My principal source for this post will be the modern classic of comparative politics, Patterns of Democracy (2nd edition) by Arend Lijphart (rhymes with pipe-heart), published in 2012.
Although I will be writing from an American perspective, Lijphart's book is not about the United States. Instead, it provides a zoomed-out view of 36 democracies during the period from 1945 to 2010. Why 36? These are the countries that were democratic for at least 20 years leading up to 2010 and have a population of at least a quarter million. You can see the full list here.
Before getting into the details of American democracy, I'll need to explain Lijphart's approach to classifying democracies in general.

Majoritarian vs. Consensus: two contrasting approaches to democracy

In Lijphart’s view, the fundamental dilemma of democracy can be summed up by one question: who should the government be responsive to when the people are in disagreement? One answer is the majority of the people, or quite often in practice, a plurality of the people. This is the crux of the majoritarian model of democracy. In contrast, as Lijphart describes it,

[The consensus model of democracy] accepts majority rule only as a minimum requirement. ...Its rules and institutions are aimed at broad participation in government and broad agreement on the policies that the government should pursue. ...the consensus model tries to share, disperse, and limit power in a variety of ways. A closely related difference is that the majoritarian model of democracy is exclusive, competitive, and adversarial, whereas the consensus model is characterized by inclusiveness, bargaining, and compromise.

As Lijphart argues, the consensus model is the fundamentally more democratic approach, because the majoritarian model, by definition, excludes large portions of the population from a seat at the table of government, particularly minorities of all types.
In fact, in sufficiently diverse societies, such as those with stark ethnic, religious, racial or other cleavages, majoritarianism can be not only undemocratic but also downright dangerous, as minorities may find themselves permanently denied access to power, leading to political instability. An example is Northern Ireland with its Protestant majority and Catholic minority. Protestants formed all of the governments for 50 years from 1921 onwards, leading to mass Catholic protests in the 1960’s and a violent civil war.
Traditionally, there is assumed to be a trade-off between the two models: while consensus democracy is more inclusive and democratic, it is considered to be less decisive and generally less effective at policy making, in part because of the relatively slow process of consensus building and the shorter shelf-life of coalition cabinets
Majoritarianism and its associated two-party system have also been argued to have other advantages, such as presenting voters with a clear choice between two contrasting alternatives and providing a moderating influence due to the strong incentive to woo moderates away from the opposing party. Note the contradiction in these arguments: if the two parties are strongly incentivized to woo moderates from the center, then the parties will become increasingly similar, making the supposedly clear choice between them less meaningful.
By the end of the book, Lijphart comes to the conclusion that there are no significant disadvantages to the consensus model. According to his analysis, consensus democracy is both more democratic and more effective at policy-making. He also finds that consensus democracies tend to be “kinder, gentler” nations: by better protecting the environment, putting fewer of their citizens in prison, and providing more economic assistance to their own citizens and to developing nations. I will discuss Lijphart’s conclusions in more depth later on.

Joint-power and Divided-power: two complementary approaches to consensus democracy

Going a step deeper, Lijphart describes two complementary approaches to building a consensus democracy (or a majoritarian democracy, if the antithesis of each approach is used). The first, the joint-power approach, seeks to broadly share power within institutions. Examples of joint-party institutions include multiparty (as opposed to two-party) systems, proportional representation, and multiparty coalition cabinets.
The second approach, the divided-power approach, seeks to diffuse power across separate institutions, in a system of checks and balances. Examples include separate central and regional governments (federalism), bicameral legislatures, activist constitutional courts with the power of judicial review, and independent central banks.
Note that these two approaches are complementary, not mutually exclusive. A democracy can embrace both joint-power and divided-power approaches, reject both, or embrace one while rejecting the other. As such, every democracy can be roughly divided into one of 4 quadrants. Here is a table displaying a prototypical democracy from each quadrant.

	joint-power	non-joint-power
non-divided-power	Israel	UK
divided-power	Switzerland	USA

There are shades of gray between the two extremes of either approach. For some examples, take a look at this scatter plot showing where each of the 36 democracies fall along the two dimensions (in Lijphart’s lingo, divided-power is synonymous with federal-unitary, and joint-power is synonymous with executive-parties). I’ve highlighted the four prototypical democracies from the table above, and as you can see, even they do not adhere perfectly to the extreme ends of either dimension.
The USA is quite lonely in its quadrant, with only Canada, Argentina, and Australia acting as close neighbors. Canada in fact is a slightly better example of the non-joint-power approach, with its more dominant single party cabinets in contrast with the USA's executive-legislative balance, while the USA is a better example of divided-power with its uniquely strong federalism.
I will argue later that many of the weaknesses of American government are due in part to the rejection of the joint-power approach. These include our adversarial, hyperpartisan two-party system, the failure to adequately represent minorities of all types in government, persistent executive-legislative and House-Senate deadlock, and institutional whiplash following transfers of power between the parties. I will also argue that the USA’s embrace of divided-power is a major source of institutional strength, with some exceptions where I believe the approach has been taken too far or misused.

Non-Joint-Power in the USA

Presidential vs Parliamentary Systems

Americans who don’t keep up with international politics would probably be surprised to learn that outside of North and South America, the vast majority of democracies don’t have presidents, they have parliamentary systems. In Lijphart’s sample of 36 sufficiently large and long-lived democracies, only 6 are presidential: the United States, France, Costa Rica, Argentina, Uruguay, and South Korea. Let’s review the 3 crucial differences between parliamentary and presidential systems:

1. In parliamentary systems, the head of government (usually called the prime minister) is selected by the legislature, while presidents are popularly elected, either by direct vote, or in the case of the United States, by an electoral college (in fact, the USA is the only remaining country to use an electoral college).
2. Prime ministers remain in office until they either resign or are forced to resign by a legislative vote, while presidents remain in office for a set period of time and can only be removed under extraordinary circumstances.
3. Parliamentary systems have a collegial executive, meaning that executive power is shared by a group of people, while in presidential systems power is held by a single person. In terms of the majoritarian-consensus contrast, it doesn’t get any more majoritarian than concentrating all executive power into a single individual elected by a majority.

Depending on the country, prime ministers can vary in their influence over the cabinet, from preeminence (the UK) to an equal-among-equals (the Swiss “presidency” which annually rotates among a 7 member executive council). However, in general, major decisions in parliamentary systems are made by the cabinet as a whole, while presidents can make major decisions alone, even against the will of the entire cabinet, who are essentially glorified advisers to the president.
One might think that a consensus parliamentary system, with its collegial and relatively short-lived coalition cabinets, would be less decisive and more ineffective at policy making, a common notion which Lijphart convincingly argues against. Part of his argument is based on empirical data on quality of governance, the other part is based on the observation that even in countries with very short-lived cabinets such as the former Fourth French Republic, government ministers generally have a much longer tenure than the cabinets they are a part of, while day-to-day administration continues largely uninterrupted during cabinet shakeups.
Majoritarian systems like those in the United States actually have the bigger claim to inconsistent policy-making than consensus parliamentary systems with short-lived coalition cabinets. While cabinets may frequently be replaced, their makeup in terms of the proportion of each party in the cabinet changes to a relatively small degree, while in majoritarian systems like the USA or the UK the drastic swings in power from one party to another can cause chaotic policy whiplash.
For a recent example, think of the failure of the United States to maintain consistent foreign policy, with President Trump unilaterally withdrawing from multiple international agreements that had been painstakingly negotiated by the Obama administration only a few years earlier. Dealing with long-term problems and maintaining a coherent strategy under these circumstances is very difficult, if not impossible.
In theory there could be hybrids of parliamentary and presidential systems, but in practice it almost never happens, with the one exception in Lijphart’s 36 democracies being Switzerland with its Federal Council elected to a fixed four-year term by Parliament, and no option of being dismissed by a legislative vote.
Lijphart classifies the possible hybrids into six distinct categories, summarized concisely by this table. My personal favorite is Hybrid III, in which the president is selected by the legislature for a fixed term. The United States very nearly was a Hybrid III until the Constitutional Convention changed course at the last minute and chose the electoral college system instead. Interestingly, if the electoral college fails to produce a majority for any candidate, then Hybrid III is the next step, with a contingent election taking place in the House of Representatives.
The Framers feared that the president would be dominated by the legislature, and so the electoral college was yet another way to ensure executive independence. In practice, the executive has gradually encroached on the legislature’s power, in what is seen by some as a tendency towards authoritarianism, while the electoral college itself was an almost immediate failure. The electors were intended to be free agents, voting on their conscience without external pressure, but it wasn’t long before party politics set in and electors were sworn to vote for a particular party’s candidate ahead of time.
Perhaps even worse, states began to award all of their electors to the winner of the statewide popular vote, because statewide majorities had a strong incentive to award all of their electors to their favored candidate. Once a couple of states had done it, the others had to follow suit, or else their majority’s favored candidate would face a disadvantage.
Winner-take-all for each state’s electors was not the intended outcome, but rather the dominant strategy (in game theory terms) of a system in which each state is allowed to choose the method of selecting its own electors. A major negative consequence, as we are well aware today, is that presidential candidates have a strongly reduced incentive to strive for the votes of citizens who live in the roughly two-thirds of states that have solid partisan majorities (i.e. the non-swing-states).

Executive-legislative Balance

In some presidential systems, such as France, the president is dominant, with the legislature in a subordinate role, while in the USA the doctrine of separation of powers has provided for relative balance between the president and the legislature, an unusual state of affairs in non-joint-power democracies with their typically dominant executives. While this has been a positive in that it limits the damage done by feckless presidents, it has also introduced a recurring issue of legislative deadlock when the presidency and either the House or Senate are controlled by different parties.
For example, if Democrats fail to win both Senate seats in the upcoming Georgia runoffs, then Biden will likely be unable to pass any part of his legislative agenda despite having won a convincing nationwide election, an all-too-common situation in which the president is incentivized to legislate unilaterally via executive order.
One solution proposed by the bipartisan Committee on the Constitutional System in 1987 was to allow either the president or Congress to resolve deadlock by calling for new elections for both the presidency and for Congress, an experiment which was actually tried by Israel in 1996, though the system was reverted in 2003. In contrast, many parliamentary systems have procedures in place to resolve deadlock between the cabinet and the legislature, or in the case of bicameral legislative systems, between the upper and lower houses.
One example is Australia’s double dissolution procedure, which is triggered when the upper house persistently fails to pass legislation already passed by the lower house, potentially dissolving both houses and triggering new elections. In Australia this level of deadlock is considered a crisis occurring on average once every couple of decades, while in the United States it is just another Tuesday.

Monarchy… not so bad?

Just as an interesting aside, it was surprising to me that almost half of Lijphart’s 36 democracies are constitutional monarchies, including such diverse countries as Barbados, Belgium, Jamaica, Japan, Spain, and Sweden. Equally surprising was that this is largely considered a good thing (with caveats), even by political scientists. As an American I have always assumed that monarchies within a democracy are harmless at best, dangerous at worst, but in Lijphart’s words “[a monarchy] provides a head of state who is an apolitical and impartial symbol of unity.”
The two exceptions are when the monarch becomes a divisive force, as King Leopold III did in postwar Belgium before abdicating in 1951. The other pitfall occurs when the monarch has real political power, a clear violation of democratic principles, the most frequent example being the power to appoint the prime minister, which can become quite consequential when parliament is unable to reach an agreement.
Lijphart also dispels the widespread but mistaken notion that presidentialism is incompatible with monarchy. Presidents are typically both head of state and head of government, but there is no reason a president could not be head of government with a monarch as head of state. Amusingly, Lijphart also observes that this view, though incorrect, has “saved” several democratizing countries with monarchs from adopting presidential systems (for example 1970’s Spain).
Should the United States have been a constitutional monarchy? Though the idea of American royalty was understandably repugnant to the Founding Fathers, perhaps a powerless monarch, a sort of national mascot, might not have been such a bad thing after all, especially now with Americans being so deeply divided. Then again, the American King (or Queen) might have inevitably become a divisive force, as even our flag has become a partisan symbol in recent times.

