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Grove Street Cemetery

Entrance to Grove Street Cemetery

**Grove Street Cemetery** or **Grove Street Burial Ground** is a cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut, that is surrounded by the Yale University campus. It was organized in 1796 as the New Haven Burying Ground to replace the crowded burial ground on the New Haven Green.

## History

### Founding

In the early years of their permanent settlement, New Haven residents buried their dead on the New Haven Green, the town's central open space and churchyard. The increased demand for burial space led families in the town to establish a dedicated burial ground. The cemetery was completed in 1854. While many of the burial monuments were moved from the Green to the new cemetery, many bodies never moved and remained underneath the Green.

The cemetery was built in Egyptian revival style. Its entryway gates had been built to look like an Egyptian temple, their large columns carved with lotus blossoms, the plinth emblazoned with giant letters: THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED. The quotation is taken from 1 Corinthians 15.52: "For the trumpet will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed."

Aurelian members crafted inscriptions to ensure that at least half of the dead at the cemetery lay at rest and don't return as Grays. Additionally, at the heart of the cemetery there is a man-made tunnel that leads directly to Book and Snake.

In 1854, after the Bridegroom murder-suicide took place, the Whitlock family interred their daughter Daisy Fanning Whitlock at their family mausoleum.

### Ninth House

At some point in the fall semester, Darlington pointed out the cemetery to Alex Stern.

In the winter, Alex passes by Grove Street Cemetery on her way to Tara Hutchins' murder site. She frequently sees the Bridegroom ghost nearby because, as she later finds out, North often visited his fiancee who he felt he failed to protect.

Elliot Sandow's funeral took place at this cemetery. There, in between two sphinxes, Alex and Pamela Dawes informed Michelle Alameddine what they think happened to Darlington.

## Notable burials

* Daisy Fanning Whitlock, along with the rest of the Whitlock family.
* Elliot Sandow
* Kingman Brewster

## Trivia

* Where Kingman Brewster was buried, there was a planted witch hazel tree that bloomed yellow every year in June—almost always on his birthday—and that lost its leaves in November at the time of his death.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ninth House Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 3 (Winter)
3. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
4. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 10 (Last Fall)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Ninth House Chapter 12 (Winter)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Ninth House Chapter 32 (Spring)
Cabot Collins

**Cabot Collins**, also known as the Poet of Lethe. A student at Yale University, he resided in Johnathan Edwards College and was a member of Lethe House. His poetry was dedicated to the work of Lethe House members and their mission. He notably lost both his hands when an interdimensional portal closed on them.

## Poetry

### “To the Men of Lethe” by Cabot Collins (Johnathan Edwards College, '55)

> *“Others may falter and take the false step. What penalty but pride? Ours is the calling of the final trumpet on the horseman’s last ride./*
> *Ours is the answer given without pause and none too soon. Death waits on black wings and we stand hoplite, hussar, dragoon.”*
>
>

### Reception

> *“Cabsy wasn’t actually any good as far as poets go. Seems to have missed the last forty years of verse and just wants to write Longfellow. It’s ungenerous to carp, what with him losing his hands and all, but I’m not sure even that justifies two hours cooped up at Il Bastone, listening to him read from his latest masterpiece while poor Lon Richardson is stuck turning the pages."* —Lethe Days Diary of Carl Roehmer (Branford College ’54)
>
>

Darlington would recite the last verse of "To the Men of Lethe" to Alex Stern to stress that Lethe House members must be ready for the unknown. Alex Stern would agree that Collins' poem was bad poetry.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 27 (Winter) - Lethe Days Diary
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 4 (Last Fall)
Minor Illusion

*Illusion cantrip – Official Spells*

* **Casting Time:** 1 action
* **Range:** 30 feet
* **Components:** S, M (a bit of fleece)
* **Duration:** 1 minute

You create a sound or an image of an object within range that lasts for the duration. The illusion also ends if you dismiss it as an action or cast this spell again.

If you create a sound, its volume can range from a whisper to a scream. It can be your voice, someone else’s voice, a lion’s roar, a beating of drums, or any other sound you choose. The sound continues unabated throughout the duration, or you can make discrete sounds at different times before the spell ends.

If you create an image of an object such as a chair, muddy footprints, or a small chest it must be no larger than a 5-foot cube. The image can’t create sound, light, smell, or any other sensory effect. Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion, because things can pass through it.

If a creature uses its action to examine the sound or image, the creature can determine that it is an illusion with a successful Intelligence (Investigation) check against your spell save DC. If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature.
Raymond Walsh-Whiteley

Raymond Walsh-Whiteley is a tenured English professor at Yale University and the Praetor of Lethe House. Walsh-Whiteley took the position of Praetor and dean of Lethe after the death of his predecessor Elliot Sandow.

## Biography

Walsh-Whiteley graduated Yale University at the age of 16. He resided in Silliman College and was recruited to Lethe House in his first year. While undoubtedly a genius at scholarship at his age, Walsh-Whiteley's tapping was protested by his Virgil at the time. At some point in his youth, Walsh-Whiteley loved a young man who died prematurely.

He has since taught at Yale for 20 years as an English professor and at some point in time he earned a tenured position.

