I’ll say as little as I can because there are few words one can write about them that won’t guide them to you like a beacon, marking the ink, page, and writer to be burnt as fuel.
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People burning censors so thickly that they move in a cloud of scented smoke. A great beast died centuries ago and was buried underground. Priests draw its black blood up through the ground as sacred oil. Geologist-priests, surveyor-priests, holy theodolites and soil samples and plumb lines. Religious digging. Great Pits. Cellars. Three nuns rent a room at an inn and start digging beneath it.”
The Disciples of the Triadic Pyre is a religion of fire. They believe that entropy is the only certain thing in this world, and as such aim to master it: if the only truth is that everything burns, why not be the one holding the lighter. They worship three deities: Fulmina is their goddess of the Flame’s Spark, Arinpata is their deity of Ashen Remains, and a burning god among iron trains with an unpronounceable name is their god of Fire Alight.
During the events of The Curse of Eastern Folly, the Triadic Pyre started recruiting miners in Blackwick to do tasks for them in the mines and be branded.
Almanac Description
The disciples worship a trio of gods that they call the Triadic Pyre, but it is hard to understand how these three beings—powerful though they may be—came first into alignment with each other.
From the Magistrates of the Second Canton, they took Fulmina, goddess of immediate justice, and appointed her ruler of the Flame’s Spark. From the terrible hierarchies of the locomotive Shape that runs across the heartland, they found a burning god among iron trains, whose name my lips dare not utter lest it lay its tracks towards you and I both, and aligned that beast with the Fire Alight. And finally, whether as cruel corruption or in a moment of lightness, they adopted the Ojantani Arinpata, the Smiling God of Death as their deity of Ashen Remains.
Under it all is a simple belief: Even in the heartland where things sometimes find second or third life, in the end, everything burns, everything dies, everything ceases to be. And for the Disciples, the best place to be is holding the match.
Locations
- Bridge Cathedral, where the train crosses the river
- The Triadic Pyre has a strong presence in Blackwick, as they hope to repeat its great disaster where fire sprung out of the mines.