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{{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) | {{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> | [[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> | [[Stone]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/sunless-sea Sunless Sea]}}<blockquote>''"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></blockquote> | ||
Of | Of the three gods of the Zee, Salt is the most elusive, said to dwell beyond the horizon.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Irem#Tomb-Colonists_in_Irem|The Colonists will look East | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It is the god of farewells,<ref name=":9" /> and may be the embodiment of the Zee itself.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Break_on_through_to_the_other_side|Break on through to the other side|Fallen London|}}</ref> Its speech is a light across the water,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Irem#Tomb-Colonists_in_Irem|Their bandages will be soaked with tears | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> a sea breeze,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_skilled_crewman|A breath of air | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> a splash in the distance<ref name=":10">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Kingeater's_Castle|The rewards of curiosity | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> - always from the East, calling fellow travellers toward it.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Eastern_Wind|Eastern Wind|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Carnelian_Exile|A brisk dinner| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It is always approaching, but never arriving.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Swim_to_the_beach|Swim to the beach|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref name=":10" /> It can provoke an intense sadness as it passes,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Tears|Tears| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> or like Storm, it might drive its enemies to violence.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Dark_News|Dark News|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | ||
Where its influence is felt, a message is often found: TRAVELLER RETURNING.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Colony#Receive_an_Embassy|Not Helpful| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | Where its voice sings, a white zee-bat might follow.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_white_zee-bat|A white zee-bat|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Where its influence is felt, a message is often found: TRAVELLER RETURNING.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Colony#Receive_an_Embassy|Not Helpful| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | ||
Salt is feared and worshipped by zailors, who give it their stories and secrets,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_House_of_the_Question|Lift Salt's Curse | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> and call its wrath upon those who wrong them.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_Raggedy_Fellow|Strong words | Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Man_who_Stole_the_Sun|Gratitude... and curses | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It also punishes those who steal from shipwrecks.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Nocturne|A harrowing emptiness | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | |||
Salt is | |||
=== Who is Salt?=== | |||
Salt is a Judgment.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sun_within_the_Sea|The Sun within the Sea| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It is now in exile in the Neath,<ref name=":12">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_Travelling_Light|A Travelling Light| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> but before it came here, [[Judgements|the White]] asked it a favor:<ref name=":13">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Name-Which-Burns|The Name-Which-Burns|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> to find what the sun had hid (probably his daughter Stone).<ref name=":14">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Green_and_Gold|Green and Gold|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It promised a treasure at the end of the search, and perhaps something else.<ref name=":13" /> Salt accepted because it sought something it could not find between the stars,<ref name="core" /> and entered the Neath, at a terrible cost.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Iridescence|The Iridescence| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> It saw the light of Stone and found it appetizing, but she was too far away, so instead it sated its hunger by corresponding with her.<ref name="core" /> At some point during this time, but long before the Bazaar came to the Neath, it made a treaty with the [[The Elder Continent|Presbyterate]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Your_Colony#Receive_an_Embassy|An understanding with the Presbyterate | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Eventually it made the castle of [[Frostfound]] to record its story,<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /> then forged the place we call [[Kingeater's Castle|Kingeater’s Castle]] by shedding its past and future,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle|Give up your past| Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle|Give up your future| Sunless Sea|}}</ref> and then it went East.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Kingeater%27s_Castle|"There!" | Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | |||
Amid the forests and the mountains of the East,<ref name=":14" /> it is now perpetually in movement and yet standing still,<ref name=":10" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Look|Look|Fallen London|}}</ref> calling those who wish to explore the last horizon.<ref name=":11" /> One day, it will rise to fight the White<ref name=":14" /> - but there is no happy ending.<ref name=":12" /> | |||
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> | 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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"'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][3][4] gods of the Unterzee are commonly called Storm, Stone, and Salt. The Gods' secrets are buried within the icy depths of Frostfound.
