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|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/Elegiac Elegiac?]}}''"Behind the great arch over the Bay, the Pale Wastes stretch, white and silent as the face of the moon. From here, you might almost imagine they were snow. North of the city, the salt-pools fizz with unlikely colour."''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Whither#Whither|Whither|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/Elegiac Elegiac?]|title1=Whither|image2=|caption2=|port=|alias=}}''"Behind the great arch over the Bay, the Pale Wastes stretch, white and silent as the face of the moon. From here, you might almost imagine they were snow. North of the city, the salt-pools fizz with unlikely colour."''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Whither#Whither|Whither|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


''"Why are there so many questions in Whither?"''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Port_Report:_Whither|A Port Report: Whither|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
''"Why are there so many questions in Whither?"''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Port_Report:_Whither|A Port Report: Whither|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
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|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/Elegiac Elegiac]}}''"Codex: a desperate caveful of mute exiles, and an inexplicable colony of shivering, bad-tempered monkeys."''
|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/Elegiac Elegiac]|title1=Codex|image2=|caption2=|port=|alias=}}''"Codex: a desperate caveful of mute exiles, and an inexplicable colony of shivering, bad-tempered monkeys."''


'''Codex '''is a chilly island east of [[Whither]]. It is indeed home to a group of mute exiles and a band of grumpy monkeys. Most of them are ex-Whithern that dared to answer a question.<ref name = "admiralty">{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office|Codex|Sunless Sea|}}''"Exiled for giving answers. That's Whither for you. Anything new?"''</ref><ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Codex|Strategic Information for the Admiralty|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
'''Codex '''is a chilly island east of [[Whither]]. It is indeed home to a group of mute exiles and a band of grumpy monkeys. Most of them are ex-Whithern that dared to answer a question.<ref name = "admiralty">{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Admiralty_Survey_Office|Codex|Sunless Sea|}}''"Exiled for giving answers. That's Whither for you. Anything new?"''</ref><ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Codex|Strategic Information for the Admiralty|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>

Revision as of 05:41, 2 October 2020

"Behind the great arch over the Bay, the Pale Wastes stretch, white and silent as the face of the moon. From here, you might almost imagine they were snow. North of the city, the salt-pools fizz with unlikely colour."[1]

"Why are there so many questions in Whither?"[2]

Whither is located very far north of London, near the salty Pale Wastes - or is it?

No Answers

"The citizens of Whither enjoy questions: so much so that they always answer a question with another question. This can make intelligence-gathering frustrating."[3]

Is Whither a place where questions are asked? Does everyone communicate by answering questions? Can the answers be anything other than questions, and will you get exiled from Whither if your answer is not a question?[4][5]

Do Whithern and Iremi people engage in rivalries of rhetoric at Frostfound to determine the difference between a question and a riddle, called the Game of Truths? Is the winner allowed to enter Frostfound without risking the wrath of the gods?[6]

Is there a temple to the gods of the Zee in Whither? And is it the only place where one can find an answer on this island, though only if you ask about the Drowned Man?[7] But is that question really worth asking, or its answer worth risking?


Codex

"Codex: a desperate caveful of mute exiles, and an inexplicable colony of shivering, bad-tempered monkeys."

Codex is a chilly island east of Whither. It is indeed home to a group of mute exiles and a band of grumpy monkeys. Most of them are ex-Whithern that dared to answer a question.[4][8]

Some of the exiles have a certain question, one whose answer they've been searching for for years. If they find the answer to this question, they will start speaking again.[9]





















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