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ydteus · 2 months

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The Fifth House

Abigail Pent | Magnus Quinn

#character art #digital art #tlt #tlt art #abigail pent #magnus quinn #the fifth house #they’re in LOVE MF #gtn #htn #ntn #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #Magnus the fifth #abigail the fifth #the locked tomb #the locked tomb sketches #tlt doodle #hahaha have you been catching my lil Easter eggs with the skulls 👁️

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thechekhov · 9 months

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I may have fallen a bit too deep BUT.

The Houses.

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rosenkranz-does-things · 1 year

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I cannot conceive of a universe without you in it

#the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #abigail pent #magnus quinn #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav

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cav-core · 1 month

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Shoutout to characters that are both genuinely deeply kind and also genuinely terrifying and willing to spill buckets worth of blood to get something done. And neither of these are an act, they're just both very true.

#as the resident warhammer and tlt enjoyer this is about #sanguinius #and it is also about #abigail pent #warhammer 40k #the locked tomb

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longearedhare · 3 months

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not gonna lie if you’re catastrophizing about some bullshit it kind of helps to imagine Abigail Pent firmly yet kindly telling you “This is NOT how it happens”

#the locked tomb #tlt #harrow the ninth #lady abigail pent #abigail pent

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kelly-kirstein · 1 year

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I had the best time at the Locked Tomb meetup at Holiday Matsuri. Is your favorite character in here?

#the locked tomb #harrowhark the first #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #Gideon Nav #John gains #abigail pent #ianthe tridentarius #mercymorn the first #nona the ninth

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midnightcrows · 1 year

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The House of the Fifth always skinned itself over with such airs of civilization, with so many manners and niceties, but they were spirit-talkers, and speakers to the dead. And the dead were savage.

#my art #fanart #the locked tomb #harrow the ninth #harrow the ninth spoilers #Abigail pent #this is so rough but at least it’s done #fifth house are so cool #tlt fanart

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ancientannoyance · 1 year

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rip to my wife abigail and her husband magnus, they were too powerful and sensible to survive the first act of gideon the ninth

#abigail pent #magnus quinn #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #tlt spoilers #gtn spoilers #BUT AM I WRONG THO

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katakaluptastrophy · 6 months

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What do the Fifth House actually do?

Sure, yes, ghosts and tradition and the Heart of the Emperor, and Watchers Over the River - but none of those things give you the kind of assets that mean you can dress your cavalier in a coat that "probably cost more than the Ninth House had in its coffers" for a dinner party.

It's made clear very early on that the Fifth are a power to be reckoned with. When they first receive the letter about the Lyctoral pilgrimage, Gideon assumes it would be on the Third or Fifth. Harrow, meanwhile, has frequently-repeated anxieties about the Ninth being subsumed by the Third or Fifth, to the point that she worries that the anniversary party invitation may be an attempt to wipe out the other Houses. Teacher describes the Fifth's relationship with the Fourth as "hegemonic". The Fifth loom so large in the cultural imagination, they even inform the name of the made up porn magazine that Gideon offers to Crux.

The links between the Third and the Fifth that both Gideon and Harrow make seem to reflect both the fact that these two Houses have particular power and influence, but also that they frequently cooperate. Judith writes about the close cooperation of the Second, Third, and Fifth, a relationship which becomes a source of tension as the scions seek to establish authority after the Fifth are murdered. Judith says:

“The Fifth are dead. I take authority for the Fifth. I say we need military intervention, and we need it right now. As the highest-ranked Cohort officer present, that decision falls to me.” “A Cohort captain,” said Naberius, “don’t rank higher than a Third official.” “I’m very much afraid that it does, Tern.” “Prince Tern, if you please,” said Ianthe.

Which makes it sound as though Abigail might technically have been considered the highest ranking person at Canaan House (likely because she was head of her House and not an heir in waiting like Judith or Coronabeth), and that following her death there is some question as to whether the Second or the Third should take control, but notably no suggestion that anyone else might.

We know what the Second do: they are the leaders of the Cohort and the Bureau, the military and intelligence that forms the core of imperial expansion. Most of the information that we get about the other Houses talks only about their cultural or ritual roles in the empire - we get very little in the way of gritty details of what happens outside of the Dominicus system.

We know a little bit about what the Third does - according to Tor they are cultural trendsetters and players in soft power, but the one detail we get in GTN itself is revealing: when Gideon imagines her glorious future in the Cohort, one of the assignments she considers boring is the prospect of being "in some foreign city babysitting some Third governor." Which makes it sound rather like the Second are conquering the planets and the Third are then running them. But the books are even lighter in details about what the Fifth do, beyond ghosts and manners.

However, there is one suggestive detail: an important topic in HTN is stele travel - the necromantic FTL used by the Nine Houses. And Mercymorn, in describing a stele, specifically states that Fifth House adepts are required for their construction. Which rather makes it sound like the Fifth have a monopoly on the manufacturer of the technology required for FTL travel. Now that in and of itself could be the basis of their enormous wealth - selling aerospace tech to an ever expansionist military is probably quite lucrative.

