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The matriarch of the moon-misers is the Moon-Mother.<ref>https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/The_list''You have to get up there somehow, and find a moon-miser brood mother. They're easy enough to spot, twice the size of the others and more legs.''</ref> She is so large as to be confused for a great stalactite, and her glim carapace is notably darker than usual.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Fingers:_The_Citadel|Light Fingers: The Citadel|Fallen London|}}''The Static Star is not a natural formation of stone, but of a darker, mirror-like glim. Indeed, it is not stone at all: it is the Moon-Mother.''</ref> [[Godfall|Starved Men]] have hollowed out her insides, and practice their Shapeling Arts within her using her amber secretions.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Peer_in_the_Amber_Chamber|Peer in the Amber Chamber|Fallen London|}}</ref> The servants of the Moon-Mother have retained more sanity than most of their kind, and tend to her well-being.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Bring_the_Starved_Men_what_they_need|Bring the Starved Men what they need|Fallen London|}}</ref>
The matriarch of the moon-misers is the Moon-Mother.<ref>https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/The_list''You have to get up there somehow, and find a moon-miser brood mother. They're easy enough to spot, twice the size of the others and more legs.''</ref> She is so large as to be confused for a great stalactite, and her glim carapace is notably darker than usual.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Light_Fingers:_The_Citadel|Light Fingers: The Citadel|Fallen London|}}''The Static Star is not a natural formation of stone, but of a darker, mirror-like glim. Indeed, it is not stone at all: it is the Moon-Mother.''</ref> [[Godfall|Starved Men]] have hollowed out her insides, and practice their Shapeling Arts within her using her amber secretions.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Peer_in_the_Amber_Chamber|Peer in the Amber Chamber|Fallen London|}}</ref> The servants of the Moon-Mother have retained more sanity than most of their kind, and tend to her well-being.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Bring_the_Starved_Men_what_they_need|Bring the Starved Men what they need|Fallen London|}}</ref>


These beings' reproductive cycle is as strange as everything else about them. One is born each decade or so, and for this to happen, the false-stars must align into a particular arrangement known as the Counterfeit Constellation.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/What_does_she_mean_about_the_stars_aligning%3F|What does she mean about the stars aligning?|Fallen London|}}</ref> The child is coerced from the womb using the Song of Birthing, customarily sung by the Moon-Mother.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Ask_about_the_Song_of_Birthing|Ask about the Song of Birthing|Fallen London|}} ''"The Moon-Mother sings the Song of Birthing to induce the larva to emerge. An otherworldly sound. I doubt a human throat could ever reproduce it."''</ref> The infant feeds on nectar extracted from stalactites by its father (the jellied remains of some burrowing ceiling creature, perhaps),<ref>https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Something_to_feed_it%3F</ref> and must be swaddled in its mother's silk while its carapace develops.<ref>https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Something_to_wrap_it_in%3F</ref>
These beings' reproductive cycle is as strange as everything else about them. One is born each decade or so, and for this to happen, the false-stars must align into a particular arrangement known as the Counterfeit Constellation.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/What_does_she_mean_about_the_stars_aligning%3F|What does she mean about the stars aligning?|Fallen London|}}</ref> The child is coerced from the womb using the Song of Birthing, customarily sung by the Moon-Mother.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Ask_about_the_Song_of_Birthing|Ask about the Song of Birthing|Fallen London|}} ''"The Moon-Mother sings the Song of Birthing to induce the larva to emerge. An otherworldly sound. I doubt a human throat could ever reproduce it."''</ref> The infant feeds on nectar extracted from stalactites by its father (the jellied remains of some burrowing ceiling creature, perhaps),<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Something_to_feed_it%3F|Something to feed it?|Fallen London|}}</ref> and must be swaddled in its mother's silk while its carapace develops.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/Something_to_wrap_it_in%3F|Something to wrap it in?|Fallen London|}}</ref>


== Boxfuls of Intrigue ==
== Boxfuls of Intrigue ==

Revision as of 20:11, 30 August 2020

"You open the box, and something climbs out. Something has a glistening carapace the colour of smoked sapphires. Something is made almost entirely of legs. Too many legs."[1]

Moon-misers are mysterious, insectoid creatures that reside on the roof of the Neath. Their colossal size and bioluminescence makes them visible from London, which has led Londoners to call them "false-stars."

