The College of Haruspex  Equal part administrative service, funerary firm, library, and religious practice, the ministrants of the College of Haruspex worship the grim-faced Stocktaker of the Dead, who oversees the Cthonic Bureaucracy from his throne beneath the earth. The College is an unusual organisation, overseeing the gathering of information, the production and maintenance of birth and death certificates, and the proper rites of interring the dead, and the enforcement o

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