Great Foundries

The Great Foundries were automated factories in the Cupid Homeworld, left behind by the Creator when she “went into her exile” to create new Clockwork Cherubs. (PROSE: The Labors of Juliet) They did so in batches of a hundred apiece, every one to seven years, based on new designs transmitted to the Foundries by the Creator from within the Forbidden Manor. (PROSE: The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids)

It was rumoured that Commander Amadeo-378's “quick wits” came from “a quirk of the foundries that had made the soul of his processing unit a five-point diamond, instead of the standard-cut rose quartz”. (PROSE: The Green Gorillas)

When Philatel-426 woke up metaphorically renewed by his experience with the Three Spirits on December 25th, 2019, he exclaimed that he found himself as happily confused as if he were reborn, “right out of the Foundries”. (PROSE: A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol)