The Ragged Crow

"We enter the Stormbones. St Eligius sends his fire to dance on the air, on deck. Very far away we see the great light of the Ragged Crow."

The Ragged Crow is an enormous lighthouse in the Unterzee. Below the lighthouse lies the Undercrow, a cavern that leads to the interior of the lighthouse, with an entrance found below the Unterzee's surface.

A Standard Candle

"Far above, a lighthouse fire burns. The scent of it is curiously medicinal. It clouds your head and burns your lungs."

The Ragged Crow is an important landmark for zailors traveling the Unterzee. As a great source of light in the dark, the Ragged Crow attracts many varieties of moths - from those similar to their Surface counterparts, to the dangerous, ship-sized Tyrant-Moths.

The Undercrow

"No tomb-colonist ever looked as ancient or unwell as the Almost Dead Man before you. Grey, bloated, and nearly embalmed by the fungal smoke, it's difficult to tell where his skin ends and the stone bed beneath him begins."

The mysterious Undercrow is a large underwater cavern below the Ragged Crow's lighthouse, filled with moths, fungal smoke - and the lighthouse's solitary keeper, an extremely old tomb-colonist known as the Almost Dead Man. This individual uses a complex pulley system to deliver flammable fungus to the lighthouse's burner, and the resulting smoke has preservative properties, though it also coats the entire cavern in grey soot.

Unfortunately, and understandably, the Undercrow is generally closed off to visitors, though some have managed to gain entry in the past.

Moths and Regret

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"Mortality has a way of finding us in the end. I must set my affairs in order. I owe that much to my successor. So, would you help an old man say his farewells?"

Lorenzo

The Almost Dead Man of the Undercrow is Lorenzo of the Seven Against Nidah. His life is slowly coming to an end, but within him sleeps a member of an outstanding species of Frost-Moth called the Most-Moth, and its Emergence is imminent. Lorenzo's student, the Incomparable Aurelian, is an insect collector who wishes to witness the Most-Moth's hatching and observe the moth's wings, and must be by his master's side for the process to take place.

Before his final dissolution, however, Lorenzo wishes to send several messages to his former friends and set his affairs in order, to say farewell to his once-comrades of the Seven Against Nidah once and for all.