https://www.curufea.com/ 2026-10-23T02:47:21+00:00 https://www.curufea.com/ https://www.curufea.com/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2008-01-30T23:19:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:alice&rev=1201735177&do=diff Alice T. Robot Back at the dawn on time the enemy created a race of robot slaves with the ability to mimic the shape of any being or creature. They were garrisoned on the the planet Xeriphas for a while and sent forth from their on various spying missions. Over time the began to develop an affinity for the creatures they were forced to mimic and developed rudimentary personalities and one by one they broke free of their creators will. One such being developed a female human psyche and called he… text/html 2008-01-29T05:24:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:anasazi&rev=1201584275&do=diff Anasazi Earth during the period called the Dark Ages by the locals was rife with infiltrations by the war era powers. The most obvious of these is “the Anasazi” or Enemy encountered by the Native American group called the Navajo . Little is known about the encounter (as it is often the case with agents of the Great Houses War-time enemy). But what is known is that the enclave on Earth was known for it's bloody handed appraoch to the natives. If any got too close to the enclave they were killed,… text/html 2008-01-29T20:32:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:avon&rev=1201638755&do=diff Avon, Kerrgulan Little is known about the computer expert known as Avon prior to his life as a terrorist-cum-pirate in one of the many space age empires based on Earth. What is known is that he is highly intelligent, cunning and ruthless. How he became involved in the War is unknown, but his presence on many Wartime battlegrounds is noted by academicans on the Homeworld and by the intelligence agencies of the Great Houses' Enemy. He is depicted as a vulture, arriving soon after (if after is wor… text/html 2008-01-29T05:07:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:ballroom&rev=1201583249&do=diff Ballroom, The A vast stately human affair, 17th Century England meets 19th Century Russia with a sprinkling of French je ne sais quoi thrown in for good measure. This the centre of the last waltz. It's an ancient dance performed between cause and effect as each jostles for position and taking turns to lead. They are surrounded by minor beings, kings, queens, emporers and empresses from every age and dynasty. It's said that to leave a dance before the music finishes is to invite the ruination of… text/html 2008-01-29T05:40:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:bastion&rev=1201585252&do=diff the Bastion Project Prior to the commencement of the War there was a great worry on the Homeworld that the Culture of the Great Houses would change during the War to something unbecoming. It was not that the Great Houses thought that they'd lose or that their future Enemy could really threaten them text/html 2008-01-29T05:07:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:blood_roots&rev=1201583277&do=diff Blood Roots A twisted genetically modified plant species that thrives only in the rainforests of Earth. It was created to be a universal source of cheap protein that could be grown anywhere on the planet, but it absorbed stray genetic material from many species and developed a predatorial intelligence. The plant mass can cover many acres but it is all one organism. Blood Roots get their name from their feeding habits, they soak the ground with the blood of their victims and suck it into their c… text/html 2008-01-29T05:08:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:bronwyn&rev=1201583284&do=diff Bronwyn An octopus-like creature who is blue in colour, although he does blush green from time to time. He can live equally well in or out of water, although he prefers the coolness of water. His is an ancient people who were conquored by House D'mon many years ago and his people enslaved. He was given to text/html 2008-01-30T01:19:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:celeste_cousin&rev=1201655978&do=diff Celeste, Cousin A somewhat sociopathic and totally psychotic member of Faction Paradox, she partook the great hunt as part of her initiation rituals, killing off a grand total of 287 ancestors, including her parents (she ran her mother over with a car and chemically enslaved her father and made him commit suicide for her viewing pleasure. Celeste's early years as a cousin were unremarkable, save the high body count of her foes. This led to the formation of the text/html 2008-01-30T23:16:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:cliche&rev=1201734960&do=diff Cliché The idea of reusing familiar ideas and phrases in a new context has long been a popular one within many lesser cultures. The ease with which a fiction can be constructed by combining disparate elements of a culture into a new text has perhaps inevitably led to a greater rejection of story in these societies. text/html 2008-01-29T05:08:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:cultural_change&rev=1201583327&do=diff Cultural Change Take a species, any species, no not the Great Houses. Take humans for example. Tribal monkeys that evolved into political apes and then into cultural humans. Each culture can be considered a set of programming instructions that not only defines what each human member of the collective is but it allows for the potential of that human to find its own place as best fits its psyche. The individual is conditioned over time by stories, myths, urban legends, newspapers, TV stations, la… text/html 2008-01-29T05:09:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:dagon&rev=1201583351&do=diff Dagon A pseudo-mythical leviathan worshipped as a deity by a subaquatic society of reptilian creatures that evolved on Earth many millions of years ago. Dagon is in fact