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the principalities of coral - a fiction question
IHNIWTR
Posts: 346
6/14/2014
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For those of you which sailed to the the principalities of coral, we know that there seem to be several structures there half encased in the coral - buildings that appear to be from the fall of london, if not from the previous cities. Now, we know that london, once it fell, mostly stuck its landing around the stolen river - with a few outlying suburbs falling some distance away and faring rather well (like Mutton Island) or not (low Barnet...). But the principalities of coral are quite a long way away from london - longer than Shepard's Wash, london's country "hinterlands" in the Neath. How, then, do buildings clearly belonging in an urban environment get as far away from london proper? it doesn't seem to make much sense, unless the principalities are subject to Zee changes that place them much closer to the city, or with an in-fiction explanation as to how buildings from the Fall are displaced so far away and into deeper Zee.
I know it's a little weird to be bothered by this, but the mechanics of fiction interest me immensely (which is why I'm so fascinated and frustrated by Fallen London's ambiguity). Will this be addressed in Sunless Sea? Has it been addressed already? Or is this a matter of there being no answer to give?
edited by IHNIWTR on 6/15/2014
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Lashkar
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6/22/2014
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When I gave my port report on Port Cecil to the Admiral he said something along the lines of "I don't know why anybody thought that settlement was a good idea" which implies that it is indeed an outpost of London established post-Fall.
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