The Applebright

ASPECTS
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GENERAL INFORMATION
ARCANA	-
ORIGIN	Nowhere
PRONOUNS	She/Her
OTHER TITLES
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WF Catalogue Entry

The Applebright is a mysterious Hour associated with youth, healing and mutation. She is a god-from-Nowhere, and appears at the end of the Apostle Obsonate Legacy to gather what remains of the player character after being consumed for their Delight to become a Name of the Grail. The Applebright may have Grail as an aspect, as she appears as part of the Major Grail Victory. She may also have Heart and Moth as aspects, based on one text tying her to the Grove of Green Immortals. Despite her association with healing, The Applebright is described as having the power to cause harm if "invited" to do so.

Servants

• Three Faces, Nine Colours: The name of the Applebright, possibly the lover of Black Elie, Damascene Matriarch of the Sisterhood of the Knot. Three Faces was met by Black Elie at Grove of Green Immortals. It may offer form of eternal youth, which is probably related to Orchids & Narcotics occult skill.

Real-World References

• The Applebright likely takes its title from a William Blake poem called The Poison Tree, in which the narrator slays his enemy by growing a poisoned apple and allowing the enemy to steal and eat it. This aligns with the previously mentioned idea of causing harm only when so invited, suggesting that one of the Applebright's themes is harm brought on by one's own actions.

Other Notes

• The Applebright is one of several Hours that is mentioned with language that calls to mind the Twins, specifically the phrase “when she is the Witch and I am inside her”. The exact meaning of this is unclear, though it is often said of the Twins that “the Witch demands” and is the hungrier of the two faces.
• The Grove of Green Immortals, a monastery of renegade Taoist monks that specializes in medicine and horticulture and one of the Nine Libraries to be featured in Book of Hours, is patronized by the Applebright. Despite this, the monastery supposedly is safe to visit.
• The image on the Applebright's WF Catalogue page is a distorted version of a stock photo of a bluebell patch.

Theories and Questions

• The Applebright has been suggested by some to have a connection to the Flowermaker, whose card appears for the Major Grail victory. The theory is that the “sparks of delight” that birthed the Flowermaker also birthed the Applebright in Nowhere, though this is VERY speculative.
  • Given that the Forge rather famously did not have long to appreciate her union with the Sun, this would probably line up well with assigning the Applebright the domain of feelings unacted-on.
• The Grove of Green Immortals and their arrangement with the Applebright is currently one of the rare documented cases of mortals willingly cooperating with a god-from-Nowhere, along with the Church of St. Marzanna tied to the Mare-in-the-Tree. Could it be that the Nowhere Hours aren’t as inherently malicious as often implied? Perhaps it’s simply that people can find a reason to worship anything.