### Hell Bent

According to Lethe board member Michael Anselm, Walsh-Whiteley was reluctant to take the post of Praetor.

﻿﻿﻿*“ Anselm never bothered to arrange a tea after … what happened at Scroll and Key, and the Praetor is getting antsy. He has office hours from 2 to 4 p.m. in LC.” “office was on the third floor of Linsly-Chittenden Hall”*

*“based on the opinion pieces he writes for The Federalist, very old-school”*

## Physical Description

*“ He had a long, melancholy face, and thick white hair combed back from his forehead in what was almost a pompadour.” WW wore glasses.*

## Personality

*“ I am what is fondly called a dinosaur and less fondly described as a reactionary. Yale was once dedicated to the life of the mind, and while there were diversions and distractions, nothing could be as diverting or distracting as the presence of the fairer sex.”*

*“Halloween is an evangelical holiday. If you don’t celebrate, you’re forced to hide from those who do lest they slap a mask on your face and demand you caper about in the name of fun.”*

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 *Hell Bent* Chapter 18
2. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 19
3. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 25
Death words

**Death words** are spoken words that evoke death or dying, used to dismiss or evict Grays from a person's space. Grays loathe *memento mori*, which could be anything from lamentations, dirges, poems about grief or loss, even a mortuary ad.

## Power and Purpose

### Effects

Among other protective measures, members of Lethe frequently utilize death words to dispel any Gray seeking to disrupt magic rites (this is because in many rituals, magic requires that the channels with the Veil remain open). Merely declaring words associated with death but not officially 'death words' seem to have no effect on Grays— the casual mention of graves and murder would not cause phantoms to disperse.

### Ladino

Alex Stern's use of ladino proverbs and song lyrics are also effective against banishing Grays. This is due to the nature of the language. Also known as Judeo-Spanish, the expulsion from Spain led to the language of exiled Jews to develop in a process of mixing of dialects. Spoken by Sephardic minorities in more than 30 countries, no country reports the language as being used by the majority of people. It is described by Darlington as, "the language of the diaspora."

Similarly, death words in dead languages, such as Latin, have a similar powerful banishing effect.

## References and Notes

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 *Ninth House* Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 24
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenpass
4. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 9 (Winter)
5. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 28 (Early Spring)
6. ↑ https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/poem-breathes-there-man-written-by-sir-walter-234697
7. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 27 (Winter)
8. ↑ http://elaion.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Stenia.pdf
9. ↑ https://fromtroublesofthisworld.wordpress.com/2016/07/27/the-skeletons-defense-of-carnality-by-jack-foley/
10. ↑ https://writing.upenn.edu/library/McEvilley\_Greek-Anthology.html
11. ↑ *Ninth House* Prologue (Early Spring)
12. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/41444102?seq=1#metadata\_info\_tab\_contents
13. ↑ http://poemsandpoetics.blogspot.com/2010/05/outsider-poems-mini-anthology-in.html
14. ↑ https://www.theoi.com/Text/VirgilEclogues.html
15. ↑ https://www.supersummary.com/the-eclogues/eclogue-8-summary/?a/
16. ↑ https://www2.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/korach/rap.html
17. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 14 (Winter)
18. ↑ http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/MCASTRO.HTM
19. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 23 (Winter)
20. ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44299/elegy-written-in-a-country-churchyard
21. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 31 (Early Spring)
22. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela\_Lugosi%27s\_Dead
23. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 1
24. ↑ https://thepetrifiedmuse.blog/2015/05/14/sadness-weariness-and-laughter-an-ancient-latin-poem-on-occasion-of-mental-health-awareness-week-2015/
25. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 24
26. ↑ https://poets.org/poem/sunday-morning
27. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 25
28. ↑ http://www.bookrags.com/notes/il/part15.html#gsc.tab=0
29. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 37
30. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 27.
Ariel Harel

**Ariel Harel** was the cousin of Eitan Shafir, a well-connected drug dealer. He was known to be dangerous and particularly violent towards women.

## Biography

Ariel Harel was Israeli-born and cousins with Eitan Shafir. He visited Eitan in his mansion in Encino, California. Eitan deferred to Ariel, as he was violent and desired to see violence inflicted on others. When he arrived, Eitan would send some of the girls that frequented his parties away from his mansion when Ariel was present, only keeping a few around. Eitan's parties at his Encino mansion tended to become more frantic and elaborate in order to keep Ariel entertained. There were rumors passed around between the girls about Ariel's cruel violence towards women during sex.

### Ninth House

One summer, Ariel visited and took a liking to Len Beacon, who amused Ariel. He invited himself to the Ground Zero apartment for a party and Len readily agreed, thinking that Ariel could be his ticket to selling harder, more profitable drugs for Eitan. That night, Ariel drugged and brutally raped Hellie Watson, who was made to be present at the party at the behest of Len.

Later in the night, Alex Stern would discover Hellie's body and in a sorrowful rage, split her consciousness with Hellie's spirit, essentially being possessed. Ariel watching with amusement as Len and Len's friend Betcha tried to carry Hellie's body out the door. However, Alex closed the door and bludgeoned them all to death with a baseball bat.

Despite the investigation, the police left the multiple homicide case unsolved. His cousin Eitan ran all over Los Angeles trying to figure out who caused the deaths of Ariel and the other men. After talking to Alex, he concluded that Ariel was likely at the wrong place at the wrong time.

