a death trap. At the end of the passage is the rock.

The rock which blocks entry to the Tomb is locked with a blood ward created with the blood of the Emperor himself, in an attempt to ensure that only he could roll away the rock and open the Tomb. The blood ward cannot fade, nor can it be broken. The Emperor believed it to be impossible that Harrow had been inside the Tomb, suggesting instead that she'd encountered a false chamber built around the tomb. However, blood wards can be passed through with sufficient thanergy and the blood of a close relative.

According to Harrow, beyond the door lies a tomb on a rock surrounded by deep salt water that moves with an impossible tide.

> *"The tomb is stone and ice, Nav, ice that never melts and stone that's even colder, and inside, in the dark, there's a girl."*
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The woman in the tomb is laying down, frozen in ice with a sword in her hands. Her wrists, ankles, and throat are shackled with chains that go deep into the planet.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 31
Lachrimorta

## Sister Lachrimorta

**Sister Lachrimorta** *(LACK-ri-mor-tah)* is a Nun of the Locked Tomb, sister to Sister Aisamorta, 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 Lachrimorta 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

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

## **Relationships**

#### **Aisamorta**

Lachrimorta 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.

## **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
Protection

The Protection enchantment is a vanilla enchantment for armor.

### Description

Reduces all damage, except damage from the Void, the /kill command, or hunger damage.

### Version Added

Vanilla

See Protection

## Incompatibilities

Blast Protection, Fire Protection, Projectile Protection, and Protection are all mutually exclusive. If given to one item through commands, the effects will stack.

Setting protection\_conflicts to false in config.yml will remove the incompatibilities.
Moira Quirk

A headshot of Moira Quirk

Voice Actress

Writer

**Moira Quirk** (born October 30, 1968) is the English voice actress who recorded the audiobooks for Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and Alecto the Ninth, also known as The Locked Tomb Series.

## **Biography**

A Westfield College (University of London) combined English and Drama graduate, Quirk has enjoyed a full and varied career several different artistic pursuits. Though she began her career in Walt Disney World and live theatre, she was quickly picked up by Nickelodeon for GLOBAL GUTS.

After this, she stayed with Nickelodeon for a while earning parts in shows such as "Hey Arnold!," "The Wild Thornberry's," and "My Life as a Teenage Robot." At the same time, she books other roles in theatre, TV, and film, but grew to love the versatility of roles available in voice acting.

> "The more interesting and fun roles for her were in voice-over where being always petite and generally winsome didn’t preclude her from playing villains, warriors, badasses and b\*\*ches, nor children and teens, ingénues or mothers, or even boys for that matter."
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She is married to comedian Michael Rayner, and can now be seen at a variety of comedy clubs, on BBC and NPR radio plays, in video games such as "The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim", in Emmy award-winning television shows, and of course, in audiobooks.

## **Audiobooks Read by Quirk**

* Tamsyn Muir's *The Locked Tomb Series*
* Tamsyn Muir's *Princess Floralinda and the Forty Flight Tower*
* Gail Carriger's *Finishing School Series*
* Gail Carriger's *The Custard Protocol Series*
* Kallie George's *Wings of Olympus Series*
* Audrey Colthrust's *Of Fire and Stars Series*
* J.A. White's *The Thickety Series*
* And Many More

## **External Links**

* Quirk's Official Website
* Quirk's Facebook Page
* Quirk's Audiobooks
The Third Priest

The Salt-and-Pepper Priest

**The Third Priest** is one of two additional priests who oversee the care of Canaan House with Teacher. Though they are never named, they dutifully attends the Postulants to Canaan House.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Little is known about the early life of The Third Priest. It can be assumed that they were likely an ordinary inhabitant of the First House, before being brought into the experiments of the original eight disciples of The Emperor. It is not known precisely how they were transformed, but they are certainly part of Sixth House Lyctor team, Cassiopeia and Nigella Shodash's experiments.

Based on a binder full of photographs of ordinary peoples' faces, including one of Teacher, and the inscription *"FIVE HUNDRED INTO FIFTY. IT IS FINISHED!"* , it is assumed that Cassiopeia and Nigella methodically sorted through options of First House inhabitants before consolidating many souls into few: the skeleton constructs that serve the house, The Second and Third Priests, and most egregiously: Teacher.

