It is in the heart of the mystical mountains of Guangxi, in the southern provinces of China, that the Black Aconite Brotherhood sinks its roots in the nineteenth century. Founded by a Sino-Vietnamese woman of formidable singularity — an expert in poisons...
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It is in the heart of the mystical mountains of Guangxi, in the southern provinces of China, that the Black Aconite Brotherhood sinks its roots in the nineteenth century. Founded by a Sino-Vietnamese woman of formidable singularity — an expert in poisons and well-versed in the martial arts —, the sect takes its name from the absolute black garments worn by its members, and from the monk's hood aconite, that venomous plant whose deadly sap formed the basis of the poisons destined for their sinister purposes. It was also known, in the learned circles that caught wind of it, as "the devil's flower" — beautiful to behold, lethal to touch, impossible to cultivate without paying the price.
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