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Cant of the Mimics

1. Guard your privacy. Guard your thoughts. Guard your nature.
2. Plan ten steps ahead. Lace every trap with traps.
3. Never act when waiting is enough.

There have been many Breakthroughs in the past few millennia. Sometimes Sovereigns thwart the Excrucian's plans; many other times, reality only weakens. In their greatest victories, the Excrucians have drawn away the bodies of dead or dispossessed Imperators and converted their energies via the Ritual of Anguish to the negative power of the Excrucians themselves.

Some Breakthroughs take a different course. The Excrucians destroy an aspect of reality, but its Imperator still has other Estates to support it, or an Imperator is slain and the Dark Horsemen have no opportunity to work the Excruciation on the body. In these cases, the Excrucians shape the power they have wounded to their ends as best they can, into the Mimics. These creatures possess miraculous abilities identical to those of Creation's Imperators but are loyal to the Excrucian cause. Yes, Mimics will admit, when all else is destroyed, the Excrucians will Excruciate the Mimics themselves — but this is a death the Mimics consider greatly desirable. In the meantime, even lacking the Excrucians' special abilities, they do have a large advantage in the war: to the Sight, a Mimic is identical to an Imperator.

Category Excrucian