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Revision as of 10:35, 28 March 2025

"There are some things we were not meant to know, they say. But you wouldn't be down here if you took that seriously."

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"The Calendar Council: a shadowy organisation of revolutionaries, the enemies of the Masters."[1]


The Calendar Council is the primary revolutionary organization in London. Its members, code-named after the months of the year, are for the most part plotting and planning for their end goal, the Liberation of Night. The philosophy behind it is spreading across the Unterzee and up to the Surface, and predates the Council itself.[2]

Members

  • January is also known as the Masked Curator. She is the founder of the Museum of Injustice, which exhibits many forms and acts of oppression.[3]
  • February is searching for the Cave of the Nadir, which is of great interest to her cause.[4] She is also involved in Knife-and-Candle, and is a sworn rival of Mr Iron.[5]
  • The previous March was John Cassell, publisher of the Working Man's Friend and The Echo.[6] He was a coffee seller[7] and opponent of Mr Wines.[8] However, the rest of the council hired the Haunted Doctor to kill him.[7][6] While there was consideration of offering the position to Furnace Ancona,[9] it appears to have been filled by an unknown man.[10]
  • April is a deaf explosives expert, Emelia Hathersage, who is presumed dead by most of London.[11]
  • May is a certain merry gentleman.[12]
  • June was the original architect of the Dawn Machine.[13] Since the Machine emits light (and thus law) rather than working to extinguish it, she is distrusted by the rest of the Council.[14]
  • July was once a cultured society lady and violinist, but lost her mind to a powerful Fingerking. She trades her memories for dreams of the future.[15]
  • August is none other than the Jovial Contrarian, who knows quite a bit about various revolutionary causes despite not always being involved in them.[16]
  • September, an eager young Scotsman, stirs unrest in the far-flung royal holding of Balmoral.[17]
  • October won the Marvellous and wished for her dreams to come true; she managed to imprison her rival Mr Mirrors, but was trapped in Parabola.[18][19]
  • November has been missing for quite a while. Her lost cell and comrades have been trying to enact her plan in her stead, and maybe hasten her return.[20]
  • The mysterious and ambiguously gendered leader of the Council is December, sibling of the Boatman.[21] December has the ultimate goal of either destroying the Mountain of Light's vitality, or sharing it amongst all people.[22][23]

Historical and Cultural Inspirations

The idea of having leaders named after months may have come from G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday, about a bunch of anarchists (or so we are supposed to think) with leaders named after days of the week.

Gallery

  • January
    January
  • February
    February
  • April
    April
  • May
    May
  • June
    June
  • July
    July
  • August
    August
  • September
    September
  • October's mask
    October's mask
  • November
    November
  • December
    December

References

  1. ↑ --Two action refreshes for the price of one!--, Fallen London
  2. ↑ Under Sunless Skies, Sunless Sea ""The Liberation of Night began long ago," the veiled creature pipes. "Tell whoever you choose, or do not. You are the message. Those who must know, will know.""
  3. ↑ Remind her of a meeting at the Museum of Injustices, Fallen London ""Many wrongs have been done to us," says January. "And even if others choose to forget, I do not.""
  4. ↑ Sell the location to Revolutionaries, Fallen London "The things we'll build there! Oh, Iron, my sweet. You have no idea what's coming. The very liberation of night..."
  5. ↑ February of the Calendar Council, Fallen London "February is a revolutionary, and the avowed opponent of Mr Iron: but the Cottage is a neutral place, and she is seen here sometimes."
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Mysteries Revealed, Again, Failbetter Games "What happened to the working man's friend? The Haunted Doctor/Calendar Council killed him."
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Drink with the Doctor, Fallen London "One day, they ordered me to treat a member of the Council. His religion conflicted with his politics [...] He offered me his shilling coffee every time I visited. Maybe his politics were unwise, but – I owed him better."
  8. ↑ --Two action refreshes for the price of one!--, Fallen London "[...] but here's March, the self-proclaimed adversary of Mr Wines, [...]"
  9. ↑ Supervise a visit from the Castellan of Balmoral, Fallen London "Furnace wilnae look much outside the walls of this city. [...] But there's some would like tae see her play on a larger board [...] Talk o' offering her the name of March, aye? But it'll come tae nowt."
  10. ↑ Bury the Council's Secrets, Fallen London "March needs assistance containing an escape of secrets (it is perhaps not entirely his fault; he inherited a compromised network)."
  11. ↑ Ambition: Bag a Legend!: April's Attention, Fallen London "Calamity visited Wolfstack Docks in the late hours when an explosion blasted the Cotterell & Hathersage factory. The accident incurred a mortality of fifteen [...] Included in the toll was Emilia Hathersage, co-founder of the company: a woman of fierce ingenuity and meticulous conscience."
  12. ↑ The Mysteries Revealed, Again, Failbetter Games "Who is May? The Manager of the Royal Bethlehem/the Merry Gentleman"
  13. ↑ The Mysteries Revealed, Again, Failbetter Games "Who was the original architect of the Dawn Machine? June of the Calendar Council, or just 'June'"
  14. ↑ Bury the Council's Secrets, Fallen London March needs assistance containing an escape of secrets (it is perhaps not entirely his fault; he inherited a compromised network). June cannot be trusted. (After what she made? It's all the more difficult to make the lights go out, now.) August is being recalcitrant. Again. April's latest business ventures need burying, before it's discovered she still lives.
  15. ↑ Lost in Reflections, Fallen London
  16. ↑ Help plant an agent in the Ministry for Public Decency, Fallen London "As revolutionaries go, the Jovial Contrarian is perilously frank. "We've no shortage of troublemakers, speech-wrights, and bomb-throwers," he tells you. "What the movement needs today is someone of sound reputation.""
  17. ↑ Speak to September, Fallen London "There he treats you to a private discourse on the evils of ignorance, monarchy and the English. [...] "[...] If th' old queen won't rule in London nor up here, we'd do a better job 'o it ourselves. Besides, London's nivver bin proper English.""
  18. ↑ Piece your clues together (1), Fallen London "The Calendar Council is composed of twelve members [...]. Of that twelve, one stands in opposition to Mr Mirrors and its bailiwick over dreams: October."
  19. ↑ Ask about her heart's desire, Fallen London "The Masters didn't know who I really was, of course. I spent years constructing a false identity [...] Afterwards, I used my reward to cast one of the Masters in a prison of its own failures."
  20. ↑ A Little Pandemonium, Fallen London
  21. ↑ Speak with the Bishop of St Fiacre's (Aboard the Noble Garter), Fallen London "Death's sibling is a Chain-Breaker. Sometimes they conspire as the Twelfth Month. Whenever they visit London, we take tea."
  22. ↑ "...give it to the world.", Fallen London "December is pleased, of course, although you imagine that one might have been just as pleased had you chosen to dynamite the Mountain."
  23. ↑ "..end it, as I swore I would.", Fallen London ""We were meant to die. The brevity of our lives is what makes us human. [...] We will put an end to the Sun's experiment." [...] A sound: December has emerged behind you. The pale mask nods. "I knew I could trust you. It's hard. But we'll be free. Perhaps we'll be the only free beings in the cosmos.""
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