By These Flimsy Rituals
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c/w gore, loss of identity, body horror (ghosts)
“As we lay entangled, fingers on each other's throats, the roots and tendrils of something new grew around us.”
There are few options left, but choices must be made. Regrouping in the streets of Tail's End, Ezra and Ivar put the weapon stolen from the Pale Lanterns to use. They risk their selves to defend their cause. Meanwhile, back in the labyrinth, Ash arrives at Rodella's Heart. Carn leads him to the Tender's sacred, grisly relic. It's time to become a Jackal.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Altara nim Shif: Scion of the nim Shif family and their trusted enforcer.
Carn nim Daker: The ancient founder of the Tenders, the slayer of Caerdroia and Rodella. Body mythologised, sai rule the Jackals still.
Dorish nim Shif: A younger member of the nim Shifs. Still a child, appears as a Jackal in Tiding.
Galena nim Ovid: The imposing head of the Umbral Provenders and Ash’s aunt. She has ambitious plans for the city.
Trilvo: The matriarch of Tail’s End. A doctor, used to working on ghosts and spirit.
Valour nim Shif: The leader of the nim Shifs who now stands on the precipice of fulfilling all of her family’s ambitions.
Virtue nim Shif: The brother of Valour and Vigor. Has a reputation for not quite matching his sibling's ambitions.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Jackals: More formally known as the Tenders of the Dawn’s Embers, the Jackals are an organisation of remnant hunters guided by strange divination.
Likelihood Lads: A group of bookmakers and petty thieves who run the Loven Street races.
nim Shif: Embrace’s newest great family. Plotting to take over the city with silvered tongues and bloody blades.
~~ PLACES ~~
Hinter Ward: Embrace’s southernmost ward. The north is dense tenements, while the south has been abandoned to marsh and spirit.
Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Arsonist's Lullabye by Hozier
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w thought invasion, injury, explosions
“If we had one advantage, it was that we faced them on our own turf. Most of the fighting would take place amongst the gambling dens and race courses of Hinter Ward. If there were anywhere suited to turn the odds, it were there.”
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Ahste Whist: One of the seven, a group of revolutionaries who mutinied on a warship during the time of the People’s Ward.
Branch & Fleece: The chaotic leaders of the Likelihood Lads. The lasses have an ongoing love/hate relationship with Ivar.
Carn nim Daker: The ancient founder of the Tenders, the slayer of Caerdroia and Rodella. Body mythologised, sai rule the Jackals still.
Crik Rise: Leader of the Flint Street Knappers. Once a friend of Ezra and Nilkat, but life has taken them on a different path.
Dorish nim Shif: A younger member of the nim Shifs. Still a child, appears as a Jackal in Tiding.
Eviron Eaves: A prominent member of the Winter’s Lodge who the others look to for leadership.
Galena nim Ovid: The imposing head of the Umbral Provenders and Ash’s aunt. She has ambitious plans for the city.
Valour nim Shif: The leader of the nim Shifs who now stands on the precipice of fulfilling all of her family’s ambitions.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Jackals: More formally known as the Tenders of the Dawn’s Embers, the Jackals are an organisation of remnant hunters guided by strange divination.
Likelihood Lads: A group of bookmakers and petty thieves who run the Loven Street races.
nim Shif: Embrace’s newest great family. Plotting to take over the city with silvered tongues and bloody blades.
Pale Lanterns: A group once founded to guide stray spirits, but over time their purpose has slipped from benevolent, to enforcers, to oppressors.
Trusted: A small cell of revolutionaries loyal to Neah, headed by Ido Ozk Erut.
~~ PLACES ~~
Hinter Ward: Embrace’s southernmost ward. The north is dense tenements, while the south has been abandoned to marsh and spirit.
Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Science/Visions by CHVRCHES
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w intense peril, kettling, implied death
“From Crown’s Ait, three columns of nim Shif soldiers marched on us, followed by Ministers and the Lanterns and the fucking Swifts. And at their head Valour and Vigor themselves, armour gleaming and spears in hand, come to remove the last bit of grit from the shine of their ambition.
The second siege of Tail’s End were upon us and we welcomed it.”
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Ahste Whist: One of the seven, a group of revolutionaries who mutinied on a warship during the time of the People’s Ward.
Altara nim Shif: Scion of the nim Shif family and their trusted enforcer.
Boctive Deign: A charismatic and cunning revolutionary, whose radical treatises on Embrace are widely distributed and eagerly read.
