Temple of the Apostle and the Sphinx
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Jude
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a class of elven priests, Papacies lasting a hundred years, Bishoprics ruled by young five year olds, cardinals-elect yet to take their first communion
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a nunnery known for their skills in archery, whose patron saint ended a war when she shot herself through the heart with a dove's feather from across the wall of a besieged palace in an act of mirraculous bilocation.
they are also known for their battlefield medics, another patron who by moonlight stitched the battlefields for 30 nights, having bleed her own moonlight on the final night
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and they are known for their veil and sword dancing, a circus of saints
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The God Who Walks by The Dark of the Moon
The God who Knows Nine Secret Things
one to a riddle no longer told
one from a letter with a name withhold
one in a pond in a park in the night
one untouched by hands or light
one from a grave when the coffins dug
one by a wink and a shrug
one in the garden where the serpents hiss
one from a loved one you're sure to miss,
and one by pure chance at the price of pure bliss
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Temple of the Apostle and the Sphinx