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[[File:zeegodsedit.png|thumb|300px|center|Storm, Stone, Salt]]<blockquote>''"'Nearly there,' a zailor mutters. 'King Storm, stay your anger. Queen Stone, preserve our hearts. Salt, tempt us not - '<nowiki/>''<br>
{{Major spoiler}}[[File:Frostfoundcorridors.jpg|thumb|500px|center|The frozen halls of Frostfound.]]<blockquote>''"'Nearly there,' a zailor mutters. 'King Storm, stay your anger. Queen Stone, preserve our hearts. Salt, tempt us not - '<nowiki/>''<br>
''"'Belay that heathen prattling!" the bo'sun roars''."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Set_your_course_for_the_lights_of_Wolfstack|Set your course for the lights of Wolfstack|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>On [[the Surface]], sailors have always been superstitious people, with tall tales of supernatural entities helping or hindering them on their travels. On [[the Zee]] it's no different... but the Zee's superstitions might actually hold some truth, for it is full of things no mortal can possibly comprehend.
''"'Belay that heathen prattling!" the bo'sun roars''."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Set_your_course_for_the_lights_of_Wolfstack|Set your course for the lights of Wolfstack|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>On [[the Surface]], sailors have always been superstitious people, with tall tales of supernatural entities helping or hindering them on their travels. On the Zee it's no different... but the Zee's superstitions might actually hold some truth, for it is full of things no mortal can possibly comprehend.
The three nameless<ref name=":7" /><ref name=":8" /><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Zee:_Salt%27s_Curse| The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> gods of the Unterzee are commonly called '''Storm''', '''Stone''', and '''Salt'''. The Gods' secrets are buried within the icy depths of [[Frostfound]].__forcetoc__
The three nameless<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Gods_of_the_Zee:_Salt%27s_Curse| The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse| Sunless Sea}}</ref> gods of the Unterzee are commonly called '''[[Storm]]''', '''[[Stone]]''', and '''[[Salt]]'''. The Gods' secrets are buried within the icy depths of [[Frostfound]].
==Storm==
==References==
{{Character|title1 = Storm|image1 = storm.png|caption1 = An ancient anger is watching you. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = The Roof<br>
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[[Parabola]]|allegiance = [[The Sun]]|alias = The Dragon that Walked|relationships = [[The Sun]] (master)|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/flukes-fathoms Fluke's Fathoms]}}<blockquote>''"Now and then, rocky fragments fall from the roof of the Neath. The decks of older ships are pocked with scars. The sound is one no land-lubber knows, and no zailor will ever forget. This one has smashed the glass of a deck-binnacle. "Ill omen!" one sailor cries. "The god in the roof! Storm is angry!"''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_fallen_stone|A fallen stone|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>
'''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''
The Neath is a cold, deep, and dark place, mostly devoid of any kind of weather,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reminisce_about_Fallen_London|Reminisce about Fallen London|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Imagine_there_were_weather|Imagine there were weather|Fallen London|}}</ref> but sometimes [[London]] finds itself battered by strange winds<ref name=":3">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Run_the_rooftops_in_honour_of_%22a_New_Wind%22|Run the rooftops in honour of "a New Wind"|Fallen London|}}</ref> and squalls.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’Weather? In London? A ferocious storm has come in from the zee.’’</ref> Zailors claim that the source of these phenomena is a god called Storm;<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Something_Awaits_You#Log_Book_description|An electric shiver to the air. Storm is watching, the zailors would say.|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> he is a vengeful, spiteful deity<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_fallen_stone|Make a sacrifice to avert misfortune | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> who dislikes change<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Colony#Naming_Your_Colony|Aestival it is|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> and maintains an ancient sort of order.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’Still, he upholds a kind of order. The alternative may be worse.’’</ref> Those who draw his ire meet the most unfortunate of ends,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Fallen_London?|Step by step| Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch_the_lights|Watch the lights|Fallen London|}}</ref> and captains who have drawn his attention have found their crew members attacking each other with unprecedented bloodlust.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/That_Old_Fury|That Old Fury|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> His curse is as relentless as the weather bearing his name, as he sends storms and fog into the path of an ill-fated ship.<ref name=":7">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Gods_of_the_Zee:_Storm%27s_Curse#Effects|The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Curse|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
Storm is worshipped not only by zailors, but also by London's suspicious number of [[urchins]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meet_with_Urchins|Meet with Urchins|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /> The urchins' high priest of sorts is a boy called Slivvy, with a stutter and a port-wine birthmark on his cheek.<ref name=":4">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Fallen_London#London.21|Deliver Sphinxstone to the boy Slivvy |Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Storm's blessing has allowed Slivvy to never grow up, so he has held his position for quite a long time.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’"I've had S-s-storm in my head a long time," says Slivvy. "Means I don't grow old, but I get tired in other ways.’’</ref>