North would tell Alex that along with Len and Betcha, Ariel was able to find North beyond the Veil, as Alex's power clung on to North.

## Personal Attributes

### Personality

Ariel was quietly cruel; he made no effort to appear dangerous because he just was. He was slow to smile or laugh, and was only pushed to do so at others' expense. He had a violent disregard for women.

### Physical Description

Ariel was handsome, with clean, face-framing stubble and wide-set eyes with heavy lids.

## References

1. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 29 (Early Spring)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ninth House Chapter 19 (Last Summer)
3. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 21 (Winter)
Профессии

Этот гайд был создан: Montmartre

## **Профессии на Project Ascension**

Основные профессии такие же, как в актуальном Wow: горное дело, травничество, снятие шкур, наложение чар, портное дело, кузнец, кожевник, алхимик, инженер.

После выхода Burning Crusade и Wrath of the Lich King будут доступны Ювелирное дело и Начертание/

Вы можете иметь только 2 основные профессии одновременно на Ascension. Чтобы забыть профессию, в отличие от Retail WOW, вам нужно поговорить с «Мастером забвения» в столице.

Кулинария, первая помощь и рыбная ловля также могут быть выбраны любым персонажем, поскольку это второстепенные профессии.
Класс героя

Этот гайд был создан: Skray

Герой - это гибридный класс, доступный для всех рас Азерота, он мастер всех ролей и способен преуспеть в любых ситуациях, будь то танкование, лечение, нанесение урона, поддержка или что-либо еще.

### **Обзор класса**

Герой может позаимствовать силу у всех девяти оригинальных классов Warcraft: Друид, Охотник, Маг, Паладин, Жрец, Разбойник, Шаман, Чернокнижник и Воин. Герои способны носить все виды доспехов и могут владеть любым оружием. Они также могут использовать в бою любые два одноручных оружия после создания персонажа.

### **Описание экрана создания**

Для настоящего героя нет границ. Истинный герой кузнец своей судьбы, будь то ткачи магических дисциплин, мастера клинков и луков, защитники собственной дисциплины, мастер профессий. Однако мир коварен. Доверять кому-либо может быть трудно. Для формирования мира понадобится Истинный герой.

### **Атрибуты**

Пять основных характеристик героя (сила, выносливость, ловкость, интеллект и дух) могут быть распределены по желанию с помощью окна распределения. Герой начинает с 5 очков для распределения, а затем получает очки на каждом уровне, а каждые 10 уровней увеличивают количество очков, полученных за уровень. Это составляет 213 пунктов распределения на уровне 60.

Эти очки могут быть распределены по желанию, единственное ограничение - максимум 150 баллов в одном атрибуте.

Герои происходят из всех рас Азерота, каждая раса в значительной степени идентична друг другу, отличаясь только начальными атрибутами, перечисленными выше, и расовыми способностями.

### **Проблемы с аддонами**

Герои считаются «друидами» игровым клиентом и любыми аддонами, которые могут читать информацию о классе. Любые аддоны, которые имеют специфичные для класса предметы, включая:

* Проверка баффов и дебаффов
* Полоса тотемов
* Полоса питомца
* Счастье питомца
* Некоторые индикаторы дальности, которые используют заклинания, специфичные для класса
* Некоторые аддоны комбо-пойнтов

Может не работать должным образом из-за проверок класса игроков. Они могут варьироваться в зависимости от того, как аддон был написан.

Любой аддон, который проверяет класс игрока, может быть отредактирован, чтобы искать «Друид», а не «Охотник», «Шаман» или любой из классов Warcraft по умолчанию, чтобы вернуть эти функции. С помощью этого редактирования можно, например, правильно отобразить тотем-бар на панелях аддонов , таких как Bartender.
Merity

### Effects

making those who ingest highly suggestible and willing to do whatever requests the giver of the drug makes

Merity, also known as the drug of service, is used by and under the control of Manuscript. Taken in its raw form, it makes victims pure acolytes, highly suggestible and driven by a desire to serve. Manuscript's Merity supplies are on lockdown and members have strict prohibitions on its use. Obtaining Merity is incredibly difficult, as it only has one supplier from the Greater Khingan Mountains in China.

## Power and Purpose

The drug of service. Indicated by a purple tongue from ingesting the substance, it takes a person's will, making them highly suggestible and willing to do whatever requests the giver of the drug makes. Besides the purple tongue and high suggestibility, Merity does not cause other symptoms common to drugs; a person under Merity doesn't have glazed or lidded eyes, they'd be alert and would insist they were perfectly fine.

Merity is used and under the control of Manuscript, the Ancient Eight society. It is taken in its raw form by acolytes of Manuscript seeking to give up their will.

## History

Merity is used on the acolytes of Manuscript, particularly at events such as the Halloween gathering. At the party, a boy and a girl are under the influence of Merity, dressed scantily-clad and enthusiastically serving drinks to party guests.

