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Is the Fathomking the Hungry Monarch?
Anchovies
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6/28/2017
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As per the title, I've recently been taken with the idea that the identity of the "Hungry Monarch" referred to in the Stone and Storm results of fumbling in the darkness in Frostfound's Dark Room is none other than the Fathomking. Some evidence:
1. "Distant acquaintance" refers to a relationship between the monarch and Stone. Presenting Mt Nomad's Heart to the Fathomking reveals that Mt Nomad is the Fathomking's niece by marriage. Mt Nomad is the child of Stone and the Thief-of-Faces. The Fathomking is thus married to a 'sibling' of the Thief-of-Faces.
2. "Shapeling days" refers to a thunder-dragon in the roof, who caused some trouble for the hungry monarch until the monarch learned the dragon's name and forced the dragon to listen/obey. Presenting Mt Nomad's Heart to the Fathomking provokes him into placing Storm's Curse on you, which implies that the Fathomking has some means of commanding Storm.
An unanswered question:
"Distant acquaintance" mentions that the monarch departed and their appetite was transformed. I don't know what to make of this. Perhaps the Fathomking used to be the monarch of something else?
What do you think? I can't think of any other satisfying answers as to the hungry monarch's identity.
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edited by Anchovies on 10/30/2017
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Barse
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6/28/2017
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Isn't the Fathomking married to a big ol' Lorn Fluke? That'd be a link and a half.
Source: a half-remembered post on SM9's blog - please correct me if I'm wrong!
Edit: this post here, although I/someone would have to do more digging to find the in-game text. SM9 seemed to think that the Hungry Monarch was Salt, however.
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Optimatum
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8/3/2017
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Anchovies wrote:
Each of the "grope around" results in Frostfound's Dark Room is about one of the gods of the Unterzee. Salt is "Need", Stone is "Distant Acquaintance", Storm is "Shapeling days".
The other two results for groping around are about one of the gods of the Unterzee and their interactions with the monarch. The only result which does not refer explicitly to the monarch is "Need", which is solely about Salt. But why would only one of the three results not describe the monarch interacting with a god? Because the monarch and that god are one and the same.
Besides, why would some extremely lore-heavy text found in the very heart of the castle built by Salt, a location key to the ambition about Salt, just randomly be about the Fathomking instead? I don't think there's a single mention of the Fathomking elsewhere in Frostfound.
Anchovies wrote:
If you offer the Nacreous Survivor as a guest, the Fathomking says to the Survivor: "You will learn the shapeling arts from my Bride. I will reward the one who brought you here, with gifts of pearl and knowledge, and with the Word that compels attention." Shapeling arts, and a word which compels attention? Sounds like "shapeling days" to me.
Shapeling arts because the Survivor is a shapeling and the Fathomking is married to a Lorn-Fluke. You're also given a Word that compels attention for offering the Bandaged Chef-Paramount as a guest. And a Word that compels attention doesn't sound anything like the name of a specific entity forcing that one entity to listen.
Anchovies wrote:
Giving the Fathomking a Mountain-sherd reveals that Stone is his sister by marriage, as suggested by the Nomad's Heart result.
The Fathomking is married to a Lorn-Fluke, the Flukes apparently created the Thief-of-Faces, and the Thief is linked to Stone. I would think that would make Stone more of a daughter-in-law but who knows. Anyways, I'm not sure how this would indicate any connection between the Fathomking and the hungry monarch.
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slickriptide
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6/29/2017
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Anchovies wrote:
As per the title, I've recently been taken with the idea that the identity of the "Hungry Monarch" referred to in the Stone and Storm results of fumbling in the darkness in Frostfound's Dark Room is none other than the Fathomking. Some evidence:
1. "Distant acquaintance" refers to a relationship between the monarch and Stone. Presenting Mt Nomad's Heart to the Fathomking reveals that Mt Nomad is the Fathomking's niece by marriage, which confirms that the Fathomking is married to Stone.
"Niece" implies that the Fathomking is an "uncle", not a "father".
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