Boleth Erul Cater: A long-prominent revolutionary from Calvary. Sai are one of the leaders of the Ginnels.
Carn nim Daker: The ancient founder of the Tenders, the slayer of Caerdroia and Rodella. Body mythologised, sai rule the Jackals still.
Eviron Eaves: A prominent member of the Winter’s Lodge who the others look to for leadership.
Galena nim Ovid: The imposing head of the Umbral Provenders and Ash’s aunt. She has ambitious plans for the city.
Ido Ozk Erut: A prominent member of the Winter’s Lodge, who manages a lot of the day-to-day functions.
Rhian Fetch-Grimoire: A former member of the Shepherds of the Roil. Ivar’s sister.
Roan nim Ovid: A former Umbal Provender who left to study the strangeness of the Cut. Ash’s cousin, Galena’s child.
Serrivomer Glass: The “Warden” of the people’s ward of Atrium. Along with Boleth and Boctive, one of the three representatives of the Assembly.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Jackals: More formally known as the Tenders of the Dawn’s Embers, the Jackals are an organisation of remnant hunters guided by strange divination.
nim Shif: Embrace’s newest great family. Plotting to take over the city with silvered tongues and bloody blades.
Pale Lanterns: A group once founded to guide stray spirits, but over time their purpose has slipped from benevolent, to enforcers, to oppressors.
Syndics: Clerks and government officials, embroiled in extortion, corruption and conspiracy.
Trusted: A small cell of revolutionaries loyal to Neah, headed by Ido Ozk Erut.
~~ PLACES ~~
Hinter Ward: Embrace’s southernmost ward. The north is dense tenements, while the south has been abandoned to marsh and spirit.
Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Pokémon City Limits by Onsind
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w mindreading, manipulation, surveillance, betrayal, break-ups
“But then our triumph broke, torn asunder not by those whose noses we’d bloodied to build it, but those who’d helped us fight for it. Boctive Deign, Xenarus Crow. They’d always held fear in their hearts. That fear would poison our fragile course.”
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The day before the march on the Arrad Chambers and the liberation of Lastreah, Neah Gorse finds saimself alone in the Winter’s Lodge. Below them, the fragile machinery of the revolution whirrs. Messengers run to-and-fro, delivering news to the leaders that sit in council, and return with news and schemes.
More than anyone knows, Neah has been building sair knowledge of the revolution’s machinery. As sai comes under other’s dangerous influence, sai might be persuaded to turn the machine to fouler purpose.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Boctive Deign: A charismatic and cunning revolutionary, whose radical treatises on Embrace are widely distributed and eagerly read.
Darjan Hask: A poet, writer and part of Embrace’s elite. Sai are a childhood rival of Neah.
Elif: Apprentice of a fashion house, leader of the Indifferent Maybe (focused on espionage).
Eviron Eaves: A prominent member of the Winter’s Lodge who the others look to for leadership.
Ido Ozk Erut: A prominent member of the Winter’s Lodge, who manages a lot of the day-to-day functions.
Renna: A former Dodger. Joined Roan’s gardens after she found the strange caves beneath Atrium during the first earthquake.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Ginnels: A revolutionary faction formed by the workers of Calvary that use the Maybes as their direct action groups.
Wolves: A revolutionary faction that formed in the early days of the Assembly. They believe that acting to secure the revolution’s safety is paramount.
~~ PLACES ~~
Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Victory by Janelle Monae
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w murder, assassination, heavy wounds, explosions, jailbreak, unreality
“Already, there were tears forming in the fabric of our banners. Soon, we’d all be grasping at them, each claiming that we should be the ones to hold them aloft. We’d tear the whole canvas apart.”
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Slipping through the cut, Ash tries to linger amongst the chaos of Lastreach. The revolutionaries have stormed the inner fort and the stubborn remnants of the Hellebore Guard stand between them and the prisoners. Ash can feel something clawing at him though, pulling him elsewhere. Can he hold on long enough to find Mariana, to free his mum?
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Anancrik Rise: Leader of the Flint Street Knappers. Once a friend of Ezra and Nilkat, but life has taken them on a different path.
Carn nim Daker: Captain of the Hellebore Guard, personal bodyguard of Strau nim Callad and a deathly efficient soldier.
Cloak’s Danse: Captain of the Hellebore Guard, personal bodyguard of Strau nim Callad and a deathly efficient soldier.
Crooner: A former Jackal, turned Minister of the True, turned apparent radical. Despite his outward joviality, sai come with a bloody reputation.
