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{{Major spoiler}}<blockquote>''"Blood is not red in the way that this honey is red."''</blockquote><blockquote>''"This succulent drop will allow you to enter the memories and dreams of helpless innocents. Perhaps you have your reasons."''</blockquote>[[File:Redhoney.png|thumb|A drop of Gaoler's Honey.]] | |||
''Blood is not red in the way that this honey is red.'' | '''Gaoler's honey''', colloquially called '''red honey''', is a more sinister breed of [[Prisoner's Honey|prisoner's honey]]. | ||
== Precious Memories == | |||
Consumption of this substance allows one to experience another's memories - which is incredibly painful for the unfortunate victim. It's made from a flower that is a cross between the exile's rose and a flower from Hell, pollinated by bees that have consumed a victim's tears. It seems the hybrid has existed since the days of the Fourth City. The name likely refers to the practice of capturing prisoners in order to harvest their minds for this valuable drug. | |||
It is said that a contaminated batch made | It is said that a contaminated batch of red honey made [[The Royal Family|the Empress's children]] into monsters. | ||
===A Garden of Cages | == The Chambers of the Heart == | ||
[[File:Chambersoftheheart.png|thumb|400px|The Chambers of the Heart. Art from FL.]] | |||
The '''Chambers of the Heart''' is a mysterious dream-location, where a consumer of red honey picks and chooses from intense, pleasurable snippets of memory - but also senses the distant victims screaming and pleading from the pain this causes. Other users of red honey are present in the Chambers, though everyone's face is obscured. | |||
== A Garden of Cages == | |||
[[File:Gibbet.png|thumb|The Garden of Roses and Cages]] | [[File:Gibbet.png|thumb|The Garden of Roses and Cages]] | ||
Some of the red honey that is not gathered in Hell is produced on [[the Isle of Cats]] by the Pirate King, Leopold, who himself is a red honey addict. The people whose memories are used to create the honey are kept locked in cages, and are almost comatose due to the amount of pain they are experiencing. There is also a Cage-Garden in the grounds of [[the Shuttered Palace]]. | Some of the red honey that is not gathered in Hell is produced on [[the Isle of Cats]] by the Pirate King, Leopold, who himself is a red honey addict. The people whose memories are used to create the honey are kept locked in cages, and are almost comatose due to the amount of pain they are experiencing. There is also a Cage-Garden in the grounds of [[the Shuttered Palace]]. | ||
Several important figures are implied to be addicted to honey, such as [[the Captivating Princess]]. | Several important figures are implied to be addicted to honey, such as [[the Captivating Princess]]. | ||
==Cardinal's Honey== | |||
''"This poet tells you of a different honey, jet black in hue: the Cardinal's Honey. Those who take it do not die. They cease to be. They never were."''[[File:BlackHoney.png|thumb|Fanart by 0bsidianFire.]]There is another insidious variant of honey, known as '''Cardinal's Honey''', that allows for one to enter and experience the dreams of the dead; it is a side effect of red honey production, pushed to the point where the victim has nothing left to give. This honey has an antidote, but it is a very powerful assassination tool in the Neath. | |||
== To the Skies == | |||
''"We are democratising art," she says, loftily. "Thanks to our cage-garden, a writer need not speculate about the sorrow of a lover as their beloved dies; they can taste our honey and know it themselves. We are no longer subject to the tyranny of experience."'' | ''"We are democratising art," she says, loftily. "Thanks to our cage-garden, a writer need not speculate about the sorrow of a lover as their beloved dies; they can taste our honey and know it themselves. We are no longer subject to the tyranny of experience."'' | ||
In the ''Sunless Skies'' timeline, with Hell being off-limits, the production of red honey shifted to [[Titania]], where the Midnight Rose runs an operation. Most of the red honey is sourced from caged artists: they can leave anytime, but they also believe that to create art, one must seek misery. | |||
[[Category:Consumables]] | [[Category:Consumables]] | ||
[[Category:Other Things of Significance]] | [[Category:Other Things of Significance]] | ||
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"Blood is not red in the way that this honey is red."
"This succulent drop will allow you to enter the memories and dreams of helpless innocents. Perhaps you have your reasons."
Gaoler's honey, colloquially called red honey, is a more sinister breed of prisoner's honey.
Precious Memories
Consumption of this substance allows one to experience another's memories - which is incredibly painful for the unfortunate victim. It's made from a flower that is a cross between the exile's rose and a flower from Hell, pollinated by bees that have consumed a victim's tears. It seems the hybrid has existed since the days of the Fourth City. The name likely refers to the practice of capturing prisoners in order to harvest their minds for this valuable drug.
It is said that a contaminated batch of red honey made the Empress's children into monsters.
The Chambers of the Heart
The Chambers of the Heart is a mysterious dream-location, where a consumer of red honey picks and chooses from intense, pleasurable snippets of memory - but also senses the distant victims screaming and pleading from the pain this causes. Other users of red honey are present in the Chambers, though everyone's face is obscured.
A Garden of Cages
Some of the red honey that is not gathered in Hell is produced on the Isle of Cats by the Pirate King, Leopold, who himself is a red honey addict. The people whose memories are used to create the honey are kept locked in cages, and are almost comatose due to the amount of pain they are experiencing. There is also a Cage-Garden in the grounds of the Shuttered Palace.
Several important figures are implied to be addicted to honey, such as the Captivating Princess.
Cardinal's Honey
"This poet tells you of a different honey, jet black in hue: the Cardinal's Honey. Those who take it do not die. They cease to be. They never were."
There is another insidious variant of honey, known as Cardinal's Honey, that allows for one to enter and experience the dreams of the dead; it is a side effect of red honey production, pushed to the point where the victim has nothing left to give. This honey has an antidote, but it is a very powerful assassination tool in the Neath.
To the Skies
"We are democratising art," she says, loftily. "Thanks to our cage-garden, a writer need not speculate about the sorrow of a lover as their beloved dies; they can taste our honey and know it themselves. We are no longer subject to the tyranny of experience."
In the Sunless Skies timeline, with Hell being off-limits, the production of red honey shifted to Titania, where the Midnight Rose runs an operation. Most of the red honey is sourced from caged artists: they can leave anytime, but they also believe that to create art, one must seek misery.
