Deep in the hidden volcano lair of the AskHistorians mods lays the inmost sanctum. There are performed unspeakable rites of historiography and blasphemous truths stain the air. There the mods sit upon thrones of deleted posts in full panoply: iron fists, golden lightsabers, tomes filled to brim with things best unmentioned, many tentacles which writhe as one, and other raiment of power that cannot be remembered. As one they raised their voices in song and the heavens wept in terror:

We're lookin’ for a mind at work (Work, work!)

We're lookin’ for a mind at work (Work, work!)

We're lookin’ for a mind at work (Work, work!)

And yea, the song went out:

Endnotes, parenthetical citations, and no citations, all fall before /u/bloodswan . They plunge their beak and feathers deep into the corpus of Norse Literature and tear free, streaked in gore, also the mysteries of the footnote^1. Tremble before their Thought and Memory! They are non-stop!

Filth, ashcans, ugliness! Stargates! Assassin's Creed inaccuracies! /u/cleopatra_philopater fears them and suffers them not! None will gainsay the beauty and majesty of their contributions upon matters Egyptian, lest their hearts be cast to Ammit's feasting. Speak of aliens and assassins and beware, you will regret that post for the rest of your days!

Poor posts ring foul in the ears of all mods. We cry out in vengeance and /u/rimeroyal arrives, mantled in immaculate verse and astride a great codex! By retreatin' and readin' every treatise on the shelf they forged a sword of glosses and a shield of illuminations. They smite falsehoods with the glory of Medieval English Literature in an eternal April, its sweet showers of history everlasting.

Rejoice! Weep! Repent! Be merry! Welcome them! Trip over yourselves to win their praise, for eager is the hand that wields the banhammer! They will not throw away their shot. Behold the revelation! The tiger-force at the core of all things! When you cry out in your dreams, it is them you see!

They. Are. New. Mods.

¹ What is the Origin and Development of the Footnote(1)?