An ancient order of amber-mystics who revere the petrifying tide as divine ascension, seeking to perfect preservation through ritual and sacrifice — they claim the amber *remembers*.
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The Conclave predates the empire, founded when the first surges began. They teach that flesh is flawed and amber perfect — that the tide preserves not just bodies, but souls, and that the Sunken Star is the first preserved soul, burning in the void as all souls will one day burn. Their temples rise at surge points, and their rituals involve voluntary petrification. The Lords fear their fanaticism; the Syndicate dismisses them as lunatics; both are wrong. The Conclave is closer to the truth than either knows.