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{{Major spoiler}}[[File:Frostfoundcorridors.jpg|thumb|500px|center|The frozen halls of Frostfound.]]
[[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>
''"'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 Zee is full of things men, women, and anyone else can barely even comprehend. On [[the Surface]], sailors were always 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. The three foremost gods of the Unterzee are '''Storm''', '''Stone''', and '''Salt'''. The Gods' secrets can be found 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 ==
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''"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!"''
''"Long ago a hungry monarch built a castle. The monarch sent messengers to the thunder-dragon in the roof, but the dragon ate them all. The monarch sent more messengers - shapelings from Axile, malleable and eager - but the dragon ate those too. Then the hungry monarch found the dragon's name, and the dragon had to listen. It didn't do either of them much good.You have one syllable of the thunder-dragon's name. It won't be pleased."''
An ancient anger, '''Storm''''s wrath is unending and punishing to those who gain his attention. Storm is the embodiment of the air, the weather, and the sky... well, its Neathy equivalent, at least. He is the punishment, the judgement, of all beings who sail the Zee.
It should be noted, of course, that this description could be more metaphorical than fact. However, given the primal nature of Storm and his followers, it may make sense that Storm is a beast of a being.
Storm is a god whose favor cannot be won entirely. His attention often fuels humans' rage. Some captains who gain his attention find one of their crew attacking the others with insane bloodlust after an encounter with the roof of the Zee affects the ship. Other times, however, gazing out to Zee, the captain will find new strength and vision from his guidance. Be wary of Storm's displeasure, as his curse is as relentless as the weather bearing his name: it literally brings an increase in storms and fog.
===What is He?===
He is a dragon, an enforcer of [[Judgement]]-law, probably here enforcing [[the Bazaar]]'s seven city limit. He also may be dead, in some sense, but he doesn't really care. [[Salt]] once tried to contact him, but Storm kept eating every messenger he sent. Then Salt learned Storm's Name, and Storm was forced to listen. It didn't work out for either of them. The [[urchins]] of [[London]] worship Storm, and Londoners who dream of What the Thunder Said may end up in his mind.
== Stone ==
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''"It's very far away; but perhaps it's watching you."''
''"Long ago a hungry monarch built a castle. The monarch saw a light in the south, in the palace of the south's queen. In those days, hungry as the monarch was, that light provoked nothing but appetite. But she was too far to devour. Over time, their correspondence calmed the monarch, and when the time came for the monarch to depart, the monarch's appetite was transformed, like blood into tears.''
''You have one word from the queen's correspondence. She won't be pleased."''
'''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, the daughter of [https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/The_Echo_Bazaar the Bazaar] and [https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/Judgements the Sun], the mother of [https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/Mt._Nomad Mt. Nomad]. People from around [https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/The_Elder_Continent the Elder Continent] regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.
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. The normally inanimate denizens of [[Polythreme]] are so alive that they scream, and the citizens of [[the Elder Continent]] have particularly long lives.
The Thief-of-Faces - the original [https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/Snuffers Snuffer] - wounded the Mountain of Light long ago and made her child, Mt. Nomad. The blood from this wound forms the Nameless River, whose estuary into the Unterzee is called Adam's Way.
Gaining Stone's attention may make you healthier and more agile, but it seems like her curse does nothing. Perhaps it's that some forms of death are permanent. It could be the fact that those who live outside the Elder Continent can never enter, not without their souls burning away and their entire crew dying. Or maybe it simply works in a way we cannot understand, or we have yet to see the full repercussions of the curse. No matter what her curse does, 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.
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 ==
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''"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."''
''"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 [[Starved Men#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."''
The flowing currents of time and memory are '''Salt''''s domain. He is the embodiment of the Zee itself; his origin is unknown, though it is believed he may exist far to the east, farther than anyone dares to go.
Salt's influence affects all travelers of the Zee. If you manage to gain his attention, he may reward you with sudden revelations. But if you dare to defy this being, be warned: his curse can affect you in the most devastating of ways. He can undo past achievements, take your loved ones, and even alter your past so you would be erased entirely. Be watchful of Salt's messenger, the White Bat, as if it is watching you, HE is watching.
''(Was Salt mortal once? Was he once like us, a mere explorer who discovered something beyond our comprehension? What lies in the far reaches of his domain?)''
===What is He?===
Losing one's mind in [[Kingeater's Castle]] gives a vision of a "hungry sun" who "made of memories a castle" and speaks of "mirrors in the ice". This vision probably refers to Salt. Additionally, Salt's Name is spoken in [[the Correspondence]]. Thus Salt is likely a Judgement who found his way to the Neath. It's implied that [[Judgements#The White|another Sun]] sent him to here to take a look at the Neath's activities. In the process, however, Salt got distracted and drifted away from his mission. Salt gave up his memories and name, building of them a [[Frostfound|castle of ice]]. He abandoned his hunger, leaving it as [[Kingeater's Castle]]. Then he ventured from [[Irem]] (which he may also have built) into the Uttermost East, where now he waits for others to follow. Someday, he will return, and rise to face the White in its palace of poisoned crystal. He is sometimes called '''the Sun-Beneath-the-Sea'''.
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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.
