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.
Patriarchs: Nias
Nias is the Bishop of Bone, the twin bishop, seated at the throne of dust in the dry city. His riddles bring down kingdoms. He commands the blood-knives. The blood-knives bring people who read alone and late into the dry city by cutting them out of mundane reality.
Nias may appear as twin bishops, holding court in a tower of bone. Nias is fond of riddles, and may present a difficult riddle which, if solved, will convince him and the city to leave.
He may also appear in Leisesheim amongst discarded children’s toys and forgotten machines.
Patriarchs: Laten
“As I was walking on the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish, he’d go away.”
That man was undoubtedly a servant of Laten. Laten is the nobody, the horse of hunger who commands the five riders of the night: death, war, famine, plague, and oblivion. He sits alone in Nottamun Town, waiting for the infernal trumpet that will signal the loosing of the five horsemen.
From the apocryphal revelation of the Stigmas di Cristos:
And behold, the Lamb opened the first seal, and the lion, in a thunderous voice, cried, come and see.
And I saw a white horse, and a bowman astride it. And upon his head was placed a golden crown; and he went forth to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the Calf cry, come and see.
And there went a red horse, and the rider thereof was given power to take peace from the earth, that they should kill one another, and unto him was given a ruby sword.
And when the lamb had opened the third seal the man-beast cried, come, and see. And I beheld a black horse, and the rider thereon held a pair of iron balances.
And in the midst of the four beasts a voice said, A measure of wheat for a pence, and three measures of barley for a pence, and see that you not hurt the oil, nor the wine. And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the eagle say, come and see.
And I beheld a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him, and Power was given unto them each a fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
And from the midst of the beasts, the voice cried again, come, and see. And I beheld the rider who was not there.
And his name that sat on him was Oblivion. And in his hand he held nothing, and the Lamb shivered as he passed.
And the first beast cried, The end of all time.
And the second, The end of all space.
And the third, The end of all life.
And the Eagle cried, And of all gods.
And the Lamb opened the fifth seal.
Patriarchs: Hetae
Hetae is the hidden word, the queen of insects. She spreads infection, but not mundane infection; her infection eats time and space, her plagues are plagues of metal and gear. Hetae controls the creatures of nowhere. Her victims work tirelessly and thoughtlessly within her insect mesh. Some depictions of the insect mesh show it, like an ant farm, beneath the ground. In the books of the True Family, however, it is depicted as a different angle on reality, a place that can be entered with the right words in the right place, twisted in the secret angle.