Electoral Systems

The majoritarian non-joint-power approach is characterized by single-member districts with the winner determined by plurality or majority, while the consensus approach is characterized by multi-member districts with proportional representation (PR). Electoral systems are an extremely important factor, but not the only one, determining the number of effective political parties.
Most of us are familiar with the single-member district plurality/majority approach used in the United States, also known as first-past-the-post, but PR is not as widely known among Americans so I'll briefly explain it by way of example. Suppose that in lieu of having a single representative for each House district, we instead had 10 representatives per district, but each citizen still got only a single vote, and that vote was for a party rather than for a particular candidate. If 20% of the vote were for the Socialist Party, then 2 of the 10 representatives would be socialists (drawn from a Socialist Party list), and so on.
In the above example the party representation in the House would be roughly proportional to the votes, in contrast to the USA’s elections (mostly by plurality) where the votes for losing candidates are essentially discarded and those citizens receive no representation in government. It’s easy to see why PR is widely considered to be more democratic.
In diverse countries, majority/plurality elections are especially problematic because minorities are unlikely to have any representation in the legislature unless they form a majority in at least one district. Some diverse countries have attempted to solve this problem indirectly by setting aside districts for minority representation, such as the Maori districts in New Zealand, the “untouchable” districts in India, and “affirmatively” gerrymandered districts in the United States for Black and Native American representation, though in some cases the constitutionality of those districts has been called into question.
Considering the difficulty that racial minorities have had in achieving representation in the United States, it's not unreasonable to say that single-member districts are an important aspect of institutional racism. Unfortunately, electoral systems are very difficult to change, and most democracies have stuck with their original choices, the one notable exception being New Zealand's transition to PR in the 1990's after the dominant two parties essentially tricked themselves into offering a referendum on PR, which unexpectedly passed despite opposition from both parties.
Predictably, PR is often met with hostility from successful politicians in majority/plurality countries. In 1993, Bill Clinton commented that PR is “anti-democratic” and “very difficult to defend” while withdrawing his nomination for Lani Guinier as Assistant Attorney General of Civil Rights. Guinier, a woman of color, had previously advocated a PR approach for city government elections in order to provide Black voters with enhanced representation.

District Magnitude

District magnitude, defined as the number of representatives per district, is a very important determinant of proportionality. In PR systems, the larger the district magnitude, the more proportional the outcome. To achieve maximum proportionality the size of the district would need to be the entire nation.
Fortunately, it is possible to maximize proportionality while still maintaining the advantages of regional representation by using a mixed-member proportional (MMP) system, as Germany and New Zealand do. In those countries, each voter gets two votes, one for their local single-member district candidate, and another for the political party of their choice. Roughly half of the seats in the legislature go to the single-member districts, and the rest are assigned to each party so that the overall result is proportional to the party vote. This system would be well-suited to a large country like the United States with a strong need for regional representation, and where multi-member districts large enough to achieve proportionality would result in an oversized legislature.
In contrast, the larger the district magnitude in majority/plurality systems, the more disproportional the results will be, which is why very few plurality countries still use multi-member districts. The exceptions are Mauritius’ legislature with it's three-member districts, and the United States’ electoral college with its absurdly large statewide districts, also known as winner-take-all.

Other Factors Affecting the Number of Parties

I mentioned that there are other factors besides the electoral system which influence the number of parties. Presidential systems strongly discourage smaller parties, because only the largest parties have a chance of winning the presidency, an extremely important political prize. This can suppress small parties even in presidential systems which have PR elections for the legislature, such as Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Argentina. The effect is even stronger when legislative elections are held at the same time as the presidential election, as many are in the USA.
Another major factor are the various state laws in the United States which have a tendency to suppress small parties. And yet another is our primary elections which give a strong incentive for dissenting candidates to try their hand at winning nomination to a major party instead of forming their own party.
A factor which does not have a strong effect on the number of parties, contrary to popular belief, is ranked choice voting (also known as instant-runoff or the alternative vote). RCV and other similar systems may have positive effects such as reducing the candidate spoiler effect and eliminating the necessity of choosing the “lesser evil” candidate, but ultimately, if there is only a single winner decided by plurality/minority, then only the most popular parties are likely to prevail. As an example, Australia has used RCV for over a century, but still has very nearly a two-party system.

Our Two-and-a-half Party System

Pure two-party systems are extremely rare. Australia, pre-1996 New Zealand, and the UK come very close, with Malta being perhaps the best modern example. In Lijphart’s view the United States is better labeled as a “two-and-a-half” party system, as the Democratic party often acts as two parties in Congress, separated into the more conservative southern faction and the northern liberals. That might sound unusual, but factionalized parties are not too uncommon the world over, including the conservative Liberal Democrats in Japan, the Congress Party of India (which has since become less divided), and the Italian Christian Democrats before their dissolution in the early 1990’s.

Divided-power in the USA

To keep the length of this post reasonable, I'll leave the explanation of divided-power to part 2, where I'll discuss the USA’s uniquely strong approach to federalism and bicameralism, its extremely rigid constitution, the independence of the central bank, and the paradoxical nature of the Supreme Court. I’ll finish up by explaining Lijphart’s conclusions on the overall effectiveness of majoritarian vs. consensus democracy, and then give my thoughts on the future of democratic institutional reform in the United States.

Since that is what it is...

• "Domination" = ... ?

I leave it to you, noting...

• "The Number" = 333 primes

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/domination

Etymology

From Middle English domynacion, from Old French dominacion, from Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”); see dominate.

Noun:

1. The act of dominating; the exercise of power when ruling
   
2. A ruling party; a party in power.
   
3. A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy.
   
4. A fetish characterized by control/power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.
   
5. (topology) Synonym of cover
   

• "Rulership" = 2020 squares

• "Wear the mask" = 2020 squares

Why? Simple:

A fetish characterized by control/power over and discipline of one's sexual partner.

• "According to the code" = 1234 trigonal
• ... ( "Code of Culture" = 1234 trigonal )
• ... ( "The Spells of Eden" = 1234 trigonal )
• ... .. ( "Great Knowledge" = 1234 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• ... .. ( "What is in a name?" = 1234 jewish-latin-agrippa )

How have you enjoyed this year-long masquerade ball?

• "Covid-19 domination" = 969 english-extended | 1109 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... "A Foundation" = 969 trigonal ( "The Vision" = 1019 trigonal )
• ... .. "Business" = 969 trigonal ( "The Pattern" = 1109 trigonal )
• ... .. .. "Matrix Code" = 969 trigonal ( "Master Plan" = 119 alphabetic )

A temperature of 969 degrees C is 1776.2 F

• "The Supreme Ruler" = 1776 trigonal
• "Emperor of the World" = 1776 trigonal
• .. [ "The English Alphabetic Order" = 1776 trigonal ]

Temperature guns pointed at your head:

• "Citizen" = "Temperature" = 666 jewish-latin-agrippa

... noting...

• "Gun" = "The Canon" = "Garden of Eden" = 247 jewish-latin-agrippa
• "Gun" = "The Canon" = "Danger of Need" = 247 jewish-latin-agrippa
• "Gun" = "The Canon" = "Need of Danger" = 247 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "The Riddle" = "The Time" = 247 primes )

... while...

• "Covid-19 domination" = 1109 jewish-latin-agrippa [ 11/9 @ 9/11 ]
• ... "The Slaves" = 1019 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "Divine Rule" = 119 alphabetic )

... 119 @ 911

• "Lockdown" = 119 reverse alphabetic
• ... ( "The Mirror" = 119 reverse alphabetic )
• ... .. [ "Coronavirus Conspiracy" = 911 primes ]

• "Coronavirus Torture" = 1918 jewish-latin-agrippa

... because that is what it is. You are being dominated sexually.

• "Know the Sex Ritual" = 1918 jewish-latin-agrippa ( ie. Spanish Flu )

The maverick politician puppets are all finally wearing masks because they can't stop grinning.
The rituals of the Eyes Wide Shut party have been partially externalized.
Earth has been openly declared a single giant harem. Everybody is now an odalisque of the Empire, whether they know it or not.
As long as you wear the mask you declare yourself a submissive sex slave of the state.

• "Prostitute" = 1234 english-extended
• ... ( "Code of Culture" = 1234 trigonal )

• "The Key to Victory" = "The citizens bound and gagged" = 741 primes

Noting that the number 741 is off-by-one ( a colel ) of reverse timecode 742

• "Welcome to the School" = 1,742 trigonal
• .. ( "Quantum Entangling" = 1,742 trigonal )
• .. .. ( "The Ultimate Thing" = 742 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• .. .. .. ( "Do not forget" = 742 english-extended )
• .. .. .. ( .. your magic "Wand" = 742 squares )

• "The New Lore of Spelling" = 742 primes
• ... ( "The Time" = "The Riddle" = "Brutal" = 247 primes )

• "Magic School" = 1337 squares
• ... ( "The Virus Origin" = 1337 english-extended ) [ a metaphorical 'virus' ]
• ... .. ( "Something Weird" = 1337 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• ... .. .. [ "Sex Education" = 1337 english-extended ]
• ... .. .. [ "A=1: Sex Ritual" = 1337 english-extended ]

The sigil 'A=1' above symbolizing 'quantum entanglement'.
Quantum @ Qu-Antum @ Q-Antum @ 'Antum' is the ancient name of the Queen of Heaven.

• "World Trade Center" = 1337 english-extended
• ... ( "Secret World" = 1337 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• ... .. ( "A Liturgy" = 1337 english-extended )

• "Organization" = 1337 english-extended
• ... ( "Know a Great Secret" = 1337 english-extended )
• ... ( "To Take My Ease" = 1337 english-extended )
• ... .. . ( "The Serenity" = 1337 trigonal )

• "Humanity" = "World Harem" = "The Mighty" = 369 primes
• "Matrix Code" = "Business" = "World Harem" = 969 trigonal
• ... .. ( "Wedding" = 969 jewish-latin-agrippa )

• "Society" = 911 trigonal
• "A Quantum Entangling" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "Offensive" = "Division" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• ... .. ( "Society" = "Magic is Sex" = 911 trigonal ) [ "Hermeticum" = 911 trigonal ]

• "The Coven" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "The Riddle of the Sphinx" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa )
• ... .. ( "To Decrypt It" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa )

Golden ratio, accurate to three decimal places:

• "Coven Revealed" = 1,618 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "Symbolic" = 1,618 squares )
• ... .. [ "The Coronavirus Trick" = 1,618 jewish-latin-agrippa ]
• ... .. [ "The Coronavirus is a Charade" = 1,618 jewish-latin-agrippa ]
• ... .. .. [ "The Scepter of Empire" = 1,618 trigonal ]

And thus, +1...

