WARNING!! Spoilers ahead!
Several astute Fallen Londoners have noticed parallels between Fallen London and the real world, besides its alternate-historical setting and the well-known fact that the Empress and her Consort are Victoria and Albert.
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- Mr. Huffam, of Doubt Street fame, is none other than Charles Dickens.
- The Epigrammatic Irishman, a character in a recently-released story involving Mr Pages, is Oscar Wilde.
- Dr. Schlomo, a nightmare-curing Victorian Dr. Oz, is Sigmund (Schlomo) Freud.
- Jack-of-Smiles is Jack the Ripper, of course.
- Painter William Holman Hunt also appears in the game as the Ginger-Haired Painter.
- The Relickers, aka rag-and-bone-men, existed and still exist IRL.
- The Bishopric of Southwark is actually a thing. So was The Great Game, which used to be a power struggle in Central Asia but now spans the world.
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| A few fictional figures, too!
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*The Calendar Council is the Council of Days from The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton.
- The Honey-Addled Detective in Ladybones Road is Sherlock Holmes gone bad.
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| And the golden oldies:
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- The Widow is Shirin, daughter of Mongke Khan.
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