part Yssgaroth and thus tainted by the primordial agenda of that dark culture. In appearance Dagon is a giant squid but with a vast and cool sentience that can twist the minds of any who see it and turn them into twisted bestial Yssgaroth half-breeds that work in secret to perpetuate its agenda of domination and survival. So fa… text/html 2008-01-30T01:19:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:daniel&rev=1201655998&do=diff Daniel, Cousin Running a book store called Fiction Paradox in Brisbane Queensland is the roguish, periaptic member of the Faction. Although technically a member of the Faction, he is more likely to tell one of the Fathers to go and molest himself with a quasi-relic from the stacks. text/html 2008-01-30T22:22:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:deam&rev=1201731765&do=diff Deam Da'nuib Born in late 20th century Canada, Da'nuib was closely watched by the Great Houses for the first 4 years of his life. With the Houses concluding that, perhaps, this human could eventually turn out to be the Enemy, or at the very least help create the environment where the Enemy could foster, they decided to embed female House Military agents around certain strategic events and times in his life to watch, report, and if necessary take action against him. text/html 2008-01-30T01:16:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:defsenoc&rev=1201655784&do=diff Defsenoc In the vein of Siloportem, Defsenoc is a town ravaged by the War. The miraculous thing is that it is still inhabited. The people there are either blithly unaware that the space-time topograpgy of their town is in constant flux or they operate in tune with the flucations, thus making them the only non-Houseworlder, non-Enemy agent to be able to innately naviagte the timelines. Making them a prime target for 'recruitment text/html 2008-01-30T01:19:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:dilbert&rev=1201655955&do=diff Dilbert, Cousin As head of the Faction's research into quantum bizarreness theory he is often found surrounded by freakish and often truly bizarre events. He is at heart, as far as he is concerned, a modern Da Vinci, engineer, artist, inventor. he dresses in the business garb of a twentieth/twenty-first century business worker, but with faction mask and oddly twisted tie, which is oddly enough his most remembered feature, a tie that curls up on it's end, rearing like a snake or a scorpion's tai… text/html 2008-01-29T05:07:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:dolls&rev=1201583260&do=diff Dolls Dolls are not just children's toys. They are symbols and those who know how to unlock the secrets of these totems can wield vast powers. A doll crafted into the image of a person soaks up the personality and essence of that person over time until it becomes a parasitic extension of that person. If the doll is then influenced or damaged then the influence or wound is passed over to the person. The main user of dolls in this ritual manner is of course Faction Paradox and they have a vast ar… text/html 2008-01-29T05:07:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:dressing_up&rev=1201583268&do=diff Dressing up as a man A process often employed by female agents to gain access to places or institutions on the lesser worlds that still employ varying degress of gender segregation. For example the Gentlemen's Club, it is often the case that the number of genuine males in such institutions are actually a minority of the sum total of members. Female agents have also reported a loss of power over men when they are disguised as males, this is because their biomorphic fields are changed by the perc… text/html 2008-01-29T05:09:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:earth_federation&rev=1201583372&do=diff Earth Federation, The The one attempt by a human society to develop space travel as both a commercial and scientific enterprise. They built one ship but pretended that they had hundreds more, by giving it a very high registration number that was clearly visible to other ships it encountered. The ship was populated exclusively by humans, except for one crew member who was a token half-human to prove that they weren't really amoral xenophobic killers. It's of note that the ship went on to start m… text/html 2008-01-30T23:21:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:faction_paradux&rev=1201735274&do=diff Faction Paradux The London of the Eleven Day Empire is governed by forces unknown to most outside the very oldest generation of the Faction family. Creatures varied and terrible inhabit its darker corners, from Megrims to Unkindnesses to Lineals. There are one or two 'species' however, if such a term can be used to describe such animals, that exist in the shadow London without any desire to rip a poor traveller away from his future. text/html 2008-01-29T05:09:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:faction_werewolf&rev=1201583396&do=diff Faction Werewolf The Faction Paradox chapterhouse on the planet Wolfenkinder (named before the terrible event for which it became known afterwards by some little sibling) was infected by a meme-virus that rewrote the noosphere of the planet, infecting the population (Faction members included) with the Great Wolf vector. The inhabitants were transformed into giant half-wolf monsters with low intelligence and great appetites. They fell upon each other as they transformed and only the strongest su… text/html 2008-01-30T01:22:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:fanwank&rev=1201656131&do=diff Fanwank Technically, it is the creation of worldviews/opinions/fictions where one (or more) deeply beloved aspects of a fiction are combined to create something else that is appealing only to the instigator of the project. Often the results are bizarre and quite possibly insane ramblings. text/html 