### **Gideon the Ninth**

#### Act I

As the Postulants to Canaan House arrive, The Second and Third Priests join Teacher and the skeleton constructs in docking and welcoming their visitors.  The Third Priest welcomes Coronabeth Tridentarius, Ianthe Tridentarius, and Naberius Tern. They are distressed that Third House refuses to select which of their necromancers will compete—insisting on working as a trio—but Teacher waves away their concerns as *"a trouble confined to them."*

Inside the House, the priests sit together at the lip of the Atrium fountain holding cups of tea in their hands. The Third Priest leads the group in the prayer of the first eight Houses, and Teacher invites the Ninth to recite the intercession of The Locked Tomb. Harrow's prayer delight The Third Priest. The Second and Third Priest sit quietly as Teacher hands out the key rings to each cavalier and explains their task.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Gideon Nav describes the second priest as:

*"...the third was of mild face and sported a long salt-and-pepper plait. They might have been a woman and might have been a man and might have been neither. All three wore the same clothes, which gave them the look of white birds on rainbow leashes, but somehow Teacher was the only one of the three who seemed real."*

The Third Priest has a nervous, but kind personality. They seems to genuinely care for the Postulants and want the best for them. The Third Priest is differential to Teacher, but slightly more likely to press their concerns than The Second Priest.

## **Possessions**

* **Golden Circlet and Belt:** The Third Priest wears a golden circlet around their head as well as a shimmering gold belt with *"a multitude of jewel colours in intricate patterns and shapes*" embroidered on it.

## **References**

1. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch 35
2. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 32
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 8
4. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 7
OverrideDropsEvent

The Override Drops Event is an event called with enchantments that override or add to existing drops.

## Description

The OverrideDropsEvent is a class that adds two local variables: the oldDrops list of items for what drops are being overriden or added to and the override boolean for whether the oldDrops should be removed or added to the event.

## Code Information

### Constructor

DropEvent(Player who, EnchantmentLevel enchantment, List<ItemStack> drops, List<ItemStack> originalDrops, boolean override)

### Methods

#### List<ItemStack> getOriginalDrops()

Gets the original drops from the event previously called

#### boolean isOverride()

On true, the original drops will be removed from the final drops; on false, both the old and new drops will be combined

#### void setOverride(boolean override)

Sets the override boolean to the specified value
Fed for a Lifetime

Fed for a Lifetime is an advancement added in the Agricultural Revolution tab. It is based on the Angler enchantment.

## Requirements

The advancement requires the player to catch each of the obtainable fish with an Angler fishing rod. The fish required are Cod, Salmon, Pufferfish, and Tropical Fish. Any level of Angler will work with the advancement. Fish caught with Fried will also work with this enchantment

## Description

Get more than one of each kind of fish with Angler
Tommy Arnold

Tommy Arnold photograph from his official website

**Tommy Arnold** is a young digital illustrator and cover artist who illustrated the covers of Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth and Alecto the Ninth, also known as The Locked Tomb Series. A graduate of LaGrange College and a drop out of the Portfolio Center in Atlanta, Arnold mentored under comic book artist Brian Stelfreeze before being connected with Irene Gallo, associate publisher of Tor.com and creative director at Tor Books.

## **Books Covers**

Close Up on Gideon's face.The Gideon the Ninth book cover.The Harrow the Ninth book cover.Close up on Harrow's face.
## **External Links**

* Arnold's Official Wesbite
* Arnold's Twitter
* Arnold's Instagram
* MuddyColors
* Arnold's Commarts Profile
Image Policy

As a series without official character art (other than Harrow and Gideon) and lacking any filmed adaptations, the Locked Tomb Wiki is reliant on fan artists and illustrators to imagine and create the series with their immense talents. In order to protect these artists, there are a few guidelines all uploads to the Locked Tomb must follow:

## **Diversity of Artists**

The Locked Tomb fandom has a small number of artists who have generated a truly impressive body of work focusing on the series. Though these artists' are truly appreciated and loved, the Locked Tomb Wiki strives to showcase as many artists in the fandom as possible. No individual artist should be used in place of a series official artist.

## **Obtain Artist Permission**

If the work you are uploading is not your own, the artist must give explicit and clear permission to use their piece.

Artists must be informed of the exact usage of their work. This permission may come in the form of an email, a Tumblr ask, a Twitter or Instagram direct message, etc. An example of an appropriate message would be:

* *Hello! I am a contributor to the Locked Tomb Wiki and I loved your illustration of [describe or link the specific piece]. I was wondering if you would give permission for your piece to be used on the [title of page] page? You would be credited in the caption with a link to your [website] (or any other site you may prefer). Thank you!*

You may not under any circumstance upload an artists' work before you are granted permission. Artists also retain the right to revoke their permission at any time, and the image should be immediately removed from the page and marked for deletion in the gallery.

## **Uploading Art to the Gallery**

All art uploaded to the Locked Tomb requires four pieces of information regardless of if they are uploaded by the creator or on behalf of a creator.

