Embrace 23: Holding Breath And Coming Up Again

Published: March 14, 2021, 4:44 p.m.

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c/w arrest, difficult parent/child relationships, lost pets

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\\u201cYou ever done much gardening Belka? You know how you never really see a sapling appear out of the soil. Just one morning it\\u2019s there? It was like that and, honest, it was hard to believe that it hadn\\u2019t always been there.\\u201d

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For the first time that anyone living has known, the dawn breaks perfect across Embrace. Glorious, amber rays carry with them a new day.

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The Jubilant Maybe watch it unfold from above the city. Ezra, Ash, Neah and Ivar exit the cut amongst the familiar bone-rooted buildings of Skulltop; meanwhile Oken, brings with him the unfamiliar. He\\u2019s hauled the Winter\\u2019s Lodge, in its entirety, back into the city.

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What to do with this misplaced piece of geography isn\\u2019t the only issue the Jubilant will have to contend with, as they catch up with friends and family.

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~~ PEOPLE ~~

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Altara nim Shif: Scion of the nim Shif family and their trusted enforcer.

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Amris Graft: Ezra\\u2019s mam. A community organiser and member of the Painted Hands.

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Boctive Deign: A charismatic and cunning revolutionary, whose radical treatises on Embrace are widely distributed and eagerly read.

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Eviron Yves: Highly involved with the Winter\'s Lodge, Eviron helps guide and counsel those seeking refuge in the Cut.

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The nim Gorse\\u2019s (Cherib and Zedek): Neah\\u2019s parents. They are respected members of Embrace\\u2019s upper-middle class.

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Nilkat: A former factory mechanic, turned revolutionary. A member of the Ginnels and our story\\u2019s narrator.

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The Pinders (Avery, Dalton and Mariana): Ash\\u2019s family, a group of Atrium shopkeepers.

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Rhian Fetch-Grimoire: A keen-eyed member of the Shepherds of the Roil. Ivar\\u2019s long-lost sister.

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Sirus: Deputy of Tail\\u2019s End.

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Trilvo: The matriarch of Tail\\u2019s End. A doctor, used to working on ghosts and spirit.

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~~ FACTIONS ~~

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nim Shif: Embrace\\u2019s newest great family. Plotting to take over the city with silvered tongues and bloody blades.

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Swifts: Embrace\\u2019s police force. Once a ragtag militia, formed of ward locals, they have been armed and outfitted by the nim Shifs.

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~~ PLACES ~~

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The Winter\\u2019s Lodge: A place pulled out from the cut. A shifting collection of mismatched architecture. A shell for the gall.

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Episode title from The One to the East and West by Cinder Well

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Hosted by Adam Dixon. Starring Beck Michalak, Elizabeth Simoens, Ryan Evans, Steve Martin and Thryn Henderson.

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Produced by Thryn Henderson

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Series art by Ben Swinden

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Music taken from Kai Engel\\u2019s Satin

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