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The Prince-Consort's Mausoleum (SPOILERS!!!)
loredeluxe
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2/3/2017
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The recent reveals from Sunless Skies can be discussed at length even if we've only gotten only small bits to work with so far. What I want to start discussion and theorycrafting is one small location on the map from the Sunless Skies kickstarter: The Prince-Consort's Mausoleum. First, this obviously indicates the Prince-Consort/Prince Abert, beloved of the Traitor Empress/Queen Victoria, died between the events of Fallen London and Sunless Skies. As we know, Victoria sold London to the Masters in exchange for the Consort's health and his death has many implications. Here is my harebrained theory: the pact between Victoria and the Masters was powerful and absolute. When she decided to break off and found her own empire, the contract was broken as she no longer recognized the Masters as the lawful rulers of London. With the contract broken, the Consort's health was taken back and he died from the illness that took the real life Prince Albert. The Traitor Empress once sold her empire for her love, thus taking her empire back cost required equivalent exchange.
I would love to hear everyone else's insane theories.
edited by loredeluxe on 2/3/2017
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Von Darken
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2/3/2017
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Of course it could be the other way round. The Consort, who lets face it, wasn't in the best shape anyway, has finally died, which pushes the Empress into action, getting her to move London to the Wilderness before they all get squished by Paris. I just wonder if it's the Consort's death is what pushes the Empress out of her current apathy, or her sudden action that causes his death.
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Plynkes
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2/3/2017
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I think you are barking up the wrong tree. Albert was never 'Crown Prince.' He was Prince Consort, the two are entirely different. A Crown Prince is the heir apparent. He was Prince of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, but I don't think they used the term Crown Prince being only a duchy, and Crown Prince is not a term generally used in the British Monarchy, the fellow in that position is called the Prince of Wales. So if the term was for some reason in use in Fallen London the Crown Prince would have been Bertie, the Prince of Wales, who in real life became King Edward VII upon his mother's death in 1901.
It's more likely that the Crown Prince in question is one of Victoria's Prussian descendants (as Imperial Germany did use the title Kronprinz), unless Failbetter have got their royal terms muddled up.
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edited by Plynkes on 2/3/2017
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al2o3cr
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2/3/2017
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Now imagining the Prince-Consort being buried in the High Wilderness like Spock at the end of Star Trek III.
Only with 1000% more "Prince Albert in a can" jokes.
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