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<blockquote>''"There's more difficult work I could be doing. Did you know my mother operated on the Bazaar itself? She cut away its cladent lobe so that it would be at peace and not have to wander on and on. But the operation changed her. She got some of the ichor on her skin."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Explore her Surgery|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''"There's more difficult work I could be doing. Did you know my mother operated on the Bazaar itself? She cut away its cladent lobe so that it would be at peace and not have to wander on and on. But the operation changed her. She got some of the ichor on her skin."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Explore her Surgery|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
[[File:Knifegrey.png|alt=A knife.|thumb|Under the knife.]] | [[File:Knifegrey.png|alt=A knife.|thumb|Under the knife.]] | ||
The Cladery Heir is a member of the '''House of the Knife''',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] the Fellow sold the majority of his possessions in order to fund expeditions – in search of 'the Heart, the chiefest treasure of the House of the Knife'."''</ref> a family that dates back to the [[First City]].<ref name="first city">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea|}} ''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family."''</ref> Her mother, the [[The Surgeon's Child|Surgeon's Child]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London|}} ''"The Heart was a – fragment? An organ? A lobe? – of the Bazaar, extracted by the Surgeon's Child."''</ref> is the daughter of a First City surgeon,<ref name="first city" /> and the Heir can speak the First City's ancient language.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Frostfound#The_Cladery_Heart_in_the_Ice|Bring it back to health|Sunless Sea|}} ''"She speaks to it in the native tongue of the First City, a language cluttered with velar stops."''</ref> The Heir believes her father is none other than [[Mr Iron]], one of the [[Masters of the Bazaar]];<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Her father...?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Perhaps you can get her to say more about her father. [...] "I get my proficiency with metal from both sides of the family," [...] "Mother was a favourite with Mr Iron. [...]"''</ref> however, her mother has dismissed the idea, claiming Iron was only her sponsor.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea|}} ''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. [...] there are the rumours about my father. She would deny there's any truth in those."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Her father...?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Mother was a favourite with Mr Iron. She says that they only worked together, that Mr Iron sponsored her work and provided her with tools."''</ref> '' | The Cladery Heir is a member of the '''House of the Knife''',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] the Fellow sold the majority of his possessions in order to fund expeditions – in search of 'the Heart, the chiefest treasure of the House of the Knife'."''</ref> a family that dates back to the [[First City]].<ref name="first city">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea|}} ''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family."''</ref> Her mother, the [[The Surgeon's Child|Surgeon's Child]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London|}} ''"The Heart was a – fragment? An organ? A lobe? – of the Bazaar, extracted by the Surgeon's Child."''</ref> is the daughter of a First City surgeon,<ref name="first city" /> and the Heir can speak the First City's ancient language.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Frostfound#The_Cladery_Heart_in_the_Ice|Bring it back to health|Sunless Sea|}} ''"She speaks to it in the native tongue of the First City, a language cluttered with velar stops."''</ref> The Heir believes her father is none other than [[Mr Iron]], one of the [[Masters of the Bazaar]];<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Her father...?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Perhaps you can get her to say more about her father. [...] "I get my proficiency with metal from both sides of the family," [...] "Mother was a favourite with Mr Iron. [...]"''</ref> however, her mother has dismissed the idea, claiming Iron was only her sponsor.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea|}} ''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. [...] there are the rumours about my father. She would deny there's any truth in those."''</ref><ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Her father...?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Mother was a favourite with Mr Iron. She says that they only worked together, that Mr Iron sponsored her work and provided her with tools."''</ref> | ||
After all, ''surely'' the Surgeon's Child would never settle for an ordinary partner<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Mr Iron? Truly?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"[...] I have not met anyone who shares my particular skills. And I know my mother. I cannot see her in any ordinary liaison with an ordinary man, much less a husband."''</ref> - and yet she did. Once an engineer,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Venderbight#The_Tomb-Colony_of_Venderbight|Someone trying to get your attention|Sunless Sea|}} ''"In exchange for the simplest news, he explains himself: "I'm her father," he says. "Ordinary engineer. Not the sort of parent she would want.""''</ref> he is now a destitute [[Tomb-Colonies|tomb-colonist]]. His voice was excised by the Surgeon's Child in order to quell his desire and ability to look for their daughter.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Venderbight#The_Tomb-Colony_of_Venderbight|Someone trying to get your attention|Sunless Sea|}} ''""Don't tell her you met me," he says, in a hoarse rasp. "Her mother cut my voice. Hoped to fix it so I wouldn't be able to look for my daughter. So I wouldn't want to.""''</ref> Her operation could only do so much, however, and the man still wishes to know how the Cladery Heir is faring.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Venderbight#The_Tomb-Colony_of_Venderbight|Someone trying to get your attention|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Didn't work. Operations never... completely effective. Need to know my daughter's well. Happy. Finding enough patients. Getting enough to eat and so forth."''</ref> | |||
[[File:Claderyheart.png|alt=A ship made from an ancient heart.|thumb|[[The Cladery Heart]]|130x130px]] | [[File:Claderyheart.png|alt=A ship made from an ancient heart.|thumb|[[The Cladery Heart]]|130x130px]] | ||
