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<blockquote>''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
'''Mr Iron''' is | '''Mr Iron''' is the [[Master of the Bazaar]] who governs trade in tools, engines, weapons, and printing presses.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London}} ''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''</ref> Silent and humorless, it is best known for communicating only through written means, often writing with both hands at once. It also heads the Iron and Misery Company, and supervises its Funging Station in [[Demeaux Island]], one of the most abhorrent places in the Neath.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Demeaux_Island|Demeaux Island|Sunless Sea}}''"Iron & Misery Company Funging Station"''</ref> | ||
Mr Iron actively discourages individuals from gaining notoriety and forging their own stories, as it seems to have a degree of animosity with the [[Bazaar]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_invitation_3|Accept the invitation 3|Fallen London}}''"THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GREAT GAME. LET NONE OF US BE CHESSMEN. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ARE. DO NOT TRUST THE BAZAAR. I HAVE NOT WRITTEN THIS NOTE."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_cowled_and_silent_figure|A cowled and silent figure|Fallen London}}''"BEWARE COMEDY. BEWARE TRAGEDY. BEWARE THE STORIES. MOST OF ALL, BEWARE HAPPY ENDINGS."''</ref> Rumor has it that it is also secretly in charge of the game of [[Knife-and-Candle]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Knife-and-Candle:_The_Gamekeeper%27s_Cottage|Knife-and-Candle: The Gamekeeper's Cottage|Fallen London}}''"Is it true the Game of Knife-and-Candle has begun again? In secret, unsanctioned by Mr Iron?"''</ref> | Mr Iron actively discourages individuals from gaining notoriety and forging their own stories, as it seems to have a degree of animosity with the [[Bazaar]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_invitation_3|Accept the invitation 3|Fallen London}}''"THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GREAT GAME. LET NONE OF US BE CHESSMEN. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ARE. DO NOT TRUST THE BAZAAR. I HAVE NOT WRITTEN THIS NOTE."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_cowled_and_silent_figure|A cowled and silent figure|Fallen London}}''"BEWARE COMEDY. BEWARE TRAGEDY. BEWARE THE STORIES. MOST OF ALL, BEWARE HAPPY ENDINGS."''</ref> Rumor has it that it is also secretly in charge of the game of [[Knife-and-Candle]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Knife-and-Candle:_The_Gamekeeper%27s_Cottage|Knife-and-Candle: The Gamekeeper's Cottage|Fallen London}}''"Is it true the Game of Knife-and-Candle has begun again? In secret, unsanctioned by Mr Iron?"''</ref> | ||
Revision as of 00:40, 9 June 2025
"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."[1]
Mr Iron is the Master of the Bazaar who governs trade in tools, engines, weapons, and printing presses.[2] Silent and humorless, it is best known for communicating only through written means, often writing with both hands at once. It also heads the Iron and Misery Company, and supervises its Funging Station in Demeaux Island, one of the most abhorrent places in the Neath.[3]
Mr Iron actively discourages individuals from gaining notoriety and forging their own stories, as it seems to have a degree of animosity with the Bazaar.[4][5] Rumor has it that it is also secretly in charge of the game of Knife-and-Candle.[6]
Mr Iron has also been known as Mr Bronze,[7] was known as the Khan of Swords during the time of the Fourth City,[8] and is called the Saint of Blades by the Cult of the Sanctified at Avid Horizon in the Sunless Skies timeline.[9]
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