2008-02-05T00:10:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:frequency_puppets&rev=1202170202&do=diff Frequency Puppets Many rural cultures have lived with the fear of famine for so long and so closely that the very concept takes on an existence of its own. Medieval France had the Ankou, the skull demon of plague and starvation; the Remote have the Frequency Puppets. text/html 2008-01-29T05:10:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:haana_lady&rev=1201583426&do=diff Haana, Lady A sometime renegade member of one of the great houses. She is often used as an agent when her interests and those of her former house coincide (usually when there's a beautiful woman involved in need of seduction). Lady Haana is shunned because of her interest in the lower races, most specifically the female members of the human species. Lady Haana resides on the planet Drahva where she maintains control of the planet through subjugation of technology, enslavement of the male popula… text/html 2008-01-29T05:11:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:hell_house&rev=1201583483&do=diff Hell House Owner: Luci Ferre (Species unknown) Status: Inter-dimensional nexus of portals to eight different realms. Hell house is said to be a real house that appears in one location one day and is gone the next. It is said to occupy a rent in the fabric of time and space torn open by the war with the Enemy. It's location moves as the tear flows over the surface of the planet, but it only ever appears on land. It's simply always been there one day and simply never been there the next. The ho… text/html 2008-01-30T23:26:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:hubble&rev=1201735598&do=diff Godmother Hubble Godmother Hubble was formerly the Patron of the Eleven Day Empire's Stacks. Working alongside such luminaries as Godfather Morlock, she took a day-to-day interest in the running of the Faction's underground archives, taking particularly interest in the study of relics relating to the Grandfather of House Paradox. Her work in the Faction was cut to an unhappy end, however, with a disastrous incident which forced her to remove herself from the Timeline. text/html 2008-01-30T01:31:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:infiltration&rev=1201656691&do=diff Homeworld Infiltration One of the greatest fears of the entire resurrected humanity is that their safe haven is not as safe as they hoped. Or worse, in as dangerous position as their feared. Groups such as the Last Reich and the Men in Masks have set in place shadowy plans to ensure their (and possibly all of humanitys) safety. Even after the failure of the Timebeast Assault and the Celestis text/html 2008-01-29T05:11:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:jennifer_dmon&rev=1201583512&do=diff Jennifer D'mon Jennifer is a renegade member of House D'Mon, one of the most martial and secretive of the Great Houses. Jennifer is a product of selective genetic manipulation and extra-dimensional technology. She appears as a 5' 6“ humanoid woman, until you notice that she's floating 3 text/html 2008-01-29T05:14:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:kaye_cousin&rev=1201583656&do=diff Kaye, Cousin She definitely does not exist and she's quite glad about it as she has a lot better things to do that go around disproving her existence to everyone she meets. Many things have been attributed to her and because she keeps denying her involvement in them it only goes further to prove her connection to them, even though no one has actually asked her one way or the other. text/html 2008-01-30T23:40:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:lazarus&rev=1201736408&do=diff Peter Lazarus Little of the early life of this major War-era participant is know to be true; however, certain suppositions and conjectures can be assumed based on known facts. The story appears to be close to this. Peter Lazarus began his working life as a lay preacher in Victorian England. It is unclear who his parents were, though he is believed to have run away from home at a young age. His work as a preacher on a box in either a Derbyshire or Yorkshire town (records are ambiguous on the loc… text/html 2008-01-29T05:14:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:living_road&rev=1201583680&do=diff Living Road, The It is a curious temporal and spatial anomaly that appears to display the characteristics of sentient life. The anomaly appears as a road junction and inserts itself into the noosphere as a short cut. Drivers who take this short cut drive directly into the maw of the anomaly into the pocket universe inside of its belly. The inside appears as an endless road with trees and walls on either side. There is one service station and this is the killing ground where the anomaly is belie… text/html 2008-01-30T23:37:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:memewolves&rev=1201736273&do=diff Memewolves The sad history of these tortured souls goes back to the infection of the planet Wolfenkinder by the Celestis. They infected the Noosphere of the planet and transformed the population into werewolves. Most died out in the savage infighting that took place for three nights during the full moon. Most of the survivors fled the planet in an ark-hive, those who remained were left to suffer a terrible fate. They were to be the real purpose behind the actions of the Celestis. They were tort… text/html 2008-02-01T00:27:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:mistress&rev=1201825657&do=diff Mistress, The “Meddlesome hussy...”