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== The Shadowed Suns ==
The Order of the Shadowed Suns are a very small monastic group composed of three virtuous Abyssals who are dedicated to returning to their mythological original Solar forms and led by the only Solar in the whole of existence (ironically a Night caste, not a Zenith).

The Shadowed Suns operate out of an ancient hidden Solar temple-manse in the Andes called the City of Mictlan, invisible to both the Loom of Fate and satellite coverage, which links through some of the only remaining Gates of Auspicious Passage in the world to another similarly untraceable Solar temple-manse on an inaccessible plateau in the Himalayas known as the Temple of Leng.

The City of Mictlan is only accessable through one of the many flooded underground cavern systems - and only during the daytime, as these become entrances to the Labyrinth during the night.  The City has stood for several thousand years, and has been used as a refuge for Dragon-Bloods (rescued from Underworld slavery and who now act as Mictlan's guards) and a potential initiation ground for Abyssals into the order (the Order has in the past grown so large as to have five Abyssal members at various times, but members have regularly been killed while out in the wider world and it's difficult to induct new members into the Order when so few care enough to want to seek enlightenment).

The Temple of Leng however is almost completely inaccessible to the outside world except through the Gate of Auspicious Passage in Mictlan, although the caves in the mountains surrounding Leng's plateau are populated with tribes of mad, Neverborn-worshiping mortal cannibals who've populated both sides of the shadowland there, and who once or twice - over few thousand years the Temple has stood - have managed to make it to the outside world.  Rumours of such a temple on a plateau populated by cannibals who worship dead, dreaming gods, spoken amongst those who live in Nepal or Tibet may have even wound up inspiring certain authors to write stories of weird fiction as late as the early 1900s.  At any rate, the Temple of Leng serves as the Order's library and repository of knowledge, as well as the safe-haven retreat for their Solar leader's current incarnation after he has reattained enlightenment.

Generally the Order is reclusive from the world, although they do track the stars of Creation and the Underworld attentively and if they feel the need to intervene, or think they have the potential of finding a new member, will leave their temple-manses.

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