The Red-Handed Queen

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UNDER CONSTRUCTION

You can go anywhere. You use secret passages to enter the rooms of your enemies, vulnerable in their sleep. You climb dark staircases and cross vast, silent halls. [...] You can do anything. Anything except scrubbing this gore from your hands. [1]

The Red-Handed Queen is a powerful figure living in Parabola. She associate herself whith those with ambitions, who are willing to break the rules to further their own ends.[2] To those, she sometimes grant boons in exchange for their servitude. For others, however, she is a cruel terrifying presence who is to be avoided.[3][4]

  1. [https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_dream_about_the_Red-Handed_Queen A dream about the Red-Handed Queen , Fallen London]
  2. Greet the Queen, Fallen London
  3. The Fair Unknown, Fallen London "You speak of the Red-Handed Queen. She hosts the Tournament of Rubies, where champions from across Parabola compete to win a boon." She tucks her gloved hands in her pockets to hide a tremor. "I would not wish for anything from that lady. Any favour she grants is conditional, its effects permanent."
  4. The Heretic of Hollow Street, Fallen London The Glassman lowers his spectacles. "The Barber opposes our fellowship. He is a rogue who has pledged himself to a monstrous power that is imprisoned beyond the glass, and he does not understand that with which he meddles. You must stop him."