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==Infernal Archaeology==
==Infernal Archaeology==
Virginia is known for her forays in archaeology,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Tomb_of_the_Seven|The Tomb of the Seven|Fallen London|}}’Both the deviless Virginia and the scholar Orthos have heard the same tales. You'll need to find the Tomb before they do[…]’</ref> and trades in the souls of the learned and well-known.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Observe_Virginia|Observe Virginia|Fallen London|}}</ref> Virginia has a significant interest in the histories of [[the Fallen Cities]] and the language of [[the Correspondence]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia%27s_attention|Virginia's attention|Fallen London|}}</ref> so she can often be found conducting research in [[the Forgotten Quarter]]. This often put her in a rivalry with Dr Orthos, a well-read scholar and a fellow archaeologist who has headed many expeditions.  
Virginia has a taste for the souls of the learned and well-known. She has a significant interest in the histories of [[the Fallen Cities]] and the language of [[the Correspondence]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia%27s_attention|Virginia's attention|Fallen London|}}</ref> and can often be found conducting research in [[the Forgotten Quarter]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Observe_Virginia|Observe Virginia|Fallen London|}}</ref> This puts her in frequent rivalry with other archaeologists, including Dr. Orthos, a scholar who has headed many expeditions.  


Virginia is a player of the Marvellous.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Heart%27s_Desire_%E2%80%93_Virginia|Ambition: Heart's Desire %E2%80%93 Virginia|Fallen London|}}</ref> She was a heroine of Hell's Season of Revolutions, as she helped to overthrow a Prince of Hell after having an affair with him. This one-time prince is actually still interested in her, and he's currently locked up as the sole prisoner of [[Corpsecage Island]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Uncover_the_location_of_a_One-Time_Prince_of_Hell|Uncover the location of a One-Time Prince of Hell|Fallen London|}}</ref>
Virginia is a player of the Marvellous.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Heart%27s_Desire_%E2%80%93_Virginia|Ambition: Heart's Desire %E2%80%93 Virginia|Fallen London|}}</ref> Long ago, she was a heroine of Hell's Season of Revolutions, helping overthrow a Prince of Hell after having an affair with him. The exiled prince still has an interest in her, but sadly for him, he is imprisoned alone on [[Corpsecage Island]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Uncover_the_location_of_a_One-Time_Prince_of_Hell|Uncover the location of a One-Time Prince of Hell|Fallen London|}}</ref>


==Infernal Elections==
==Infernal Elections==
''"Virginia's followers don't preach abstinence, nor even restraint. They advocate exercises, physical and spiritual, and spread the twin practices of penitence and callisthenics wherever they go."''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Card)|Virginia (Card)|Fallen London|}}</ref>
''"Virginia's followers don't preach abstinence, nor even restraint. They advocate exercises, physical and spiritual, and spread the twin practices of penitence and callisthenics wherever they go."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Card)|Virginia (Card)|Fallen London|}}</ref>


Virginia successfully ran for Mayor of [[London]] in 1897, under the slogan ''Good for the Soul''. Despite her being, well, a deviless, [[the Brass Embassy]] quickly disavowed any involvement related to her candidacy and stated to the press that "She's your problem now".<ref name=":0" />
Virginia successfully ran for Mayor of [[London]] in 1897, under the slogan ''Good for the Soul''. Despite her status as a deviless, [[the Brass Embassy]] quickly disavowed any involvement with her candidacy and made an official statement to the press saying that she "was [London's] problem now."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Card)|Virginia (Card)|Fallen London|}}</ref> She became London's first '''Lord Mayor''', a position renamed by [[the Jovial Contrarian]] as his last act in office.


