Sefirah Castle

Biodata

Appearance

An immense, ancient palace stands amid seemingly boundless gray-white fog. Its central feature is a mottled long table, with a high-backed chair at its head 2 58.

• Crimson stars — Represent people connected to the space; Klein can use them to receive prayers and summon participants 2 58 165.
• Marked chairs — The symbols behind participants’ chairs differ. Cyril’s combines layered doors, an eye, and surrounding lines 63 138.

Access and Functions

Summoning and communication

• Klein can pull a person’s spirit into the palace. Cyril briefly resisted the pull before allowing himself to enter 58.
• Prayers reach Klein through crimson stars; he can relay messages and images to the person represented by a star 118 223.
• Rituals can open a Gate of Sacrifice and Bestowal to transfer offerings and items between the palace and reality 64 173 192.

Protection and observation

• The Gray Fog isolates Klein from ordinary external manipulation of his luck. The Die of Probability, a Uniqueness, can nevertheless affect him while his mastery remains incomplete 414.
• Klein can observe places through a person’s prayer connection and lend power to divination rituals. High-level interference can obstruct both methods 115 223 252 367.
• The space can suppress or help remove harmful influences: Klein strips an affliction from himself there and uses its suppression to draw on a Beyonder characteristic’s power to soothe Cattleya 161 417.

Limits and hazards

• On Cyril’s first arrival, the palace and fog violently repelled him and weakened his soul. The reaction subsided after several seconds 58.
• The Gray Fog is not an absolute barrier against corruption. Klein is affected when he looks toward a dangerous stone door through it 228.
• Connecting the fog around Cyril to the fog around Klein makes Cattleya’s attempt to perceive them especially dangerous; Klein severs the connection and seals her senses to protect her 416.

Story Role

• Early contact — A prayer reaches Klein in the palace before he understands how someone could know his invented honorific name 2.
• Tarot Club — Klein brings Cyril into the palace and subsequently holds regular gatherings there under the identity of Mr. Fool 58 60.
• Ritual research — Cyril uses paper bearing the Gray Fog’s aura in an attempt to make a dragon-recreating charm. The resulting charm cracks, although a later Replication charm successfully recreates the dragon for a brief test 399 400.
• Unresolved control — Cyril identifies the Gray Fog’s protection as incomplete against Uniqueness-level authority, and Klein realizes that Cyril may know more about the space than he has disclosed 414.