• "A Coven Revealed" = 1,619 jewish-latin-agrippa
• "The Church of the Venus" = 1,619 jewish-latin-agrippa

Below are the results of a multispectral matching operation across multiple ciphers, against my dictionary files - the closest matching spells to the word 'domination'. Following after are a similar set of results, but the latter matches are performed against my custom hand-entered lexicon files (ie. personal spellbook). The purpose of these result-sets is to examine the possibility of 'manufactured words', ie. the possibility that the lexicon is a structure encoded with intent, and contains numerically-indexed semantic association (ie. an enciphered mind-map). From another perspective, regardless of the truth of that hypothesis, all these spells listed below might - to persons of a certain mindset, perception or psychology, and to various degrees - represent, reflect, or oppose (in some fashion or other), the notion of 'domination'.
For example, a kabbalist movie scriptwriter might pick names and traits for his evil mastermind character from the list below (or derive them from anagrams thereof), in order to subtly encode the character's name with the intent he has for that character.
17 matches

• admonition

11 matches

• innominate

10 matches

• marination
• moderation [ EDIT - a new article just appeared, see here ]
• nationwide
• windburned
• windscreen

9 matches

• enlargement
• importance
• inapparent
• middlemost
• neoplastic
• pleonastic
• renominate
• repurchase
• superclean

8 matches

• centralism
• circumflex
• clitorides
• comeliness
• conception
• concessive
• cumbersome
• desolation
• escarpment
• evangelist
• execration
• forestland
• freakishly
• friendlily
• greensward
• hereabouts
• illiteracy
• incremental
• indisposed
• melodramatic
• nucleation
• overridden
• paederasty
• permeative
• prosimian
• reprovable
• rheumatoid
• shrivelled
• wanderings
• wordsearch

7 matches

• accusingly
• activation
• aggression
• alongshore
• binoculars
• bloodiness
• bluebottle
• capricious
• casualness
• cavitation
• conjecture
• Cornishman
• cummerbund
• demotivate
• discounted
• dishwasher
• divisional
• embroidery
• endogamous
• Evangelist
• exasperate
• excavation
• foreshadow
• grasslands
• hierophant
• indentured
• inimitably
• languisher
• leopardess
• libidinous
• microlight
• munificent
• nutcracker
• patchiness
• performance
• phylogenic
• picaresque
• rhapsodise
• saltshaker
• senatorial
• singletree
• strabismal
• terraform
• transferal
• undeterred
• unfiltered
• unhandsome

6 matches

• abundantly
• affectively
• alkalinity
• allelopathic
• anagrammatical
• annuitant
• arrestor
• astonished
• Berkshires
• bookseller
• bristols
• brutalize
• burnisher
• calamitous
• chautauqua
• Christlike
• colouring
• consortia
• craftiness
• croakiness
• crosshatch
• daintiness
• deepfrozen
• equalizer
• equivalence
• eugenically
• fishmonger
• flagellation
• heedlessly
• Hellenizer
• historical
• horselaugh
• Illinoisan
• importer
• incitation
• infiltrate
• innumerable
• interlope
• isolation
• lithograph
• litigative
• matrilineal
• misnumber
• mortgagor
• nightlight
• nineteenth
• nonacceptance
• orphanhood
• permanency
• phonologic
• plasterer
• precentor
• privateer
• problematic
• procurer
• proleptic
• purloined
• reappoint
• recitation
• reclusive
• reimport
• repletion
• revarnish
• revolvable
• sanctions
• scantness
• sequencing
• skinflint
• solecistic
• sovereign
• stabiliser
• staleness
• steersman
• strangler
• Tajikistan
• uncollected
• unhonored
• unladylike
• unshakably
• Westphalia
• Windermere

5 matches

• abrasively
• accompanist
• apologist
• behavioural
• benevolent
• Bridgeport
• Chautauqua
• chrysalis
• cirrhoses
• classicist
• clickstream
• commonweal
• consignor
• craziness
• demoniacally
• dilettanti
• driftwood
• efficiently
• ellipsoidal
• empiricism
• encyclopedic
• endearingly
• energizing
• epidemically
• epinephrin
• exterior
• fasciculus
• firstling
• flannelette
• frequency
• genealogist
• genotypic
• guillemot
• heterodox
• horoscope
• humanness
• hungrily
• hydration
• identically
• inclusive
• initialize
• inspirit
• introject
• irritably
• jarringly
• Marquesas
• megavitamin
• mesmerism
• monoclonal
• monsieur
• nativist
• necrology
• noblewoman
• nonjoiner
• nursling
• optimism
• orthopaedic
• pisspot
• preadjust
• precocity
• presidium
• Princeton
• prisoner
• providing
• pufferfish
• Quakerism
• regrowth
• reluctant
• remodelling
• responder
• reticulate
• rounders
• sacristy
• secretary
• signature
• soapsuds
• somerset
• stirring
• suctional
• syntactic
• throwing
• transmit
• trapezoid
• trillium
• unedifying
• unionism
• unmindful
• valediction
• visitant
• vitiator
• vulgarise
• waitress

4 matches

• adaptational
• Adventist
• aesthetician
• allotrope
• amorality
• annulment
• antipathy
• apportion
• bachelorette
• backstory
• beseechingly
• bluepoint
• boondoggler
• borrower
• candytuft
• carbuncular
• chairwoman
• comparison
• confessor
• conquest
• continent
• contorted
• contractable
• costumer
• courtside
• customer
• determinate
• diffidently
• distorted
• droopily
• dyspepsia
• ecumenicism
• elocution
• encouraging
• endothermic
• etherealize
• executive
• facilitator
• footnoted
• frostbite
• generalship
• globetrot
• governor
• groveller
• guernsey
• haemorrhoid
• hastiness
• history
• holocaust
• honorary
• Humphrey
• imponderable
• inconceivable
• intersex
• jottings
• junglegym
• likeableness
• literally
• litterbug
• logroller
• magisterial
• malthouse
• masterpiece
• miscount
• Monsieur
• necrological
• nonillion
• nonnative
• nosiness
• nutation
• outspend
• painkilling
• palindromic
• Palmcorder
• paparazzi
• paronymic
• partially
• pepperoni
• perambulate
• performer
• perishables
• perpetual
• Philippine
• phonetician
• pliableness
• posture
• preprandial
• Presidium
• prostate
• punchbowl
• pustule
• putative
• pyromanic
• queenship
• reduplicate
• results
• retrofire
• ritualise
• Rotterdam
• sciatically
• Secretary
• sentiency
• sexiness
• sforzati
• shyster
• sixtieth
• slideshow
• smallness
• Somerset
• soreness
• spouter
• stalwart
• standout
• starlight
• subsidize
• sweetener
• synagogue
• tattooer
• tayberry
• tenuity
• textiles
• timekeeping
• totemism
• transaxle
• trouncer
• turnkey
• turnpike
• twister
• ulcerous
• uncharitable
• unground
• unharmful
• unhealthy
• Unionism
• unloving
• unpracticed
• unsubtle
• untidily
• uplifting
• Valparaiso
• veritably
• virtues
• voiceover
• volcanology
• volitive
• vulcanism
• warmonger
• weaponize
• whistler
• whodunit
• windsurf
• wintery
• workforce
• worldling
• yoghurt

3 matches

• acquittance
• affixation
• alphabetize
• antifascism
• antonymic
• apoplexy
• apparatchik
• articulated
• beatification
• Bialystok
• botanically
• brachycephalic
• bullyboy
• Cagliari
• calcitic
• cardinalship
• chesterfield
• chickenhearted
• chinoiserie
• choreograph
• Christly
• cinematize
• clumsily
• coextensive
• congregant
• conjuror
• constancy
• Continent
• contrary
• convolutedly
• coriander
• cotyledonous
• courgette
• courtly
• crossbow
• Cuisinart
• cuspidate
• dangerously
• debonairly
• decalcification
• deliberation
• dependably
• depreciator
• dereliction
• dilapidation
• diphthongal
• directorial
• domesticate
• dubiosity
• eavestrough
• emotionally
• enquiring
• expectorant
• expectorate
• fairylike
• flauntingly
• foolishness
• formatting
• fundholding
• furniture
• geriatrician
• Governor
• grownup
• Guayaquil
• Guernsey
• haberdashery
• headteacher
• hipsters
• Holocaust
• homogenised
• ignitible
• indivisible
• internment
• ionizer
• Jacobinical
• justifiable
• keystone
• laddishness
• laparoscopy
• lavatory
• lyonnaise
• machinery
• manoeuvre
• Marinduque
• methicillin
• misshapenly
• momentum
• monkshood
• Monongahela
• muezzin
• mugginess
• mugwump
• mulberry
• mythmaker
• mythomane
• Neptunian
• nervous
• nonaddicting
• nontoxic
• overleapt
• overplay
• overstuffed
• overtone
• participial
• peevishness
• playlist
• politely
• polygamy
• predication
• prevalently
• prosecutor
• Proteus
• protocol
• proviso
• psychosexual
• pudginess
• purview
• rearrange
• rectilinear
• remainder
• resolver
• rosemary
• rosewood
• schoolbook
• schoolboy
• Shavuoth
• shrewdly
• shrimping
• silicosis
• skimpily
• slaphappy
• slenderly
• slumlord
• sogginess
• somnolence
• spacewalker
• spoonbill
• stairlift
• stalagmitic
• standardise
• stockily
• stonily
• stumpy
• summery
• summons
• sunnily
• swankily
• swarthy
• swiftly
• taxonomic
• teachableness
• theorist
• thermally
• thickheaded
• thrombotic
• Thurrock
• Tocqueville
• tootsy
• trichinae
• Tuesdays
• twinkly
• unaddressed
• uncertified
• unconverted
• unprotected
• unquenchable
• unseemly
• unstably
• unwoven
• Uruguay
• varsity
• volleyer
• voyageur
• waxiness
• Whistler
• Whitsun
• womenfolk
• wordplay
• wouldst
• wrongly

All prime matches

• abscission
• absurdly
• acknowledgeable
• admonition
• aesthetics
• allegorize
• altogether
• anecdotist
• antifreeze
• appreciably
• archetypic
• auctioneer
• audiometer
• Aurelius
• awareness
• bastardly
• bemusedly
• bloodstain
• bottoms
• Bratislava
• Brittonic
• brusque
• cannibalistic
• caoutchouc
• capacitative
• carbonation
• Churchillian
• circumambience
• citrous
• clockwork
• closedown
• cluttered
• conceptual
• considering
• contour
• contrived
• cookhouse
• cornrow
• crouton
• cultist
• declutter
• degeneration
• degenerative
• delusional
• deterrent
• dilettante
• disavowal
• disinvite
• disputable
• distort
• downlight
• downlow
• draughty
• drippings
• efficiently
• elaboration
• elaborative
• enlightener
• epidemically
• epitomise
• erectness
• estuarial
• excogitate
• exhibitor
• fairground
• farinaceous
• ferocious
• firelighter
• following
• foresighted
• frizzle
• glassily
• glassware
• Hauptmann
• Hellenistic
• hellishly
• hoovering
• horologer
• housewife
• hurtful
• huskily
• iconoclast
• illiterate
• inadmissible
• indignity
• ingenious
• innominate
• inquest
• intermesh
• invariant
• jointly
• joyriding
• judicious
• Leoncavallo
• lezzy
• licitness
• likability
• limitedly
• Lorenzo
• lowdown
• maladjusted
• manifoldly
• Marilynn
• metabolize
• meteorite
• metricize
• mistreat
• mobilizer
• mounter
• moviemaker
• network
• nonjoiner
• notation
• occlusion
• occlusive
• opalescent
• orientated
• oubliette
• outlands
• pallidness
• Penobscot
• pervert
• philological
• pietistic
• polymer
• popinjay
• populate
• Powys
• preaddress
• predominance
• preschool
• President
• president
• proxy
• psychobabble
• publisher
• purslane
• racketeering
• Rastafarian
• relocation
• remount
• renounceable
• republish
• resilient
• revaluate
• rubberize
• Salvadoran
• scallywag
• scapegoater
• schoolmate
• seduction
• seductive
• seemingly
• seizure
• seventeen
• shamateur
• shrimping
• sightseer
• sixty
• solemnise
• sophist
• soulful
• spoorer
• spumoni
• stagnancy
• steeply
• stemware
• stinter
• submergible
• suburbs
• subvent
• sukiyaki
• supernal
• suspect
• Taurus
• teamwork
• telecaster
• thataway
• titanium
• Tonkinese
• transcribe
• Trenton
• trilobite
• twirler
• unadvisable
• uncollected
• underpay
• underrated
• undersell
• undressed
• univalve
• unjointed
• unreason
• untwine
• Vespasian
• vibrator
• violist
• vitalize
• voiceless
• vulcanised
• Weizmann
• Western
• western
• Whitney
• windrow
• workmate
• worrier
• worsted
• yachtsman
• zesty