Storm
"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!"[5]
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
The Neath is a cold, deep, and dark place, mostly devoid of any kind of weather,[6][7] but sometimes London finds itself battered by strange winds[8] and squalls.[9] Zailors claim that the source of these phenomena is a god called Storm;[10] he is a vengeful, spiteful deity[11] who dislikes change[12] and maintains an ancient sort of order.[13] Those who draw his ire meet the most unfortunate of ends,[5][14][15] and captains who have drawn his attention have found their crew members attacking each other with unprecedented bloodlust.[16] 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.[2]
Storm is worshipped not only by zailors, but also by London's suspicious number of urchins.[17][8][18] The urchins' high priest of sorts is a boy called Slivvy, with a stutter and a port-wine birthmark on his cheek.[18][14] Storm's blessing has allowed Slivvy to never grow up, so he has held his position for quite a long time.[19]
Storm is known to possess individuals,[20] whose eyes turn gray[16][21] and who become convinced that they are Storm himself.[22]
What is Storm?
Storm is dead. He has been dead for a long while,[23] and remembering that fact makes him quite enraged.[24] He used to be an Aeginae[25][26] in the service of the Sun, but he committed some kind of fault,[27][28] and now is in exile in the Neath.[29] His anger sometimes gets the better of him;[30][31] he seeks children as his followers because they do not have regrets,[32] making them more useful to his means and allowing him some semblance of peace.[33]
Despite everything that has befallen him, he still loves the Judgements, like the other Aeginae.[34][35] One of his duties is probably to enforce the Bazaar's seven-city limit.[26]
Storm can freely use mirrors to travel back and forth to Parabola.[36]
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.[25] To this day, they seem to remain in some sort of conflict.[37]
Stone
"Turn your eyes south. Wait nine heart-beats. In the heart of the Elder Continent, a tiny fugitive gleam of warmth. It's gone."[38]
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[39], the daughter of the Bazaar and the Sun,[40] the mother of Mt. Nomad.[41] People from around the Elder Continent regularly make pilgrimages to her, and sometimes they clip relics (called Mountain-Sherds) from her slopes.[42][43]
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.[41][44] A piece of the mountain at the center of Polythreme[45] make the normally inanimate denizens so alive that they scream,[46] and the citizens of the Elder Continent have particularly long lives.[47]
The Thief-of-Faces - the original Snuffer - created Mt Nomad many ages ago by stealing jewels from Stone's wombs.[48]
At the heart of the mountain is the Garden.[49] It is said that this place can give immortality and eternal youth, which is why the Dilmun Club is trying to reach the Mountain.[50] In the meantime, only the members of the College of Mortality have access to the garden,[51] although flying creatures have travel to the garden in the past.[52] Some seed from a fruit in Garden ended up in Parabola, and a tree is now growing there, producing apples that give vitality.[52]
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. [3] 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.[53]
The Mountain is likely named after the diamond known as the 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 Debre Berhan, a former capital of Ethiopia whose name is Amharic for "Mountain of Light".
Salt
"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."[54]
Of the three gods of the Zee, Salt is the most elusive, said to dwell beyond the horizon.[55] It is the god of farewells,[4] and may be the embodiment of the Zee itself.[56] Its speech is a light across the water,[57] a sea breeze,[58] a splash in the distance[59] - always from the East, calling fellow travellers toward it.[60][61] It is always approaching, but never arriving.[62][59] It can provoke an intense sadness as it passes,[63] or like Storm, it might drive its enemies to violence.[64]
Where its voice sings, a white zee-bat might follow.[65] Where its influence is felt, a message is often found: TRAVELLER RETURNING.[66]
Salt is feared and worshipped by zailors, who give it their stories and secrets,[67] and call its wrath upon those who wrong them.[68][69] It also punishes those who steal from shipwrecks.[70]
Who is Salt?