* **Title—**The piece should be titled descriptively with the character, item, location, or scene pictured and the name of the artist.
	+ Example: Gideon Nav by TommyArnoldArt

* **Copyright Status—**The most common copyright status' will be:
	+ Fair Use (Official Series Art)
	+ Copyright with Permission (Fan Art)
	+ Self (Uploads you have created yourself)

* **Summary—**A brief description of the contents of the artwork to improve accessibility and clarity.
	+ Example: *"A full-body illustration of Camilla Hect wearing her grey robes. She holds two knives and is in a 'ready' stance. She has brown, chin-length hair, grey eyes, and is on a light purple background."*

* **Original Source—**The file page should include a link to the original posting of the artwork on the artist's website.

## **Crediting Artists on the Page**

All artists must be credited in the caption directly below the image with a link to the website of their choosing (whether that is an art Tumblr/Twitter/Instagram/etc, a personal website, a Patreon or ko-fi, etc).

* Example: *"An illustration of Gideon Nav from the cover of Gideon the Ninth by Tommy Arnold [link]."*
The First House

## First House

The Third Priest

> *"One for the Emperor, first of us all;
> One for his Lyctors, who answered the call;
> One for his Saints, who were chosen of old;
> One for his Hands, and the swords that they hold."*
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**The First House** is the planetary seat of The Emperor of the Nine Houses, The Necrolord Prime. Where the other Eight Houses are full of bustling cities, community centers, and populations of citizens, the First House has not been occupied for over nine thousand years.

## **History**

Based on the details and historical texts preserved by the Blood of Eden (especially those found within their naming system), The First House is believed to be the Resurrection of the planet Earth of the Solar System. However, little to no information about pre-Resurrection life exists in The Nine Houses System.

Once a thriving planet of around ten billion inhabitants, the First House was destroyed by the Emperor in an attempt to kill a group of trillionaires fleeing the planet. After the destruction of the First, only The Emperor was left alive—until he resurrected Alecto, becoming the first necromancer, and performed The Resurrection.

The Resurrection *"did not resurrect every broken thing,"* so The Emperor and his followers rebuilt Canaan House from pre-resurrection ruins to be his palace. Canaan House served as a palace, research base, and home to The Emperor and his Lyctors for several hundred years before The Emperor was forced to flee to The Mithraeum.

At present, First House remains a relic of its former glory. Falling slowly into disrepair, Canaan House houses the only inhabitants of the planet—fifty priests and skeleton construct servants left to care for the former palace of God and his Saints. Other ruined cities and temples remain visible above the waterline but are believed to be entirely abandoned.

## **Atmosphere/Climate**

The First House is a bright, watery planet, third from Dominicus. It is covered with salty ocean and haloed with clouds. Beneath the smokey-white atmosphere, the planet is covered in cities and temples that have long since been drowned and broken down into ruins.

Upon Gideon Nav's arrival at Canaan House, she described the air as "*warm*." It occasionally rained.

## **Locations**

### Canaan House

A once resplendent fortress now fallen into disrepair, Canaan House was intended to be The Emperor's palace on **The First House**, where he could live, work, and watch over the other Houses. It is from within Canaan House that Necromancers and their Cavaliers study the path to Lyctorhood. The original disciples of the Emperor, who would become his Lyctors, stayed in Canaan House for several hundred years before they fled to The Mithraeum.

## **Characters of the First House**

* The Emperor
* Alecto
* Teacher
* The Second Priest
* The Third Priest

## **References**

1. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Dramatis Personae
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Harrow the Ninth," Act V, Ch. 50
3. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 8
4. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 32
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 7
Sarpedon

**Admiral Sarpedon** is a Cohort officer and Captain of The Erebos, which is later renamed Seat of the Emperor.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Sarpedon was assigned to The Erebos at least 20 years prior to the events of Harrow the Ninth, and has met Mercymorn once before in that time.

### **Harrow the Ninth**

#### Act I

Mercymorn arrives on The Erebos, and begins the process of loading Harrow and Ianthe into the transport shuttle they will be taking to Mithraeum. Having not received orders, Sarpedon informs her she is not allowed to leave with the new Lyctors. The two argue, Mercymorn claiming he has no right to question her, and Sarpedon claiming that the Emperor needs to remain on his flagship.

The Emperor arrives in the shuttle bay and confirms that the group is departing. As a measure of respect to the Admiral, he renames the ship to the Seat of the Emperor and promises Sarpedon he will be entombed on Mithraeum. Sarpedon is instructed to give the blood necromancer who did the ghost wards a commendation, and then he goes through the launch procedures with the Emperor-- including a prayer. The transport shuttle launches, and Sarpedon remains with the Erebos.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Harrow describes Sarpedon as thus:

> *"You beheld a man of middling age in a sober Cohort uniform, perennial white jacket and scarlet neckerchief. The two pips on his collar were ringed around with mother-of-pearl. [...] Necromantic vapour rose off him in roiling waves like sweat, unused and impotent in the vacuum of deep space."*
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Admiral Sarpedon is a confident Captain who is clearly proud of his shuttle and the position he has served for the last two decades. He appears professional, but refuses to bow to Mercymorn's bullying.

