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== Archie? == | == Archie? == | ||
[[File:Archie.png|thumb|Archie, implied to be a younger September]] | [[File:Archie.png|thumb|Archie, implied to be a younger September]] | ||
<blockquote>''"Whatever Mr Pages is doing, I did not think it's for our own good. More like it wants tae keep us trapped and confused like creatures in a maze."''<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}}</ref></blockquote>While September is described as a wild-haired youth at one point in ''Fallen London'',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Kirk_of_the_Septemberists|The Kirk of the Septemberists|Fallen London|}} ''"Their current leader is known as September, a wild-haired youth who lectures from the great pulpit."''</ref> it is later made clear that he survived the [[Fall of London]] decades ago and was in his twenties at the time.<ref name=":1" /> It is likely that in his younger days, he was known as '''Archie.''' Archie is a young Scotsman with a distinct resemblance to September; he demonstrates the same revolutionary inclinations,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"I feel it's the sort of think I ought tae write myself. Sit down and think out how London's tae be saved, as though she were a patient with a heap of concerning symptoms. [...] I feel like I'm a church bell ringing the alarm. Or the dog that barks, or the flock overhead that flies before the storm. The fear is strung through every limb and it jangles me constantly. But there's nae peace for thinking what next. And by itself, the ringing bell's no use at all."''</ref> including an indication of future support for the construction of the [[Dawn Machine]]<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"I don't see many old housemaids and costermongers turning to our cause. But it might do for the philanthropic sorts, aye? And the benefits of it'll come down to them in the end, when someone invents a false-sun. We could do with one of those."''</ref>, and the same targeted suspicion toward the [[Masters]]<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"Sounds like it still casts us all for parts in the Masters' play. If we're all doing as they say, and just planning tae strike at some future day."''</ref> and particularly [[Mr Pages]].<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"Whatever Mr Pages is doing, I did not think it's for our own good. More like it wants tae keep us trapped and confused like creatures in a maze. "''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"It might not like me looking into its business. Might be it wanted me arrested. [...] I've had a good deal tae say about the Ministry, but who'd listen tae the ravings of a doctor that had been arrested for murder?"''</ref> | <blockquote>''"Whatever Mr Pages is doing, I did not think it's for our own good. More like it wants tae keep us trapped and confused like creatures in a maze."''<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie|Archie|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}}</ref></blockquote>While September is described as a wild-haired youth at one point in ''Fallen London'',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Kirk_of_the_Septemberists|The Kirk of the Septemberists|Fallen London|}} ''"Their current leader is known as September, a wild-haired youth who lectures from the great pulpit."''</ref> it is later made clear that he survived the [[Fall of London]] decades ago and was in his twenties at the time.<ref name=":1" /> It is likely that in his younger days, he was known as '''Archie.''' Archie is a young Scotsman with a distinct resemblance to September; he demonstrates the same revolutionary inclinations,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#Manifesto|Archie: Manifesto|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"I feel it's the sort of think I ought tae write myself. Sit down and think out how London's tae be saved, as though she were a patient with a heap of concerning symptoms. [...] I feel like I'm a church bell ringing the alarm. Or the dog that barks, or the flock overhead that flies before the storm. The fear is strung through every limb and it jangles me constantly. But there's nae peace for thinking what next. And by itself, the ringing bell's no use at all."''</ref> including an indication of future support for the construction of the [[Dawn Machine]]<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#Manifesto|Archie: Manifesto|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"I don't see many old housemaids and costermongers turning to our cause. But it might do for the philanthropic sorts, aye? And the benefits of it'll come down to them in the end, when someone invents a false-sun. We could do with one of those."''</ref>, and the same targeted suspicion toward the [[Masters]]<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#Manifesto|Archie: Manifesto|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"Sounds like it still casts us all for parts in the Masters' play. If we're all doing as they say, and just planning tae strike at some future day."''</ref> and particularly [[Mr Pages]].<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#Storycrafting|Archie: Storycrafting|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"Whatever Mr Pages is doing, I did not think it's for our own good. More like it wants tae keep us trapped and confused like creatures in a maze. "''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#Other_Inquiries|Archie: Other Inquiries|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"It might not like me looking into its business. Might be it wanted me arrested. [...] I've had a good deal tae say about the Ministry, but who'd listen tae the ravings of a doctor that had been arrested for murder?"''</ref> | ||
Due to a strange series of circumstances surrounding which buildings were spared or obliterated in the Fall,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit|Harjit|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"(Player:) The night of the Fall, I saw something drawing symbols on the walls of a house. And after the Fall was over, that house was gone entirely."''</ref> and the people who disappeared inside them,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit|Harjit|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} | Due to a strange series of circumstances surrounding which buildings were spared or obliterated in the Fall,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit#Ministry_Theories|Harjit: Ministry Theories|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"(Player:) The night of the Fall, I saw something drawing symbols on the walls of a house. And after the Fall was over, that house was gone entirely."''</ref> and the people who disappeared inside them,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit#Revelation|Harjit: Revelation|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"A thing that should not be here if he did not exist. A thing that might be edited out of the Neath, in time. I think when I forget him, I will also vanish."''</ref> many Londoners, Archie among them, were implanted with false memories.