There is a sinister world alongside the world we see, an invisible world pregnant with secrets. Every child who has come upon a mirror in the dark knows this.
It is a world where words hold hidden meanings, where texts are palimpsests beneath which other texts lurk. Where only madmen know the truth, for sanity is a willful ignorance of the horrors that walk the earth at the edge of perception.
Among the worshippers of the true family, the visible world is the least real of all worlds; the dangers of the real world are the least feared, for there are far worse dangers hidden in the shadows and unholy angles of the shells.
The dry city is one finger of the true family’s home. Like the Chaotic Mist, it is an extension of otherworldliness into the “real” world. Unlike the Chaotic Mist, it does not merely grow and contract from a single location. The Dry City may appear anywhere, like a Pocket Domain but larger and more sinister. It actually takes over the region where it appears, and spreads the papercuts out to capture more souls to take away when it leaves.
- The True Family: Patriarchs
- Worshippers of the True Family tend to be Ordered or Ordered Evil. Their prophets use spirits of Order, Death, Charm, Prophecy, and Prophet. There are three powerful patriarchs of the True Family, and many lesser members.