Virginia's platform encouraged a 'Clean Bill of Health',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Learn_more_about_the_Candidates:_1897)|Virginia (Learn more about the Candidates: 1897)|Fallen London|}}</ref> and promised to improve the lives and health of London's soul as a whole with modern medicine<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Learn_more_about_Virginia%27s_campaign_(The_Waswood)|Learn more about Virginia's campaign (The Waswood)|Fallen London|}}</ref> and by opening a public spa which will allow the "honing of the self, like a knife on a whetstone".<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_about_Virginia%27s_plans_for_London|Ask about Virginia's plans for London|Fallen London|}}</ref> Throught these reforms, she hoped to not only improve the physical health of Londoners, but their spiritual health as well, to improve the state of their souls. She wanted to make Londoners more ambitious, and willing to fully appreciate what the Neath could offer.<ref name=":1" />
Virginia's platform encouraged a "Clean Bill of Health,"<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Learn_more_about_the_Candidates:_1897)|Virginia (Learn more about the Candidates: 1897)|Fallen London|}}</ref> and promised to improve the lives and health of London's soul as a whole, using modern medicine<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Learn_more_about_Virginia%27s_campaign_(The_Waswood)|Learn more about Virginia's campaign (The Waswood)|Fallen London|}}</ref> and by opening a public spa to allow the "honing of the self, like a knife on a whetstone."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_about_Virginia%27s_plans_for_London|Ask about Virginia's plans for London|Fallen London|}}</ref> Despite their rivalry, Dr Orthos chose to support Virginia's campaign, partly out of support for her policies and partly because if she won, he would have less interference in his Forgotten Quarter expeditions.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Choose_your_Candidate_1897)|Virginia (Choose your Candidate 1897)|Fallen London|}}</ref> He was not her only surprising ally; Virginia gained a motley crew of support, with society figures, lower-ranking devils, and even some members of the clergy campaigning on her behalf. She even garnered support from Temperance campaigners, who were nervous about Virginia's strategies but found that their views aligned with her agenda. Some of Virginia's more fervent allies put up posters depicting her as a new Queen Elizabeth, emblazoned with the caption "Rex Virginia;" these posters were quickly confiscated by the Ministry.


Despite their rivalry, Dr Orthos chose nonthless to help her campaign, partly out of support for her policies and partly because if she winst, then he "will have less competition in [[The Forgotten Quarter]]."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Virginia_(Choose_your_Candidate_1897)|Virginia (Choose your Candidate 1897)|Fallen London|}}</ref> He was not her only surprising ally; Viriginia supporters were an ecclectic group, with society figures, low-level devils and even some parts of the clergy who campaigned on her behalf. It wasn't an orderly bunch; Some of her most fervent supporters put up posters depicting as a new Queen Elizabeth, emblazoned with the caption "Rex Virginia". (Said posters were quickly confiscated by the Ministry.)<ref name=":0" /> Most surprising, a lot of the fundng for her campaign came from Temperance campaigners, who were nervous about Virginia's strategies but supported her agenda.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_into_a_secret_memory_of_Virginia|Reach into a secret memory of Virginia|Fallen London|}}</ref>
The motivations for Virginia's campaign were more complicated than mere public health. She and Orthos both expressed disgust at the corruption and debauchery of London as a city, but Virginia also hinted that she wants to prepare London for an unspecified future calamity. Perhaps, however, this was all simply to further her studies, or to harvest healthier souls, as devils do.
 
At the very end of the election [[The Jovial Contrarian]], then the current mayor, said that the office of mayor was "corrupt, shambolic and altogether unfit for purpuse", and therefor that he had abolished it. He immediately declared that a new title had been created, that of Lord Mayor, and announced that Virginia would be the first person to hold it.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Election_1897:_The_Victor_is_Announced|Election 1897: The Victor is Announced|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
== Rex Virginia ==
<blockquote>''"Is this what London does to its mayors? Jenny's term was only three years ago. Did anything last? […] It doesn't matter. I refuse to be measured by the work of my predecessors. What I shall do will stand so high above them that it will not be necessary."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Jenny%27s_Lighthouse_(The_Waswood)|Jenny's Lighthouse (The Waswood)|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>After the election, Virgnia immediately started working on her spa. She bought and renovated a townhouse to serve as the location<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lord_Mayor_of_London_(Virginia)|The Lord Mayor of London (Virginia)|Fallen London|}}</ref> and made an agreement with The Dynamite to hire a group of devil "physicians" of sort.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Investigate_the_Mayor_(Virginia)|Investigate the Mayor (Virginia)|Fallen London|}}</ref> Those who visited the place where often surprised by the odd treatments offered: clients were asked to do different tasks, such as: sit "in copper bathtubs and guessing the number of occupants the bath has ever held", stay in "waiting rooms stuffed with the terminally boring and of lengthy examinations of Rubbery physiognomy",<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Investigate_the_Mayor_(Virginia)|Investigate the Mayor (Virginia)|Fallen London|}}</ref>  "read a range of dreadful 'improving' works of literature. ", eat "some kind of sour-cream porridge", "drink a litre of room temperature water" and "lie still and think of anything – anything at all – other than a Rubbery Man." It didn't seem to have much of an effect at all.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accompany_Virginia_for_a_treatment|Accompany Virginia for a treatment|Fallen London|}}</ref> Towards the end of her term, she said: "I know that my Spas have not produced such immediate results as London might have hoped. The work proceeds."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Propose_that_the_Board_endorse_F._F._Gebrandt|Propose that the Board endorse F. F. Gebrandt|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
During the [[Fruits of the Zee Festival]], she serched for a mask used by an orderly in [[The Orphanage]] that [[Mrs Plenty]] was said to have taken with her after she left that place and gotten rid of shortly after.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discover_Virginia%27s_scheme_(The_Waswood)|Discover Virginia's scheme (The Waswood)|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Anonymous_White_Mask,_Zee-Stained_and_Mildewy|An Anonymous White Mask, Zee-Stained and Mildewy|Fallen London|}}</ref> Virginia wanted to use the mask to take the memory of that event.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Give_Virginia_the_mask_(The_Waswood)|Give Virginia the mask (The Waswood)|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
Her term advanced toward its end, with seemingly no improvement in the result of her spa. Then, out of the blue, she announced that a deal had been struck with Hell, It seem that electing a devil as Lord Mayor made Hell's attitude toward London more relaxed, and so Virginia negotiated the opening of the Hinterlands to Londoners, and created the Ministry of Upper River Development. This chain of events led to the foundation of the [[The Great Hellbound Railway|Great Hellbound Railway]], which constructed a second rail line between London and Hell.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Advertisements_of_a_New_Venture|Advertisements of a New Venture|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
At the end of her term and of the Election of 1898, she announced that Londoners, in their "unique and incomprehensible genius"  had chosen [[The Viscountess of the Viric Jungle]] as their next (and last) Lord Mayor.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Election_1898:_The_Victor_is_Announced|Election 1898: The Victor is Announced|Fallen London|}}</ref>


