Azothi
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9/9/2017
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This is definitely very late to the discussion, but I enjoyed how they managed to tie the disparate and unrelated plot threads for the Manager and the Hundred and find a way to integrate them into the story: the revolutionaries, the Fingerkings, and the Clay Men. It's possible that the Manager has been among revolutionaries (albeit not the Liberation) since the destruction of the First City. The Attendants focused on the royal sisters who fought the Masters and the Bazaar; All Things Must End focused on the revolutionaries of the Third City and the defiance of natural death; and Web of the Motherlings focused on enemies of, if not of the Masters, then the Leopard Clan and the rulers of the Fourth City. The keys to the Manager's dream were affiliated with these stories, all of them around revolutionaries and enemies of the Masters.
Honestly, this was a perfect way to bring the Season of Ruins in line with what's been happening in Fallen London these past months. Among the Mysteries, there are three questions specifically tied to the revolutionaries and three questions specifically tied to Parabola, and the three mayoral candidates focused on these topics as well (the Campaigner's connection to March, Feducci's card giving out revolutionary favors, and the Detective's ties to the Glass and the Fingerkings, as well as the references to the Deranged Medium case, which outlined the connections between the Fingerkings and the Clay Men). I will not be surprised if these ideas return with the Last Constable or the Dilmun Club storylines.
ReusedNPC wrote:
Now that's a good question. London seems a lot more complex than the four cities past (if my current understanding of the Fourth City via the Silver Tree is close enough). That said... if the Sixth City really is Paris, it'll probably be much more recognizable than... whatever the Fourth City was named. I have to imagine that if London was put into dreams it'd feature the same bustling crowds, lit windows, and half-submerged Big Ben... There's a lot more distinct things about it. (Although maybe that's just due to the fact that that's where we are now.) Perhaps the roads will have been twisted into even more of a labyrinth?] I think London only feels more distinctive because our setting is there. The Fourth City was a remarkably interesting place, a subterranean power struggle between warring factions: servants of the Fingerkings, servants of the Sorrow Spiders, whoever the Coppers were, a powerful clan with an extensive spy network, and, of course, the Khans in power. We know there was knowledge of the Correspondence and that Hell remained present. London's only been here for a few decades. The Fourth City had centuries to develop a rich history that archaeologists have only found pieces of.
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Azoth I, the Emissary of Cardinals - A Paramount Presence (not currently accepting new Proteges)
Away to where the Chain cannot bind us.
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