## **Relationships**

### The Emperor

> *"I do not recognise any such frailty in the God who became man, nor the man who became God, nor the Necrolord Prime who may resurrect a galaxy with a gesture."*
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Sarpedon greatly admires The Emperor, although his relationship has a distinctly military flavor-- treating him more as a venerated general than a God.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 6
The Erebos

Harrowhark Nonagesimus

Ianthe Tridentarius

Sarpedon

> *"It's scintillating, dark, and rainbow-hued steel, like an oil spill; the interlocking skeletons tessellated over the whole boxy structure, so that the vessel seemed an enormous moving ossuary."*
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**The Erebos** is a Behemoth-class shuttle in the Cohort's armada that serves as the Emperor's flagship.

## **History**

The Erebos returns to the Nine Planets System following the distress call placed by Judith Deuteros at Canaan House. It is boarded by Harrowhark Nonagesimus and Ianthe Tridentarius, and all the postulants killed in the events of Gideon the Ninth are brought to the storage bay.

After the Emperor and his Lyctors depart for the Mithraeum, The Erebos will travel to the Ninth House and deliver the gift of preserved Ninth inhabitants from the Resurrection era to revitalize the population. Once delivered, The Erebos will continue to each of the Houses and return their dead.

## **Locations**

### **Cargo Hold**

A large, storage room with a steel balcony, the cargo hold of the Erebos is stores the 500 bodies of resurrected and frozen bodies that will be used to repopulate the Ninth House as well as the caskets of those who died in Canaan House.

### **Hospital Quarters**

A sterile, empty room with mostly disassembled beds and cartons.

### **Shuttle Bay**

A busy launch bay for small supply ships coming and going from the Erebos, located near the cargo holds. The Lyctors departed from Dock Bay Fourteen.
Valancy Trinit

**Valancy Trinit** *(VAL-an-see TRIN-it)* is the cavalier primary to the Fifth Saint to Serve the King Undying, Cyrus the First.

## **Biography**

### **History**

Valancy Trinit was born into an established Third House some time between The Resurrection and the establishment of The Locked Tomb. Here she became the cavalier primary to Cyrus.

Valancy and her necromancer constantly painted nude self-portraits, generally with oil paints, which they hung up and gave away as birthday gifts. Their paintings continue to decorate the Mithraeum long after their death.

Valancy died as part of Cyrus's ascension to Lyctorhood, but the details of their ascension are unknown.

## **Appearance and Personality**

> *"Valancy Trinit was my height, weighed more than both of us put together, and—judging by her portraits—had a body that did not quit."*
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Valancy was described as beautiful, with ruddy golden hair. She wore skirts and shirtwaists.

There is no known description of Valancy Trinit's personality.

## **Relationships**

### Cyrus the First

While the precise details of Cyrus and Valancy's bond are unknown, Valancy's willingness to die for her necromancer speaks to her dedication and loyalty. Their penchant for nude portraits points to a very open and comfortable relationship with each other.
Wildlife Conservation

Wildlife Conservation is an advancement in the Agricultural Revolution tab. It is based on the enchantment Husbandry.

## Requirements

Once the player has spawned every kind of breedable mob with a Husbandry weapon, the advancement will unlock. The mobs will be spawned as babies.

The list of animals is as follows:

Chicken, Cat[1.14], Cow, Fox[1.14], Horse, Mule, Donkey, Llama, Mooshroom, Ocelot[< 1.14], Panda, Pig, Sheep, Wolf, Bee[1.15], Strider[1.16], Hoglin[1.16], and Turtle.

## Description

Spawn all baby animal breeds by killing an adult animal
Mortus

**Mortus the Ninth** was the Cavalier Primary to The Reverend Father, Priamhark Noniusvianus. Unremarkable for anything other than his size, Mortus was a loyal and devoted cavalier to the House of the Ninth.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

When Harrowhark was ten, she opened the Locked Tomb. Seeing this, and knowing it to be wrong, Gideon Nav informed the Reverend Father and Mother, Priamhark and Pelleamena, and their cavalier, Mortus. Believing her to have betrayed God, Priamhark, Pelleamena, and Mortus hanged themselves in shame and fear. Due to his immense size, Mortus required two nooses.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Gideon describes Mortus as thus:

> *"[Ortus's] father --cavalier to Harrow's father-- had been an enormous, stony man of some gravity and devotion, with a sword and two huge panniers of fibulae."*
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Very little is known about the personality of Mortus the Ninth. Described as loyal and unquestioning, he seems to have been a good cavalier and a beloved husband.

