The Peacock Door

'The Peacock Door: proud and shining amethyst, its glow tinting the snow-pale shapes of the Glassgarden. This is the highest point where mortals may penetrate the Mansus. No crack marks its surface. This is not a door that opens, although, it is said, it may bleed light.'

- Entry Text

Way: The Peacock Door can be reached by Dreaming on Way: The Spider's Door with a Lore fragment of Edge, Knock or Lantern aspect of the tenth magnitude or higher.

The Peacock Door, also known as the Gate of Eyes and Pride's Dismay,[30] as well as Vak, both the goddess and the language.[31] The Peacock's Door shines like an amethyst mirror.[32] It has been likened to an abrasion on the House, or some sort of treasured point of entry, like mouth.[33] Its status among the Doors is curious, and some consider it an abomination, or at least unseemly, while also being called the most admirable of Doors.[34][35] A vision from the Priest Legacy depicts the rending of the Peacock Door perhaps during the assault of the first Know.[36] When the Thunderskin ascended, he entered the Mansus through the Peacock Door, an honor denied to the Twins for whatever reason.[37] It is the highest point that mortals may reach in the Mansus. There is no dedicated Key that opens it, and it's sometimes speculated that the Peacock's Gate isn't a proper Door of the House.

Edit: there may be some new news on the "dedicated key" subject. ( hehehehehehehe )

Notable Locations

• The Glassgarden: A cold, pale garden in the upper portions of the Mansus. The Peacock's Door stands amongst the long-dead frost blossoms.[38]
• The Red Church: The domain of the Red Grail, where her Names congregate to debate, create, and perform desires of all sorts. The Flowermaker is also known to visit from time to time. Its pews are bone, its windows are ruby glass depicting various appetites in scenes from life, and its golden altar beats like a heart.[39]
• The Worm Museum: Located within and without the Mansus, for security and safety. The Museum displays various Worms, monstrous creatures from Nowhere that breed in the corpses of dead Hours, dying by never dead. The location is guarded by the Colonel, a station significant enough that even the Lionsmith does not challenge him here. The Hours supposedly keep the Worm Museum open to mortal in the hopes of inspiring revulsion among adepts towards Worms.[40]
• The Lesser Crossroads: Two knotted roads crossing, under the shadow of an oak, behind the Peacock Door, and beneath the Concursum. The lesser Crossroads is a location used in the Apostle Entheate Legacy, where the Witnesses gather in the Light of the Allure.[41]

In-Game Sources

1. A Mansus-Glimpse 2. Read 'The Rose of Waznei' 3. Stag Door's Riddle 4. Read 'The Gospel of Zacchaeus', Chilly Lessons, #spirit_winterd_edge 5. Way: The White Door 6. Entering the White Door 7. The White Door 8. A Way Back Through Dream 9. Approaching The White Door 10. The Way to the Stag Door 11. The Lodge of the Sage Knight 12.“Got your book. Pretty good condition..." 13.The Orchard of Lights 14. Way: Through the Stag Door 15. To the Stag Door 16. The Stag Door 17. At the Stag Door, Again 18. The Painted River, Read 'The Larquebine Codex' 19. The Ascent of Knives, Mantra of Ascent, Maid-in-the-Mirror 20. Way: The Spider's Door 21. Read 'The Watchful Tantra' 22. The Way to the Spider's Door, Entering the Spider's Door 23. The Spider's Door 24. Read 'The Encircling Tantra' 25. Wrong Door 26. Approaching The Spider's Door 27. The Malleary 28. The Concursum 29. Read 'The High Mysteries of the...' 30. Way: The Peacock's Door 31. The Peacock Door 32. Glassgarden: Approaching The Peacock's Door 33. Read Grese's 'A True and Complete Accounting...' 34. Read 'Against the Sisterhood... 35. The Way to the Peacock's Door 36. The Vision of the Peacock 37. Read 'The Morphy Codex' 38. Glassgarden: Not Enough! 39. The Red Church 40. The Worm Museum 41. Locate the Crossroads, The Lesser Crossroads 42. The Incursus, The Conflagration of the Heart, Feast of the True Birth 43. Endings: The Incursus, The conflagration of the heart, The feast of the true birth 44. The Gate Opens Outwards 45. THE DAWN 46. The Last Dance, The Kingskin Gate 47. Three, IN THE HOUSE OF THE MOON 48. The Summit Gate 49. Read 'The Book of Dissolution' 50. Gates of horn and ivory

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