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TERRI P. SHEACH

Background

Terri Plairup Sheach, know professionally as Dr Terri P. Sheach, was born in Edinburgh in 1997. His mother Ann Plairup was a well know local storyteller whose highly political views saturated her performances, often causing mass uproar when she spoke at public events. His father, Graeme Sheach, was a blacksmith by trade but his ties to the occultist underworld grew substantially over the course of his life and he became estranged from Terri by the time the younger of the two men was 25. Dr Sheach’s father would often spend days away from the family to be with the East Coast school of New Thelema - established in 2020 - which misappropriated the religious teachings of famed English occultist Aleister Crowley by excessively focusing of The Aeon of Horus and the idea of the age of individualism, and encouraging followers to cut ties with their families in order to ascend to a higher plane of existence. For Terri, this acted as the catalyst for him pursuing his most valuable life’s work - deciphering mystical and uncanny artefacts associated with Edinburgh’s increasingly threatening occultist undercurrent. The Sheach Collection is housed at the National Library and can be viewed upon request. 

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After the death of Dr Terri P. Sheach in 2093, one of his trusted research assistants was helping to catalogue the contents of Terri’s office for an upcoming retrospective celebrating his life and contributions to the science and study of the occult and mythology when she happened upon a folded piece of tissue paper. Inside that tissue paper were three archival labels which have caused much intrigue and speculation. Despite each label clearly having been attributed to a specific object, there is no trace of where these artefacts might currently reside or if they are still in existence. For now, all we have to go off is the fantastically descriptive labels which were hand written by Dr Sheach in his characteristic eccentric style. This digital repository has been set up in order to preserve this essential fragment of our collective cultural identity.

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