Custom hand-entered lexicon files matches (out of 150,0000 entries from headlines, article text, comments, and my own stream of consciousness spell-entry (ie. the database into which go all my gematria calculations you see in my main writings). These are mostly in original entry order within each match-category (my program that performs these matches intentionally does not sort the final results alphabetically) Some of the results represent experimentation with spell augmentations, and other weirdness, and might not make much sense out of context. The capitalization is not consistent, as I often enter a spell multiple times, each time with differing capitalization to test how it affects the bacon cipher results Spells that are capitalized appear in italics, regardless of whether they are proper nouns or not.:
16 matches

• Domination

10 matches

• moderation
• a frontline
• learn to see

9 matches

• to remember
• offend a plant
• a phantom mage
• a phantom game
• icon number
• robotic arm

8 matches

• great sight
• to navigate
• gain wisdom
• great plant
• the droning
• tinfoil hat
• new mineral
• the elderly
• flying cars
• circumflex
• Numbericon
• Dark Throne
• alien count
• no freedoms
• King Number
• the raw meat
• home number
• single pole
• right to ban
• desolation
• model taste
• subtle bond

7 matches

• I am new born
• the legions
• Is not legal
• on the earth
• The Black Door
• Gain Wisdom
• a conductor
• erect penis
• ferrofluid
• heart valve
• Evangelist
• Yggdrasill
• Conception
• road safety
• The Droning
• the another
• Family tree
• dragon horn
• The Problem
• doctored map
• squid brain
• the rounded
• math school
• antechinus
• to seek mate
• humans done
• triple heat
• thunder act
• the full map
• mind point
• inflame lung
• say his name
• erotic talk
• three miles
• one tie, body
• techno sign
• going viral
• be Superman
• the sky game
• connect mind
• Elfin Lords
• Great Elves
• another name
• online gods
• Spice agony
• the arrival
• stand there

6 matches

• Brew of Gods
• it is walled
• Which plant
• body language
• the sublime
• wild beasts
• sealed shut
• cross legged
• to be still
• Grail water
• The Arrival
• Lord of Gems
• infiltrate
• a hidden text
• fake minerals
• problematic
• Salt Shaker
• equivalence
• the blue key
• The Wine Map
• Kingdom Key
• King Ragnor
• double parked
• Please sith
• isolation
• Scale Ruler
• A Wide World
• magic keyboard
• Ferrofluid
• the keyboard
• food parcels
• was a racist
• fifth state
• the hogwash
• number joke
• autism gene
• Crunch Time
• number camera
• the fed upon
• the long neck
• A World King
• no more faces
• learn spell
• nineteenth
• secret iPod
• garbage swop
• in darkness
• the signals
• reign news
• A Wide River
• cross beams
• Water Beast
• have no fears
• Dragon Song
• astonished
• war is space
• long times
• huge number
• A:What to eat
• A1:the real book

5 matches

• A Great Enemy
• It is veiled
• The Book Club
• The One Time
• Walled City
• The Black Pearl
• Family Blood
• frequency
• in prison
• horoscope
• The Sublime
• go to sleep
• to learn it
• to bring it
• The Looper
• let it live
• Body Language
• The Inferno
• Apple iPadOS
• signature
• Andrew Bolt
• benevolent
• scooters
• Light Phone
• all the light
• eye have a tail
• osteoderm
• inclusive
• HongKonger
• geoglyphs
• the sandwich
• Hongkonger
• debut flight
• Impish Mind
• keep them safe
• Dune walker
• moosphere
• An Ancient Name
• Great Black One
• read Tolkien
• not bragging
• The Weir God
• Isolation
• mighty men
• The Riptide
• Book Seller
• Isolation
• the smoker
• over brink
• A Contrarian
• Lithograph
• This is fact
• the ruling
• soap bubbles
• agent of chaos
• reluctant
• The Signals
• the safe haven
• Linkin Park
• the great map
• hold hostage
• Naya Rivera
• the expired
• star bound
• The One Alone
• real dragons
• The Key of Adam
• the rivals
• nice treats
• king count
• count king
• the grim one
• Great Command
• the crooks
• bounce singe
• meaninglass
• Grey Dragon
• absolutes
• quite rare
• Naval Lexer
• letter ink
• dragon's shed
• lost ring
• Plato's cave
• cross line
• linked minds
• kiss foot
• Risen Lord
• Melian's help
• a faster clock
• Shining One
• The David Key
• I am Eleventh
• I am the Elven
• One Throne
• the wizard
• Mithrandir
• the sarcast
• scatter ash
• in the Black Lake
• which witch
• wolf night
• the anomaly
• a secret plan
• A1:nine month
• woman cycle
• corona blood
• woman blood
• Lunar Blood
• Corona Hoax
• a few seconds
• Asian women
• The Belters
• flying blind

4 matches

• it is finis(?)
• master piece
• masterpiece
• The Great Map
• The Great Web
• The Tabernacle
• Do the 1 trick
• to fight it
• the fixers
• the barred gate
• A high tower
• insert it
• history
• the hermetic
• natural code
• wait a second
• to rotate
• to visit
• the revels
• seek me out
• build it up
• to forfeit
• shoot up
• start here
• a patient man
• a woman of god
• the piercing
• the vacuum
• Right Now
• mobile phone
• All you need
• Find Venus
• Show me a map
• Third Move
• Find a Tavern
• war monger
• Booksmart
• Hells Angels
• documents
• caged teenagers
• *Spektr-RG *
• Amber Alerts
• the ritual
• nuclear pact
• a fuel tanker
• holocaust
• performer
• a April Fool
• to wind it
• A Time Lost
• Laws of Noah
• slant ramp
• Ocean Master
• a au-pair agent
• starlight
• blood type
• paronymic
• insults
• rod of iron
• The Other Lab
• Free Party
• Fracking boom
• Who to blame
• The Bing Maps
• the centipede
• the metrical
• The Wizard
• A Riddle: Steel
• save lives
• to posit
• Philippine
• after take off
• the arrest
• The highway
• In theory
• death tracker
• cat and dog tax
• window god
• zodiac light
• 1 magic moment
• Reprobus
• the Firefly
• Somerset
• A1A:the genesis
• Time Slope
• Loud Shading
• gate motor
• the sand beaches
• inconceivable
• keep the faith
• upskirt
• A Time is Done
• global pandemic
• book buyer
• the health code
• swathe death
• In prison
• a great impact
• Ignore them
• The Mud March
• Manly P. Hall
• the green bench
• defund police
• the beginning
• the venus
• the renaming
• a mocking joke
• insert it
• to plug in
• what is a name
• king of earth
• the born again
• one grammar
• the heart beata
• knock over
• The Sex Magic
• A Wand of Abaris
• The Designer
• open the safe
• agree with me
• sum a word
• A: Build a spell
• the elephant
• Lost Chord
• abandon sight
• alcohol sell
• the style
• swingers
• lose finding
• a trick rabbit
• Elven Friend
• a high standard
• the bare bones
• A1:Special rock
• genetic codex
• A1:landing-full
• results
• cabalist legend
• Gulf language
• the bank myna
• ye submit
• new sheeps
• the line guage
• Reveal agendas
• the engendered
• adoring them
• Image Your
• The Grim One
• boiling frog
• air waster
• A:first key
• in a fairyland
• a blood taste
• Porn share
• Coruscant
• A Steel Riddle
• Water Time
• If not A then B
• Blue Shirt
• the video game
• the false claim
• I am the Lunch
• skin of scale
• Silver Lake
• I returned
• Geoglyphs
• media avatars
• Crowned life
• New Origin
• sick world
• remove oil

3 matches

• someone knows
• The Great Fact
• The Debon King
• Masterpiece
• One Name of God
• Starlight
• of Saturn
• seven days
• The Long Tail
• the long tail
• number key
• key number
• key number
• The City Gate
• The Beginning
• The Tower
• spell lore
• Hellmouth
• History
• The Ritual
• Wisdom Teeth
• all together
• The Revels
• all memory
• pump blood
• Fallen Titan
• Age of Bronze
• the current
• The Current
• father to son
• The Hidden Keep
• A1:True Crime
• into the tomb
• To visit
• First Rain
• The Tools
• Hot Enough
• polygamy
• increase mind
• Hollywood AAA
• Wait a second
• Holocaust
• Rowhammer
• Documents
• a spoken word
• rejected cereal
• Computer:AAA
• The Banks Rig
• the academic pay
• tiger count
• rosewood
• the riots
• deliberation
• wikipedia
• The Elephant
• A Trade Center
• Heat Anomaly
• The Trumpean
• biter tooth
• Shoshenq I
• the standard
• the recalling
• momentum
• Next Door
• an axolotl
• wild bird seed
• stand down
• The 1 Ransom
• clever way
• evil twin
• the great fear
• the momentous
• bright circle
• race-based hatred
• Sense Six
• the vote count
• the senses
• Choir Room
• That Error
• Eye of the Baal
• total noob
• charging bull
• pot plant
• pubic hair
• green bottle
• wolf puppy
• The Cold drum
• Swingers
• the robber band
• microglia
• Performer
• Old Town Road
• A:Romulans
• spell beans
• the musth
• The Tale of Pan
• A=1: The Wrong Food
• Zodiac Light
• Dol Guldur
• The Hive Test
• Beginning IX
• giant bubbles
• new skins
• great round
• The Karate Kid
• Caledonian Boar
• Bultitude
• German attack
• tidal lock
• small moon
• Starbucks
• the coffin case
• the top brand
• Land of Khan Eden
• lock lungs
• keystone
• Six Sense
• the envoy
• Wedding Ring
• go in circles
• I have message
• A1:Seven Days
• the magic ring
• the palmtree
• time to let go
• know great
• Alpha Aeon Omega
• Amoricana Brand
• The Life Debt
• sign up, watch
• rideshare
• mans grove
• the dominant
• the abominate
• A Book Seller
• A: Playing Out
• apoplexy
• sexy joke
• gorean venus
• Ken Bowersex
• torah riddle
• To Disobey
• At the thing
• all powerful
• wordplay
• the math twin
• Laws of Light
• Dream Chasers
• a sex show
• saves sex
• the high born
• Ballroom Dance
• A Space Ghost
• sick money
• Swallow Whole
• all-new model
• to ply game
• high death rate
• vas school
• Volcano High
• the diplomat
• wash a mask
• Vega express
• The Venus
• Know the Lies
• A Trumpet
• tax havens
• the vulkan
• a fear of disease
• A:Face the Music
• know wine
• our destiny
• Proteus
• to empty
• build archive
• the good food
• The Marathon
• to me, knights
• cool text
• Japanese Acts
• The Red Plant
• branch language
• gain her heart
• Ship Riot
• to beggar belief
• on standby
• The Kisser
• digital door
• The Straw
• Myth Tree
• the honest
• The Mali coup
• man motion
• Great Troth
• I am the Night
• maneouver
• I am the thing
• The culprit
• Lost funding
• warm wish
• Uber Language
• Crown Mine
• sound box
• The Line Gauge
• The Wide Line
• The Final Day
• The 1 Last Day
• The Cardinals
• See Eschaton
• the game count
• I am in mine
• Frog Faction
• dining out
• dragons hunt
• to eat a heart
• new world
• incarnatio
• the penitant
• I am spirit
• The Tauredur
• Witch Covens
• dream girl
• I am vampiric
• the Venus
• the bite dancer
• spiced cookie
• great offices
• the toilet
• A:AstraZeneca
• the capitals
• the cowardice
• fire an official
• demise of farm
• New World 2000
• world war
• Sous Vide
• the great beer
• Church Choir
• come to earth
• Blood Type
• to be quiet
• 1. think of it
• You come back
• touch time
• Tributes
• church hacking
• credible thread
• shadowy cabal
• One Rogue Bat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njWvn6jm5cY [ "heavy metals" = 1,360 jewish-latin-agrippa ]

'Hominis Nocturna'

The ciphers used in the matching operation that resulted in the lists above were:

• basic alphabetic (ordinal), reduction, reverse alphabetic, reverse reduction, sumerian, english-extended, jewish-latin-agripp, old-english, bacon, baconis, satanic, septenary, alw, kfw, primes, trigonal, squares.