Galena nim Ovid: The imposing head of the Umbral Provenders and Ash’s aunt. She has ambitious plans for the city.
Lena Fisher: The self-declared Tether of Rialla’s Harbour. A former sailor turned radical priest, who teaches a doctrine focused on community.
Mariana Pinder: Ash's mum and co-owner of their shop. Arrested for standing up to the Swifts.
Rinsaya Cinalo: A former Minister, who served as second to Crooner. Has a reputation for pragmatic idealism.
Status Raglan: A political darling of Embrace, jailed after he took credit for Atrium getting a vote.
Strau nim Callad: New-crowned head of the nim Callads, following the death of their father Harnal. Fearing nim Shif assassins, is in hiding on Lastreach.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Hellebore Guard: The elite private army of the nim Callads. The house’s money has ensured that their skill hasn’t waned, even as the house’s power has.
nim Callad: The former monarchs of Embrace, who refuse to release their grip on their burnished gold. They own most of the city’s land, extracting extortionate rents.
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Episode title from Marigold by Mother Falcon
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Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w blood, threats, major injury, prisons, jailbreak
“I imagine in their heads, they were biding time and collecting their forces, ready at any moment to take the fight to the upstart nim Shifs. In truth, they were kidding themselves. Their doom were writ on Fate’s tapestry, their line would soon be done.”
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Hopeful, but unsure, the would-be abolitionists stand before Lastreach's inner keep. They debate the best way into the heart of the island-prison. Do they try to convince the garrison to side with them? Do they force a breach in the prison’s defences? Do they work with the apparently revolutionary ministers, Rinsaya and Crooner?
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Anancrik Rise: Leader of the Flint Street Knappers. Once a friend of Ezra and Nilkat, but life has taken them on a different path.
Cloak’s Danse: Captain of the Hellebore Guard, personal bodyguard of Strau nim Callad and a deathly efficient soldier.
Crooner: A former Jackal, turned Minister of the True, turned apparent radical. Despite his outward joviality, sai come with a bloody reputation.
Jossa Stoic: Crik’s second in command. Tough and trustworthy, respected by all the Knappers.
Rinsaya Cinalo: A former Minister, who served as second to Crooner. Has a reputation for pragmatic idealism.
Status Raglan: A political darling of Embrace, jailed after he took credit for Atrium getting a vote.
Strau nim Callad: New-crowned head of the nim Callads, following the death of their father Harnal. Fearing nim Shif assassins, is in hiding on Lastreach.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Flint Street Knappers: A gang operating out of Limbus Ward, who use gliders to get around. Most are from families with heritage in the Rushes.
Hellebore Guard: The elite private army of the nim Callads. The house’s money has ensured that their skill hasn’t waned, even as the house’s power has.
Ministry of the True: Agents of the council who wield extra-judiciary powers and private militias.
nim Callad: The former monarchs of Embrace, who refuse to release their grip on their burnished gold. They own most of the city’s land, extracting extortionate rents.
~~ PLACES ~~
Lastreach: The island furthest downstream at the confluence of the Trill and the Callad. It currently serves as the city's notorious jail.
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Episode title from The Guillotine by The Coup.
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
c/w prisons, jailbreak, murder
“We declare now the institution of the Common Government of Embrace and proclaim immediate:
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In the dark hour before dawn, a fleet of ships—fishing ships and trade barges, rowboats and one-person yachts, narrowboats out of the canal’s comfort—break the harbour of Laceport and sail purposefully towards Lastreach.
That final island, downstream on the Trill, has served Embrace with a multitude of purposes. Holy ground, watchpost, fort, arable hills for goats, neutral ground, a villa. Now though, it stands as a symbol of tyranny. There is found the city’s jail, and too many languish forgotten on that craggy redoubt.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Anancrik Rise: Leader of the Flint Street Knappers. Once a friend of Ezra and Nilkat, but life has taken them on a different path.
Jossa Stoic: Crik’s second in command. Tough and trustworthy, respected by all the Knappers.
Nilkat: A former factory mechanic, turned revolutionary. A member of the Ginnels and our story’s narrator.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Flint Street Knappers: A gang operating out of Limbus Ward, who use gliders to get around. Most are from families with heritage in the Rushes.
Laceport Beneficiaries: An illegal, roaming co-op dock that feeds the people of Calvary.
Ministry of the True: Agents of the council who wield extra-judiciary powers and private militias.
nim Callad: The former monarchs of Embrace, who refuse to release their grip on their burnished gold. They own most of the city’s land, extracting extortionate rents.
