A new look!
BOOK OF HOURS has been through some major iterations since we first announced it, and we're now ready to share its new look. Click on the video below to watch our planned customisation in action, and scroll down to see various rooms from the different parts of Hush House.
The building's grown over almost two thousand years of history - from its foundation as the Abbey of the Black Dove, through its time as the Dewulf estate, to its guardianship by the Curia of the Isle, and finally its time as the Cucurbit Prison. So it's a honeycomb coral living history of many different eras. The Westcott Room dates from the time of the Curia.
From other parts of this syncretic castle, here's the solarium in the Church of the Unconquered Sun...
Here's the sweltering servants' kitchen above the smithy...
And finally, deep in the bedrock beneath the foundations of Hush House itself, in the upper reaches of the sea-caves: the Chapel Calcite.
More art, lore and a prototype coming soon. Stay tuned!
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To Superintendent Wynford, of Nocturnal Branch —
Secondly, a new letter has emerged, revealing both the power of skolekosophy (the frightening Night Art of 'studying things that should not be studied') and the origins of the so-called 'Ortucchio Incident'.
At the turn of the century, the Nocturnal Branch of the Metropolitan Police was responsible for protection against ‘troubles unseemly and occult.’ After the fallout from the Ortucchio Incident, the Branch was dismantled and its functions absorbed into the civilian Suppression Bureau...
