Abyssal
Abyssal is the Jerichan faith and scholarly tradition devoted to the Aboleth, the Deep One. Its followers are archivists, seers, monks, historians, whisper-priests, memory keepers, and scholars who believe truth is uncovered by descent.[1]
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Overview
Abyssal is the Jerichan faith and scholarly tradition devoted to the Aboleth, the Deep One. Its followers are archivists, seers, monks, historians, whisper-priests, memory keepers, and scholars who believe truth is uncovered by descent.[1]
The Aboleth, the Deep One
Description
The Aboleth is an ancient intelligence beneath time: a force that preserves what the world discards. Its record includes victories, atrocities, vanished names, buried prophecies, and thoughts erased from living minds.[3]
Nothing is truly forgotten
Description
Abyssals believe all things are recorded somewhere in the Deep. The greatest sin is willful erasure: destroying knowledge, altering memory for comfort, or lying to the structure of the world.[4]
Silence, ink, water, and descent
Description
Rites include sensory-deprivation descents, Ink Offerings, Echo Vigils, memory-warding, and the Ritual of Layering that grants access to deeper and more dangerous truths.[5]
Preservers, Deep Delvers, Weavers, and Inverted
Description
Major branches include the Preservers, Deep Delvers, Mnemonic Weavers, Abyssal Inverted, Circle of Echoes, and Drowned Scribes. The Deep Archive may be a vault, psychic ocean, or the Aboleth's own mind.[6]
Can Jericha survive remembering itself?
Description
Post-Centrum Abyssal influence is growing because official history can no longer be trusted. One recovered memory can overturn a noble line, expose a false saint, reopen a war crime, or break a prophecy.[7]
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- [1] Abyssal↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference abyssal; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] Abyssal↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference abyssal; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] Abyssal · The Aboleth, the Deep One↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference abyssal#power-the-aboleth-the-deep-one; source entry 1 - [4] Abyssal · Nothing is truly forgotten↩1↩2
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Published reference abyssal#doctrine-nothing-is-truly-forgotten; source entry 2 - [5] Abyssal · Silence, ink, water, and descent↩1↩2
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Published reference abyssal#practice-silence-ink-water-and-descent; source entry 3 - [6] Abyssal · Preservers, Deep Delvers, Weavers, and Inverted↩1↩2
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Published reference abyssal#sects-preservers-deep-delvers-weavers-and-inverted; source entry 4 - [7] Abyssal · Can Jericha survive remembering itself?↩1↩2
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Published reference abyssal#modern-can-jericha-survive-remembering-itself; source entry 5