Blood of Eden

### Leader(s)

Awake Remembrance of The Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity (Former)

### Intention

To eradicate necromancy by killing The Emperor and dismantling The Nine Houses System and the Empire.

### Affiliation

Allied Lyctors* Augustine (Former)
* Mercymorn (Former)
* Cytherea (Allegedly)

Canaan House Postulants

* Camilla Hect
* Coronabeth Tridentarius
* Judith Deuteros (Captive)

### Enemies

The EmperorThe Cohort

> *"Who is Eden?"
> "Someone they left to die, [...]* How sharper than the serpent's tooth, et cetera.*"*
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**Blood of Eden (BOE)** is a decentralized insurgency group created in response to the Resurrection, the rise of necromancy, and the growing Dominican Empire. Though their leadership and tactics have changed throughout the years, their mission remains the same—the end of necromancy and the Dominican Empire.

## **History**

### Origins of Blood of Eden

According to the Emperor, BOE has existed for nearly as long as the Empire. Preferring to operate as an organic decentralized group, their primary method of warfare was sending agents to planets the Cohort was attempting to "steward" and turning them against the Empire. It would be almost 5,000 years before the Empire directly came into contact with BOE forces.

### BOE Under Commander Wake

> *"They'd gotten a demagogue, a charismatic leader who wasn't content to work behind the scenes. Hotspots flared up, but we took them down ... cell by cell, bone by bone."*
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Thirty-eight years after the Emperor made the Erebos his flagship, Awake Remembrance of The Valiant Dead Kia Hua Ko Te Pai Snap Back to Reality Oops There Goes Gravity, style as "Commander Wake," became the leader of Blood of Eden. Powerfully militant and unafraid of attracting the attention of the Empire, she reshaped BOE into a genuine threat and carried out many successful missions.

Most importantly, Commander Wake and her Edenites learned of the existence and cause of Resurrection Beasts and, at the cost of half of their ships, managed to separate and kill one of the Beast's Heralds. Using the corpse of the Herald, BOE fashioned weapons—knives, axes, bullets—and armor that retained the properties of the Beast that are capable of driving a Lyctor insane. With these weapons, Commander Wake faces the Lyctors in battle numerous times—shooting Augustine the First in the head (which he survived) and nearly killing Gideon the First.

Under Commander Wake's leadership, BOE also partnered with Mercymorn the First (and by extension, Augustine) on the mission that would become known as Dios apate, major. Believing herself to be on a reconnaissance mission to assess the status of the Body in the Locked Tomb, Commander Wake and Mercymorn's well-laid plans fall apart as Commander Wake is hunted down and killed by Gideon. The Emperor believes that the death of Commander Wake ruined BOE's ability to be a formidable opponent of the Empire.

### Recent Activity

#### **Gideon the Ninth**

The Emperor believes that Cytherea the First's attempts to lure him into the Dominican System by attacking the postulants at Canaan House was formulated in part with BOE, but due to her death this is unconfirmed.

#### **Harrow the Ninth**

Following the events at Canaan House, Blood of Eden successfully plot and take down three warships and 18,000 Cohort soldiers with orbital radiation missiles—more damage than they have done to the Empire and the Cohort in any one attack for the last thousand years. It is yet unknown who in the organization might have planned such an attack and for what purpose.

Additionally, BOE has recruited the talents of Camilla the Sixth and Crown Princess of Ida Coronabeth Tridentarius and the two are holding Cohort First Lieutenant Judith Deuteros captive, though for what reason is unknown.

#### **Nona the Ninth**

On New Rho, BOE carries out operations against necromancers, who are weakened by the Resurrection Beast Varun.

## **Known Members and Allies**

### Current Operatives

* Camilla Hect
* Coronabeth Tridentarius
* Pyrrha Dve
* We Suffer
* Our Lady of the Passion
* Aim

### Former Members

* Awake Remembrance of These Valiant Dead
* Emma Sen

### Allied Non-Members

* Augustine the First
* Mercymorn the First
* Cytherea the First (Allegedly)

## **Trivia**

* When asked about the origins of the name "Eden," the Emperor quotes Shakespeare's *King Lear* Act I Sc. 4. The full line is: *"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.—Away, away."*

## **References**

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Harrow the Ninth," Act II, Ch. 14
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Harrow the Ninth," Act III, Ch. 30