Officially, Manuscript's Merity supplies are on strict lockdown and members have strict prohibitions on its use. Another limitation is that Merity only grows in the Greater Khinghan Mountains due to its specific conditions. Manuscript pays a great deal to make sure the one supplier only sells to them. Seeking a cheaper alternative, Manuscript member Kate Masters would approach Tara Hutchins, to grow Merity in the forestry school's greenhouse, giving her the specific moisture levels and the conditions that would let Merity thrive. Tara Hutchins and Sveta Myers were able to grow Merity.

Alex's roommate Mercy Zhao was drugged with Merity as the Omega Meltdown event and as a result, a video of her sexual assault was recorded by Blake Keely. Keely got the Merity from Tara's boyfriend Lance Gressang, who having tried it, believed it was bad weed.

## Physical Appearance

> “A single, slender tendril of some unknown plant lay in a pile of dirt beside a toppled plastic container. Alex touched her finger to it. The little vine unfurled, a lone white bud appearing from its leaves. Its petals parted in a burst of glittering seeds like a firework, with a soft but audible puh, and it withered to nothing.”
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## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ninth House Chapter 10 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 15 (Winter)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 14 (Winter)
4. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 24 (Winter)
5. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 23 (Winter)
Salome Nils

**Salome Nils** is a student at Yale University and the president of the Wolf's Head delegation.

## Biography

### Early Life

Not much is confirmed about Salome's early life. She is privileged, presumed by Alex Stern to have grown up in Connecticut.

### Ninth House

In the fall semester, Salome Nils would have to pluck feathers off of Shane Mackay's body during the first transformations of Wolf's Head society delegation, after he got stuck in the form of a rooster.

As president, Salome Nils would insist on the returning of a statue of Romulus and Remus that was stolen from Wolf's Head by the Locksmiths during a Valentine's Day party the year before.

When Alex Stern asked to use the Wolf's Head temple, Salome had Alex meet her at the tomb with the statue. Salome was surprised to see Pamela Dawes with Alex, and Alex realized that most people didn't know Oculus existed, the person or the position. Salome was ecstatic to have the statue, although it's not even that special. She explained to Alex that its the principle of the thing. Alex prompted her to let them into their temple and Salome refused, reneging on her deal with Alex, and insultingly dismissed her and Pamela. Alex grabbed her lower lip and pulled her so that she flailed, bending at the waist to Alex's shorter height. Salome was wrapped in a chokehold and Alex grabbed her diamond earring in a threatening manner.

Taunting, Alex threatened Salome more thoroughly and told her to let them into Wolf's Head's temple, to which Salome frantically nodded. Released now, Salome backed away from Alex and called her insane. Alex then slammed her coat-covered hand into the glass display case, shattering the glass, and urged Salome to let them in. Salome relented, found the correct key in her pocket, and gave it to them. After, Alex warned her that if she reported what they were doing Alex would only come back to smash her teeth in with the Romulus and Remus statue. Salome left soon after they entered and in the end, did not report them.

## Personal Attributes

### Personality

Salome is privileged and can act entitled and prideful.

### Physical Description

Salome had brown hair and smooth-faced. She is tall, athletically lean, and was strong from sports.

## Trivia

* Wolf's Head members are assigned with Egyptian god name. Salome's name is Chefren

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 *Ninth House* Chapter 12 (Winter)
2. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 10 (Last Fall)
Knuckles of Shimshon

The **Knuckles of Shimshon** is one set of essentially enchanted brass knuckles which has the power to endow a person with the strength of twenty men. Originating from the Middle East, the Knuckles of Shimshon were found by the Wolf's Head society on a sponsored dig. It was added to the Lethe armory in 1998 in celebration of its centennial anniversary.

## History

“They were actually solid gold and rough where the strands of Samson’s hair had supposedly been woven through.”

### Hell Bent

*“She reached into her coat pockets and felt the comforting weight of the brass knuckles she’d stolen from the Lethe House armory. ”*

## References

1. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 19
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Hell Bent* Chapter 20
Hell

## Hell

### Inhabitants

* demons
* hellbeasts
* human souls

**Hell** is an interdimensional realm beyond the Veil where demons reside and is state of afterlife for mortal human souls.

## Overview

### Scholarship

Ellison Nownes, Yale divinity student, argued that no matter what forms Hell takes, whether a fiery pit or filled with icy lakes, its purpose of existence is clear: to eternally punish those who are sinful. Rudolph Kittscher, atheist and member of Lethe, disagreed; He argued that hell is one of many interdimensional realms. He bases this assertion on the proven fact that there are other worlds and planes beyond the Veil which enable the use of portals and the magic of Scroll and Key. Furthermore, both the realms of heaven and hell are simply a compromise between humanity and demon-kind. In exchange for human souls be consumed in the manner of eternal torture or paradise, demons are bound to remain in their realm and feed only upon the dead.

## Access and Location

Similar to the concept of numerous borderlands, numerous hells are understood by some Lethe scholars to reside beyond the Veil, which is considered the partition separating the mortal world from that which lies beyond.

#### The Gauntlet

Gateways to hell are rare and are not simple passages for people to stumble their way through. Instead, they are a series of steps in which the travelers are meant to awaken the Gauntlet and follow the path for their descent. There are rumored locations of a Gauntlet on Station Island in Lough Derg and there might have been one in the Imperial Library of Constantinople before it was destroyed.

