Update B15

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/A/Arthur.md

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+title: Arthur
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+Older brother to [[Oliver]]. Arthur is a fisherman who lives by himself near [[The Dockyards]]. He spends his nights trawling for fish while the air is [[Rhodofolia|breathable]], and his days selling his catch in the [[Harbor Ward]].

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/C/Constabulary.md

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 Most [[Vesperite|Vesperites]] believe the [[Black Light Mining Company]] must pay the Constabulary to turn a blind eye to their myriad illegal activities, though conflicts between the two organizations do still occur. [[Axelia Vespridge|Duchess Axelia Vespridge]] is the Constabulary’s highest commanding officer.
 
 It appears that constable officers are currently carrying out an investigation in the west end of the city, in the wake of the [[Vesper Ridge Customs and Notary Bureau River Gates Branch Municipal Office|customs office’s]] destruction.
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+Evidently, the Constabulary cares little for the safety of average Vesperites, having callously ignored [[Oliver]]’s heartfelt plea to save his [[Arthur|older brother]].

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/C/The Chapel of Second Chances.md

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 A “church” managed by a young priestess named [[Sister Linia]] on the site of what was once known as [[Cairwick Orphanage]]. Linia, a priestess of the [[Our Lady of the Black Rose|Black Rose]], opens the building’s doors to the public each morning for services and breakfast. Despite the offer of free food, most [[Vesperite|Vesperites]] are hesitant to set foot in a church of the heretical goddess, and [[Rook]] keeps a close eye on any visitors who do appear. According to Linia, the Chapel of Second Chances is named after a similar church to the Black Rose that stood in [[Vesper Ridge]] hundreds of years ago.
 
-A traditional “mourning blanket” for [[Poor Jimmy Ashcroft]] now hangs above the fireplace in the dining room.
+A traditional “mourning blanket” for [[Poor Jimmy Ashcroft]] now hangs above the fireplace in the dining room, and a small lending library box stands by the front door.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/H/Hymns for the Blossoming.md

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+title: Hymns for the Blossoming
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+A three-volume set of ancient, highly esoteric scriptures of the [[Our Lady of the Black Rose|Church of the Black Rose]]. Two centuries ago, the man who would become [[The Old Man Upstairs]] hid them in an [[The Labyrinth|underground]] shrine. He was killed shortly thereafter, and the Hymns sat forgotten until our party returned them to the surface.
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+The scriptures are dense and are written to deliberately confound the reader’s understanding, so analyzing them is a slow and difficult process. However, their dusty old pages promise many rewards for the patient scholar, including myriad insights into the gospel of the Black Rose, magical secrets, and even divine blessings from Our Lady herself.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/O/Oliver.md

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 title: Oliver
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-A human boy, ten years of age, who lives at [[Cairwick Chapel]]. He is timid, quiet, and rather small for his age. Unlike most residents of the church, Oliver has a living relative within the city –an older brother– but the two live apart for reasons Oliver has not shared.
+A human boy, ten years of age, who lives at [[Cairwick Chapel]]. He is timid, quiet, and rather small for his age. Unlike most residents of the church, Oliver has a living relative within the city –an [[Arthur|older brother]]– but the two live apart for reasons Oliver has not shared. - However, Oliver still cares deeply for his brother, and begged our party to save him from a fight that broke out in [[The Dockyards]].

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/O/Our Lady of the Black Rose.md

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 Open worship of Our Lady of the Black Rose is illegal in [[Holy Kingdom of Alinor|Alinor]], but not in Vesper Ridge. Even so, her following is highly taboo and public sites of worship are exceedingly rare within the city.
 
 After [[Poor Jimmy Ashcroft|Poor Jimmy’s]] death, our party learned of traditional funerary rites of the Black Rose’s faith from [[Sister Linia]]. When a member of the community passes away, their loved ones come together to knit a “mourning blanket” of black yarn embellished with intricate silver or white patterns, each one with a symbolic meaning known to the Black Rose’s devout and representative of the person being commemorated. These blankets are placed on display for an amount of time no shorter than the time the deceased spent among the community in life, and are then given to the family (or descendants of the family) of the deceased.
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+According to the [[Hymns for the Blossoming]], many of the Church of the Black Rose’s traditional prayers, hymns, textiles and holy emblems reveal deeper symbolic meaning through a complex system of arithmancy: sacred music notation and geometries through which Our Lady’s divinity can be represented in the physical world.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/O/The Old Man Upstairs.md

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 title: The Old Man Upstairs
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-A hovering, spectral head upon a neck that stretches several feet in length, like an unnervingly fleshy snake. He wears a tattered hood that is just as translucent as the rest of him. The Old Man (or “Mister Upstairs”) is the ghost of a priest who built a humble church to [[Our Lady of the Black Rose]] two hundred years ago on what were, at the time, the outskirts of the small town of [[Vesper Ridge]]. He was murdered in cold blood by fanatical followers of [[the Keeper]], and his restless soul has haunted [[Cairwick Orphanage|the site of his church]] ever since. However, before his death he had the foresight to hide several sacred texts of the Black Rose in an isolated chamber within [[the Labyrinth]], and he’s held out hope that someday they would be recovered by fellow adherents of the faith. Now, after many years, our party has found them: a three-volume series of scriptures titled Hymns for the Blossoming.
+A hovering, spectral head upon a neck that stretches several feet in length, like an unnervingly fleshy snake. He wears a tattered hood that is just as translucent as the rest of him. The Old Man (or “Mister Upstairs”) is the ghost of a priest who built a humble church to [[Our Lady of the Black Rose]] two hundred years ago on what were, at the time, the outskirts of the small town of [[Vesper Ridge]]. He was murdered in cold blood by fanatical followers of [[the Keeper]], and his restless soul has haunted [[Cairwick Orphanage|the site of his church]] ever since. However, before his death he had the foresight to hide several sacred texts of the Black Rose in an isolated chamber within [[the Labyrinth]], and he’s held out hope that someday they would be recovered by fellow adherents of the faith. Now, after many years, our party has found them: a three-volume series of scriptures titled [[Hymns for the Blossoming]]. Together with our party, the Old Man has begun the process of deciphering and interpreting the esoteric text of the Hymns.

_notes/vesper-ridge-wiki/_public/S/Scarlet.md

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 Despite her unapproachable demeanor, it seems she isn’t completely immune to having fun. After considerable coaxing, Juniper and [[Vicky Lu]] did manage to convince her to play a single board game with them. Perhaps she even enjoyed it.
 
-Lately, she seems to be watching the party more than usual...
+Scarlet is a spellcaster, though she’s kept this fact hidden from everyone until quite recently. Due to her magic, she fears she’ll become a target of the [[Bloody Butterfly]], and seemingly plans to take matters dangerously into her own hands if the party does not ensure her safety.