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EDIT:
Wordplay:
https://www.reddit.com/worldnews/comments/jnn4olung_damage_found_in_covid_dead_may_shed_light_on/

Lung damage found in COVID dead may shed light on 'long COVID'

The Chinese word for 'Dragon' is 'Long' or 'Lung' (depending on regional dialect).
...and 'shedding light' is a metaphor. Serpentine creatures shed skin.
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Social distancing theme:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/nasa-calls-voyager-2-and-the-spacecraft-answers-from-interstellar-space/

Phone home —
NASA calls Voyager 2, and the spacecraft answers from interstellar space
The spacecraft is so far south it can only talk to one Earth-bound antenna.

• "The Spacecraft" = "I am the Dark Lord" = "A Social Distance" = 1,911 squares
• "The Spice Craft" = "The Number" = 470 jewish-latin-agrippa

• "The Spacecraft Answer" = 1776 trigonal

• "Earthbound" = "Heart-bound" = 337 primes
• ... ( "Pendragon" = "Fallen ones" = 337 english-extended )

• "Know Earth-bound antenna" = 1717 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... .. ( "The Occult" = 1717 squares )
• ... ( "Conquer the world" = 1717 trigonal )

• "Know one Earth-bound antenna" = 1812 jewish-latin-agrippa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxgYlcNxE8

Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture (Full with Cannons)

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Four days ago I made this stub page, ...

• /GeometersOfHistory/wiki/spellcomponents/644

... which contains, as one of only two "non-numeric" themed spells, "A Super Typhoon"
Today, the press provides an answer and contribution:
https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-a-super-typhoon-and-why-are-they-so-dangerous/

What Is a Super Typhoon, and Why Are They So Dangerous?
Massive storms like Goni, which hit the Philippine islands on Sunday, could be a glimpse of our future.

• "Massive storms" = 644 primes | 3,322 squares ( "Rain" = 322 trigonal )

We also see that:

• "Massive storms" = 1,365 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "The Source" = 365 primes )

ie. 365 days in a year, which prompts thoughts of solar storms.

• "A Storm of the Sun God" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa
• "The Storm of a Sun God" = 911 jewish-latin-agrippa
• ... ( "The Sun God" = 1,777 squares )

Let's answer their question with itself:

Q: What Is a Super Typhoon, and Why Are They So Dangerous

"A: What Is a Super Typhoon, and Why Are They So Dangerous" = 911 primes

• "The Whirlwind Empire" = 1776 trigonal | 3333 squares | 680 primes

... and the Whirlwind is the Empire.
Domination by Uber Typhon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HDlr44qeHY [ refuse mask @ rfs msk ]

'Indominus Rex, camouflage scene'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eESY85D-G5w

'Typhon'

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https://www.reddit.com/worldnews/comments/jnnh2v/five_days_straight_of_no_new_coronavirus_cases_o

Five days straight of no new coronavirus cases or deaths in Victoria, Australia

Q: how many days straight?
"A: Five days straight" = 1611 jewish-latin-agrippa ( = "Show me the key" )
The key to what?

• "The Key to Victory" = 2020 jewish-latin-agrippa ( "The 1 Key to Victory" = 742 primes )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecvpq_b590c

Star Wars - 'Emperor Palpatine Suite' (Theme)

This thread will not be updated in the future. However, its original post on Google Docs will, and it has arguably the better formatting. The document is 16 pages long, and so all of it will not fit in this Reddit post.
Updated on the 9th of January 2020
Made by Ravnie of the United Explorers of Scholarly Pursuits on November 25th, 2019
Further reading: Altmer Titles and Their Significance

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This list does not include generic Imperial NPCs with common professions, Fighter's Guild or Mage’s Guild people, Imperials in inaccessible areas (such as the Clockwork City), or general bandit groups. Some fillers have been sought from Wikipedia to cover a minor description or general explanation as to what each rank or title includes/means.
Hakoshae, the Magnate and the Potentate have been excluded as they are next to nonexistent, or feel irrelevant. You can read some tidbits about them here: ^{1 2 3 4 5}
Overall, to make this document, I went through all of the Imperial NPCs since Dragonhold (944 when this document was in the making), all contraband items, all books in found in the game (including crafting motifs, the eidetic memory, shalidor’s library and non categorised books), all costumes, all pets and mounts as well as all quest items, unique items and other items.
Are there missing items or titles? More than likely. I covered what I could find. If you have any further additions that you happen to stumble over, please leave me a message on Twitter! Or here on Reddit.
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Governmental Titles

As some sections may have been lacking with the title meanings, Imperial, royal and noble ranks has been used to fill in some gaps. Outside of royal and noble ranks, ministers, governors, and numerous other councils exist outside of said body.
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General Facts

• It is known that Imperial nobles and those of high ranks fancied Ebony as a material ^{1 2}
• Imperial noble families often had their House crest engraved upon precious items, including coins, amulets, sculptures, etc.
• The Niben Aristocracy wore golden Laurel Coronets ^{1 2}
• The Imperial Knights were synonymous to militaristic nobles who held no commanding power in the Imperial Legions. Read more in Military Titles → General Facts
• Noble families were titled as House [Family Surname], and often referred to as The [Family Surname]s ^{1 2 3}
• Cities had their own seals/flags ^{1 2 3}
• Citizens could have their citizenship revoked and property seized by the government if they failed to meet requirements set by the (local) ruling authorities
• Nobles were referred to as Lord/Lady
• In ancient Rome, the upper classes and some wealthy individuals lived in a type of house called Domus. This can be seen in ESO’s Domus Phrasticus, a house that belonged to Phrastus of Elinhir
• Cities had their own official seals
• In Bravil, a signet ring is held by the mayors and passed onto the next elected mayor

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Governmental Structure

Emperor/Empress
The supreme leader of the Empire of Cyrodiil. They are referred to as “His/Her Majesty,” or by their title and first name. Emperor-Regent or Empress-Regent refers to the spouse who takes the mantle of EmperoEmpress in the wake of losing their loved one, while the ruler is a minor, absent or debilitated. They had their own personal bodyguards known as the Imperial Guard.
Emperors were chosen and crowned by the Elder Council. It was based on either the person’s birthright, or for said person having seized the capital along with the Elder Council.

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The Elder Council
Or otherwise referred to as the Imperial Council, It is the foremost administrative body in the Cyrodilic government. Their responsibilities ranged from taxation, infrastructure and minor legislation (which the Emperor could veto). The Council’s actions are governed by the Elder Council Charter. Decrees and call for arms from lower governing bodies were ratified/sanctioned after the Elder Council’s approval. Imperial forces that invaded and who took control of said provincial areas are called Imperial Occupation Authorities.
Members of the Elder Council were called Councilors, with a Chief Councilor among them. During times when there was no EmperoEmpress, a High Chancellor, the head of the Elder Council, undertook their mantle. The Elder Council could seize control of military forces of the Empire. At times of war, the Chancellor donned a traditional armour when engaging in battle.
Imperial Battlemages from the Shadow Legion could earn the prestige of being promoted to the unit’s leader, and thus become an advisor to the Elder Council. The Imperial Battlemage should not be confused with the regular Imperial Battlemage.
Ambassadors from provinces were part of some Council meetings, in which they could express their concerns and voice demands against Imperial actions. Other attendees included the High Magistrate.
You can find one of the surviving Councilors in the Alliance Bases in the Imperial Sewers.
Decisions made by the Elder Council are seen to by various smaller councils, ministers, governors and local authorities.
Transactions and expenditures made in the Imperial Council’s name were recorded to a Register of Accounts and Holdings.
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Legionary’s Council
Military matters were to be brought up with the Legionary’s Council. Their meetings do not appear to occur on a frequent basis, considering their only scheduled meeting was said in the Second Seed (May) to be scheduled in First Seed of next year (March). The grade of direness to the topics they would handle is relatively unknown.

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King/Queen
A title given to a monarch who governed over an Imperial Province

• Euraxia Tharn was a known Imperial Queen. She broke the Imperial protocol to conquer a portion of Anequina. Much like any Niben aristocrat, she wore a golden laurel coronet. Royalty probably wielded spectres of solid gold.
• King Bendu Olo was a Colovian King of Anvil who led the All Flags Navy

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Duke/Duchess
In the Roman Empire, Duke was used in contexts signifying a rank equivalent to a captain or a general. What duties the title carry in ESO are left ambiguous

• Varen Aquilarios was a son to a Colovian Duke. Varen himself became the Duke of Chorrol.

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Count/Countess | Earl
Ownership and jurisdiction over land came with the title. This applied to mostly governing cities

• General Turpis “Volte-Face” Tharn took the title Earl of Outer Cheydinhal after the War of Righteousness.
• Count Opius Voteporix, author of House Tharn of Nibenay - Noble Families of Cyrodiil, Volume Seventeen
• Count Ephrem Benirus, former Prefect and ruler of Anvil before the Pirate Queen’s reign ¹
• Count Carolus Aquilarios, current ruler of Kvatch and nephew of Varen Aquilarios
• Count of Skingrad, mentioned in a work of literature that rallies Colovians to join the Legion of the West Weald

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Viscount/Viscountess
Usually an administrative or judicial position

• Viscount Glorion of Leyawiin was mentioned in the Badger Bear mount description.

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Baron/Baroness
Implied to be a “warrior, nobleman”. Perhaps the first step of minor nobility that a peasant in the Empire could obtain after their service or pillaging during war.

• King Bendu Olo was referred to as Baron-Admiral at some point

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Authorities

• Council of Civic Planning - a party concerned with the development and design of land use and the built environment, infrastructure, transportation and distribution networks. Imperial Architect is a term used for some of its members. The greatest Cyrodilic (?) architect was summoned by the Ayleids to construct a great hall.
• Minister of Punition - mentioned only. Probably someone who decided what manner of punishment prisoners would receive
• Provincial Governor - a governor who possesses unlimited authority and often extorted the population. Such could be seen with the taxation increase put in place by Fortunata ap Dugal and her reign in Anvil ^{1 2 3}
• Governor - an elected official to be a chief administrator of Imperial law in a certain area
• Provincial Office of Governor [Name] - the office that delivered the decisions of the Governor to the local populace
• Mayor - a nonexistent role in the Roman Empire, but can be found in ESO. They are the head of a town or a city
• Exchequer - a government department responsible for taxation/receiving and giving out public money. Also referred to as a treasury
• Agent-Inspector (of the Imperial Trade Service) - Imperial Inspectors who survey incoming goods, deciding whether or not they should be allowed within the Empire’s borders or be banned
• (Praefectus Castrorum) (Camp) Prefect - a prefect was a military or civil official in Ancient Rome. Prefect Calo is the only military Prefect present in ESO. He commands his own cohort known as the Cygnus Irregulars.

