The Hollow Creed
The Hollow Creed is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Gertie the Collector. It is practiced in pawn chapels, grief houses, shadow markets, back rooms, sewers, caravans, and anywhere desperation has become currency.[1]
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Reference overview
Overview
The Hollow Creed is the Jerichan faith tradition devoted to Gertie the Collector. It is practiced in pawn chapels, grief houses, shadow markets, back rooms, sewers, caravans, and anywhere desperation has become currency.[1]
How to use this reference
Step 2
Pair this with Gertie Collector Network and Bargain Economy when the question is how those bargains move through routes, factions, hags, ledgers, and collected people.[2]
Gertie the Collector
Description
Gertie is She-Who-Keeps: the old woman behind the counter, the voice in the attic, the moth in the locked room, and the name that appears in ink after the bargain is already made.[3]
Nothing is ever truly lost
Description
People, memories, names, dreams, voices, homes, secrets, and futures may vanish, but they still exist somewhere. The terrible question is who owns them now.[4]
Bargains, tithes, pact ink, and ledgers
Keepers, Crimson Thread, Mourner's Mask, Gilded Maw
Description
Major branches include Keepers of the True Ledger, the Crimson Thread, the Mourner's Mask, the Mouthless Choir, the Gilded Maw, and the Unwritten.[6]
When loss makes the price seem fair
Description
The Hollow Creed is growing quietly because official institutions rarely restore what people have truly lost. Its agents offer possibility, and possibility is dangerous.[7]
References
- [1] The Hollow Creed↩1↩2↩3
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Published reference hollow-creed; original wording and source certainty retained - [2] The Hollow Creed↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference hollow-creed; original wording and source certainty retained - [3] The Hollow Creed · Gertie the Collector↩1↩2↩3↩4
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Published reference hollow-creed#power-gertie-the-collector; source entry 1 - [4] The Hollow Creed · Nothing is ever truly lost↩1↩2
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Published reference hollow-creed#doctrine-nothing-is-ever-truly-lost; source entry 2 - [5] The Hollow Creed · Bargains, tithes, pact ink, and ledgers↩1↩2
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Published reference hollow-creed#practice-bargains-tithes-pact-ink-and-ledgers; source entry 3 - [6] The Hollow Creed · Keepers, Crimson Thread, Mourner's Mask, Gilded Maw↩1↩2
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Published reference hollow-creed#sects-keepers-crimson-thread-mourner-s-mask-gilded-maw; source entry 4 - [7] The Hollow Creed · When loss makes the price seem fair↩1↩2
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Published reference hollow-creed#modern-when-loss-makes-the-price-seem-fair; source entry 5