The Rephaite Revelation is a penny dreadful written by the Bone Season XX survivors to spread the knowledge of the Rephaim throughout London. It is published on October 30, 2059.
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Since no one will believe them if they claim to be telling the truth, Paige Mahoney decides that the next best option is to pass it off as fiction. After all, fictional things can just as easily become common knowledge. The Rephaite Revelation is a huge hit. It's written mainly by Nell, with help from Jos Biwott and Felix Coombs. The writing is economic. It’s the first anonymous piece of fiction to be released by Grub Street in a year and a half.
It tells the story of a Bone Season and all the humans escaping. It includes the Rephaim coming to hunt them, but that a few of the Rephaim help the humans, too. They make Liss Rymore the main character as a tribute to her. "It describes the unholy triangle of Scion, the Rephaim, and the Emim. It goes into gory detail about the penal colony and explains the trafficking that has gone on for two hundred years. Most importantly, it tells how to destroy a Rephaite. The authors came up with the ideas of coating a blade in anemone nectar or using a blowpipe to aim its pollen into the eyes of a Rephaite. It’s told through the eyes of 1, a poor cartomancer, snatched from the streets and thrown into a nightmare.”[1] There are sketches throughout the book. In the end, 1 breaks free of the colony and rallies London to the defense of voyant-kind. The subheading is "Being a true and faithful account of the ghastly puppet masters behind Scion, and their harvest of clairvoyant peoples."[1]
Upon publication however, a major plot point has been changed. Instead of showing the Sargas as the enemy, it glorifies them. Paige has no idea who made the change until much later. It’s been changed from the original, “I come only to liberate the clairvoyants of London.” The printed version says, “I come only to incarcerate the clairvoyants of London.” And Nashira Sargas wasn’t described as beautiful in the original. In another place the original said, “And the seer stood, and he was terrified.” but it is changed to say “overjoyed.” Other edits include removing the fact that the Rephaim feed on humans, and the poppy anemone is removed. The Rephaim are shown fighting the wicked Emim and protecting feeble clairvoyants.
It even makes its way to the Scion Citadel of Paris. The Paris syndicate, Le Nouveau Régime, loves it. It makes Paige famous and a the section of Le Nouveau Régime led by Le Vieux Orphelin is especially supportive of her. They spread images of a black moth around the citadel in her honor. While in Paris, Paige learns it was Alfred who had made the changes to glorify the Sargas.