## **Powers & Abilities**

* **Physical Strength:** A solid, large man, Mortus possesses a strength more geared towards lifting/hauling than fighting.
* **Swordsman:** Mortus is trained as a swordsman, though likely not with any exceptional skill.

## **Possessions**

* **Sword**
* **Panniers:** Mortus carried two pannier full of bone (fibulae) for his necromancer, Priamhark, to use.

## **Relationships**

### Sister Glaurica

Though Sister Glaurica clearly loved her husband dearly, Mortus chose his loyalty to his necromancer over a life with his wife and son.

## **References**

1. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 3
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 3
Alecto the Ninth (Novel)

## Alecto the Ninth

Placeholder Cover for Alecto the Ninth

**Alecto the Ninth** is the upcoming fourth and final novel in The Locked Tomb Series by Tamsyn Muir. There is currently no final release date or cover art, but it is expected to be released in 2024.

## **Trivia**

* In an Reddit AMA on 5 August 2020, Muir was asked to describe Alecto the Ninth in "the most misleading but accurate way possible" and replied: *"Fallout from a terrible house move causes generational ructions. John fries some bacon in his ute."*

## **References**

1. ↑ "I'm Tamsyn Muir, author of HARROW THE NINTH, second book of the Locked Tomb trilogy. AMA!" Reddit
The Body

*This article refers to Harrowhark Nonagesimus's hallucination, for the woman in the Locked Tomb please refer to Alecto.*

**The Body** is a re-occurring and somewhat-sentient hallucination of Harrowhark Nonagesimus. Appearing to Harrow since she opened the Locked Tomb and potentially containing elements of Alecto, Gideon Nav, and/or Commander Wake, it is unknown precisely who or what the Body is and what she wants.

## **Biography**

### **Harrow the Ninth**

#### Fourteen Months Before the Emperor's Murder

*The Body appears in Drearburh in the place of serving sister, entering a room where Harrowhark Nonagesimus and Ortus Nigenad discuss the summons from the Emperor. As she approaches, telling Harrow* "this isn't how it happens," *Harrow admits her insanity to Ortus.*

#### Nine Months Before the Emperor's Murder

As Harrow struggles to adjust to her new Lyctorhood, the Body appears to tend to her. When Harrow is at her most vulnerable—exhausted from attempting to use her sword and vomiting, losing time and occasionally her sense of self, and paralyzed with grief—the Body comes to her, leads her to bed, and closes her eyes. The Body seems to make time run smoothly again for Harrow and allows her to rest peacefully.

The Emperor, John, comes to visit Harrow and the Body again appears by her side. He invites Harrow to come on a walk with him and the Body follows unseen alongside them. They travel through the corridors of the Erebos to a cargo hold containing nearly five hundred resurrected people—still sleeping in a sort of stasis—and the coffins containing those postulants to Canaan House that did not survive the Lyctor Trials. As Harrow inspects the sleeping resurrections and the coffins, the Body follows half a step behind with her hand on the small of Harrow's back.

John explains that the resurrected people are meant to restore her House and that the dead will be returned to their homes, but Harrow begins losing focus, fixating on Cytherea the First's coffin. The Body turns her head away, refocusing her on the resurrections. As John and Harrow discuss the Resurrection Beasts, the Body watches Harrow—who directs her answers more to the Body than to John. She holds Harrow's wrist and raises her eyebrows at the knowledge that three Beasts remain.

When John promises to teach her to run from the Beasts, the Body speaks to clarify that Harrow must learn to use her sword. Harrow refuses and the Body tells her that she is *"walking down a long passage"* and *"need[s] to turn around."* Harrow refuses again saying that she is lost, half a Lyctor, and pointless. John interrupts the half-heard conversation and attempts to comfort Harrow about the death of her cavalier. The Body passes her hand over Harrow's face and Harrow faints.

## **Possessions**

* **A Sword**: The Body sometimes appears with a sword strapped to her back. The exact appearance of the sword is unknown, though possibly a hallucinatory representation of Gideon Nav's sword.

## **References**

1. ↑ Italics denotes events taking place in the River "bubble" Canaan House, for clarity.
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Parados
3. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 2
The Third House

## Third House

The Third House Icon

> *"Three for the gleam of a jewel or a smile"*
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**The Third House, The Mouth of the Emperor, The House of the Shining Dead, The Procession** is the third planet to be reborn in the Nine Houses System. Third House is home to the best fashions and gossip in the system, but its leadership is easily torn apart by internecine squabbles. Beneath their glittery exterior, they are a font of personal and political intelligence.

## **History**

Little is known about the founding of the Third House. Its patron Lyctor Cyrus—and his cavalier Valancy Trinit—were among the second generation of disciples to come to Canaan House and grew up in an already fledgling Third House society.