## History

In 1933, John Gamble Rogers and John Sterling built a Gauntlet into Sterling Library. One of the few remaining Lethe documents on their pilgrimage to hell is the Lethe Days Diary of Nelson Hartwell of Davenport College 1938, who wrote about a conversation he had with a drunk society fellow named 'Bunchy.'

## Quotes

* “That’s all hell and the afterlife are. Theories. Because the people who get to see the other side don’t come back to tell about it.” (Michelle Alameddine, *Hell Bent*, Chapter 2)

## Reference

1. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 22
2. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 32 (Spring)
3. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 2
4. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 3
Poison Spray

*Conjuration cantrip – Official Spell*

* **Casting Time:** 1 action
* **Range:** 10 feet
* **Components:** V, S
* **Duration:** Instantaneous

You extend your hand toward a creature you can see within range and project a puff of noxious gas from your palm. The creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d12 poison damage.

This spell’s damage increases by 1d12 when you reach 5th level (2d12), 11th level (3d12), 17th level (4d12).
Ground Zero

**Ground Zero** was the base and apartment for Alex Stern, Hellie Watson, Leonard Beacon, Mitchell 'Betcha' Betts and the rest of Len's crew. The ratty apartment was located on Cedros Avenue in Van Nuys, California. It was the site of the unsolved multiple homicide case that killed every occupant except Alex Stern herself.

## Ninth House

In the events of last summer, Len complained to the group that they might lose Ground Zero if they don't get that extra cash that would come with being friends with Eitan Shafir's cousin Ariel. Hellie took this concern to heart, worrying that she along with the group would get turned out and become homeless. When Ariel invited himself over to the apartment for a party, Len eagerly agreed and worried about losing the apartment, Hellie would ditch Alex in West Los Angeles to attend the party. Len, Betcha, and the other men of Ground Zero were unconcerned for Hellie's safety and likely enabled Ariel to drug Hellie with fentanyl and rape her that night.

When Alex realized Hellie was dead, she was inconsolable, catching the attention of Len and Betcha who, panicked, planned to dump Hellie's body outside a club to make it look like a random overdose. Instead, Alex invited Hellie in and used a bat to kill everyone in the apartment. Hellie led Alex to wash off the bloody evidence and murder weapon in the L.A. river as to not leave evidence in the shower drain. When emergency services came, they searched the apartment for any of this evidence, only finding blood splatters from one left-handed swing as their only clue.

## Layout

The apartment on Cedros was small, dirty and miserable. From entering the front door, there was the living room and kitchen with its chipped yellow counter and scarce amount of food. There was Len and Alex's main bedroom. The bedroom in the back of the apartment which Hellie occupied. A singular small bathroom.

## Known inhabitants

* Len Beacon
* Alex Stern
* Hellie Watson
* Mitchell Betts

## References

1. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 4 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ninth House Chapter 19 (Last Summer)
Hiram's Crucible

**Hiram's Crucible**, also known as the Golden Bowl, is the primary vessel used for the creation of Orozcerio or Hiram's Bullet. It can also be used as a vessel for reversion, both for broken objects or injured persons. It is kept and used by Lethe House at Il Bastone.

## Background

Hiram Bingham III, a founding member of Lethe House, "discovered" Machu Picchu in 1911, and stole about forty thousand artifacts to be brought to Yale to be studied at the Peabody Museum. One of which, the Crucible, was brought to Lethe House. What would be known as Hiram's Crucible, also known by Lethe delegates as the "Golden Bowl," would be used to invent Orozcerio (aka The Golden Trial, Hiram's Bullet).

It continues to reside in the possession of Lethe House inside Il Bastone's armory.

### Physical Description

A golden bowl made of twenty-two karat gold and the circumference 'of a tractor wheel.' It resembles a sun, an homage to the sun god of Machu Picchu. When close to touch, the cool metal bowl can be felt vibrating gently.

## Power and Purpose

Hiram's Crucible is a very powerful crucible; crucibles in general are vessels created for magical and alchemical use. Like Hiram's Crucible, they are usually made of pure gold and highly reactive. Hiram's Crucible has the power to create Orozcerio, the potion Lethe delegates must take in order to be able to see and prevent Gray interference during a magical rite.

Hiram's Crucible also has the power to reverse great injuries, performing an undoing. As described by Dawes, the Crucible, along with goat's milk and an enchantment, reverts the body to an earlier version of itself, a branch of portal magics that is easier to perform than creating new flesh or bone. It cannot reverse the body's state far without stronger magics and more people to work with. This specific healing ritual requires no one but the one injured to be submerged within the milk.

## History

### Ninth House

At Rosenfeld Hall, Darlington would suggest fixing the broken silver weather vane by placing it in the crucible with some flux.

Alex Stern would observe as Darlington create his elixir in Hiram's Crucible, not needing Orozcerio herself due to her power to see Grays. She would first need the Crucible when she became badly injured by Lance Gressang, with several broken ribs and possible internal bleeding. After being placed in the Crucible for a few minutes, Alex, with goat's milk and Dawes' enchantment, was able to push herself up using her previously injured muscles. A complete reversion of her injuries took a few hours. When she emerged, Alex only felt a lingering soreness where her ribs had been broken.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ninth House Chapter 4 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ninth House Chapter 21 (Winter)
3. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 18 (Last Fall)
New Haven

### Location

New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut

**New Haven** is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut, college town of Yale University and home to the Houses of the Veil.

