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== Historical Inspirations == | == Historical Inspirations == | ||
The national motto of France has been [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libert%C3%A9,_%C3%A9galit%C3%A9,_fraternit%C3%A9 "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"] (Liberty, equality, fraternity) since the days of the French Revolution, although there has been much dispute about its exact origins. For the cause of the Seven Against Nidah, Bourdain changed the controversial "fraternity" to "eternity." | The national motto of France has been [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libert%C3%A9,_%C3%A9galit%C3%A9,_fraternit%C3%A9 "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"] (Liberty, equality, fraternity) since the days of the French Revolution, although there has been much dispute about its exact origins. For the cause of the Seven Against Nidah, Bourdain changed the controversial "fraternity" to "eternity."<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Bourdain_in_Ice#Interactions|Invite him to rejoin the Seven|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Is he ready to resume the Seven's cause? He writes a final message in your breath. 'LIBERTY. EQUALITY. ETERNITY.' "''</ref> | ||
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"This statue depicts an unassuming, bespectacled man with thinning hair and a solemn face. "Bourdain," Mariam remembers."
"We were confidantes. He was a Frenchman and - in his day - a member of the revolutionaries' Calendar Council. He wrote pamphlets, and placed bombs. I could not say which were more incendiary."[2]
Bourdain is a member of the Seven Against Nidah who served as its Propagandist. He hails from France and was at one point a member of the Calendar Council; he specializes in propaganda and the placement of bombs.[3] He joined the Seven to recruit armies for their cause,[4] and was a close confidante to Mariam herself.[3] He sought to one day distribute immortality freely in the spirit of "liberty, equality, and eternity," and also destroy the Echo Bazaar.[5][6]
After the Seven's defeat, Bourdain took refuge at Frostfound.[7] He "failed" in the Ruby Room there, and his visage was trapped behind a frozen wall.[8] Mariam sent an agent to rescue him, but they were intercepted by Wreckers,[7] who stole Bourdain's ice-slab and presented it to the Fair King as a mirror.[9] The Fair King considers this mirror one of his greatest treasures,[10] and sometimes peers into it to view Bourdain's hopes for the future.[11]
Bourdain's predicament did not impede his cause at all.[12] He can still see and hear the outside world,[13] and can communicate by writing on the ice's surface.[14] He has many agents under his command all over the Neath,[15] and contacts them by having them consume a ruby-like substance at Kingeater's Castle. One of these agents, the Gnomic Gallivant, was assigned a mission to assassinate a member of the Presbyterate.[16]
Historical Inspirations
The national motto of France has been "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" (Liberty, equality, fraternity) since the days of the French Revolution, although there has been much dispute about its exact origins. For the cause of the Seven Against Nidah, Bourdain changed the controversial "fraternity" to "eternity."[17]
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