[color=#009900]This is a grand thread. Well assembled, folks! I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun, and anyway the author is dead and all that. But there are some distorting birth-scars that I’ll flag up to save people from possible arguments over things that are actually inconsistent - especially now Aximilio’s posted that map image.[/color]
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- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]That map image is not a perfect reflection of Victorian London’s geography (check out the discrepancy between the famous S-curve around Greenwich, and the Stolen River equivalent - this caused us some headaches when we revisited the geography for Sunless Sea). This is partly artistic licence and partly deliberate (the Fall and the Bazaar distorted London). So don’t take it too literally.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Hood’s Bridge is, in fact, Waterloo Bridge… the content that puts the river at the end of Moloch Street was written by someone who hadn’t lived in London and was possibly looking at the wrong bit of the map. My bad for letting it through review, and I’ve done penance by fixing the text.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]The Shuttered Palace is actually not Buckingham Palace, and its westward placement on the map isn’t a mistake. There’s a counterfactual explanation for the Empress residing there, but we’ve never more than glanced at it. You folks can probably work it out from first principles though.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Wolfstack Docks., pile of dogs. I didn’t sink quite that low! :) It is a reference to the Isle of Dogs, of course, but the ‘stack’ bit was vaguely meant to evoke ‘smoke-stack’. The pile is an unfortunate coincidence.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]The Square of Lofty Words dates from an early spitballing session from before the game was actually set in London - so it never found a real-world twin.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Benthic/Summerset are emphatically UCL/King’s, but Yasmeen, who wrote much of the University content, seasoned it with her Cambridge experience, so those of you who detected that flavour didn’t entirely imagine it.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]Eventually someone will point out that ‘Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ was written in 1886, far too late to have given its name to Hyde Park… again my bad for letting this one slip through review. We will no doubt retcon an explanation at some point, but I hereby put my hand up to it to pre-empt confusion.[/color]
- [color=rgb(0, 153, 0)]The Bazaar is actually located by Borough Market - arguably the oldest market in London, though there are competing claims, so I’m afraid it was a stab at historical resonance rather than subversion. In the great tradition of fictionally convenient geography, its spires end up being visible from implausible windows, so there are very possibly inconsistencies in various bits of text that suggest it’s in all sort of places.[/color]
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