Prefects ranged from low to high-ranking military or civil officials (a person appointed to any of various positions of command, authority, or superintendence, as a chief magistrate in ancient Rome or the chief administrative official of a department). This was the third highest officer in the Roman Legion, and was usually in charge of training a legion. They could also command a cohort of auxiliaries. Prefects were above the Thin Stripe Tribune (Major, LT Colonel/Colonel). The Count of Anvil (Ephrem Benirus) served as an Imperial Prefect of said city ^{1 2 3 4}

• It is implied that certain craftsmen (such as enchanters) require licenses to operate

Law Enforcement

• Kvatch Vigalents - constables of sort who serve in Kvatch
• Prison Guards could be ordered and pulled to serve as additional reinforcements for the Imperial Legions
• Each city had/has their own City Guard

Diplomacy

• Members of the Imperial Legions could write memorandums (which were titles with numbers and a letter at the end. An example would be #61509.N), which would be sent to Imperial Secretaries. Though the recipient may have also been a minister or a senior executive
• Consul - a diplomat. They attended state dinners, concerns of Imperial citizens and spoke with provincial officials (such as councilors). Those with military careers could change the latter into that of a consul
• Praetor - in ancient Roman times, they served as a magistrate below the consul. They had chiefly judicial functions
• Emissary - a person sent as a diplomatic representative on a special mission

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Societal Titles

Academical

Unsorted

• Scholar of Imperial Antiquities - a scholar who focuses on the Cyrodilic ancient past
• Council Daedrologist-in-Residence - a specialist in knowledge of Daedra
• Academic, Professor
• Defessus Magister - a person entitled to teach in a university, person of authority. Defessus is latin and means exhausted, tired
• Royal Imperial Mananaut#ImperialMananaut_Cap.26_Goggles) - an Imperial sponsored organisation tasked with traveling beyond the confines of Nirn and into the unknown
• Imperial Census - mentioned by Quintus Verres when old abandoned ruins were filled with Imperials, despite past claims of there not being any. A census is an official count or survey, especially of a population
• Envoy-Scholar of the Empress/Emperor - A title granted to scholars who aid in updating the Emperor’s Guide to Tamriel

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Academy of Chorrol
An academy in Chorrol. Juno Procillus was part of it.
Arcane University/Imperial University
The prestigious university found in the Imperial City. It was the center of magical learning in Tamriel

• University Overseer - a person tasked with supervising
• Associate Scribe, Office of Introductory Studies - introductory courses provide one with a sound knowledge of essential areas and are the foundation of future studies within specific areas
• Council of Healers - what manner of sway this council has is left unknown. They appear to study biology
• Imperial Ethnographer - a person studying varying people and cultures with their customs, habits and mutual differences. The university hosted ethnographic courses

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Imperial Academy of...

• ... Records and Histories) (Associate Scribe)
• ... Alchemists

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Imperial College
An Imperial College responsible for publishing Varieties of Faith in Tamriel
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Imperial Geographical Society
A long-standing outfit responsible for the outlining and preservation of historical accounts within the whole Empire. For example, The Improved Emperor’s Guide to Tamriel and Gathering Force: Arms and Armor of Tamriel was published by them slightly before ESO takes place
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Imperial Library
This is the establishments where Elder Scrolls were stored

• Proctor of the Imperial Library - an officer who is annually appointed and who wields disciplinary functions
• Imperial Librarian - the name of the librarians 1
• Chief Archivist - not sure whether or not this should be here or beneath the Arcane University. Chief Archivists were the head archivists, maintaining, appraising, arranging and describing records of the past. Chief Archivists were known to utilise spell ciphers to decode or mask the contents of books.
• Subcurator of Ancient Theology and Paleonumerology - a curator is traditionally someone who is a keeper of a gallery, museum, library or archive. They are charged with an institution’s collection and interpretation of heritage material. This one specialises in religion and the study of the occult ancient significance of numbers
• Curator of Art

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Imperial Naval Consortium
A naval association

• The Chair of Vexillology - the main leader (?) for the study of flags. Did you know that Imperial vessels, particularly those of the early First Empire, carried their unique banner into battle while hung suspended from a tall pole by a crossbar?
• Scholar Emeritus - the former holder of an office, especially a university professor, who has retired but allowed to retain their title as an honour.

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University of Gwylim
An ancient scholarly organisation, dedicated to practical pedagogy

• Proctor of the Imperial Library - an officer who is annually appointed and who wields disciplinary functions
• Gwylim Prize - mentioned vaguely. Awarded to (groundbreaking) scholarly publications
• (The University of) Gwylim Press - part of the university responsible for publications ^{1 2}
• Esteemed Historian - a mentioned title

Publications/Writing

• Editor-in-Chief, Species and Speculation Journal - the principal editor of a publication who is responsible for managing the editorial policies and production content
• Chorrol Crier - a former news outlet in Chorrol that documented the Soulburst
• Black Horse Courier - a newspaper in Cyrodiil ^{1 2}
• Legionary’s Gazette - a journal/newspaper, seemingly used to spread propaganda. The gazette uses the Latin words Auctor Veritas (“authoscholaoriginator” and “truth”) as a title for the original author
• Courier Stakes - bookkeepers of horse racing

Misc

• Foreman Wood Chopper - a worker who supervises other workers ^{1 2}
• Masons' Guild Historian - someone who makes notes on architecture
• Exalted Bard of [Place] - some manner of an elevated/important bard
• Overseer of Mines - a supervisor of mines
• The Impresario - the name of an Imperial merchant. Impresarios were people who organised and often financed concerts, plays or operas
• Groundskeeper - the maintainer of a parks or grounds (of a school or other institution)
• Chronicler of Blades - a historian from the Blades
• Herald - an announcer

Military Titles

This video visually breaks down the structure of the Roman Legions, while this article explains the structure in a simplistic fashion.
The listed rank further below can be found in ESO. As some of them were lacking explanations altogether, modern military ranks and those of the Roman Legions (Roman Empire) have been used to add further information in for descriptions of their duties and responsibilities. This can be confusing, however, as there are “double ranks”. This means that both the old Roman Legion ranks and their modern equivalents have been simultaneously included in the game.
I did not include the Alliance War Ranks among the Imperial Legion military titles, even if some are based off of them. I found the following misleading or lacking points among the Alliance War Ranks that can raise eyebrows:

• The rank of Centurion (which would equal Captain in modern times) surpasses the rank of Major in Alliance War Ranks. This should not be the case
• Outside of PvP, there are no NPCs bearing the rank of a Brigadier
• Depending on the Tribune, listing the Prefect below or above them can be/is wrong
• For some reason, Palace Guard ranks (Praetorian, Palitine and August Palitine) are included in Alliance War Ranks. There are no NPCs bearing any of these ranks in ESO. The closest equivalent to the three would be that of the Imperial Guard
• While each Alliance has their own Grand Warlord (Zimmeron, Sorcalin and Dortene), Imperials lack this entirely
• Overlord and Grand Overlord do not exist anywhere but in PvP

General Facts

• Enemies of the Legion could take advantage of the fact that Legion troops liked to know that the Gods were on their side. Holy symbols could/were transported among some Legions for this purpose
• Sometimes, an entire Legion could be ordered to look for someone
• Disobedient soldiers could be charged with desertion, and mutineers themselves faced death penalties
• Imperial Legion victors of battles recovered banners from defeated foes
• The Imperial Legions had their own marching song(s)
• Imperial Legion smiths had their own equipment and usually kept them after their service. ^{1 2} Akaviri Potentate’s armorsmithing practices changed the Imperial Legions forever. Horseshoes were supplied and created by the smiths
• Legion members and commanders had their own badges and seals
• Sashes were used to prove the identity and loyalty of Imperial Agents upon the Legion’s arrival
• Archeologists often worked together with Legions
• Commanders had their own tents. Specific ones were used to serve as a mess hall
• Legionnaires had their own steins and standard equipment made for catching food
• Colovians were often called to serve, and were able to enter lower nobility thanks to their service to the Legions
• Legionnaires had poseable figurines and toy gladius made after them
• Legionary Academies could hold a place of honor among Imperial military families
• Imperial Knights represented the upper echelons of the Imperial Legions, though did not serve as field commanders. They are a militaristic noble. Colovian Knights could perhaps be counted among them
• The leadership of the Legions was encouraged by Magus-General Septima Tharn to make memorable examples of disloyal soldiers, disobedient prisoners or uncooperative civilians who had been conquered
• Some Legions could have their own animal mascots, such as the Second Legion
• Every cohort (a unit of ~480 men) includes a cadre) of spellcasters known as Imperial Battlemages, who are part of the Shadow Legion, a specialised military spellcasting division
• A 33rd cohort is mentioned in ESO, while Roman Legions were known to only have 10 in a single Legion. If there were 33 cohorts, the number of men would equal to ~ 16’000 in a single Legion, instead of the standard ~ 5000 men in the Roman Empire. Even if the first Legion was twice the size of any other Legion, it still only consisted of 10 cohorts). This means that the Centurion who wrote the letter should have been placed in the Third Legion instead
• Most soldiers receive a medal as severance payment
• CypheCipher rings were utilised to encrypt or decrypt military orders. It has been noted that Colovians had their own brass cylinders with mechanisms used to decipher Colovian messages
• A yearly Legionary’s Ball was hosted. Silks from Skyhold were used to commission all attendees a new attire
• Prisoners in prisons could be turned into guards. Prison guards in turn could be called into service as additional manpower in times of need

Generic Titles/Ranks

• Commander - a title applied to a commanding officer (of army/naval units) ^{1 2 3 4}
• Commandant - an officer in charge of a particular force or institution
• Royal Strategist - a skilled person in planning for war and action. They serve Kings/Queens
• Spymaster - the head of an organisation of spies or a director of intelligence. Sometimes responsible for interrogations and counterespionage ^{1 2}
• Imperial Legion Cavalry - self explanatory
• Scout - a soldier sent ahead of a main force as to gather information about the enemy’s position, strength and movements ^{1 2 3}
• Engineering Auxiliary - a soldier who operates siege engines, such as trebuchets
• Office of the Quartermaster - the office in charge of supplies for the whole army(?)
• Quartermaster - usually a senior soldier in charge of supervising stores or barracks, and distributes supplies and provisions
• Legion Paymaster - a member of the Imperial Legion who pays severance to families who have lost loved ones in the Legion. The payment is granted every month, though it is unclear for how long severance is paid
• Surgeon - doctors who served in the Imperial Legion. ^{1 2} It is unclear if surgeons were deployed alongside healers or if they stayed on the sidelines
• (Number) Legion Surplus - Legion members who sell military surplus to noncombatants. The material must not have any significant military application. The acquired gold is used to pay for means to aid in getting back to the Legion

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http://www.scp-wiki.net/codebrown

Part 1: The Background

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Greetings and Salutations gentle readers! I am your humble guide on this Declassification of the classic tale ‘Code Brown.’ Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste, Tamlin by my most common name.
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I’m not what you’re expecting, I’m sure, but… well, let’s explain me, before we explain the story, shall we? Those of you who have heard of me have heard of me by multiple names. Joseph Tamlin, Joey, Dr. Tamlin, Yoshua Bin Yosef… but I haven’t used that last name in 2000 some years. It was a real pain in the palms. In this timeline, I am the son of Alice Erdich, and her husband Jason. Alice was the daughter of Doctor Prometheus, and great granddaughter of Mikell Bright through her mother.
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I was created by the Duckman (I’m sorry, he’s back to Bright now? I really don’t care, he’ll always be fowl to me.) to act as caretaker for the Tamlin House. (More on that later. It’s all backstory at this point.) I was created as the human embodiment of Time, as focused through the House. I was also created as a ‘too powerful’ character, one whom these days would best be described as ‘meta.’ One of those characters who can hear the narration, and respond to out of characters comments. (I will mention that the Duckman was clearly heavily influenced in this by Simon Hawke and his ‘Inadequate Adept’ series.) Hence, when he sought to write a declassification of a story with me in it, what else should suffice but I be the one to do the explaining? I am often seen as quirky and a little wacky, being able to comment on things that the average character, with no knowledge of a higher world, could do.
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Now, moving on, the House itself! It was originally created as a DND campaign, one of those epic, always changing dungeons. Roll 1d1000, check the mighty list, and make up a description based on the title of said room. The House is a multitude of things, being a physical representation of all space, and also the holding place for the Emperor of all Djinn, known as Jager. In a nod to John DeChancies ‘Castle’ series, the House is said to have 100,000 rooms, but only a thousand of them are amicable to human life at any one time. One of the best known entrances to the House is in the Australian outback, underneath the rock formation known as Uluru, which I have claimed was built to contain it.
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Whew! Are we done with backstory? Almost!
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Code Brown takes its name from an entry in the List of Things Dr. Bright is Not Allowed to do in the Foundation. Specifically, that there is no emergency code for a Bright Family Reunion, which is scratched out with the addendum ‘Yes there is, it’s Code Brown, lock yourself in your room and leave offerings of booze outside your door.’
I should also note that thanks to time travel, a liberal attitude towards sex, and messed up genetics, the Bright family tree has often been compared to a wreath instead. It doesn’t help that my actual body was born several years ago, but I also founded the family line roughly 2000 years ago. Temporal movement forward is often just a suggestion, not a rule.