--the War King A former member of the Homeworld, the woman now known as the Mistress started out as many members of the Great Houses: cool, emotionless and bound to the Homeworld. It was only after encountering and, indeed, travelling with a well-known Homeworld exile that she acquired a taste for adventure and inquiry. Her travels with this exile are well-documented, but her life after she left him (in another universe, in fact) are shrouded in mystery. For … text/html 2008-01-29T05:15:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:music&rev=1201583749&do=diff Music Everything has its own rhythm, it's own beat. The heart pounds it's lub-dub of life to keep us alive, break the beat and break the heart. Music is a translation of the sounds of the world around us, whatever they style there's a beat, a pulse, a driving force that pushes the tune on. Music is a summation of culture and culture is the essence of civilisation, without one there is no other. Ban music and the culture dies and what is left is a lifeless parody, a sham, a ghost of a culture. I… text/html 2008-01-29T05:16:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:nightmares&rev=1201583763&do=diff Nightmares An elite assassination squad of Faction Paradox cousins based on the lesser world known as earth. All have performed the great hunt to isolate themselves from temporal attack by the Enemy. Cousin Celeste (aka The Black Widow, aka Death, aka Winter) is their nominal leader. They are based in a pocket shadow universe that is separated from the main body of reality by a shadow door. The shadow realm associated with Earth is connected to the Shadow Bridge by a staircase carved out of the… text/html 2008-01-30T22:28:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:oliver&rev=1201732114&do=diff Oliver, Cousin Originally from the Newblood House Baradibontz, Oliver was cast from his family for being a disruptive influence to the House's harmony and success. He was soon recruited by the Faction, where his young & (seemingly) innocent appearance has made him an excellent choice for deep-cover infiltration. text/html 2008-01-30T23:41:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:paradox&rev=1201736504&do=diff Paradox See paradox This is a locked entry botw entry terminology text/html 2008-01-30T22:30:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:peabody&rev=1201732200&do=diff Mr. Peabody One of the few known renegades of House Lineacrux, Mr. Peabody has been tracked all over the Spiral Politic, “fixing” history according to his own designs. By accident or design, his last regeneration placed him in a particularly non-threatening canine/humaniod form. Usually found in the company of an immature CWEJEN named text/html 2008-01-30T01:30:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:random_frequent&rev=1201656628&do=diff Random Frequent Time Fliers Club A collective of individuals whose lives have been touched (more often then not) for the better by a renegade of the Great Houses. This group includes teachers, army soliders, space pilots, highlanders, scientists, historians, high school dropouts, deliquents, orphans, primitve warriors, law inforcement amongst many, many others. The group has close ties to House Halfling and is one of the very few pure blood human groups that has open sympathies for the part-hum… text/html 2008-01-30T22:25:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:robomen&rev=1201731949&do=diff Robomen The exact nature of the imago, the physical form and appearance of a denizen of the City of the Saved, is subject to various influencing factors. It is rare for a citizen's imago to relate directly to his/her original form. Alterations to the human base form, caused by environmental factors, are frequently carried into the citizen's new life. There is no need of this to be the case; rather, it is a simple matter that the human psyche dictates the imago's form. text/html 2008-01-29T05:16:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:shadow_bridge&rev=1201583777&do=diff Shadow Bridge A nexus of possible pathways between the shadow dimensions and the main bubble of reality. The Bridge appears at first as a vast network of possible pathways, but when a destination is called out the probable pathways are reduced to one singular definite route. It is then safe to traverse the shadow bridge. It is not advisable to begin a journey and then call out a destination as you may find yourself cast into the endless void as the pathway beneath your feet ceases to be probabl… text/html 2008-01-30T23:44:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:story&rev=1201736687&do=diff Story The culture of twenty-first century Earth had become such that “cults” were liable to spring up around any sub-popular or limited-interest literature. These weren’t cults in the typical, ritualistic sense; rather they were groups of (usually) like-minded people who defended their literature to the hilt, in the face of opposition from those who saw these pursuits as trivial, or worse, text/html 2008-01-30T01:35:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:transtech&rev=1201656901&do=diff Transtech “There's more then meets the eye to this race” attributed to Compassion, the rogue Timeship. During the long period where Compassion was still running from the Great Houses and yet the War was looming, The War King came up with a novel solution to the Houses need for versatile soliders (this is obviously before the era of the Army-of-One (see Cwejen). He proposed to an astounded Sitting of the Houses a plan to create an entire species capable of altering their forms in order to adapt… text/html 2008-01-30T01:38:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.curufea.com/doku.php?id=dronid:book:articles:ultimate_weapon&rev=1201657104&do=diff Ultimate Weapon, The “It's a dream” Attributed to Grandfather Halfling. It's obvious that during War time, various agencies on every side will be seeking out the “ultimate weapon” or words to that effect. The Great Houses War is no exception. Something that can conquer nations, something that can topple empires, something that is so magnificently powerful that it can bring disparate groups together to create a new future. Something so grand that it can conquer, land, sea, air, space (and most …