== Reference ==
== Reference ==

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"Virginia is a deviless of particularly refined tastes, and particularly elaborate cunning."[1]

Virginia is a fashionable, knowledgeable, and high-ranking deviless, and a former Lord Mayor of London.

Infernal Archaeology

Virginia has a taste for the souls of the learned and well-known. She has a significant interest in the histories of the Fallen Cities and the language of the Correspondence,[2] and can often be found conducting research in the Forgotten Quarter.[3] This puts her in frequent rivalry with other archaeologists, including Dr. Orthos, a scholar who has headed many expeditions.

Virginia is a player of the Marvellous.[4] Long ago, she was a heroine of Hell's Season of Revolutions, helping overthrow a Prince of Hell after having an affair with him. The exiled prince still has an interest in her, but sadly for him, he is imprisoned alone on Corpsecage Island.[5]

Infernal Elections

"Virginia's followers don't preach abstinence, nor even restraint. They advocate exercises, physical and spiritual, and spread the twin practices of penitence and callisthenics wherever they go."[6]

Virginia successfully ran for Mayor of London in 1897, under the slogan Good for the Soul. Despite her status as a deviless, the Brass Embassy quickly disavowed any involvement with her candidacy and made an official statement to the press saying that she "was [London's] problem now."[7] She became London's first Lord Mayor, a position renamed by the Jovial Contrarian as his last act in office.

Virginia's platform encouraged a "Clean Bill of Health,"[8] and promised to improve the lives and health of London's soul as a whole, using modern medicine[9] and by opening a public spa to allow the "honing of the self, like a knife on a whetstone."[10] Despite their rivalry, Dr Orthos chose to support Virginia's campaign, partly out of support for her policies and partly because if she won, he would have less interference in his Forgotten Quarter expeditions.[11] He was not her only surprising ally; Virginia gained a motley crew of support, with society figures, lower-ranking devils, and even some members of the clergy campaigning on her behalf. She even garnered support from Temperance campaigners, who were nervous about Virginia's strategies but found that their views aligned with her agenda. Some of Virginia's more fervent allies put up posters depicting her as a new Queen Elizabeth, emblazoned with the caption "Rex Virginia;" these posters were quickly confiscated by the Ministry.

The motivations for Virginia's campaign were more complicated than mere public health. She and Orthos both expressed disgust at the corruption and debauchery of London as a city, but Virginia also hinted that she wants to prepare London for an unspecified future calamity. Perhaps, however, this was all simply to further her studies, or to harvest healthier souls, as devils do.

Reference

  1. ↑ Hearing Rumours of Virginia's Progress, Fallen London
  2. ↑ Virginia's attention, Fallen London
  3. ↑ Observe Virginia, Fallen London
  4. ↑ Ambition: Heart's Desire %E2%80%93 Virginia, Fallen London
  5. ↑ Uncover the location of a One-Time Prince of Hell, Fallen London
  6. ↑ Virginia (Card), Fallen London
  7. ↑ Virginia (Card), Fallen London
  8. ↑ Virginia (Learn more about the Candidates: 1897), Fallen London
  9. ↑ Learn more about Virginia's campaign (The Waswood), Fallen London
  10. ↑ Ask about Virginia's plans for London, Fallen London
  11. ↑ Virginia (Choose your Candidate 1897), Fallen London
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