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'''The Priestesses of the Garden, or 'The Red Right Hands'''' | '''The Priestesses of the Garden, or 'The Red Right Hands'''' | ||
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| + | As a means of carrying out her will on the physical plane, Or'talhac'hna has been known to imbue some individuals with some measure of power, essentially drafting these individuals to serve as her priestesses. The exact means of selection is unknown, but based on the information provided by Lucille, it appears to be based more on heredity rather than specific selection of 'chosen ones.' The Paige family, for example, appears to have had several priestesses dating back centuries, though their activities were usually overlooked as withcraft, eccentricity, or general occult curiosity. Prior to Lucille, her paternal grandmother Margaret Paige carried the mantle of a priestess of Or'talhac'hna. | ||
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| + | Unlike most cults and religious organizations, the priestesses of Or'talhac'hna have no centralized organization and no leadership beyond Or'talhac'hna herself. Training and initiation occur in the form of gradually obtaining knowledge through genetic memory as the priestess ages, further lending to the notion that selection to become a priestess is based on heredity moreso than deliberate selection. As a result, priestesses are unaware of one another, and in most cases do not appear to ever interact. | ||
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| + | Some details provided by Lucille also seem to indicate that other species of a certain level of intelligence can also become priestesses. | ||
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| + | When fully initiated, priestesses of Or'talhac'hna can be readily identified by a distinct physical mutation of the right forearm. Beginning at the fingertips and running almost midway up the forearm, the skin pigmentation of the right hand changes to a deep, rusty red color, with fingernails exhibiting a darker shade of this same rust-red. The veins of the hand take on a mild bioluminescent quality, and are visible under the skin as bright ruby tracks. Interestingly, this mutation of the hand appears to have been recorded at least once in literature, with Milton describing a red hand of God in ''Paradise Lost'' as a representation of His divine vengeance. This, in turn, influenced contemporary musician Nick Cave when writing the song that would become "Red Right Hand." Owing to Lucille's curious pop culture obsessions, this association has led to "red right hand" becoming the accepted colloquial term for Or'talhac'hna's priestesses. | ||
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| + | As far as their supernatural capabilities, red right hands appear to draw from Or'talhac'hna's vague dominion over genetic matter in order to enact her will. As described by Lucille, red right hands are capable of freely manipulating blood, bone, and other living tissue as a result of their connection to genetic material it's made from. This allows red right hands to both violently deform or even deconstructed living beings at-will, or heal the wounded. The full limits of these powers are yet-unknown, though Lucille has indicated that the power possessed by red right hands rises and falls with the needs of their matron deity. At times, red right hands are potentially capable of acts of mass destruction if Or'talhac'hna deems there to be a large enough threat to the Old Ones' slumber, while the baseline strength of red right hands would seem to be no greater than the average Bee. | ||