The Lords of Eternal Summer

The Conquered Court. The Demon Servants to the Locust. Magick caged like a songbird

The Court of Eternal Summer is the Captive Court of the Locust King. They celebrate The Whore’s Holiday (Valentine’s Day), The Chimney Sweeper’s Rest (May Long Weekend), The Worker’s Holiday (Labor Day), And Black Market Day (Nov 1). These holidays are commercial mockeries of Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain. They serve the Grey and Falsenight. They are the keeper of consumption and immortality and absolute right and wrong.

• The Magus: The Lord of Lords and Builder of Cities (The Broken Bird)
• The Four
  • The Caretaker: The Lady of The Bloody Fountain (The Martyred Mother)
  • The Messenger: The Lord of Extermination (The Caged Huntsman)
  • The Mediator: The Lady of Unification and Conquest (Captive Citizen)
  • The Scholar: The Oracle Skull of Knowledge (The Toy in the Glass Tower)
• The Fortuneteller: The Quintuple Lords of Misfortune (The Curse of Cities)

The Quintuple Lords of Misfortune

The Quintuple Lords of Misfortune were once the Quintuple Wise Women. They were patrons of midwives, providing fertility and safe births to those who dealt with them. They have five faces associated with the five visible phases of the moon: waxing crescent, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, and waning crescent. They were also associated with lunar and solar eclipses, and offerings presented to them on eclipses were received more readily than at other times. The Quintuple Lords are associated with serpents and vipers and human skeletons. They are also associated with the unaligned stars, those stars not linked into major constellations.

Once female, the transformation into the Quintuple Lords of Misfortune has forced them into a male role which they find uncomfortable. The Hungry Empire does not respect lunar cycles, and so they are forced to wear solar imagery that does not match their fivefold nature. Their association with fertility led to Locust King reshaping them into the Fathers of Cities. The mismatch between their maternal true nature and the male role forced upon them, that they still bear motherly traits. Imperial midwives and nurses privately call the Quintuple Lords: The Mothers of Cities. Those witched hidden in the Mirrored Cities still honor them by calling them the Chained Mothers.

All of the Lords of Eternal Summer seek their freedom. The Quintuple Lords seek their own freedom, but also seek to send their children outside the walls of the Mirrored City. And they consider all inhabitants of the Mirrored City to be their children.