Qosmio911
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1/24/2015
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So I recently returned from a trip to the tomb colonies and a common theme in several of the journal style entries reference a "Power" at work in the tomb colonies. Is anyone aware who this power is? I think one of their projects is the construction of a temple/structure that has required the, I assume, tremendous expense of actually importing marble from Italy. Now I suppose the Cumean Canal does lead to Italy, but I would still think importing marble would be expensive.
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If it is not well-known, I offer the thought that it could be the work of the Fingerkings. This is based primarily on two things. One, the reason the fourth city was lost to the Bazaar was the work of the Fingerkings. They had somehow managed to turn the population against the Masters and were revered as a powerful entity. I'm assuming the reverence based on the frequent snakes and references to snakes in the Forgotten Quarter. I suspect the Gallery of Serpents might reveal more, but I've yet to pay the fate for that experience. It seems plausible that the construction in the tomb colonies is the fifth city rendition of the snake temples of the fourth city.
Two, the weekly payment for the Glassman includes mourning candles. Mourning candles seem to be made from human fat (generally from the tomb colonists). If the Fingerkings do have some dominion over the Tomb Colonies, then their ability to pay their servants in this tomb colony product is easily explicable.
So there is my guess. Anyone else have any thoughts?
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WormApotheote
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1/24/2015
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Glassmen are employed by the bazaar, not the fingerkings.
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WormApotheote
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1/26/2015
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Qosmio911 wrote:
WormApotheote wrote:
Glassmen are employed by the bazaar, not the fingerkings.
Why do you say that? The Mr. Irons Sacks just suggests that the character has become the pawn of someone. It doesn't suggest the bazaar. Getting the profession also requires entanglement in the wars of illusion and the text for becoming a glassman references that his were the arts used to make the gallery of serpents or something of that ilk. One does get the job by the unsigned letter which in some of the options refers to the bazaar, but I had always thought of the unsigned message as a more efficient game mechanic than a true story mechanic. Was there something else that made you think the Glassmen were under the employ of the bazaar?
Okay lets see
[spoiler]-The unsigned letter is written by Mr Pages. Like, who else uses words like "Delicerent". It is extremely unlikely that the Bazaar would be working for their enemies.
-The Gallery of Serpents appears to be a prison, or something like it.
-The option for becoming a doctor says it will minimize your entanglement in the bazaar's schemes.
-The fingerkings don't need people to do stuff INSIDE parabola, and generally seem to be doing just fine outside it by stealing bodies. (Although there is the person in the Gallery of Serpents story, so. Its possible )
-A set of glasses that things in the mirror find irresistable doesn't especially seem like it's something you'd wear because you're working for them.
-There's also the disabled option to establish a Parabolan Base Camp that would presumably allow other people into the mirror marches, which again, seems to be more working on getting stuff from our side into Parabola than the other way around.
-Becoming embroiled in the wars of illusion just means you have exposure to Parabola.
-In other places Mr Iron has encouraged people to not get involved with the Bazaar's schemes. Plus he says the same thing to all the tier three professions and some of them (eg Licentiate) are even more clearly working for the Bazaar.[/spoiler]
Though to be honest I'm still pretty vague on what Glassmen actually are doing, beyond expeditions into the mirror-marches.
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Diptych
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1/27/2015
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[spoiler]My take: first of all, I wouldn't necessarily assume that Glassmen are agents of the Fingerkings. The Glassman's great trick, surely, is entering and exploring Parabola -without- the Fingerkings' assistance - and, in fact, using techniques that might allow one to work against them. The use of Mourning-Candles, to me, suggests not a direct connection to the Tomb-Colonies, but their practical use as a source of a light that illuminates without attracting Fingerkings - the opposite to the faux-sunlight of Cosmogone.
Without wanting to spoil the Gallery of Serpents too much... it's definitely not a pro-Fingerking place. If you don't like the Fingerkings, it's the sort of place you'd be in favour of. As for the Sanatorium... it does seem to be a prison of some sort, or at least a place where people are kept by force. And there might be some connection with the Fingerkings, but that involves one of the Destinies, so that's in the confusing realm of might come to will have been future events.
As for the power at work in the Tomb-Colonies? My guess would be Snake, Red Bird and Cat expanding their empire. Especially if the temples resemble the Mayan-style ones we see in Sunless Sea's Venderbight.[/spoiler]
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