Just about every walk of life from the Realms can be found treading the realm of Esoterica, from the shaggy braves of Barbarica to the lithe, mercurial fae of Celtica.
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“It’s fair to say that some of the Chamber’s Fellows are ever so slightly obsessed with categorising everything and anything for the Great Work. I despair at such wasted effort and it saddens me to think that a former colleague may have spent a year of research time so that I can conveniently refer to my grandmother’s ear horn as O/A/H/124578! Really, I fear that the Chamber is spending so much time dichotomising, unitising and reclassifying things that we are becoming a society dedicated to the administration of a cumbersome, opaque and ultimately unworkable system. The Chamber Philosophick needs to return to its routes: field science, profound philosophy and making the unknown known!”
- Extract from an interview with Benton Wiles, former (and discredited) Fellow of the Chamber Philosophick, Cosmological Philosopher, Issue 7, ECY788As part of the Great Work (the
Universal System for the Classification of the Multiverse), the Chamber Philosophick is attempting to further catalogue all living things by their knowledge, skills and history. The activity is an extremely challenging one, but the Chamber Philosophick is confident that our most revered Honourable Fellow,
Sofia Harmann, daughter of the great Henrietta Illias Harmann will succeed in this stimulating and exacting task. Currently, the
Taxonomic Scheme for the Further Classification of all Living Things by Knowledge, Skill and History extends to the following:
In addition to the above, a number of items are awaiting further investigation, assessment and classification:
A number of other professions may be added once
Cosmology has been finalised.
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