During the time of the [[First City]], the Surgeon's Child amputated the [[Echo Bazaar]] | During the time of the [[First City]], the Surgeon's Child amputated the [[Echo Bazaar|Echo Bazaar's]] cladent lobe to remove its urge to wander.<ref name="ichor">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Explore her Surgery|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Did you know my mother operated on the Bazaar itself? She cut away its cladent lobe so that it would be at peace and not have to wander on and on. But the operation changed her. She got some of the ichor on her skin."''</ref> She was accidentally exposed to the Bazaar's ichor in the process, which "changed her" in some way and granted her an extremely long lifespan;<ref name="ichor" /> she was over three thousand years old when she bore her daughter.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Mr Iron? Truly?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"And I know my mother. [...] She was in her third millennium when she bore me."''</ref> The Surgeon's Child experimented on the lobe and fashioned it into a living, autonomous ship called the [[The Cladery Heart|Cladery Heart]], but eventually lost track of it.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|What happened to the cladent lobe?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Mother experimented on the lobe, [...] It wanted to be on the move, however, and in the end she put it on a ship, or built a ship around it: the Cladery Heart. But it got away from her."''</ref> The Cladery Heir would like to find the Heart and continue her mother's legacy, but she is conflicted by this desire<ref name=":2">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Retrieve_the_Cladery_Heart|Keep the Cladery Heart|Sunless Sea|}} ''""It doesn't matter to me," [...] Then she says, "Or... it shouldn't matter to me. The Cladery Heart is all I have of my mother, but I learned not to need her. [...]"''</ref> due to her distaste for passion and obsession.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Where is the Cladery Heart now?|Sunless Sea|}} ''"I avoid obsessions, myself. But I know one of these days I'll have to operate on myself. Remove some desire that has gotten too unwieldy."''</ref> | ||
The current status of the Surgeon's Child is left unclear; the Cladery Heir frequently refers to her in the present tense<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> but is implied to no longer be in contact with her.<ref name=":2" /> | |||
== Scientific Inspirations == | |||
A [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clade clade] is a taxonomic term for a group of organisms that evolved continuously from a common ancestor. The term derives from the Ancient Greek word for "branch," and is the most likely origin of the name of the Echo Bazaar's cladent lobe. The lobe, in turn, originated the name "Cladery." | |||
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Revision as of 16:28, 16 January 2025
"Most people think that the hard part of surgery is finding what's wrong and taking it out, but any fool could do that. A ship's cook with a cleaver can have that part of the job. The hard part is cutting so you can sew it all back up again afterwards."[1]
The Cladery Heir is a surgeon of unusual parentage.
Emergency Amputation
"I specialize in amputations. It's easy to acquire unwanted appendages at zee."[2]
The Cladery Heir is a skilled surgeon who specializes in amputation.[3] By cutting out bits of skin or flesh,[4][5] or sometimes a whole toe or earlobe,[6][7] she can excise a person's worst impulses and desires.[4] These include tendencies towards adultery,[4] thoughts of vengeful murder,[6] or even cravings for sunlight.[5] Most patients suffer no ill effects afterwards barring some scars,[4][8] and the Heir likes to preserve the body parts she extracts as souvenirs.[9] The Heir uses special knives and tools for her work,[10] and her skills also work on cadavers[11] and non-human creatures.[12][13] However, it is implied that her operations are never completely effective.[14]
The Cladery Heir has a roguish and lackadaisical personality,[15][16] and believes that the real challenge of surgery is operating carefully enough so that the patient may be closed up again.[17] Her bedside manner is brisk and blunt,[18] but she genuinely cares for her clients[19][20] and refuses to perform dangerous operations.[21] Though her practice focuses on excising obsessions, she herself is terrified of them; she often tries to appear dispassionate,[22] and is willing to operate on herself to remove sentiments that trouble her.[23][7]
A Matter of Parentage
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"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family. Then there are the rumours about my father. She would deny there's any truth in those."[24]
"There's more difficult work I could be doing. Did you know my mother operated on the Bazaar itself? She cut away its cladent lobe so that it would be at peace and not have to wander on and on. But the operation changed her. She got some of the ichor on her skin."[25]
The Cladery Heir is a member of the House of the Knife,[26] a family that dates back to the First City.[27] Her mother, the Surgeon's Child,[28] is the daughter of a First City surgeon,[27] and the Heir can speak the First City's ancient language.[29] The Heir believes her father is none other than Mr Iron, one of the Masters of the Bazaar;[30] however, her mother has dismissed the idea, claiming Iron was only her sponsor.[31][32]
After all, surely the Surgeon's Child would never settle for an ordinary partner[33] - and yet she did. Once an engineer,[34] he is now a destitute tomb-colonist. His voice was excised by the Surgeon's Child in order to quell his desire and ability to look for their daughter.[35] Her operation could only do so much, however, and the man still wishes to know how the Cladery Heir is faring.[36]
During the time of the First City, the Surgeon's Child amputated the Echo Bazaar's cladent lobe to remove its urge to wander.[37] She was accidentally exposed to the Bazaar's ichor in the process, which "changed her" in some way and granted her an extremely long lifespan;[37] she was over three thousand years old when she bore her daughter.[38] The Surgeon's Child experimented on the lobe and fashioned it into a living, autonomous ship called the Cladery Heart, but eventually lost track of it.[39] The Cladery Heir would like to find the Heart and continue her mother's legacy, but she is conflicted by this desire[40] due to her distaste for passion and obsession.[41]
The current status of the Surgeon's Child is left unclear; the Cladery Heir frequently refers to her in the present tense[32][33] but is implied to no longer be in contact with her.[40]
Scientific Inspirations
A clade is a taxonomic term for a group of organisms that evolved continuously from a common ancestor. The term derives from the Ancient Greek word for "branch," and is the most likely origin of the name of the Echo Bazaar's cladent lobe. The lobe, in turn, originated the name "Cladery."
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