Storm is known to possess individuals,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Thunder_Takes_Me_Away|The Thunder Takes Me Away|Fallen London|}}</ref> whose eyes turn gray<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Stormy-Eyed|Stormy-Eyed|Fallen London|}}</ref> and who become convinced that they ''are'' Storm himself.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Who_can_argue_with_me%3F|Who can argue with me?|Fallen London|}}</ref>
===What is Storm?===
Storm is dead. He has been dead for a long while,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_send_a_message|I will send a message|Fallen London|}}</ref> and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’"He's been 'specially cross lately. Remembering he's dead more and more often. Makes him upset."</ref> He used to be an [[Aeginae]]<ref name="core" /><ref name=":5" /> in the service of the Sun, but he committed some kind of fault,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sunless_Sea#The_Launch_Codes|6 WaterWhiteAndBlack|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’It should not be like this. Which error set about my ruin?</ref> and now is in exile in the Neath.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Recurring_Nightmare:_Watched|Something above |Sunless Sea|}}</ref> His anger sometimes gets the better of him;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’’I must restrain myself from retribution.</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ I must not falter as the charge builds and the thunderhead billows upwards—Lightning! It scatters the pieces to the winds. I curse what brought me here. I curse myself.</ref> he seeks children as his followers because they do not have regrets,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ I took adults from the First City and they did as I commanded, but their minds were rotten with regret. The pain of their self-recrimination sent cracks through my skull. Since then I have used only children.</ref> making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tempest|The Tempest|Fallen London|}}’ All children. It's because only the very young are spared full understanding of their mistakes. There is peace in that, and Storm longs to feel it.</ref>
Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the [[Judgements]], like the other Aeginae.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_smash_them!_All_of_them!|I will smash them! All of them!|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/I_will_speak_to_the_stars_(3_FATE)|I will speak to the stars (3 FATE)|Fallen London|}}</ref> One of his duties is probably to enforce [[the Bazaar|the Bazaar's]] seven-city limit.<ref name=":5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Ovate,_Glory|Order Ovate, Glory|Fallen London|}}</ref>
Storm can freely use mirrors to travel back and forth to Parabola.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Glass_Walls_Everywhere!|Glass Walls Everywhere!|Fallen London|}}</ref>
[[Salt]] once tried to contact Storm, but he kept eating every messenger it sent. Then Salt learned Storm's Name, and Storm was forced to listen. It didn't work out too well for either of them.<ref name="core">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Dark_Room|The Dark Room|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Who_is_the_Third_That_Walks_Always_Beside_you%3F|Who is the Third That Walks Always Beside you?|Fallen London|}}</ref>
==Stone==
{{Character|title1 = Stone|image1 = mountainoflight.png|caption1 = A faraway jewel in the darkness. |location = [[The Elder Continent]]|allegiance = [[The Sun]]<br>
[[The Bazaar]]|alias = The Mountain of Light|relationships = [[The Sun]] (parent)<br>
[[The Bazaar]] (parent)|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/hope-is-an-anchor Hope is an Anchor]}}<blockquote>''"Turn your eyes south. Wait nine heart-beats. In the heart of the Elder Continent, a tiny fugitive gleam of warmth. It's gone."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_View_from_Above|Something bright |Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''Stone''' is known as the protector of all the islands on the Zee. She resides deep within [[the Elder Continent]], as the '''Mountain of Light'''.
Stone is many things: a living mountain far to the south of the Presbyterate, the source of the Wax Wind<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_Wax-Wind|Accept the Wax-Wind|Fallen London|}}</ref>, the daughter of [[The Echo Bazaar|the Bazaar]] and [[the Sun]],<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Adam%27s_Way|Go ashore with the Adventuress|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> the mother of [[Mt. Nomad]].<ref name="flint">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}}</ref> People from around [[the Elder Continent]] regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Pilgrimage_to_Amaradri|The Pilgrimage to Amaradri|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Mountain-sherd|Mountain-sherd|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
Stone influences the lives of nearly all who inhabit the Neath. The unnatural, unexplainable vitality she emits is what makes death in this realm mostly impermanent.<ref name="flint" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leisurely_enquiries|Leisurely enquiries|Fallen London|}}</ref> A piece of the mountain at the center of [[Polythreme]]<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meeting_the_King|Meeting the King|Fallen London|}}</ref> make the normally inanimate denizens so alive that they scream,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meeting_the_King|Meeting the King|Fallen London|}}</ref> and the citizens of [[the Elder Continent]] have particularly long lives.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Presbyterate_Adventuress|"None shall live a thousand years." |Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
The Thief-of-Faces - the original [[Snuffers|Snuffer]] - created Mt Nomad many ages ago by stealing jewels from Stone's wombs.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred. I will tell you of the weapon it made."''</ref>
