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|alias=The Nacreous Survivor}}<blockquote>''"A Rubbery Man rises from a cyst in the floor. An iridescent cicatrice crosses its face. Even in this flood of silvery light, it pulses like a fevered moon."''<ref name="offer help">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | |alias=The Nacreous Survivor}}<blockquote>''"A Rubbery Man rises from a cyst in the floor. An iridescent cicatrice crosses its face. Even in this flood of silvery light, it pulses like a fevered moon."''<ref name="offer help">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Offer assistance with dissolution|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
The '''Nacreous Outcast''' is a [[Rubbery Man]] from the [[Principles of Coral]]. | The '''Nacreous Outcast''' is a [[Rubbery Man]] from the [[Principles of Coral]].__FORCETOC__ | ||
==A Star-Crossed Creature == | ==A Star-Crossed Creature == | ||
<blockquote>''"Flif your hanf on the ftool. Farphaf! Ophen your eyess."''<ref name="increase hearts">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | <blockquote>''"Flif your hanf on the ftool. Farphaf! Ophen your eyess."''<ref name="increase hearts">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast#Interactions|Increase your Hearts|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>''"I ushed to love - "''<ref name="invite dine 2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | <blockquote>''"I ushed to love - "''<ref name="invite dine 2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast#Interactions|Invite it to dine with you (2)|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
The Nacreous Outcast's most striking physical feature is a scar glowing with silver light. Unlike most [[Rubbery Men]] yet encountered, it can speak both English<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | The Nacreous Outcast's most striking physical feature is a scar glowing with silver light. Unlike most [[Rubbery Men]] yet encountered, it can speak both English<ref name="sunlesssea.miraheze.org">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Offer assistance with dissolution|Sunless Sea}} ''"A Rubbery capable of human speech [...] "My emissary," the cave whispers. "Treat it gently." The whisper follows you back up the steps."''</ref> and the Rubbery language,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Overheard_at_Zee:_Materials|Overheard at Zee: Materials|Sunless Sea|''NACREOUS OUTCAST: Fotharoothathoth! [...] Etha! Ssithakothothooth!''}}</ref> though its speech in the former can be difficult for some to understand.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Offer assistance with dissolution|Sunless Sea}} ''""Shalt-Flions," it wheezes. Unprecedented! A Rubbery capable of human speech (in however debased and pitiful a mode!) "''</ref> It is familiar with esoteric culinary arts<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast|Increase your Hearts|Sunless Sea}} ''"The Outcast has gnostic secrets of profound culinary import to impart. Even its lesser revelations are enough to touch your dreams with the dread of drowning."''</ref> - though it prefers its food uncooked.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast|Invite it to dine with you (2)|Sunless Sea}} ''"Where did it learn to cook? Not in its amber-smeared home-tunnels, because it obviously prefers its food raw. Between gulps and flabbers, it attempts to chat."''</ref> It is typically very terse<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Shattered_Citadel_Encounters|Let the Nacreous Outcast approach the altar|Sunless Sea}}</ref> and has a reserved demeanor.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast#Interactions|Invite it to dine with you|Sunless Sea}}</ref> In addition to its home in the Principles, it has a residence in an isolated part of [[London]], where it draws figures in the windows and sings.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_visit_to_the_Outcast|A visit to the Outcast|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Collect_a_Confession_from_the_Nacreous_Outcast|Collect a Confession from the Nacreous Outcast|Fallen London}}</ref> | ||
The Outcast was exiled on account of multiple crimes, most of which cannot be described by human languages. One of them was love,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | The Outcast was exiled on account of multiple crimes, most of which cannot be described by human languages. One of them was love,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast#Interactions|Invite it to dine with you (2)|Sunless Sea}} ''"It begins to say "I ushed to love - " and then suddenly excuses itself."''</ref> which is forbidden among the species of [[Axile]],<ref name="principles heartmetal">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Give the Principles Heartmetal|Sunless Sea}}''"I was forbidden love, by the Bazaar, when I left the world Axile. But I don't regret it. I never regret."''</ref><ref name="eolith">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Give the Principles an Ambiguous Eolith|Sunless Sea}}''"Kneel, kneel, and my Emissary will gift you Scintillack. The secret. The Bazaar brought me; brought us all, all us shapelings, Axiles. The Flukes, the misers, even my Emissary. Why? Too deep a secret for me, my friend. Even here, too deep for me. Perhaps when you end me..."''</ref> and it is implied that the recipient of its affection was a [[Flukes|Fluke]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_visit_to_the_Outcast|A visit to the Outcast|Fallen London}} ''"[...] the Outcast lopes toward a mirror, and wheezes against the glass. [...] A foggy circle forms. [...] [It adds] a border of spikes to the circle. The Outcast [gestures] [...] A forlorn lover? [...] A foolish partner?"''</ref> As punishment, it was abandoned at [[Port Cecil]], where it became an emissary<ref name="sunlesssea.miraheze.org"/> to the entity whose mind suffuses the [[Principles of Coral]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Nacreous_Outcast|Invite it to dine with you (2)|Sunless Sea}} ''"The Principles found it an apt tool, and has been its patron ever since."''</ref> | ||
==An End, Averted== | ==An End, Averted== | ||
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''"Zhis ish hhwat it hwanted. Zhis ish not ffwaht it hhwanted."'' | ''"Zhis ish hhwat it hwanted. Zhis ish not ffwaht it hhwanted."'' | ||