But there's another element of House imperialism that only gets mentioned in passing that doesn't seem to be entirely accounted for, which Judith describes in As Yet Unsent:

"Their other line of attack is the business contracts. They claim that the services asked of them by the Emperor were set down in lifetime contracts by previous generations, who assumed the contracts would be terminated upon the Emperor’s death."

There are obviously some unanswered questions about the imperialist project of the Nine Houses - both Augustine and Coronabeth question quite why it works the way it does - but from the above it sounds like in many respects it functions exactly as you would expect an empire to: as a vehicle for the exploitation of others' resources.

Perhaps the Cohort themselves administer these business contracts. Perhaps they fall under the purview of the Third House planetary governors. But if you're exporting resources from the living planets of your empire to the mostly desolate planets of the Dominicus system, you're going to need some FTL ships and a whole lot of bureaucracy.

And if there's one other detail that we get about the Fifth, it's that there is something significant about the political power of their bureaucracy. As Judith puts it: "Quinn himself is a Fifth House bureaucrat with all that entails."

Are the Second, Third, and Fifth so close and so powerful because they form the bedrock of the empire: the conquest, control, and exploitation of planets beyond the Dominicus system?

#the locked tomb #tlt #abigail pent #magnus quinn #judith deuteros #coronabeth tridentarius #the fifth house #the third house #the second house #We regret to inform you that spreadsheets dad is maybe running the necromantic East India Company

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henreyettah · 9 months

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Glass House: a Keys Out mystery

(Veil-less Harrow version under the cut)

(I’m gonna make prints out of this but I’m not sure which version to do so if y’all have opinions please send them my way)

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field-s-of-flowers · 9 months

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I think it’s very important that Abigail Pent is a little bit strange and off-putting. Like yes, she’s the oldest non-lyctor necromancer on cast and she’s a maternal figure and she generally makes smart decisions, but also! She’s a spirit magician! She knows everything there is to know about ghosts! She makes overly intense eye contact! She got so caught up in her research she forgot her own anniversary! She’s definitely the best-adjusted compared to the other necros and yeah she looks pretty normal but as soon as she opens her mouth you’re like “oh she’s not all there is she.” I fully believe she clocked Cytherea on some level at the dinner party but she was too distracted telling her about her research to really think about it. And most importantly I think Magnus Quinn is the normalest guy you will ever meet and he loves his weird weird wife with his whole entire heart and soul

#soph’s posts #the locked tomb #Soph reads the locked tomb #Abigail pent #lady Abigail pent #Magnus quinn #I also think if Gideon had gotten to spend more time with Abigail herself she would’ve been creeped the fuck out #Same with the rest of the cavs tbh. Camilla and Naberius specifically

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orangelemonart · 9 months

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some scattered illustrations for a The Locked Tomb lyricstuck I started like a year and a half ago and never finished whoopsieeeee

maybe someday. not telling you what the song is.

#gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #harrowhark nonagesimus #gideon nav #abigail pent #the locked tomb #OLart #lyricstuck #tlt

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ooctlt · 2 months

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Alright, I can't figure out if you live in an apartment or a townhouse, but either way you must have neighbors -- what's the relationship like? Do all of the neighborhood kids think Harrow is actually a ghost/aren't entirely sure if she's even real?

#fourth #fifth #palamedes sextus #gideon nav #harrowhark nonagesimus #the locked tomb #gideon the ninth #artlog #isaac tettares #jeannemary chatur #living together #apartment #abigail pent

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phantomstatistician · 17 days

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Fandom: The Locked Tomb

Sample Size: 4,063 stories

Source: AO3

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goblin-hats · 26 days

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#tlt #gideon the ninth #harrow the ninth #abigail pent #gtn #htn #htn fanart #fanart

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longearedhare · 8 months

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mapping out what I think the Canaan House sleeping arrangements were like, i.e. usage of the Cav Cot™️

Second House: Judith sleeps in the bed and Marta sleeps in the cot, just like they’re supposed to, not least because it discourages Inappropriate Cav-Necro Relationships

Third House: canonically Ianthe and Corona share a bed. Naberius would probably sleep on the cot but only if the girls are feeling nice and aren’t making him sleep on the floor.

Fourth House: They do the intended sleeping arrangements until one of them has a bad dream and ends up climbing in next to the other. they also occasionally have sleepovers in Magnus and Abigail’s room.

Fifth House: this hardly needs saying but obviously they share the bed. The cot is where Abigail’s bedtime reading material lives (it is overflowing).

Sixth House: canonically Camilla and Palamedes sleep in the bed together and use the cot as weapons storage.

Seventh House: Dulcinea obviously uses/needs the bed but Protesilaus is too Large™️ for the cot so she has the skeletons bring in another bed for him.

Eighth House: EITHER they do everything as intended OR they both sleep on the floor because they hate themselves.

Ninth House: canonically we know that Harrow sleeps in the bed and Gideon sleeps on the floor because she refuses to sleep in the cot until after the pool scene. i think Harrow probably wanted her to sleep in the bed with her but was too Harrow to ask

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