At the heart of the mountain is the Garden.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_His_Amused_Lordship|A word with His Amused Lordship|Fallen London|}}</ref> It is said that this place can give immortality and eternal youth, which is why the Dilmun Club is trying to reach the Mountain.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_the_Detective|A word with the Detective|Fallen London|}}</ref> In the meantime, only the members of the College of Mortality have access to the garden,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Years_Later|Liberty, equality, eternity| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> although flying creatures have travel to the garden in the past.<ref name=":6">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Irem#The_Mirror-Marches|Rarest fruit| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Some seed from a fruit in Garden ended up in Parabola, and a tree is now growing there, producing apples that give vitality.<ref name=":6" />
Gaining Stone's attention may make you healthier and more agile. Her curse, on the other hand, denies you home and hearth -- your sleep will be restless, unhealing and plagued with nightmares. <ref name=":8">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Gods_of_the_Zee:_Stone%27s_Curse|The Gods of the Zee: Stone's Curse|Sunless Sea|}}Currently there are no effects whatsoever, apart from the achievement the first time you get the curse.</ref> Stone is perhaps the most impactful and influential Zee-god. Be wary of surprise bits of stone and even diamonds showing up unaccounted for on the ship; these may mean Stone is watching you from her glowing, ever-living mountain home.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Tooth-Cracking_Treasure|A Tooth-Cracking Treasure|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
The Mountain is likely named after the diamond known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koh-i-Noor Koh-i-Noor] (Mountain of Light in Persian). This diamond was once the largest in the world, and passed through the hands of the Kakatiya dynasty in India, the Persian Empire, and the British Empire. It is now a part of Queen Elizabeth II's crown. It may also reference [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debre_Berhan Debre Berhan], a former capital of Ethiopia whose name is Amharic for "Mountain of Light".
==Salt==
{{Character|title1 = Salt|image1 = East.png|caption1 = Old soul. Where are you going, old soul?|location = East|allegiance = Independent|alias = The Sun beneath the Sea|relationships = [[The White]] (former master)
[[Storm]]<br>
[[Stone]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/sunless-sea Sunless Sea]}}''"We will sail East, and the islands will fall behind. The zee will be troubled by greater waves. The false-stars will pale, until the Neath-roof grows invisible above. New scents will prickle the air: something like spice and something like pine."''<ref name="salt">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Sun_beneath_the_Sea|The Sun beneath the Sea|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
''"Long ago, a traveller went East, seeking something that could not be found in the black and starry kingdoms of [[the High Wilderness]], nor in the irrigo temptations of [[The Cave of the Nadir|the Nadir]]. Not in the glow of [[the Forge of Souls|the Forge]] nor the crushing silence of [[the Unterzee]] deeps. Not in [[Godfall|the shapeling citadels]], not in [[Gods of the Unterzee#Stone|the light of the South]], not of [[The Echo Bazaar#The Taste of Lacre|the Sundered Sea]]. The traveller went East, and others may follow.''
''You have found something the traveller tried to forget: that naked need. The traveller won't be pleased."''<ref name="core">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Dark_Room|The Dark Room|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
The flowing currents of time and memory are '''Salt''''s domain. It is the embodiment of the Zee itself; its origin is unknown, though it is believed that it may exist far to the east, farther than anyone dares to go.
Salt's influence affects all travelers of the Zee. Its attention can bring the blessings of sudden revelations, or the most devastating of curses. It can undo past achievements, take loved ones, and even alter one's past so that one would be erased entirely.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Dark_News|Dark News|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Keep an eye out for its messenger, the White Bat; if it is watching you, Salt is watching.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_white_zee-bat|A white zee-bat|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
''(Was Salt mortal once? Was it once like us, a mere explorer who discovered something beyond our comprehension? What lies in the far reaches of its domain?)''
===Salinity===
Salt is likely a Judgement who found his way to the Neath. It's implied that [[Judgements#The White|another Sun]] sent Salt here to take a look at the Neath's activities.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Name-Which-Burns|The Name-Which-Burns|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> In the process, however, it got distracted and drifted away from its mission. Salt gave up its memories and name, building of them a [[Frostfound|castle of ice]]. Then it ventured from [[Irem]] into the Uttermost East, where now it waits for others to follow. Someday, it will return, and rise to face the White in its palace of poisoned crystal.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Green_and_Gold|Green and Gold|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
Salt is sometimes called '''the Sun-Beneath-the-Sea'''.<ref name="salt">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Sun_beneath_the_Sea|The Sun beneath the Sea|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
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Storm, Stone, Salt
"'Nearly there,' a zailor mutters. 'King Storm, stay your anger. Queen Stone, preserve our hearts. Salt, tempt us not - ' "'Belay that heathen prattling!" the bo'sun roars."[1]
On the Surface, sailors have always been superstitious people, with tall tales of supernatural entities helping or hindering them on their travels. On the Zee it's no different... but the Zee's superstitions might actually hold some truth, for it is full of things no mortal can possibly comprehend.
The three nameless[2] gods of the Unterzee are commonly called Storm, Stone, and Salt. The Gods' secrets are buried within the icy depths of Frostfound.