Salt is a Judgment.[71] It is now in exile in the Neath,[72] but before it came here, the White asked it a favor:[73] to find what the sun had hid (probably his daughter Stone).[74] It promised a treasure at the end of the search, and perhaps something else.[73] Salt accepted because it sought something it could not find between the stars,[25] and entered the Neath, at a terrible cost.[75] It saw the light of Stone and found it appetizing, but she was too far away, so instead it sated its hunger by corresponding with her.[25] At some point during this time, but long before the Bazaar came to the Neath, it made a treaty with the Presbyterate.[76] Eventually it made the castle of Frostfound to record its story,[72][73] then forged the place we call Kingeater’s Castle by shedding its past and future,[77][78] and then it went East.[79]
Amid the forests and the mountains of the East,[74] it is now perpetually in movement and yet standing still,[59][80] calling those who wish to explore the last horizon.[61] One day, it will rise to fight the White[74] - but there is no happy ending.[72]
Salt is sometimes called the Sun-Beneath-the-Sea.[54]
References
- ↑ Set your course for the lights of Wolfstack, Fallen London
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Gods of the Zee: Storm's Curse, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Gods of the Zee: Salt's Curse, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A fallen stone, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Reminisce about Fallen London, Fallen London
- ↑ Imagine there were weather, Fallen London
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Run the rooftops in honour of "a New Wind", Fallen London
- ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’Weather? In London? A ferocious storm has come in from the zee.’’
- ↑ An electric shiver to the air. Storm is watching, the zailors would say., Sunless Sea
- ↑ Make a sacrifice to avert misfortune , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Aestival it is, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’Still, he upholds a kind of order. The alternative may be worse.’’
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Step by step, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Watch the lights, Fallen London
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 That Old Fury, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Meet with Urchins, Fallen London
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 Deliver Sphinxstone to the boy Slivvy , Sunless Sea
- ↑ 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.’’
- ↑ The Thunder Takes Me Away, Fallen London
- ↑ Stormy-Eyed, Fallen London
- ↑ Who can argue with me?, Fallen London
- ↑ I will send a message, Fallen London
- ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’"He's been 'specially cross lately. Remembering he's dead more and more often. Makes him upset."
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 The Dark Room, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 26.0 26.1 Order Ovate, Glory, Fallen London
- ↑ 6 WaterWhiteAndBlack, Fallen London
- ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’It should not be like this. Which error set about my ruin?
- ↑ Something above , Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Tempest, Fallen London ’’I must restrain myself from retribution.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ I will smash them! All of them!, Fallen London
- ↑ I will speak to the stars (3 FATE), Fallen London
- ↑ Glass Walls Everywhere!, Fallen London
- ↑ Who is the Third That Walks Always Beside you?, Fallen London
- ↑ Something bright , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Accept the Wax-Wind, Fallen London
- ↑ Go ashore with the Adventuress, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 41.0 41.1 Flint, Fallen London
- ↑ The Pilgrimage to Amaradri, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Mountain-sherd, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Leisurely enquiries, Fallen London
- ↑ Meeting the King, Fallen London
- ↑ Meeting the King, Fallen London
- ↑ "None shall live a thousand years." , Sunless Sea
- ↑ 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."
- ↑ A word with His Amused Lordship, Fallen London
- ↑ A word with the Detective, Fallen London
- ↑ Liberty, equality, eternity, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 52.0 52.1 Rarest fruit, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A Tooth-Cracking Treasure, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 54.0 54.1 The Sun beneath the Sea, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Colonists will look East , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Break on through to the other side, Fallen London
- ↑ Their bandages will be soaked with tears , Sunless Sea
- ↑ A breath of air , Sunless Sea
- ↑ 59.0 59.1 59.2 The rewards of curiosity , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Eastern Wind, Fallen London
- ↑ 61.0 61.1 A brisk dinner, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Swim to the beach, Fallen London
- ↑ Tears, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Dark News, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A white zee-bat, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Not Helpful, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Lift Salt's Curse , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Strong words , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Gratitude... and curses , Sunless Sea
- ↑ A harrowing emptiness , Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Sun within the Sea, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 72.0 72.1 72.2 A Travelling Light, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 73.0 73.1 73.2 The Name-Which-Burns, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 74.0 74.1 74.2 Green and Gold, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Iridescence, Sunless Sea
- ↑ An understanding with the Presbyterate , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your past, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your future, Sunless Sea
- ↑ "There!" , Sunless Sea
- ↑ Look, Fallen London
