Theological Husbandry
Unlock the hidden secrets of the Fourth Coil - four new beasts to breed and call your own. And the terrible truth of the Bishop's plans. A dozen storylets and opportunities of bestial savagery and revenge!
This is a FATE-locked story.
Author: Nigel Evans
It was originally published in August 2011
The story can be unlocked from A Visit from a Cloaked Stranger or Speak to the Clay Coalman
for 20 FATE points.
It can not be reset.
Notable Rewards and Tie-ins
This story provides five new beasts to breed at the Labyrinth of Tigers, with two requiring Flute Street, as well as an ending to the monster-breeding storyline in the Labyrinth of Tigers. The beasts are:
- The Slavering Dream-Hound, a Companion with +4 Shadowy and +4 Dangerous.
- The Obdurate Stallion, a Transport with +2 Dreaded.
- The Corresponding Ocelot, a Companion with +5 Watchful and +5 Persuasive. Can additionally be used while staffing a newspaper.
- With Flute Street, the Ocular Toadbeast, a Companion with +6 Shadowy.
- With Flute Street, the Bifurcated Owl, a Companion with +5 to Watchful, Persuasive, Shadowy and Dangerous as well as +2 Dreaded and +2 Bizarre.
Each of the beasts also comes with a card, the details of which as well as information on breeding can be found at the Breeding Monsters Guide. Additionally, the questline has four endings that increase different qualities by around 600 CP:
- 1. A unique quality that unlocks a unique destiny, The Instrument. Also the only source of the Why You Fight - quality. Increases A Bringer of Death and Hellfarer.
- 2. Increases Empire's Kingmaker.
- 3. A different level of a unique quality that unlocks a second way to get the The Instrument destiny (in The Castle of Forests). Increases Hellfarer. The option requires Renown: Hell 10.
- 4. Gains Fist of the Bazaar. The option requires Connected: The Masters of the Bazaar 2.
Unique options with: