June

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"A light grows in the far south-west. It begins like a distant bonfire, but very rapidly, it becomes brighter, brighter. It looks remarkably like sunrise."

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"June cannot be trusted. (After what she made? It's all the more difficult to make the lights go out, now.)"

June is a member of the Calendar Council and the original architect of the Dawn Machine.[1] It is unknown which factions she collaborated with when making the Machine; it is also unknown whether she is a member of the New Sequence, or whether she has any other involvement with the Machine aside from its creation.

Those who support the Liberation of Night consider June untrustworthy, as her creation naturally impedes their goal.[2] Despite this, the ceiling of the Summer Room in the Agendums of Ascent (a library run by the Council) is a complex schematic of the Dawn Machine that only becomes visible when the lights in the room are extinguished.[3][4] June also authored a book in the Agendums described as a "collection of ideas for frivolous amusements." The book does not seem to have much import, but based on its writings it appears that June prefers to have a strict itinerary for every occasion, lest she fall into "dangerous introspection." The book's activities are also indexed by season, mirroring how the Agendums' rooms correspond to seasons, but the implications of this are unknown.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Who was the original architect of the Dawn Machine?, Failbetter Games "June of the Calendar Council, or just 'June'"
  2. ↑ Bury the Council's Secrets, Fallen London "June cannot be trusted. (After what she made? It's all the more difficult to make the lights go out, now.)"
  3. ↑ The Calendar Code, Fallen London "The room of Summer swelters in darkness."
  4. ↑ The Calendar Code, Fallen London "The entire ceiling is a schematic, traced in orange phosphorescence. [...] The work is exquisite: precise diagrams of clockwork, exploded and separated to illustrate its functioning. Beyond the main wheels, the cogs are so delicate, [...] its workings are incredibly complex. [...] it is also immense."
  5. ↑ The Calendar Code, Fallen London "[...] this is a straightforward collection of ideas for frivolous amusements to fill idle afternoons. [...] you can detect an undercurrent of desperation in its party plans; a sense that without an itinerary for every occasion, the author could descend into dangerous introspection. [...] the activities are indexed by season. Is there some connection between the book and this library?"
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