The Third House has a traditional specialty for flesh magic, particularly that of animaphilia.

The current heirs to the throne are Crown Princess Coronabeth Tridentarius and her twin sister, Princess Ianthe Tridentarius, more commonly known as the Tridentarii. In line with Third House tradition, Coronabeth, as the eldest twin, will ascend once her father relinquishes his seat.

## **Features**

### Ida

Ida is the central hub of Third House and home to its ruling royal family.

## **Characters of the Third House**

* Coronabeth Tridentarius
* Ianthe Tridentarius
* Naberius Tern
* Cyrus the First
* Valancy Trinit
The Mithraeum

> *"The Mithraeum, the Seat of the First Reborn! The Sanctuary of the Emperor of the Nine Houses, the bolthole of God - the removing place of hallowed bones, and the ossuary of the steadfast! A space station hidden forty billion light-years from the ever-burning light of Dominicus, lit by thanergetic starlight, set in the midst of the circumstellar disc, an ancient jewel within so much dead gravel."*
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**The Mithraeum** is the seat of the Emperor and his Lyctors, a home base far from the system he protects.

## **History**

The Mithraeum is a space station, and the home base of the Lyctors.

## **Locations**

### The Center Ring

#### **The Chapel**

> *"They lit an interior of shining charcoal-coloured stone, layered with whorls of bone—bone everywhere, bone enough for a hundred Ninth House tomb chapels..."*
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The chapel at the center of the space station is an elaborate Gothic structure of bonework, black and white tiles, and true wood pews. The bones of the church are arranged in a tinted metal framework by House colors, belonging the to the exalted heroes of each House. The chapel contains a plex glass cruciform window that looks out into space.

### The Outermost Ring

#### **Augustine's Rooms**

> *"It was a much more crowded, lived-in room, and on every surface was a book, or a stylus, or a folded pair of socks."*
>
>

Augustine's rooms feature dark wood and baroque furnishings, floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, primrose curtains, and plush carpeting. He has worn leather arm chairs, a wide tapestry sofa, and a table set before a plex window. His room features tasteful artwork in wooden frames and ceramic vases with real flowers. Harrow remarks that the room smells of wood polish and book glue, and is "a friendlier room" than expected.

#### **Ianthe's Rooms**

> *"Those candied, white-and-gold-striped rooms, those crystal chandeliered rooms with a bed as big as some of the penitential cells back home."*
>
>

Ianthe's rooms, formerly belonging to Cyrus the First and his cavalier, Valancy Trinit, are extremely luxurious and ornate rooms. Covered in filigree, detail, fabric hangings, and embroidery, Ianthe's rooms singular feature is their life-sized nude paintings of their previous occupants. Aside from the large bed, the room contains high-backed frilly arm chairs and a dresser. Ianthe has added fairly comprehensive wards to the entire room.

## **Features**

The Mithraeum is perched in the middle of an asteroid field. It is made up of three concentric rings:

* The outermost ring consists of habitation quarters.
* The second ring contains preparation rooms, a couple of laboratories, a reading room, a storage compartment for food, a water-replenishment plant, as well as a few other unnamed rooms.
* The centre ring houses the chapel, and God's rooms.

## **References**

1. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 14
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 9
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 29
4. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 13
Loveday Heptane

> *"Call her Cytherea Loveday, [...] That's what she wanted to be called..."*
>
>

**Loveday Heptane** *(LOVE-day HEP-tane)* is the cavalier primary to the Seventh Saint to Serve the King Undying, Cytherea the First. She followed her necromancer to Canaan House to become a disciple of the The Emperor and gave her life so that Cytherea could ascend to the position of Lyctor.

## **Biography**

### **History**

Loveday Heptane was born into an established Seventh House some time between The Resurrection and the establishment of The Locked Tomb. Here she became the cavalier primary to Cytherea, a woman suffering from the terminal heptenary blood cancer.

When Cytherea was around thirty years old, The Emperor was drawn to Seventh House to see something he refers to only as "the miracle at Rhodes" (possibly a reference to Cytherea herself). Though he originally asked not to see "the woman," when it became clear that Cytherea had necromantic ability she was invited to join the disciples at Canaan House.

Loveday, opposed to this travel due to the condition of her necromancer, was rather hostile toward the other disciples. However, once the principles of Lyctorhood became clear, she pushed her necromancer to ascend in attempt to save her life. Loveday Heptane sacrificed herself, believing that become a Lyctor would heal and save her necromancer from her illness.

## **Appearance and Personality**

Little is known about the appearance of Loveday Heptane aside from her eyes, which are described as "huge and blue," and which appear as Cytherea's eyes after she ascends to Lyctorhood.

