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Cedric Washington, The Kabbalistic Scholar

Cedric's mystical practice is rooted in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, filtered through his background in the Black Hebrew Israelite community. His years spent under institutional authority and the perspective it brings has sanded down the extremes of his old ideology, but he still reads omens through a lens of divine language and symbolic patterns.

His approach is syncretic and sometimes unorthodox: he works extensively with the Sefer Yetzirah's letters of creation, and his draws on merkavah mysticism, and turns to Talmudic omenology to interpret the signs around him. To more traditional practitioners, his methods can seem sideways, but he finds his own coherent framework somewhere between the Tree of Life and its shadow.

Occult Services: Cedric can read omens about upcoming events or warn about spiritual dangers, help designing or performing rituals, interpret dreams, and give spiritual diagnoses and research assistance and teaching.

The Catch: Cedric's loyalties are complicated. He sometimes asks for unconventional favors in exchange for his help. His methods can be unorthodox, and there's the risk of strings somewhere in the weave, even if he didn't tie them, himself.

C-Wash From Third Ward

Before his career took a turn, Cedric was a student at Texas Southern University: pre-law and religious studies. Years gone have left holes in the life he remembers, but now that he's back home, he's eager to exhume what's left of it: the music, the community, the city that moved on without him.

Music: Cedric is hungry for the pop-up shows, the word-of-mouth house parties, the connections. He's into rap, classical, jazz, soul, and trip-hop, and he plays trumpet and bass.

Mot: Mot was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld but he's also the Great Devourer, a god with a monstrous mouth and unspeakable hunger. Mot is also the name of his '85 Coupe De Ville because it's the death of his wallet and it eats all his fucking money. It's candy-painted atomic orange and outfitted with details like trunk lights that say 'KISS MY ASS'. If you don't notice Cedric, you might notice the car. You'd have to be blind. And deaf - when he drives it, he drives it slow, and he pours out grey tapes at full blast.

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 == Cedric Washington, The Kabbalistic Scholar ==
-Cedric's mystical practice is rooted in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, filtered through his background in the Black Hebrew Israelite community. A decade under the Pyramid's thumb sanded down the more identitarian extremes of his ideology, but his origins in occult scholarship remain covenantal. His approach is syncretic and sometimes unorthodox: he reads omens through divine language, studies the Sefer Yetzirah's letters of creation, and practices merkavah mysticism. To more traditional Hermetic practitioners, his methods can seem sideways or even primitive, but he finds his own coherent framework in the Tree of Life and its shadow, the Qliphoth. He sees patterns where others see chaos.
+Cedric's mystical practice is rooted in Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism, filtered through his background in the Black Hebrew Israelite community. His years spent under institutional authority and the perspective it brings has sanded down the extremes of his old ideology, but he still reads omens through a lens of divine language and symbolic patterns.
+His approach is syncretic and sometimes unorthodox: he works extensively with the Sefer Yetzirah's letters of creation, and his draws on merkavah mysticism, and turns to Talmudic omenology to interpret the signs around him. To more traditional practitioners, his methods can seem sideways, but he finds his own coherent framework somewhere between the Tree of Life and its shadow.
 '''Occult Services:''' Cedric can read omens about upcoming events or warn about spiritual dangers, help designing or performing rituals, interpret dreams, and give spiritual diagnoses and research assistance and teaching.
-'''The Catch:'''
+'''The Catch:''' Cedric's loyalties are complicated. He sometimes asks for unconventional favors in exchange for his help. His methods can be unorthodox, and there's the risk of strings somewhere in the weave, even if he didn't tie them, himself.
-He's Tremere, so there are always strings attached, and not even by him, not always.  First off,  he's new to freedom, so he might ask for unusual favors in exchange.  His methods are unorthodox, and he's blood bound to his sire and the Pyramid as all Tremere are, so complete confidentiality is never guaranteed.
 == C-Wash From Third Ward ==
-Before his sire collected him, Cedric studied at Texas Southern University, a pre-law and religious studies double major.  Yeah, yeah - a fucking nerd.  There's a lot of Cedric that's been buried away for around a decade and now that he's returned home he's eager to exhume it, to get back to music, to get back to the community he remembers, even though it moved on in the decade without him.
+Before his career took a turn, Cedric was a student at Texas Southern University: pre-law and religious studies. Years gone have left holes in the life he remembers, but now that he's back home, he's eager to exhume what's left of it: the music, the community, the city that moved on without him.
 '''Music:''' Cedric is hungry for the pop-up shows, the word-of-mouth house parties, the connections. He's into rap, classical, jazz, soul, and trip-hop, and he plays trumpet and bass.
-'''Mot:''' Mot was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld but he's also the Great Devourer, a god with a monstrous mouth and unspeakable hunger.  Mot is also the name of his '85 Coupe De Ville because it's the death of his wallet and it eats all his fucking money.  It's candy-painted atomic orange and outfitted with standout details like trunk lights that say 'KISS MY ASS'.  If you don't notice Cedric, you might notice the car.  You'd have to be blind. And deaf - when he drives it, he drives it slow, and he pours out grey tapes at full blast.
+'''Mot:''' Mot was the Canaanite god of death and the Underworld but he's also the Great Devourer, a god with a monstrous mouth and unspeakable hunger.  Mot is also the name of his '85 Coupe De Ville because it's the death of his wallet and it eats all his fucking money.  It's candy-painted atomic orange and outfitted with details like trunk lights that say 'KISS MY ASS'.  If you don't notice Cedric, you might notice the car.  You'd have to be blind. And deaf - when he drives it, he drives it slow, and he pours out grey tapes at full blast.