This secretive and scientific society seeks out a God that they do not believe exists- yet. They labor in scientific work, trying to learn secrets of the universe and disperse them to those of the appropriate ranks within the society. However, they also maintain that anyone who doesn’t have the appropriate rank knowing that knowledge is blasphemy, and that’s unacceptable. The Society of the Cog layout to build grand works to honour their nascent God, and these structures are also often built to conduct scientific experiments. Pictured is their grandest achievement to date, the Grand Hadron Cathedral. Within its enormous underground structure, they claim to be able to discover, or manufacture (no-one is entirely sure which) particles of their God. But the tunnels they have been digging out underneath it for the last century tell outsiders some kind of sinister tale. No-one outside of the Society of the Cog quite understands what it is that they do, and no-one inside will tell. This places them in a strange position with local officials, who are usually suspicious of their work. What matters is that they often contribute the results of their research to aid communities nearby, whether transporting goods faster, chilling preserved goods to make them last longer, or lighting a street without magic (or, at least, magic that can be detected). They ritualize magical and scientific processes in order to remember it and to preserve the knowledge. Mending an object might be a basic orison taught to their basic members, while repairing damage on a larger scale might take several detailed prayers, anointing with the sacred unguents, and turning in a circle thrice widdershins, because that’s just how it’s done, alright? Sometimes these prayers seem like wasteful gobbledygook, but they have been seen to work. (Originally posted on Game Masters Stash on 6 September 2018) Categories All Comments are closed.
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