~~ PLACES ~~
Calvary: The most densely packed ward, filled with too-small houses and windmill factories. There are rumours that you can disappear into the Cut if you take the wrong turning.
Lastreach: The island furthest downstream at the confluence of the Trill and the Callad. It currently serves as the cities notorious jail.
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Episode title from Salem by Bon Iver
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Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
Paper sound effect by GJOS on freesound.
c/w political unrest, takeover of government building, protest, violence
“For one moment, the night before, I’d known something like peace. For hours half-a-dozen of us had written and debated and drafted, putting words to the cause that carried our bones. LV was the one to set it and I remember the clacking of their presses as they created copy after copy. The smell of the heat and the paper and the ink lives with me even now. I remember thinking that I should sleep, we should sleep, for the day ahead of us. But how could we, when the future long fought for was being given life before our eyes.”
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As the march reaches the Arrad Chambers, Oken, Ivar and Rhian make their way higher up Marrow to the great temple on top. They hope to make the most of the distraction caused by the unrest. The Pale Lanterns, that faction of ghost hunters that nest beneath the temple, have a weapon that’ll be useful in the struggle to come. They mean to steal it.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Altara nim Shif: Scion of the nim Shif family and their trusted enforcer.
Boctive Deign: A charismatic and cunning revolutionary, whose radical treatises on Embrace are widely distributed and eagerly read. Leader of the Wolves.
Boleth Erul Cater: A long-prominent revolutionary from Calvary. Sai are one of the leaders of the Ginnels.
Parsib nim Corvanus: Recently elected Warden of Holm and nim Shif lackey.
Rhian Fetch-Grimoire: A former member of the Shepherds of the Roil, sworn to keep envoys from Embrace. Ivar’s sister.
Serrivomer Glass: The “Warden” of the people’s ward of Atrium. Along with Boleth and Boctive, one of the three representatives of the Assembly.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Pale Lanterns: A group once founded to guide stray spirits, but over time their purpose has slipped from benevolent, to enforcers, to oppressors.
~~ PLACES ~~
Marrow: A ward at Embrace’s heart, built over Caerdroia’s maelstrom. A hill rises to dominate the city, both geographically and politically.
The Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
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Episode title from Up the Wolves by the Mountain Goats
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Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals
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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
“The early sessions were long and chaotic, stretching through night and dawn. We slept on the hall’s pews, rather than leaving. Fuelled by a freedom centuries hoped for, it would take time to find our structure and rhythm. There were proposals about fundamental rights alongside those for docking permits, debates about abolition of the swifts alongside those about local bridge tolls.”
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The people of Embrace march. A number greater than the city has ever seen, drawn from across Limbus and Holm, Hinter and Acreage, Calvary and Limbus. The streets, ever hot and humid, fill with their press of body, banner and song.
At their head is the Assembly, that council of the revolution whole. They lead the march up the winding streets of Marrow Hill, clutching their declaration. They mean to declare the people’s right to self-rule.
Meanwhile, hoping to make the most of this distraction, Ivar, Rhian and Oken move on Marrow with their own purpose. At the top of the hill is Parsant’s great temple of the maelstrom. The Pale Lanterns, holding a cache of spirit weapons, make their nest inside.
~~ PEOPLE ~~
Carn nim Daker: The ancient founder of the Tenders, the slayer of Caerdroia and Rodella. Body mythologised, sai rule the Jackals still.
Rhian Fetch-Grimoire: A former member of the Shepherds of the Roil, sworn to keep envoys from Embrace. Ivar’s sister.
~~ FACTIONS ~~
Pale Lanterns: A group once founded to guide stray spirits, but over time their purpose has slipped from benevolent, to enforcers, to oppressors.
Parsant: The main religion of Embrace, founded on a rejection of the remnants as divine and a centring of human importance.
~~ PLACES ~~
Marrow: A ward at Embrace’s heart, built over Caerdroia’s maelstrom. A hill rises to dominate the city, both geographically and politically.
Temple of the Maelstrom: Along with Rialla's Harbour, one of Embrace's two main temples. It is built atop the Marrow and is rumoured to be constructed over Caerdroia's body.
The Winter’s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.
~~~
Episode title from Take Me To Church by Hozier
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Follow the show on twitter @flimsyrituals
Find our website at flimsyrituals.com
Support us on patreon patreon.com/theseflimsyrituals
Chat to us on Discord
~~~
Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.
Produced by Thryn Henderson
Series art by Ben Swinden
Music taken from Kai Engel’s Satin
The podcast currently has 79 episodes available.