St. Giles-in-the-Field
St. Giles-in-the-Field was a historic parish in London whose history was intertwined with Faction Paradox's.
From its earliest recorded history, it fitted Faction Paradox sensibilities: first a carnival venue and, later, home to the gallows of St. Giles' Circus and their symbolic Resurrection Gate, it was also where the first victims of the plague were found in 1664. A century later, it was where the Gregorian Compact was signed by agents of House Paradox and agents of George II, bringing the Eleven-Day Empire into existence.
It continued to be a site of carnivalesque death thereafter, becoming the location of he "fatal beer-flood of 1818". By the 21st century, the exact location where the Compact had been sealed, now located on New Oxford Street between a fantasy bookshop and a marijuana café, an "unlikely memorial" to Faction Paradox, of uncertain origin, had emerged: a "goth, retro and fetishist clothing store" named, apparently by coincidence, Fashion Paradox. Its shop window was adorned with "mannequins of indeterminate sex" who were, every Halloween, decorated with skull masks. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
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In the real world, the parish church of St Giles in the Fields is usually rendered with a plural "Fields" and unhyphenated, in contrast to the rendition in The Book of the War.