Their blueish glow is known as moonish light, and it turns apocyan when reflected off the crests of the waves of the Unterzee.[2] 

Biology

Moon-misers appear to be insects with many pairs of legs, many eyes and hard chitinous exoskeletons.[3] They use their powerful legs to walk along the cavern's roof.[4] Much like the Rubbery Men and the Flukes, the moon-misers hail from the planet Axile, where they were used as mounts.[5] They were likely brought to the Neath by the Bazaar long before the time of the First City, along with other Axiles, and have since colonized its roof.

Moon-misers are a source of a few particular substances. Their shed chitinous exoskeletons fall to the Unterzee, and the pieces are called glim.[6] Glim is used in jewelry, or burned as a light source, which makes it emit noxious fumes.[7] But the most valuable product from these creatures is moon-milk, a substance which causes the imbiber to fall madly in love with the first thing they see, be it a person, an object, or even a color.[8] This obsession fades over years, though, and is shallow in comparison to real love. Perhaps a hybrid between a moon-miser and a human could produce a variant more amenable to human digestion, creating an effect indistinguishable from true love... [9]

The matriarch of the moon-misers is the Moon-Mother.[10] She is so large as to be confused for a great stalactite, and her glim carapace is notably darker than usual.[11] Starved Men have hollowed out her insides, and practice their Shapeling Arts within her using her amber secretions.[12] The servants of the Moon-Mother have retained more sanity than most of their kind, and tend to her well-being.[13]

These beings' reproductive cycle is as strange as everything else about them. One is born each decade or so, and for this to happen, the false-stars must align into a particular arrangement known as the Counterfeit Constellation.[14] The child is coerced from the womb using the Song of Birthing, customarily sung by the Moon-Mother.[15] The infant feeds on nectar extracted from stalactites by its father (the jellied remains of some burrowing ceiling creature, perhaps),[16] and must be swaddled in its mother's silk while its carapace develops.[17]

Boxfuls of Intrigue

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Astrology?

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

References

  1. ↑ Open up, Fallen London
  2. ↑ Echo Bazaar Facebook, Facebook
  3. ↑ Talk your way in, Fallen London
  4. ↑ Light Fingers: Lonely as a Cloud, Fallen London A moon-miser crawls ahead, all gleaming glim, its powerful legs splitting into the roof to keep it from falling.
  5. ↑ A fellow spirit recognised, Fallen London You mount the glistening carapace of your miser and ride forth.
  6. ↑ Glim-fall!, Fallen London
  7. ↑ Sidebar Snippets, Fallen London
  8. ↑ Eminently respectable?, Fallen London Anyway, the moon-misers exude this stuff. Moon-milk. Acts like one of those love potions out of a silly romance tale.
  9. ↑ Draw out as many answers as you can, Fallen London [Moon-milk] is not a convincing forgery; it creates only a shallow obsession that fades after a few years [...] [The Hybrid's] milk is more suited to human ingestion. It will be be able to create something indistinguishable in all meaningful ways from true love
  10. ↑ https://fallenlondon.fandom.com/wiki/The_listYou have to get up there somehow, and find a moon-miser brood mother. They're easy enough to spot, twice the size of the others and more legs.
  11. ↑ Light Fingers: The Citadel, Fallen London The Static Star is not a natural formation of stone, but of a darker, mirror-like glim. Indeed, it is not stone at all: it is the Moon-Mother.
  12. ↑ Peer in the Amber Chamber, Fallen London
  13. ↑ Bring the Starved Men what they need, Fallen London
  14. ↑ What does she mean about the stars aligning?, Fallen London
  15. ↑ Ask about the Song of Birthing, Fallen London "The Moon-Mother sings the Song of Birthing to induce the larva to emerge. An otherworldly sound. I doubt a human throat could ever reproduce it."
  16. ↑ Something to feed it?, Fallen London
  17. ↑ Something to wrap it in?, Fallen London
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