In personality, Loveday was cherished by her necromancer and seemingly no one else. The Emperor remembers her as *"looking as though she wanted every one of [the original disciples] beaten to death,"* and Augustine and Mercymorn hold no fond memories of her.

## **Relationships**

### Cytherea the First

> *"I didn't want to do it [Lyctorhood] either ... I didn't want to do it at all ... but I was dying. Loveday—she was my cavalier—she and I thought it could make me live."*
>
>

Little is known about the nature of Cytherea and Loveday's relationship. However, her willingness to travel to Canaan House and sacrifice her life for Cytherea's possible healing and future says a great deal about how highly she cherished and valued her necromancer. Additionally, from the few remarks on her life, it was clear that she was fiercely protective of Cytherea and a constant caretaker in the face of her degenerating illness.

### Augustine the First and Mercymorn the First

> *"I* never *mourned for Loveday Heptane. She did one good thing with her life, and she knew it."*
>
>

Though the cause of their animosity is unknown, it is clear that Augustine and Mercymorn (and by extension, likely a number of the other Canaan House disciples) did not enjoy the company of Loveday Heptane.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 9
2. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 7
3. ↑ "Gideon the Ninth," Act IV, Ch. 35
The Library

> *"The whole of the Sixth was huddled on the polar ice caps of a planet so close to Dominicus that exposure to the light side would melt the House clean away. The great libraries were set in a fat cake tin of a station, designed for the ongoing ordeal of not letting anything get too hot or too cold, which meant no windows whatsoever."*
>
>

**The Library** is the main stronghold of the Sixth House. As the primary hub for knowledge and research in the System, the Library is carefully regulated both in climate and bureaucracy. Though many researchers visit the Sixth with a hope of unearthing new materials, the rarest and oldest artifacts are rarely let out of their protective cases.

## **Layout**

### The Copper Garden

Presumably some sort of community space, the Copper Garden contains the tomb of Doctor Sex.

### The Juvie Dormitories

Living quarters for student scholars and aspirants, the Juvie Dormitories contain "shucks," or modular beds that are one meter by two meters and eighty centimeters in size. Each shuck has a curtain that muffles sound.

### The Screens

Sixth House contains a number of old view screens near the Juvie Dormitories. Library guests and dormitory children often find entertainment in enjoying the views watching the maintenance servitor skeletons perform routine tasks on the hull.

### The Study of Doctor Sex

> *"Apart from bookshelves, the study had a solid desk—flimsy veneer to look like wood—big and old-fashioned, with an electronic keypad on top instead of a keyhole for the drawers. There were a few grey mounds that were probably a sofa and a couple of chairs, covered to keep off the dust."*
>
>

The study of Doctor Sex is a small room deep in the basement of the Library that once belonged to a well-known researcher and was sealed upon his death. In The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex, Palamedes and Camilla take part in the unsealing of the study, and solving the mystery that resides within.

## **Known Inhabitants**

* Palamedes Sextus
* Camilla Hect
* Juno Zeta
* Donald Sex (Former)

## **References**

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

> *"She was queenly for her years and spoke very seldom. She had burns on most of her body and had got to hold a gun in a war."*
>
>

Hot Sauce is the the oldest of the children at the refugee school on New Rho, excluding Nona. She leads the gang, a group comprised of her and four other children: Honesty, Born in the Morning, Beautiful Ruby, and Kevin.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Hot Sauce's home planet was attacked by Cohort forces some time before her arrival on New Rho. Her older brothers and at least one cousin died in the warfare.

### **Nona the Ninth**

Fiercely devoted in her hatred of the Houses, Hot Sauce despises even Blood of Eden for being "fat cats and zombie lovers."

## **Appearance and Personality**

Hot Sauce is described as "queenly" for her years, She has sustained substantial burns across her body. She hates necromancers and zombies for killing her brothers.

## **Relationships**

### Nona

> *"You're sweet."*
>
>

According to the other children, Hot Sauce likely admits Nona to the gang based on her elevated status as a teacher's aide, her proximity to Noodle, and her access to The Building. Hot Sauce seems to enjoy Nona's company, but is distressed upon finding Nona's affiliation with necromancers.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Nona the Ninth," Day 1, Ch. 3
2. ↑ "Nona the Ninth," Day 3, Chapter 15.
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Cyrus

**Cyrus the First** is the Fifth Saint to Serve the King Undying. A loyal servant to the Lord, he was destroyed doing battle with the Resurrection Beasts.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

In battle with the Sixth Resurrection Beast, Cyrus defeated the Beast by luring it into an ultramassive black hole which destroyed it and himself.
Herald

## Heralds

### Occupation

To range ahead of the main mass of the Resurrection Beast, a first assault on any fighters.

