Mr Apples

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"Each life should follow its passion. We know our loves, and tend them on behalf of the Bazaar. This, at least, is an arrangement that satisfies all."[1]

Mr Apples is a darkly cheery and overly familiar Curator who serves as a Master of the Bazaar.

Mr Hearts is its other trade name in London.

In the Sunless Skies timeline, Mr Apples resides in the High Wilderness as the Chiropterous Hoarder.

Domains and Locations

"This upstanding citizen governs commerce in food, wood and immortality. They say it's an ally of Mr Veils."[2]

Mr Apples governs trade in food, wood, and immortality. It also loves games and gambling, driving it to create the high-stakes card game known as the Marvellous.[3] It is particularly sociable, and is frequently sighted out and about.[4]

Hearts' Domain

Under its other title, Mr Hearts, it deals in meats, skins, ligaments, bones, bloods, and animals, and runs an emporium at the Labyrinth of Tigers.

Mr Hearts sells a very mysterious meat from suspicious sources at its storefront.[5]

Other Names

Mr Apples has also been called Mr Barley,[2] the Lord of Blood in the time of the Third City,[3] the Saint of Flesh and the Paradisal Saint by the Cult of the Sanctified in the Sunless Skies timeline,[6] and the Khan of Roots and the Khan of Hearts during the time of the Fourth City.[7]

Sunless Skies

"Gone. But I could make more. I was Mr Apples, once. As I was once other things, other names, other people."[8]

In the Sunless Skies timeline, when London rose to the skies, a few Masters followed. One of them was Mr Apples, now known as the Chiropterous Hoarder.[9] It used to sell Hesperidean Cider for a high price, but it has run out of its precious golden apples, so it now seeks a new and better means of immortality.[10]

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