Kingeater's Castle
"An old voracity lives here, in the far reaches of the zee. The priests are long gone, but sacrifices are still made here. Perhaps you have come here to make a sacrifice. Perhaps the sacrifice is you."[1]
Kingeater's Castle is an abandoned, half-ruined citadel in the Sea of Statues.
Everything is Terrible
"A dead wind which blew from the north. A hungry sun rode the wind. It made of memories a castle. There are mirrors in the ice. A thousand doors and none. The end of the chain is horizon's beginning. Horizon's beginning. Your throat is bleeding."[2]
This castle at the end of the world can best be described in a single word: terrible.[3] Life naturally withers here, and people find themselves saying and doing things they wouldn't otherwise do, from having short bouts of violent thoughts to devouring everyone around them and going insane.[4][5][6] This probably has something to do with a feral and hungry force called the Kingeater that resides here.[7][8] Many rituals can be conducted at the castle, most of which result in death of everyone involved,[9] though some can be beneficial if their participants remember a simple truth: The heart is destiny's engine...[10][11]
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Give up your Past and Future
"The Dawn Machine's radiations crackle. The Mountain glows, across the Continent to the South. Flukes roil irrigo in the zee. The wind staggers you - you lean into it, and barely keep your feet -[12]
Storm roars its approval. In the pulsing depths of his throne-pool, the Fathomking raises a wine-glass. At the summits of the columns around you, one by one, the stone hearts of the Castle wake to thunderous life. The Kingeater has accepted your sacrifice."[13]
Long ago, a Traveller called Salt came to the Castle in preparation for going further East than anyone before them. No one travels East without a hole in their heart, however,[14] and so the Traveller decided to sacrifice their past and future to the Kingeater.[15][16] Anyone bearing The Name-Which-Burns[17] can repeat that first sacrifice at the Castle, and cause the castle's stone hearts to start beating once again. The Traveller is always returning, after all.[18][19]
The Kingeater's true identity is almost entirely unknown; it's even possible that they are Salt themselves, or at least a part of them. Salt used to be a rather hungry monarch, after all.[20]
References
- ↑ Kingeater's Castle, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Lose your mind, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Compile a Port Report, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Put a blemmigan ashore, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Match the knife to its twin, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Eat your crew, Sunless Sea
- ↑ An act of burning faith, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Sacrifice three zailors, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Your Father's Bones: at Kingeater's Castle, Sunless Sea
- ↑ An act of burning faith, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Construct the Fulgent Impeller, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your past, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your future, Sunless Sea
- ↑ After the sacrifice, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your past, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your future, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Speak your name, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Give up your future, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Once, you said..., Sunless Sea
- ↑ Fumble in the darkness, Sunless Sea