<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#High_Trust_Inquiries|Archie: High Trust Inquiries|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"The conversation ranges over all of Archie's favourite subjects. We talk of things he read and saw long ago: stories of storms in the Scottish mountains, and marriage customs in the Punjab, and the western frontiers of America."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#High_Trust_Inquiries|Archie: High Trust Inquiries|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"We talk of recollections again, and this time they are particularly surprising. Archie describes [...] the struggles of a ship around the southern tip of Africa [...] When I ask how and when he left Britain, he shrugs, and says that he never left before now. And that the story must be something he read, or heard from another medical student. But he told it in such a way that I could almost smell the brine."''</ref> Archie received some of the memories of an officer named Lucian,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit#The_Census|Harjit: The Census|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''Harjit: "My companion was not a lady. He was an officer who came to the Punjab. [...] I followed him here, away from my own country and everything I knew. To the home of my former enemies."''</ref> and he was left unsure whether the family he remembered from Scotland was real.<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Harjit#Concerns|Harjit: Concerns|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"Archie's family is in Scotland. Everyone says that only London fell below, but Archie is afraid that something happened to them too."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#High_Trust_Inquiries|Archie: High Trust Inquiries|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"We turn the subject to how we each grew up. Archie tells stories as fragments, rather than as anecdotes. Not whole, stitched-up narratives of things that happened when he was a child or a young man, but impressions only. [...] Sometimes, with inquiry, he will go as far as to describe some habit he used to have. But the particular characters in his family, or the incidents of growing up, remain a little shadowy."''</ref> It is possible that this distortion in reality is the reason September has not aged much in the intervening decades. | ||
It is also noteworthy that Archie was a medical student at the time of the Fall; fueled by his curiosity about breaking the laws of science,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie | It is also noteworthy that Archie was a medical student at the time of the Fall; fueled by his curiosity about breaking the laws of science,<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#High_Trust_Inquiries|Archie: High Trust Inquiries|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} ''"The conversation turns to medicine [...] In childhood [...] he was fascinated with Frankenstein and with the stories of the Resurrection Men in Edinburgh, pulling bodies out of graves. These elements mingled into curious fantasies of the scientific inventions that he would one day achieve. Adulthood and a bit of experience in the world may have tempered his expectations, but he still turns excitable at possibilities outside our current imaginings."''</ref> he had been experimenting with arcane medicines that may extend a consumer's lifespan.<ref>{{Citation|https://maskoftherose.miraheze.org/wiki/Archie#His_Alibi|Archie: His Alibi|Mask of the Rose Wiki|}} "''There's an old medicine in the pharmaceutical books. Venetian Treacle was its common name. Theriac Mithridatium to those that had some teaching. It's said tae cure every sort of ailment at once. And ward off poisons too, while you're about it. You needed a lot o' strange ingredients, but it seemed tae me the Neath has new complaints we haven't seen on the Surface. So we could do with a bit of a cure-all, long as we haven't worked out the particular science."''</ref> | ||
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"I shall be first among equals," he roars, "Nae gods, nae bishops. This is a church 'o th' free!"[1]
September is a revolutionary and a member of the Calendar Council.
A True Scotsman
"He is the leader of this small sect of Scots, far beyond the bounds of London."[2]
September is a passionate anarchist and anti-monarchist[3] who leads a faction of Scottish revolutionaries in the village of Crathie, near Balmoral.[4] His upbringing was sheltered and well-educated; he came to be a rebel by choice, and was emboldened after being caught in the Fall of London.[5] He is an advocate for the redistribution of wealth.[6]
September's operations are headquartered in the Septemberist Kirk.[7] The Kirk is explicitly divorced from religion,[8] and is better described as a gathering of intellectuals.[9] They have the ultimate goal of deciphering the cryptic messages of Mr Pages, in hopes of finding a way to fight its censorship.[10] In keeping with this, a book written by September is kept in the Agendums of Ascent that contains a detailed critique and deconstruction of Mr Pages' statements.[11]
September is one of the less trusted and thus less influential members of the Calendar Council.[12] That said, he is close friends with July[13] and August[14][15] and is on generally good terms with April,[16][17] although he tries to sucker up a bit too much for his own good.[18] He respects January's advocacy for the Liberation of Night,[19] but admits to being "a little afeared o' th' dark."[20] January does not reciprocate his respect, however.[21][22]
September Upstairs
"I'm dead," he whispers. "But no." He shakes his head. "Let's away. Does the heart no good to hear this maudlin speech. I am no that man here."[23]
In the alternate timeline of the Upstairs, September was killed by the forces of the Empress. The surviving revolutionaries rallied in the name of Lost September, forcing the Empress out of London and besieging her last stronghold in Balmoral.[24]
Archie?
"Whatever Mr Pages is doing, I did not think it's for our own good. More like it wants tae keep us trapped and confused like creatures in a maze."[25]
While September is described as a wild-haired youth at one point in Fallen London,[26] it is later made clear that he survived the Fall of London decades ago and was in his twenties at the time.[5] It is likely that in his younger days, he was known as Archie. Archie is a young Scotsman with a distinct resemblance to September; he demonstrates the same revolutionary inclinations,[27] including an indication of future support for the construction of the Dawn Machine[28], and the same targeted suspicion toward the Masters[29] and particularly Mr Pages.[30][31]
Due to a strange series of circumstances surrounding which buildings were spared or obliterated in the Fall,[32] and the people who disappeared inside them,[33] many Londoners, Archie among them, were implanted with false memories.[34][35] Archie received some of the memories of an officer named Lucian,[36] and he was left unsure whether the family he remembered from Scotland was real.[37][38] It is possible that this distortion in reality is the reason September has not aged much in the intervening decades.
It is also noteworthy that Archie was a medical student at the time of the Fall; fueled by his curiosity about breaking the laws of science,[39] he had been experimenting with arcane medicines that may extend a consumer's lifespan.[40]
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