The sacrifices looked promising, so we ordered the Legionnaires to unseal the first entrance. So far, we’ve unearthed little but bare walls and dust. Wondrous to behold and of marvelous proportions, but nothing like what Pontifex Charmion sought.\n\nAnd yet, I cannot deny a certain feeling. There is a presence within the Ennead itself, unlike any I have ever felt. It’s a heaviness in every breath, and a feeling of eyes watching from the empty walls. Uncanny...but not unwelcome.\n

Ennead Pilgrimage Scroll, Part 1

The Unsealing

A frenzy has come over Pontifex Charmion. She neither sleeps nor eats, pacing before the entrance to the Ennead with wide, staring eyes. \n\nWhen I offered to relieve her torment with prayers, she snapped at me. “You know nothing but the ink on your scrolls. The gods are so much more than images and words.” \n\nI opened my mouth to protest her blasphemy, but she kept speaking as though I wasn’t there. “We <i>will</i> find our way. We <i>will</i> meet our gods.” I left her like that, speaking to only the desert wind.

Pilgrimage Scroll, Part 2

Charmion Transfixed

What Pontifex Charmion proposes is heresy. Casting aside the rituals of our forebearers, which have preserved us for generations. Replacing them with something audacious and terrible. \n\nAnd yet…and yet… \n\nDo we not live in a land of marvels and horrors? Are we not slain and resurrected like Osiris himself? We must be closer to the gods here, on Aeternum, than we ever were before. My bones quake, yet the more I listen to Pontifex Charmion’s reasoning, the more obvious it seems. \n\nWhy would the gods leave such wonders behind, if not to guide us to them?

Ennead Pilgrimage Scroll, Part 3

On Breaking with Tradition

The sandswept and sunscorched desert in the West, and the last known home of the Ancients

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