## Affiliation

### Enemies

The EmperorLyctors

> *"Unlike normal revenants, RBs have developed external actors, and those are the things that will attack the Mithraeum. We've nicknamed this the hive, and inside the hive are the Heralds."*
>
>

**Heralds** are an extension of the Resurrection Beast, hive-minded fragments of the Beasts instantiate form that precede the main bulk of the Beast. The Heralds appear in a hive of hundreds to thousands of creatures and create massive, insensible fear in those that behold them.

## **History**

Part of the Resurrection Beast, one of nine large and deadly revenants created after the resurrection of the Nine Houses, Heralds are an evolved ability of the larger corpus. Described by Cassiopeia as "periscoping," the Resurrection Beasts travel space by extending their consciousness into the River. The Herald is the advanced-guard feelers of this consciousness, likened to a spider-web or fingers.

## **Characteristics**

### Physical Appearance

> *"Nondescript? [...] I can't describe them, sis. [...] Some Lyctors have seen them as insectoid. They're monstrous, and deadly..."*
>
>

As most things to do with the River, Heralds do not have one set form or physical appearance. The Heralds appearance depends on the Lyctor viewing them, but always includes a level of psychological fear causing the Lyctors to scream or even vomit. Gideon describes the Seventh's Heralds as *"a nightmarish nonsense of wasp, and bone, and meat."* with a *"human-like"* frame but *"pulsing, greenish, comb-chambered flesh."* The Heralds had beetle-like jaws, a stinger, acid-spit, and functioning wings.

### Abilities

Though terrifying and composed of a number of deadly appendages and acid-spit capable of killing and eating a Lyctor, Heralds are largely the lesser problem of the Resurrection Beast attack. Despite the challenges in battling Herald, Lyctors self-healing capabilities and cavalier training make them more than a match for the solo Herald. The only true danger of the Herald, to a ready and healthy Lyctor, is an overwhelming swarm or as a distraction from the main corpus of the Beast.

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 16
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act V, Ch. 44
The Noniad

**The Noniad**, subtitled "Matthias Height Nonius, His Deeds and Accomplishments," is a work of epic poetry devoted to the mythic Ninth House swordsman Matthias Nonius written by Ortus Nigenad. The Noniad contains eighteen books and is written in enneameter—a verse with nine feet.

## **Excerpts**

### Book Five

Harrowhark Nonagesimus's least favorite book, book five covers Matthias Nonias's battle with a Lyctor—most likely Gideon the First. This excerpt is used by Ortus Nigenad and Abigail Pent to summon Nonias to The Battle of the River Bubble.

> *"I am the Emperor's Hand; do not thou persist in this combat; matchless am I with the long blade—
> "Matchless alike in my magecraft. Fall to your knees and be glad that I spare thee; thy courage is mighty:
> "'Mightier yet is thy folly if thou think'st yet to oppose me.' The Lyctor spoke and was silent—
> "Nonius, wounded full sore, spat blood and gave him a grim smile; nor did the sword in his hand shake—
> "Boldly he answered the saint: 'Tis true that your power is great, o servant of masterful Canaan;
> "nor may I hope to be counted your equal in skill, nor in craft, nor even in bodily vigour...'"*
>
>

### Book Eleven

> *"My sister, I envy your fortune; fearless you forge yet ahead, through the cold grey flood of the River.
> "Fallen in war for the fame of the House is the death every warrior fain would win at the finish;
> "Laggard I linger behind; hold fast on the far bank's beach-head! Blood shall repay your blood spilt."*
>
>

> *"Warrior proud of the Third House! Ride forth now as my sister! Ride we to death, and the proving!
> "Ride we with heads held high; we shall bloody our blades in the foe's heart; death shall we bring to the foul ones—
> "Death shall we win for ourselves, as the prize for our high deeds done on the ash-choked plains of the ravens!"*
>
>

### Book Sixteen

> *"Then did the dire bone frenzy fall upon Nonius, the mightiest arm of the Ninth and it's bulwark;
> Spasmed his veins with death lust; his great heart roared like a black iron furnace, hungry for corpses..."*
>
>

### Unknown Quotations

> *"Those who are fit but to hold their blade in the scabbard — never to draw it forth for the battle."*
>
>

> *"Baleful the black blade struck at the shimmering stuff of the spectral beast, biting deep in its false flesh.
> Shrieking, it flailed with its claws at the pauldrons and casque of the Ninth, yet his heart never faltered or failed him..."*
>
>

> *"Then Nonius spake full wroth; thunder'd his voice as the black sea roars on the tomb-gate of Algol,
> Blazing his eyes with the fell light thrown from the Emperor's corpse-fires; answer he gave, and he told them—"*
>
>

## **References**

1. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act V, Ch. 49
2. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 18
3. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 29
4. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 5
5. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Parados
6. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 8
7. ↑ "Harrow the Ninth," Act I, Ch. 10