The Ragged Crow

"Far above, a lighthouse fire burns. The scent of it is curiously medicinal. It clouds your head and burns your lungs. Farther into the fog, you can make out laboured breathing."

The Ragged Crow is an enormous lighthouse that acts as a major landmark in the Unterzee. Below the lighthouse is the Undercrow, and its entrance is located below the zee's surface.

A Standard Candle

"No use for new faces. Find my student. Back in Port Carnelian. Or maybe hunting in Venderbight. Tell him he hasn't long."

As a giant source of light across the dark Unterzee, the Ragged Crow attracts many varieties of moths - from those similar to their Surface counterparts, to the dangerous, ship-sized Tyrant-Moths.

Under the lighthouse proper lies the Undercrow, a large underwater cavern filled with moths, fungal smoke and the lighthouse's solitary keeper, an extremely old tomb-colonist known as the Almost Dead Man. This individual uses a complex pulley system to deliver flammable fungus to the lighthouse's burner, and the resulting smoke has preservative properties, though it also coats the entire cavern in grey soot.

Moths and Regret

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"Mortality has a way of finding us in the end. I must set my affairs in order. I owe that much to my successor. So, Addressed As, would you help an old man say his farewells?"

The Undercrow

The true identity of the Almost Dead Man is Lorenzo of the Seven Against Nidah. Unfortunately, his life is slowly coming to an end; however, within him sleeps a member of an outstanding species of Frost-Moth called the Most-Moth', and its Emergence is imminent. Lorenzo's student, the Incomparable Aurelian, is an insect collector who wishes to witness the Most-Moth's hatching and observe the moth's wings. Before his final dissolution, however, Lorenzo wishes to send several messages to his former friends and set his affairs in order, to say farewell to his once-comrades of the Seven Against Nidah once and for all.