Part 2: The Foundation Side

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We start with Dr. Jack Bright, everyone’s favorite body hopping Doctor. He’s bound to SCP-963, which is its own whole mess. He’s most likely over a hundred years old, sometimes close to 150. Time and age is wibbly wobbly with the Bright family lineage, and adjusts based on what is needed for the story. He’s best known for a list of things he’s not allowed to do, which he assures me is not canon. He’s generally a fun loving, friendly fellow, hiding a dark depression behind an easy smile. The author claims that Jack was Fated (in universe) to be immortal, and if he hadn’t gotten 963, something else would have done it.
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(Jack originally started life as a Son of Ether from the White Wolf HTML forum chats. At that time, he was a crotchety old man, with his skin covered in burns, and hair that was literally silver. He had a penchant for turning toys into robot servants, and arguing with anyone who would listen. His second incarnation was as a super villain in a forum game, who went by the name ‘Brain Tap’ and was undercover as the Superheroes doctor. His power was to tap into the unused portion of peoples brains, so the more people who were near him, the more psychic powers he had. His third incarnation was here at the Foundation, where he made his home.)
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And then Mikell Bright enters. He’s the eldest of the Bright siblings, and quite the curmudgeon. He spent years as an active agent for the Foundation, working his way up the ranks, until he became a well known and respected agent under the use name of Cowboy. Like his father before him, he first became the Hand Sinister, a trouble shooting agent working specifically for the O5 council handling things that might not look good on paper, and then an O5 himself. It has been stated by the author that Mikell is also anomalous, although whether his power is luck based, or gun related has not been nailed down.
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(Mikell started life in the same place as Jack, as a Dreamspeaker Maruader, who had gone insane and thought himself to be a Gangrel. He really didn’t fit in there, so I’m glad he showed up in this universe.)
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Neither of them think this story is a good idea, and I quite agree with them. Present tense? Please.
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“This is a bad idea,” mutters Dr. Jack Bright,
“I think it’s a fucking horrible idea. But-” O5-6,

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I am informed by authorial intent that the elder two Brights are in reference to the meet up which is happening. More about that later.
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The two of them are discussing their sister, Claire Bright (more on her when she shows up) who was apparently the one who called the meeting. They don’t nessacarily trust their Little Sister, and feel odd that she has aged, when both of them have pretty much stopped aging, one due to an immortality serum, the other due to body hopping.
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Jack is taking care of TJ Bright, aka SCP-590. 590s shtick is that he can heal anyone he touches, but he takes on the damage, albeit healed, himself. So, if someone has a gaping chest wound, TJ could heal it, but suddenly have scar tissue on his chest, and some trouble breathing. He has been reset to base several times over the years by SCP-500, and, thanks to power creep, sometimes can heal himself as well. It has been hinted over the years, the RP, and the stories, that there is a long term Xanatos Gambit by the three brothers of which TJ having to be seen to be of reduced mental capacity is a part.
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Speaking of said mental capacity: TJ is most often portrayed as having the mind of a child. It is hinted that this was done Jack to protect TJ from the pain he suffers when he heals people. Stories have mentioned that this was actually done as a form of supposed punishment. Back in the day before the Foundation cracked down on such things, friendly humanoid SCPs actually worked WITH the Foundation. TJ was one such, and he fell in love with a young lady, who happened to be the daughter of an O5. She got pregnant, but poor TJ got the shaft, and all humanoid SCPs were no longer allowed to free roam or help out.
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(TJ also began life on those same forums. He was a Celestial Chous Nephandi…. It got weird.)
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Which brings me to… 3 pages in, and we’ve only covered the first three paragraphs. Whoo!
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Paragraph four introduces us to the only character in this tale who is NOT a creation of the Duckman. Yoric Elroy is a confidence man and grafter who someone managed to accidentally trick his way into joining the foundation, and, through the Active Duty roleplay, was discovered to be the grandson of Dr. Jack Bright. He was the author avatar of the writer of the same name. Yoric’s only shown anomalous ability is always being in the right place, at exactly the right time, even if it may feel wrong at the time.
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“I feel like she was involved with the ruckus at Site 23, someone said.”

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The Ruckus at Site 23 he mentions is part of said RP, wherein SCP-239 was trying to fulfil her bet laid out in ‘Games Reality Benders Play’ to give one of the Brights a Happy Ending. Jack got his own body back, TJ was cured, Mikell fell in love… and then it was all found out to be the result of reality bending, and it fell apart.
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Which is what Serra is referencing in her looks towards TJ. Serra is also an import from the SCP rp, Duckmans main player character, the others being NPCs used to drive plot. She was a gun nut, a sniper for the foundation, the daughter of SCP-590 and an unnamed O5’s daughter, which she didn’t know at the time, and a ‘Foundling’ which was the term created for Foundation orphans, raised by their own system. Since then, specifically in the tale ‘Rest in Peace,’ she has risen in prestige, having earned the title of Hand Sinister, and the special guns that go with it. Serra has demonstrated no anomalous abilities as of yet, which is anomalous in and of itself.
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Speaking of those guns! Head canon is that they are forged from the bones of the first reality bender the Foundation captured, and as such, give the wielder a little bit of stability, resistance to reality bending, and the like, that extra little edge to keep her at the top of the game. If you have read the Duckmans other tales, ‘Ecce Perago’ and ‘An Non,’ this item is sibling to those used by the various member of the O5 Council. Word of Duck is the more O5 are together, the more stable and hard to bend the area around them becomes… but too much stability is just as bad as too little. Anything else the guns can do depends on what the writer needs.
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Serra is named after the Serra Angela in magic the gathering. Her last name, Argent, is simply a synonym for Bright, which is how many of the Bright spin off families are named. Makes you wonder about Dr. Sophia Light, huh? In universe, her first name is a reference to TJs younger sister, who we shall discuss later.

Part 3: The Other Side

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Which brings us to the other side of the family. While the majority of the well-known Brights are part of the Foundation, several of them are on the other side of the fence, working for various Groups of Interest. Well the Brothers can be said to mostly side with Law, the other side are the fans of Chaos. Both like to think they are on the Good end of the spectrum, however.
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I, of course, am True Neutral.
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Excuse me a moment, I need to make sure a certain fowl minded writer doesn’t hurt himself from laughing so hard at that.
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So, the other side goes in reverse order of age, kind of. That’s actually on purpose, it was supposed to highlight the difference, kind of thing.
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First through the door is Claire Lumineux the Third. (Remember I mentioned synonyms for Bright? Lumineux is Bright in French.) She was first outlined in the aforementioned Active Duty RP, where she was a hacker extraordinaire, a member of the Serpents Hand in good standing, and a Technopath. It was her skill with computers that that led Nobody to seek her out in the tale ‘Snippets from the Serpent’ and make her his successor. Claire 3 is trans. She currently uses her skills of not being seen and computer fuckery to do the Social Justice Warrior thing, writ large.
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While both sides of the family work together, from time to time, they rarely trust each other. Too much bad blood, which explains C3s suspicion of the brothers.
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Jack can see Nobody with some effort, even when she’s trying to not be seen. This is attributed to him not keeping his mind inside his body, but in the amulet.
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Sarah is the fifth, and youngest member of the main Bright siblings. She is currently best known as SCP-321. She was stillborn, and brought back to life through use of 590s powers. In many versions of the stories, it was this action that brought him to the attention of the Foundation, and causes his containment, and hers as well. Despite what Adam may believe, there is nothing of an actual child inside Sarah, she is a mindless humanoid, who, eventually, becomes host to the Queen of the Faeries, in ‘In the End: We Dare Not Go a Hunting.’
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Claire Lumineux the Second is one of the most undefined of the family, as she was only ever created as a gap between the First and Third. The Third had to be a younger sort, and, at the time of creation the Bright family was not as promiscuous as it became, so Claire just having a younger daughter was not taken into account. Second was thus designed to be forgettable. Not as much as Nobody, but she blends in to crowds, seems like part of the scene, until she’s needed. She mostly does recon, but, in rare circumstances, she’s been known to do wetwork. Her special ability is electrokinesis.
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“That girl notices more than you might think,” says the mature woman who follows her daughter into the room.

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This line about is a throw away line, the Second trying to one up the Foundation side. 'That girl' notices nothing.
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David Blindman did not exist in the Bright family canon prior to this tale. He is the son of Mikell, the only child that Mikell has acknowledged, mostly because he is the only one who was born to Mikells wife. David was born with visions, he could see things in the future, not quite as powerful as Claire 1, and not as controlled. He would go into fits where he couldn’t help but spout about the future, or draw it as he saw it. This caused his father to go to extreme lengths to remove his eyes, and, hopefully, his powers, so he wouldn’t have to lock up his own son. All this, and Davids subsequent joining of the Hand, is detailed in his own story “Insert story.”
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David Blindman, often called The Legitimate Son, or the Legal Heir,

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David represents the Unnumbered Brood, the Bright Brood, or the Bright Bastards, as they are alternatively named, all the children born on the wrong side of the sheets. The Bright family motto is “ Ego sum iens ad induendum irrumabo in ea ” or, roughly translated “I’m going to put my dick in it.” At this point in canon, all the Brights are pretty liberal with where their DNA goes, no matter their gender. The idea of the Unnumbered Brood is that there ARE Brights everywhere, so, if they are needed for something the author can just pull one out of his ass and make it work. The idea is highly influenced by the Grey Bastards, from the Secret History series by Simon R. Green. It is Davis job to track down those bastard Brights who might have slipped from notice, and help them as best he can.
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David has a seeing eye pet. The exactness of it is sometimes changeable, as the author is trying to figure out what is the funniest thing. It is a big beast, most often some form of chupacabra crossbreed, sometimes poodle, which is a reference to Jim C. Hines’ Libriomancer series. Her name is Mister Snuggles. Or Mister Muffin. It changes depending on what the author finds funny.
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David is gay, most likely out of a subconscious desire to never add any bastards to the growing numbers the rest of the family does. That doesn’t mean he hasn’t. It just means he tries not to.
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Needless to say, David and his father do NOT have a good relationship.
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(It should be noted that David as well first appeared as a Mage: the Ascension character, in a larp, where he was a Dreamspeaker homeless veteran.)
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Last into the room for the non Foundation side is Evelyn Navon (a Hebrew synonym for Bright, of course.) She is the mother of Mikell, Jack, TJ, Claire, and Sarah. She is a geneticist par excellence, capable of creating bizarre genetic clones, interbred with animal DNA. She sues these powers to create her Stacked Deck for Dr. Prometheus, as a counterpoint to Wondertainments Little Misters. She has extensively experimented on herself, leaving her with a body that is anything but human underneath.
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She is romantically linked with Wondertainment. She bears the name Echidna after the greek myth, the Mother of Monsters. It is unknown if she is referring to her original children, or the ones she creates now. She was also one of the original 13 member of the Foundation, and an O5 before they kicked her out for meddling in things man was not meant to know.
It should be noted that Evelyn and Adam are the only married couple in the family stories that are shown AS a couple. Jack, Mikell, Claire 1 & 2, have all been married. TJ, Claire 3, Yoric, Serra, and David, all have had significant others and lovers. These other tend to show up in nameless cameos, not because they are not real people, but because they are not Bright, and aren’t important to those stories. Were Adam and Evelyn two distant branches of the same family, joining to become one uber-Bright Lineage?
Yup, they sure were.
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“Your father couldn’t make it?” She addresses the question to Mikell, but it’s Jack who answers.

