The Sixth Hour is the most cerebral among the entirety of the planetary powers. To those adepts who find themselves connected to the Mercurial Hour have an overtly intellectual outlook. This hour will infuse your mind with an endless supply of occult experimentations and testing. You will feel compelled to know as much about everything as is humanly possible then, to exceed your mental restrictions for the sole purpose of learning more.
Represented by Hermes in Greek mythology, he stands as the messenger of the gods. A sort of meeting point between the higher realms and the lower. Also, Hermes is mentioned as a prodigious youth. Unlike the other planets which find opposing qualities from one another; Mars and Venus, The Sun and Luna, Saturn and Jupiter, Mercury stands alone. It acts as a meeting point between all these forces and utilizes them to conduct its inquiry. Those specialists with a proclivity to this hour are called Alchemists. In their laboratories they produce endless tests and their operations produce phenomena that the other hours can scarcely replicate. Constantly, the Alchemists push the limits of what reality can sustain. Whether unifying opposites such as fire and ice, or reversing the natural flow of a river nothing is unachievable and as long as you can imagine it, there is a procedure to accomplish the task.
To help with the overwhelming amount of activity these tasks inevitably demand, Mercurial Hourlies are generally recruited. The more complex your operations become the greater their number that arrive to your aid. Breaking the laws of nature and extending the mind beyond its regular mode of perception is always an underlying goal that pushes the Alchemist ever forward in pursuit of a Source where all opposites converge. An eternity outside of time and space but yet immanent to it. In use of this, they will break down substances to their most raw form and reform them as other materials. The combinations and results they produce are endless and so their work is seemingly unlimited.
Among the Mercurials life is never boring. If you seek out the philosophers Stone or how to capture a rainstorm in a bottle the Mercurials will aid your quest with an unmatched enthusiasm. However, there are darker dispositions that can trap the unworthy. This hour is heavily inclined toward the discursive but this behavior can easily downtrend into the obsessive. Eventually, should you lose control the result can lead to anything from death to unrestrained aftereffects that cause your being to become suspended between your senses and your thoughts. But this is the adventure, the risk of being an adept. To utilize magic in its most pristine form and test the borders of this world and what lies beyond.
To Will, To Know, To Dare and to Keep Secret
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