## Site of Magic

New Haven has an extremely high concentration of nexuses, or sites where magic seemed to catch and circulate. Lethe has recorded the existence of 12 nexuses. Even while magic only eddies in the nexuses, every part of New Haven has a bit of magic. Lethe House, as scholars of magic and that which lies behind the Veil, are not particularly sure why. Lethe House scholars posit that the Veil itself is thinner in New Haven, that magic as a result flows easier.

Eight of the twelve nexuses were used as sites to build the Ancient Eight's tombs; without these sites, their magic doesn't accomplish much. The rest of the nexuses lay where structures, like the train station, already exist, thus making it impossible to build a tomb on.

### History

New Haven was founded between two rivers: the West River and the Farmington Canal, both meeting at the same point at the harbor.

   In 1638 came the New Haven Green, a site of tremendous power and where the colony built its first meetinghouse, first church and first graveyard. The Green was originally used as a cemetery, and the original dead continue to remain underneath. When the cemetery was moved a few blocks away to Grove Street Cemetery, a group of Freemasons would draw the paths that bisect the green that were meant to appease the dead. These lines would resemble as compass rose, or a pentagram, depending on who you talk to. On the northwest side of the Green, across College Street, currently stands Phelps Gate and the Yale University buildings bordering Old Campus.

#### 1800's

It was during the early 1800's that magic practitioners would officially realize that New Haven was highly susceptible to storing and facilitating magic.

During the War of 1812, the British blockaded New Haven Harbor, and Trinity Church in its beginning stages had no way of accessing the necessary lumber for its construction. Commander Hardy of the Royal British Navy permitted the passage down the Connecticut River of the roof beams once he heard of their intended purpose. According to *Lethe: A Legacy*, he noted, “If there is any place on earth that needs religion, it is this New Haven. Let the rafts go through!”

## Notable Sites

* Black Elm
* Yale University
* Il Bastone
* Grove Street Cemetery

## Quotes

* "In New Haven, it was best not to hope for guarantees." - Alex Stern (Ninth House, Chapter 3).
* “Why do you think they built so many churches here? Somehow the men and women of this city knew: Their streets were home to other gods. —Lethe Days Diary of Elliot Sandow" (Ninth House, Chapter 20).

## Reference

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ *Lethe: A Legacy* excerpt (Ninth House, Chapter 20)
Jean Gatdula

**Jean Gatdula** is a nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is on the payroll of Lethe and the other Houses of the Veil to take care of patients of interest and carry out specific directions.

## Biography

Jean Gatdula is married to her husband, who has a habit of gambling at the blackjack tables at Foxwoods Resort Casino.

At some point, Jean was employed by the Houses of the Veil and placed on their monthly payroll to carry out duties in her role as a nurse at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is unaware of the purpose of her assignments or even who employs her. Approximately before the start of each fiscal quarter, Jean Gatdula is assigned three night shifts in a row to ensure that the special patient, the *victima* of a Skull and Bones prognostication, is fed the required diet: a dove’s heart, geranium root, and a dish of bitter herbs, which include parsley. Jean carried these items in a little cooler she hides in her large handbag.

In the winter of Alex Stern's first year, Jean Gatdula would carry out the usual victima routine with Michael Reyes, a diagnosed schizophrenic who was found in Yale New Haven's public beds. When Alex called a couple of days later, Jean Gatdula personally informed her that Reyes was well and would be sent home two days.

Only a day later, Jean Gatdula was the assigned nurse to Alex when she was admitted into the hospital as a result of Blake Keely's attack. After informing Alex that Pamela Dawes was down the hall being treated for shock, she tried to reassure Alex and told her to rest up. Alex, disconcerted by Jean's presence and what that might mean, asked for some juice, to Jean's acquiescence. After Turner and Sandow have their talk with Alex and Pamela, Jean knocks on Pamela's door, informing her that her sister has arrived. Finding Alex with Pamela, Jean gently reprimands Alex for straying from her bed before leaving to get a wheelchair to escort Alex back to her room.

## Personality

Jean Gatdula is very patient and caring toward her patients, easy to smile and has a bright attitude. She is willing to stay in the dark about her contributions to the Houses of the Veil, despite being involved in seriously exploitative and shady activities.

## References

1. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 1 (Winter)
2. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 23 (Winter)
3. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 27 (Winter)
Michael David Axtell

taken by Kyle LeMaire Photography, NYC

**Michael David Axtell** is the co-narrator for the Ninth House audiobook, along with Lauren Fortang.

## Personal Information

Michael David Axtell lives in New York City with my wife and dog and works as an actor, singer, narrator and pianist. He is a passionate performer and storyteller and is fascinated with communicating to audiences through different mediums. For a time after college, he pursued music and toured with the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble, Chanticleer. Later, he realized he craved a more theatrically based performance path, so left Chanticleer to pursue his MFA in Acting from The New School for Drama ('17). He also began recording audiobooks for ACX which opened up an entire industry of exciting possibility and opportunity! He has around twenty credits to his name available.