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Adam Bright is not featured in this tale, but, since he is brought up, I suppose we should discuss him. He was an O5, 3 or 12, depending on the tale, and one of the original founders of the Foundation, alongside his wife. He was also the first Hand Sinister, using his trademark pearl handled revolvers to fight evil. And, in his day, it really was evil. He hails from an era of four color superheroes, men of action, adventure, that could lay a villain out with a single punch to the jaw. He has, sadly, lived to see the world devolve into shades of gray. He has recently become the first member of the O5 to quit as opposed to having died in office, in the imaginatively named story, ‘I Quit.’
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Currently, Adam is the most boring of the family. He spends his time fishing, reading, and basically trying to ignore all the things he’s done with his life.
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Adam and Evelyn split on… not good terms. He has tried repeatedly to end her influence on his family, mostly through the judicious application of bullets. If the two were to meet again today, it is unknown which of them would survive.
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And yes, Adam and EVElyn were authorial intent. Subtle, huh?
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And then the star of the show enters, which, of course, is me.
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I kid, I kid, but we already discussed me above, so let’s move on, shall we?
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Part 4: The Gifts

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As can be inferred from the text, Claire is Clairvoyant. That… wasn’t actually an intended reference. The authors sister is named Claire, and he figured he’d slide her in, never realizing how important she’d be to the universe.
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Claire is the matriarch of the Lumineux family. While in this scene, we only have her most direct descendants, there are a host of others, the back bone of the Serpents Hands Underground Railroad. They are dedicated to keeping non murderous humanoid SCPs out of the hands of the Foundation.
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Claire herself, unlike her brothers, is not the adventurous type. She’s more used to sending other people into danger, with forewarning of what they will need to accomplish heroic tasks. As a seer, she tries to go for the vague and subtle style of warnings, handing someone an object with a muttered ‘You’re going to need this.’ Or subtly changing objects in a room ahead of time to make sure it’s safe. She was the one who taught David how to best harness his powers, which may or may not have been part of her long term plans.
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The entire Bright family has more Xanatos gambits in play than… well, I really don’t have a good analogy. Be assured everyone has a good half dozen escape plans for any situation, and Claire had much more than that. It is highly implied that even her Death was only to further her own plans.
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Blah, blah, signs of grief, showing even hardened monsters can still cry.
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I tell you it was rather tough to find a reliable VCR these days. I had to step back to a high school in the 80’s and raid their AV club.
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So, we get our first view of Claire. As stated previously, she was originally based on the authors own little sister. In canon, while she was one of the few Brights to grow naturally old, she had a rejuvenation, putting her in the body of a younger African –American girl.
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Now, the literary convention used here is the simple one of mourners at a will reading. But, the difference here is that, because the deceased was precognitive, she is able to foresee what people will say, and respond to it, so, honestly, it just comes off as a conversation, albeit an odd one.
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Jack frowns at the screen, and closes his mouth. For several minutes, there is silence, the real life Bright staring at the onscreen Bright, as if each was seeking to outlast the other. Everyone else shifts nervously, unsure of what to expect. Finally, Claire, her eyes narrowing into a glare, speaks again. “If you don’t say it, I can’t respond to it, you know how this works.”

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Jack shows that he is the middle child, and thus the stubborn, troublemaker. But Claire is used to dealing with her big brother, and forces him to finally ask the question he wanted to.
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While the exact method of death is not described, we can assume it is quite gorey, leaving no doubt as to the fact that she is indeed dead. Knowing Claire, it is likely she recruited someone from the Hand to make sure she died the way she wanted to.
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Dark here is a nod to the character from Marshall, Carter and Dark, whom, in several stories, has been shown to have written letters to the future, to ensure the profitability of the company. Harry Seldon is of course a nod to the Foundation series by Issac Asminov.
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Claire begins giving out gifts to her family, like a deceased Santa Claus. Each gift has been specially chosen, both out of love for her family, and to ensure that her plots continue. Now, one might think knowing that she has plotted would enable you to, say, throw out a gift, so it doesn’t do anything, but, what if that’s what she had planned on happening? When you start trying to out guess a precog, you generally just end up with a headache.
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She reaches out slowly, hesitantly, and flips up the lid. Her face is a mask of wonder as she stares with-in, multi-colored lights reflecting on her face. She carefully turns the box so the rest of the family can see it, and is rewarded with gasps of delight. Inside the little box is an egg, no bigger than a chicken's egg, but the shell is covered in a slowly shifting array of colors. It glows from the inside, a warm, healthy glow. Evelyn closes the box with some reluctance, and draws it back to her, her hands clasped above it.

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Her first gift is to her mother. As a creator of life, the gift of more life than she could ever experience is an awe inspiring gift. The idea of the Mundane Egg is taken from the Books of Magic, by Neil Gaiman. The author spent many happy years portraying Tim Hunter on the Milliways Bar Livejournal panfandom game.
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Leaning forward, Mikell unlatches the case, and studies the contents with a look of confusion, before turning it to face his family. Inside are the remains of a broadsword, nestled in a fitted red velvet casing. A foot and a half of handle and blade fill the bottom, while the top holds several shards of the blade strapped in with elastic.

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Being a little sister, Claire uses her gift to her eldest brother to both tease and aggravate him. Mikell will spend many long nights pondering the sword, which may have been what Claire intended. The sword of Damocles, is of course a reference tot he traditional story of the same name, where a man who complains about the king is given the kings seat for the evening to feast and enjoy, but the kings sword dangles above his head the entire time, held up by only a single thread. The analogy is, again, not subtle.
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While Jack still works for the Foundation, he is also, technically, an SCP. As such, there may be times when he becomes aware of anomalous humanoids, that don’t pose any threat, and may, you know, just, accidentally kind of tip off the Little Sisters before these poor skips end up stuck in Foundation custody. While Jack is a loyal Foundation man, he understands that many skips are just humans, and not all of them deserve to be locked away for something they had no choice over. A lot of the reason he does this is the guilt he has over TJ, having been the one who turned his brother in to the Foundation, and having been his caregiver over the years.
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Claire ruthlessly exploited that guilt. It’s what she does.
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Dr. Tamlin pulls a bottle from his pack of many things, a bottle whose very shape causes Jack to gasp, and his face to light up in delight. The bottle appears to have been made by a glass blower with a bad case of the hiccups, and the liquid within it is dark, a little syrupy, and has a deep blue tint to it.

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Jack is known as a brewer. He’s famously used SCP-184 inside of one of his stills, to make a liquor that not only naturally glows, but also has a tendency to cause the imbibers to mentally travel to alternate times and dimensions. It is affectionately known as 307 Ale, because it is 153 ½ percent alcohol. Yes, that doesn’t make sense. Are you new? It has also been called Mostly Apples, because, well, it is made from Apples. Mostly. The only bottles known to be able to contain this powerful liquid are Klein bottles, which are like 3d Mobius strips, where the outside and the inside are the same side.
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307 Ale is a reference to the song of the same name by Tom Smith. It’s about a beer brewed in a tesseract, and, well, it definitely fits. Mostly Apples is a reference to scumble in the Discworld series by Terry Prachett. It’s only allowed to be served in wooden cups, as it eats metal.
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“No.” TJ is sitting upright in his chair, his eyes on the screen, paying attention for the first time, his eyes unusually aware, and intelligent.

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Moving on to TJ, we see that he may have some precog abilities of his own. He’s aware of what his sister wants to do for him, and does not want it. Believe it or not, he’s happy where he is. While Claire is a master manipulator, TJ is a spider, sitting in his web, watching everything happen knowing that no one thinks of him as a threat.
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Jack and TJ have a lot of plans set up, plans within plans even. Oh, and, since I didn’t mention it before, the boys names have changed since they joined the Foundation. Jack was born James, Mikell was born Michael, and TJ was born Thomas.
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The Runners will listen when you call, and the Deep Beneath has pledged itself to your service. All of the rest of it is in the case.

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She then leaves the running of her skip Underground Railroad, the Little Sisters, to her daughter. Here we can see a habit the writer picked up from author Simon R. Green, wherein he puts names of things that sound really cool, such as the Runners, or the Deep Beneath, but then doesn’t give you any further information on them. Sometimes he’ll run off a line of them, like Winter Wolf, Crossroads Runner, The Molten Lake etc, etc. If he doesn’t give definition when first introduced, then he can maybe use it later when he thinks of a cool idea for the name.
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My brother, screaming Heebie Jeebies, would you tear out his vocal cords, so the Foundation wouldn’t come for him? Doesn’t always work, removing the source of the power, does it? What about Poor Tessie Shakes? Gonna cut her spine, keep her from moving so she can’t make things fall?

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We see this come into play again during Mikell and Davids argument, with David tossing off the names of Bright Bastards. We can also see that this is an old argument between the two, one they have likely had dozens of times over the years. Mikell believes in the appearance of normalcy, whereas David believes in the freedom for people to be people, no matter their powers.
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Once again, TJ intervenes, showing there may be more to this young looking healer than most people think. It is clear he does not like being used as an example , and just as clear that there may be something between him and David.
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Her gift to David is just as practical as her gift to her daughter. Stuff that they can use to further their cause. Nothing hidden or unexpected, really, except the promise of ever more Brights.
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The time in Tibet has not been explained before or since. The author may eventually write it up, if he can think of something fun with it, involving a gravestone.Probably the graveyard of the immortals. In reference to it, Yoric references a popular headcanon that the Chaos Insurgency is an MTF of the Foundation, and one he has worked in before.
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One of Yorics defining traits is constantly seeking immortality. Something he inheirited from his grandfather, perhaps? Claire line here if a direct reference to the story ‘An Non’ where Yoric becomes the new holder of 963-2, his mind and body taken over by it.
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He reaches into the bag and pulls out a leather belt, a beautifully crafted and tooled thing, with dozens of tiny scenes of fantastical creatures carved into its length. Attached to the belt are two holsters, both clearly made with the same level of care.

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The belt is of course, a magic item. Originally worn by Adam Bright, it was made for him in gratitude by a people he saved from a rampaging monster of some sort. Since it has been in Claires hands, she may have had more added to it, if the writer feels the need to add any tricks or traps later in the story. What exactly the belt does, besides feel good, is unknown.
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I should point out here, that the Duckman has a rather unique approach to writing stories. Whereas many people will pin down every last detail, knowing what their characters favorite book is, where they went to school, and what they had for breakfast, Duckman has a tendency to leave things open, simply because if he needs to change it later to make the story better, he can. So things like the dates of birth for the Bright siblings tend to wander between the later 1800s to the mid 1900s. The parents either were part of the founders of the Foundation, or emigrated to America in the early 1930s, fleeing the rise of anti-Semitic nationalism.
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It has not been noted previously in this document, but the Bright family is Jewish. Jack in his time has even gone through Rabbinical studies, before he joined the Foundation. While working for the Foundation has pretty much soured all of them to religion, it is still a major part of at least the older ones outlook on life.
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Both myself and Claire end the viewing with requests for the family to draw together. In her case, because she saw something in the future that would require both sides working as one to defeat. Me because, well, I like my family whole. Squabbles are so untidy. Plus, I’ve been to the futures, I know what a combined Bright Family can do to this world.
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The leavings are nothing special, besides Serra becoming aware that Nobody is there. She may not have as good of sight as Jack or me, but she’s starting to get there. Being trained to be something more.
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When I leave the room, it’s with a notice to Nobody, letting her know I know she’s there.
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Nobody and Claire converse, doing that thing where they hint at great and terrible things to come. You know, if the author ever gets around to writing them. It does seem to imply that even though there are two sides of the family, Claire is working for the greater good of the family as a whole.
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“Anything for the family.”

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That, then, is the Bright family in all its glory and shame. Any questions?
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(All errors in formatting are the sole responsibility of The Duckman. Any stories referenced in this article may be found at the following link: http://www.scp-wiki.net/dr-bright-s-personnel-file)