<em>"Am fflike zhis, becoshh offh Prinshhipulssh. Washh not hhwaht</em> I <em>hwanted."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Speak_with_the_Nacreous_Survivor|Speak with the Nacreous Survivor|Fallen London | <em>"Am fflike zhis, becoshh offh Prinshhipulssh. Washh not hhwaht</em> I <em>hwanted."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Speak_with_the_Nacreous_Survivor|Speak with the Nacreous Survivor|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
[[File:Principlesofcoral.png|alt=A coral reef shaped like a chess piece, with some settlements nearby.|thumb|[[The Principles of Coral]]]] | [[File:Principlesofcoral.png|alt=A coral reef shaped like a chess piece, with some settlements nearby.|thumb|[[The Principles of Coral]]]] | ||
The Principles of Coral wished to descend the [[Great Chain of Being]]<ref name="give idol">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | The Principles of Coral wished to descend the [[Great Chain of Being]]<ref name="give idol">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Give the Principles a Wakeful Idol|Sunless Sea}}</ref> and free itself of thought forever.<ref name="game last">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|The Last Game|Sunless Sea}}</ref> To this end, the Outcast was ordered to gather materials<ref name="offer help" /><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Salt_Lions#Interactions|"Shalt-Flions"|Sunless Sea}}</ref> for a chess game against an outside opponent,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Setting up|Sunless Sea}}</ref> and act as a surrogate for its master.<ref name="win match">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|Win the match|Sunless Sea}}</ref> It was to lose on the Principles' behalf, upon which the minds of ''both'' beings would perish.<ref name="game last" /><ref name="win match" /> | ||
Of course, the Outcast feared this fate,<ref name="game last" /> but events played out a bit differently than expected. Somehow, the Principles was significantly weakened,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_around_town_about_the_scintillack_refinery|Ask around town about the scintillack refinery|Fallen London | Of course, the Outcast feared this fate,<ref name="game last" /> but events played out a bit differently than expected. Somehow, the Principles was significantly weakened,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_around_town_about_the_scintillack_refinery|Ask around town about the scintillack refinery|Fallen London}} ''"[...] the Principles ain't wot they were.""''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Meet_with_a_bright_and_fading_mind|Meet with a bright and fading mind|Fallen London}} ''"—o my piece, [...] I yearn to topple still..." [...] The Fading Mind flutes a sigh [...]"''</ref> while the Outcast, now called the '''Nacreous Survivor''', was spared its demise.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Nacreous_Survivor|Nacreous Survivor|Fallen London}} ''"What has changed this Rubbery Man?"''</ref> However, this meant that the Principles could no longer defend its reef from exploitation.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ask_around_town_about_the_scintillack_refinery|Ask around town about the scintillack refinery|Fallen London}} ''"Used to be the reef [...] rise up against thieves, but the Principles ain't wot they were." [...] someone breaks off [...] coral without [...] eyes all burned out. [...] London's [...] on our doorstep."''</ref> The Survivor is dismayed at the ill treatment of the being that once gave it a home,<ref name="invite dine 2" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Speak_with_the_Nacreous_Survivor|Speak with the Nacreous Survivor|Fallen London}} ''"The [...] Survivor runs a tentacle over [...] rock, [...] "Zhis ish hhwat it hwanted.""''</ref> but it feels a mixture of grief and relief, both for itself and the purpose it once bore.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Speak_with_the_Nacreous_Survivor|Speak with the Nacreous Survivor|Fallen London}} ''""Am fflike zhis," [...] "becoshh offh Prinshhipulssh." Anger; grief; relief. "Washh not hhwaht I hwanted.""''</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 20:55, 5 February 2025
"A Rubbery Man rises from a cyst in the floor. An iridescent cicatrice crosses its face. Even in this flood of silvery light, it pulses like a fevered moon."[1]
The Nacreous Outcast is a Rubbery Man from the Principles of Coral.
A Star-Crossed Creature
"Flif your hanf on the ftool. Farphaf! Ophen your eyess."[2]
"I ushed to love - "[3]
The Nacreous Outcast's most striking physical feature is a scar glowing with silver light. Unlike most Rubbery Men yet encountered, it can speak both English[4] and the Rubbery language,[5] though its speech in the former can be difficult for some to understand.[6] It is familiar with esoteric culinary arts[7] - though it prefers its food uncooked.[8] It is typically very terse[9] and has a reserved demeanor.[10] In addition to its home in the Principles, it has a residence in an isolated part of London, where it draws figures in the windows and sings.[11][12]
The Outcast was exiled on account of multiple crimes, most of which cannot be described by human languages. One of them was love,[13] which is forbidden among the species of Axile,[14][15] and it is implied that the recipient of its affection was a Fluke.[16] As punishment, it was abandoned at Port Cecil, where it became an emissary[4] to the entity whose mind suffuses the Principles of Coral.[17]
An End, Averted
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"Zhis ish hhwat it hwanted. Zhis ish not ffwaht it hhwanted."
"Am fflike zhis, becoshh offh Prinshhipulssh. Washh not hhwaht I hwanted."[18]
The Principles of Coral wished to descend the Great Chain of Being[19] and free itself of thought forever.[20] To this end, the Outcast was ordered to gather materials[1][21] for a chess game against an outside opponent,[22] and act as a surrogate for its master.[23] It was to lose on the Principles' behalf, upon which the minds of both beings would perish.[20][23]
Of course, the Outcast feared this fate,[20] but events played out a bit differently than expected. Somehow, the Principles was significantly weakened,[24][25] while the Outcast, now called the Nacreous Survivor, was spared its demise.[26] However, this meant that the Principles could no longer defend its reef from exploitation.[27] The Survivor is dismayed at the ill treatment of the being that once gave it a home,[3][28] but it feels a mixture of grief and relief, both for itself and the purpose it once bore.[29]
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