## Reviews

* Audiofile Review of Ninth House
* Libro.fm Interview with Axtell

## External links

 Michael David Axtell's Official Site

 Michael David Axtell on Instagram

 Michael David Axtell on Goodreads

## References

1. ↑ Michael David Axtell website
2. ↑ Michael David Axtell website
Burning Hands

*1st-level evocation – Official Spells*

* **Casting Time:** 1 action
* **Range:** Self (15-foot cone)
* **Components:** V, S
* **Duration:** Instantaneous

As you hold your hands with thumbs touching and fingers spread, a thin sheet of flames shoots forth from your outstretched fingertips. Each creature in a 15-foot cone must make a Dexterity saving throw. A creature takes 3d6 fire damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

The fire ignites any flammable objects in the area that aren’t being worn or carried.

***At Higher Levels.*** When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 2nd level or higher, the damage increases by 1d6 for each slot level above 1st.
Palillos del Dios

The **Palillos del Dios** (translated literally as little sticks of god) are castanets, or clackers, that have the ability to banish poltergeists when played with the correct rhythm. However, effectively banishing a poltergeist also means having the user's fingers burned until black. The Palillos del Dios are in the position of Lethe House and reside in Il Bastone's armory.

## Appearance in *Hell Bent*

During the summer before her second year, Alex Stern spent time digging through the cabinets of Il Bastone's armory. Among the various enchanted and magical objects, Alex found the Palillos del Dios and the accompanying card explaining its use.
Message

*Transmutation cantrip – Official Spell*

* **Casting Time:** 1 action
* **Range:** 120 feet
* **Components:** V, S, M (a short piece of copper wire)
* **Duration:** 1 round

You point your finger toward a creature within range and whisper a message. The target (and only the target) hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear.

You can cast this spell through solid objects if you are familiar with the target and know it is beyond the barrier. Magical silence, 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood blocks the spell. The spell doesn’t have to follow a straight line and can travel freely around corners or through openings.
Alarm

*1st-level abjuration (ritual) – Official Spells*

* **Casting Time:** 1 minute
* **Range:** 30 feet
* **Components:** V, S, M (a tiny bell and a piece of fine silver wire)
* **Duration:** 8 hours

You set an alarm against unwanted intrusion. Choose a door, a window, or an area within range that is no larger than a 20-foot cube. Until the spell ends, an alarm alerts you whenever a tiny or larger creature touches or enters the warded area. When you cast the spell, you can designate creatures that won’t set off the alarm. You also choose whether the alarm is mental or audible.

A mental alarm alerts you with a ping in your mind if you are within 1 mile of the warded area. This ping awakens you if you are sleeping. An audible alarm produces the sound of a hand bell for 10 seconds within 60 feet.
Orozcerio

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## Orozcerio

### Effects

* ability to see Grays
* Ice cold pain throughout body

### Source

Hiram's Crucible

Orozocerio (Also known as **Hiram's Bullet**, **The Golden Trial**), is the elixir Lethe delegates ingest in order to see Grays.

## History

More than knowing ghosts existed, Lethe suspected for years before confirmation that the presence of Grays in sacred circles and temple halls was disrupting the spells and rituals of the societies. But Lethe had no proof and no way to prevent it. They sought an elixir that would allow them to see spirits, experimenting on themselves through sometimes-deadly trial.

The actual creation of this elixir resulted from years of trial and error. Any formula they experimented with did not lead to any progress until they acquired Hiram's Crucible, the vessel with which they perfected and continue to make Orozcerio.

## Recipe

The specifics of Orozcerio's ingredients and making is unclear. All known successful attempts at making Hiram's Bullet are the result of the elixir being made in Hiram's Crucible. The recipe itself is complex, requiring an intense attention to detail.

## Physical Appearance and Taste

Orozcerio has the bitter tang of crushed aspirin.

## Effects

Orozcerio allows its drinker to glimpse behind the veil. After its unpleasant side effects, the drinker then is able to see the layers of the Veil, milky white in color and creating a hazed effect on the drinker's perception of the world, before the layers themselves part and the drinker's vision is returned to normal. After which, the drinker will be able to see Grays.

### Side effects

The potion is far from perfect. Immediate side effects of Orozcerio include bodily tremors resulting from a deep cold felt throughout the body. This cold can last hours after drinking the elixir. Drinkers experience a surge of adrenaline and foreboding. There is also a very present danger of kidney and liver failure.

The potion does increasing damage to the body every time a Lethe delegate ingests it. The mixture is toxic and the process incredibly painful. It's why the positions of Dante and Virgil are regulated to two undergraduate students for four years and why its exponentially more difficult for older Lethe alums to drink Hiram's Bullet.

### Limitations

Beyond its dangerous side effects, Hiram's Bullet only allows users to see Grays in their gray color. Alex Stern, who has the power to perceive Grays without magical aid, can see Grays in regular color, though as if filtered like an Old Polaroid. In addition, Orozcerio can only allow users to see Grays, it does not empower Grays to be able to freely communicate with living persons.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ninth House Chapter 4 (Last Fall)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 6 (Last Fall)
4. ↑ Ninth House Chapter 1 (Winter)
Corpse Beetles

**Corpse beetles** are scarabs that, when in a human body, consume a person's raw flesh, essentially eating a person from the inside out. They were used to clean corpses in ancient times in order to empty bodies so that they could be stuffed with fragrant herbs. To cure a case of corpse beetles, liquid brimstone is needed to burn out the corpse beetles from a person's body and axtapta is needed to heal the burns.

