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"This is the salt-blown heart of the Hold. The Fathomking floats in his throne: a gem-starred bowl of sea-stone, the size of a banqueting table. He's wearing a dressing gown of purple brocade, soaked dark with salt water. He leans his chin calmly on his hand. Beneath the surface of the water in his throne, his hidden regions pulse, constantly, insistently."[2]
The Fathomking is the mysterious and notoriously unpredictable ruler of the Drownies.
The Zee's Wild Card
The Fathomking himself is quite the character; his favored term of address is "Your Complexity". Above all, he values a good story, and of course zailors have plenty of stories to tell. As such, the Fathomking has designated time for receiving visitors, during which His Complexity pays handsomely for information and stories.[3] He allows all comers from across the Unterzee - from Visage's crocodile-masked envoys[4] to Khaganian emissaries.[5] Executions - which are held in front of all guests - appear to be commonplace in response to certain transgressions, such as buying silk from spiders,[6] and His Complexity particularly dislikes when Chelonite visitors get too entitled.[7] Conversely, he particularly appreciates "gifts from the Myceligaean Mother," like blemmigans[8] and other mementos from the Uttershroom.[9]
The Fathomking is capable of reviving the deceased, albeit for a very steep price.[10]
The Fathomking's Hold
"Like an iceberg, like a Bazaar-Master's scheme, like the Neath itself, most of the Hold is invisible."[11]
The Fathomking's Hold is an enormous coral structure that lies within the Promised Sea. Like the base of an iceberg, most of the Hold is hidden,[12] and its depths are lit a bioluminescent green.[13] It is implied that while the King can travel as he pleases - albeit with some help to move about on land[14][15] - a portion of his consciousness and/or power may lie within his Throne-Cyst or some other part of the Hold itself.[16][17]
The Pentamerous Bride
The Fathomking's partner, the Pentamerous Bride, is a Lornest-Fluke.[18][19][20] She is an enormous and nigh-incomprehensible being - one of her eyes alone is the size of a zubmarine[21] - that dwells at the bottom of the zee near Mutton Island.[22] The Fathomking readily admits that she is the source of the majority of his power.[23]
As a creature of Axile, the Bride cannot feel love, experiencing it as an absence and an ache.[24][25][26] The Fathomking, however, loves her fiercely in return,[27] and established the Fruits of the Zee Festival and all its strange traditions to bring her joy.[23]
According to the Fathomking, his Bride likes technology[28] and dislikes sorrow-spiders.[29][30] The latter is ostensibly the reason the Fathomking executes any of his courtiers who trade with spiders, but the reason for this enmity is not known.[6]
It is implied that the Fathomking's partnership with his Bride is what reshaped him from an ordinary human into the intriguing creature he is today.[31][32] As a side effect of this union, the Fathomking can now claim Stone as a sister-in-law. It would be unwise to harm Mt Nomad on his watch.[33]
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