Numenera is a game published by Monte Cook Games. Its setting is the Ninth World, and this list has six rumours for that setting. The rumours, which are similar to the Hearsay that can be found in the official books, can be used as adventure hooks or as simple misinformation.

1. Abbess Lesana Len is the leader of the Order of Healing and one of the original Aeon Priests who founded the Order. There are occasional rumours that the abbess was involved in the founding of the Order of Healing because they believed it would be far easier to rise to a position of power in a new organisation.
2. Members of the Order of Healing travel around a lot, as every member must take part in a healing sabbatical which involves travelling to an area in need of healers. This results in members of the Order getting a lot of knowledge, and combined it means the Order as a whole has a great deal of knowledge about what’s going on in the world. It’s rumoured that this information is then used to the Order’s benefit.
3. Prior Masden Krasnor, a former Aeon Priest, is a member of the Order of Healing who spends most of his time running the organisation, rather than healing people. It’s sometimes said that the prior believes the Order could be run a whole lot more efficiently if it didn’t have all those who need healing getting in the way.
4. The healing caravan that comprises the Order of Healing’s headquarters travels around all the time, making it hard to find. It’s rumoured that some have tried to trace its travels, only to find out that there are times when the caravan doesn’t seem to have been anywhere, as if it had simply vanished for a period.
5. The Order of Healing currently lacks a fixed headquarters, with the leadership moving from place to place in a caravan. It’s rumoured that a number of governments have offered the Order a permanent headquarters, but these offers have been refused in the belief that the aim is to bring the Order under the control of those governments making the offers.
6. The Order of Healing is a recent offshoot of the Order of Truth and there are rumours that not everyone in the latter order is completely happy that the former decided to make its own way in the world. It’s said that those who are most unhappy are surreptitiously attempting to bring the Order of Healing back into the fold.

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