## History

Corpse beetles were used to clean corpses in ancient times in order to empty bodies so that they could be stuffed with fragrant herbs.

### Ninth House

Dean Elliot Sandow sets a gluma armed with corpse beetles after Alex Stern after she investigated Tara Hutchins' body at the morgue. The gluma stored the corpse beetles in its mouth, being unaffected due to the fact that the gluma is already dead. The gluma blew a stream of it into Alex's face. She was able to get to the Hutch and Pamela Dawes in time to be saved.

## Abilities

### Power and Purpose

Corpse Beetles cause internal injuries and eventual death as the beetles eat a person from the inside out.

They can be stored as red dust. When inhaled, a person experiences immediate chest pain, localized around the lungs. While a person can be mobile in these immediate moments, they are also experiencing severe dizziness and nausea, can throw up blood, black bile, and the beetles themselves.

### Limitations and Cure

Liquid brimstone is needed to burn out the corpse beetles from a person's body. This needs to be applied as soon as possible before the person dies of internal injury. The cure for corpse beetles also result in injury, causing one's mouth and throat to be burned and blistered. However, there are magical cures that can cure that once healed from the corpse beetles. To heal from the burns, one needs to drink a glass of axtapta, a green liquid of goat’s milk and mustard seed thickened with spider eggs.

## Description

The smoke-like dust stored in the gluma's mouth was a dark red. The scarabs themselves looked like normal black beetles.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 9 (Winter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 11 (Winter)
Mirrored Compact

**Mirror Compact** is an enchanted object. When held up to people's faces, the mirror compact disguises the holder with the face captured in the mirror. While the glass was originally made in China, it was eventually set into the compact by Manuscript for a still-classified CIA operation during the Cold War. It is now kept by Lethe in Il Bastone's armory.

## Power and Purpose

The purpose of the mirror compact is to disguise the user with the appearance of someone else.

First, the user of the compact needs to hold up the mirror to a person's face to capture the person's appearance within the mirror. In doing so, the mirror shines a bright light on the person, temporarily blinding them with light.

After which, the user only needs to hold up the compact to anyone they encounter. The mirror works for a period of time on people after first use, though the mirror is limited in that it does not affect cameras.

## History

### Ninth House

Alex finds the mirror compact, smudged and wrapped in cotton batting within Lethe's armory. A card in the drawer explained the mirror’s origins. Alex uses the compact to get past the police officer guarding Tara Hutchins' apartment.

Later, Alex would show the compact to Abel Turner, which he would take to capture the visage of Lance Gressang's lawyer in order for Alex to talk to Lance without being recognized.

Alex realizes that the night Tara died, Dean Elliot Sandow would have been able to use portal magic from Belbam's house, using the mirror compact to disguise himself as Lance when he killed Tara. She attributed the smudge she noticed earlier to Sandow, knowing that Dawes would never put away an object still dirty.

### Hell Bent

Alex uses the mirror compact to capture a glamour of Tom Brady from the TV. She uses the glamour disguise in her confrontation with Chris Owens, aka Oddman, about his money owed to Eitan Shafir.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 *Ninth House* Chapter 17 (Winter)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *Ninth House* Chapter 24 (Winter)
3. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 31 (Early Spring)
4. ↑ *Hell Bent* Chapter 1
Anna Breen

Anna Breen is a student at Yale University and was roommates with Alex Stern, Mercy Zhao and Lauren in their first year at Vanderbilt Hall.

## Biography

Anna is from Huntsville, Texas. In high school, Anna was a choir leader and is presumed to be religious. She now is a student at Yale University, attending on a STEM scholarship.

### Ninth House

Anna moved into the Vanderbilt Hall suite along with the rest of the girls. When Darlington first arrived for Alex, Anna was on the floor of the common room assembling a book shelf. She glumly asked whether it was necessary for Mercy and Alex to move the university-issued desk into the common living room, to which Mercy responded that the pair needed more space. Anna was there when Darlington introduced himself as Alex's cousin and pulled her from the room with a family-related excuse.

By the time Alex got back from Darlington's tour and introduction of Lethe, Anna left the dorms, leaving only Alex, Mercy and Lauren to bond over pizza.

In the winter, after the video of Blake Keely spread around campus, Anna would flatly greet her roommates who were hanging out in suite common room. She then went to her and Lauren's shared room and phoned her family in Texas. The trio of girls held in their laughter as they overheard Anna tell her family that she thinks her roommates might be witches.

## Personality

Anna is uninterested in finding commonality with her roommates and in partying. As a result, she is often found by Alex to be reserved and frowning disapprovingly.

## References

1. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 2 (Last Fall)
2. ↑ *Ninth House* Chapter 17 (Winter)
Sapience Wiki

Welcome to **Sapience Wiki**! It is an EvoGame where you create a lifeless planet. Then, by abiogenesis or panspermia, a lifeform is created. It will evolve and survive. They must adapt, or they will die. And, after billions of years of constant evolution, sapience will finally be achieved. Please, read the rules before joining.