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}}<blockquote>''"When you ask about his past, he winces. '[...]This -' he taps the livid sigil on his temple, which twitches like a scorpion's sting '-has burned away my memories.'"''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Sigil-Ridden_Navigator|Invite him to dine with you| Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | |relationships=[[The Correspondence]]}}<blockquote>''"When you ask about his past, he winces. '[...]This -' he taps the livid sigil on his temple, which twitches like a scorpion's sting '-has burned away my memories.'"''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Sigil-Ridden_Navigator|Invite him to dine with you| Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
The '''Sigil-Ridden Navigator''' is a nervous and timid zeeman, whose right temple is marked with a sigil of the [[The Correspondence|Correspondence]]. | The '''Sigil-Ridden Navigator''' is a nervous and timid zeeman, whose right temple is marked with a sigil of the [[The Correspondence|Correspondence]]. | ||
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"When you ask about his past, he winces. '[...]This -' he taps the livid sigil on his temple, which twitches like a scorpion's sting '-has burned away my memories.'"[1]
The Sigil-Ridden Navigator is a nervous and timid zeeman, whose right temple is marked with a sigil of the Correspondence.
A Wretched Past[edit]
"I regret it all. I will do anything. Please."[2]
Sometime before 1887, the Navigator and his brother, Richard, were both engaged aboard the Bonny Swan.[3] The ship passed beyond Kingeater's Castle, hoping to find another port[4] - but the Navigator made a critical error, and the crew found themselves with no supplies and no sign of land.[5]
The crew were forced to turn to cannibalism in order to survive, drawing lots to determine who would meet this fate.[5] The first to be eaten were the ship's captain, Swinburne,[3] and the Navigator's own brother.[6] By the time the Bonny Swan returned to port, seven of her crew had been eaten.[7] Although the survivors vowed silence, one of them confessed, and the Navigator returned to zee in order to avoid execution for his crimes.[8]
Almost Never Remembered[edit]
"If I cannot be forgiven, then I will forget. The Chapel of Lights will help me, for a price."[9]
Overwhelmed with guilt, the Navigator zailed to the freezing Avid Horizon, and recorded his name and deeds at its dock[10] for a chance at clemency from the Admiralty. He was not selected for a pardon; in his desperation to simply forget what had happened, he turned to the Chapel of Lights,[11] paying them to inscribe a sigil of the Correspondence on his forehead. The sigil, which means "Almost Never Remembered,"[12] has erased the Navigator's memories of the incident as well as much of his past.[13] He now mistakenly believes that someone has cursed him with the sigil, but cannot say who.[14]
Historical Inspirations[edit]
The legal case R v Dudley and Stephens (R being Queen Victoria) took place after the starving crew of the yacht Mignonette killed and ate their cabin boy, and established in British legal precedent that necessity was not a valid defense against a charge of murder. John Franklin's voyage to the Northwest Passage, in the Canadian Arctic, infamously also resulted in what is known as "survival cannibalism."
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