- ↑ Interaction description, Sunless Sea "Seek Lytton in Anthe, the City of Flowers."
- ↑ Port Description, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Listen in on the nearest group of people, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Visit the garden of the Sharpest, Sunless Sea "The vines that hang along the tunnel walls are all nurtured crystal. Their fruit glitters. Their fallen leaves wobble without breaking underfoot."
- ↑ Port Description, Sunless Sea "They call it the city of flowers, but the flowers are crystals, spiral matrices grown on the walls of Anthean caves."
- ↑ Port Description, Sunless Sea "The inhabitants of Anthe are at least partly crystal too: they call it "going sharp.""
- ↑ Study the chambers of Anthe, Sunless Sea "The inhabitants of Anthe go sharp. Not all at once, but piece by piece, they turn to crystal. [...]"
- ↑ Cultivate the capacity for sharpness, Sunless Sea "It isn't easy to go sharp as the Antheans do. [...] The environment is a help, but you must also prepare your mind and your will."
- ↑ Cultivate the capacity for sharpness through chemical means, Sunless Sea "In Anthe there are teachers of sharpness who emphasise self-knowledge, patience, [...] In your case, a day of distillations and preparations is enough. You drink the dose [...] within two hours you are ready to go sharp in a new way."
- ↑ Cure the sharpness you gained in Anthe, Sunless Sea "The blood flows. The flesh bends. Your discipline and skill decrease, your desire and feeling return."
- ↑ Gather a port report on Anthe, Sunless Sea "Access to Anthe is restricted by type of sharpness: those who are sharp in the ears do not necessarily mingle with the sharp-tongued."
- ↑ Study the chambers of Anthe, Sunless Sea "They sort themselves by sharpness, too: the sharp-handed cluster with others of their kind, ignoring the keen-footed and the brittle-waisted."
- ↑ Listen in on the nearest group of people, Sunless Sea ""I'm going sharp in the lungs next," says a woman in a deep red gown. "They say you can smoke all day long and never develop a cough." [...] A young man is speaking: a boy, except for the scar on his face. "I'm going sharp in the skin as fast as I can. And then I'll be back at Zee, and the corsairs will warn each other about me. [...] "Once you've gone sharp, you might not have a use for corsairs any more. I was going to be a horologist, but..." She waves a translucent hand. "I'd rather stay here and continue my... development.""
- ↑ Offer your Drownie Love-song to the Drownies in the Cave-Pool, Sunless Sea "They keep apart from other Antheans, but they have gone sharp in their own way."
- ↑ Set down Clay Men in the Travertine Vault, Sunless Sea "A Clay Man who's gone sharp is a Clay Man you can trust. Respectable, solid boned, patient. Incapable of rage or bad manners. That is why they come here: to be certified trustworthy, to show that they're suitable for better jobs and better treatment. The Travertine Vault is full of such men [...]"
- ↑ Meet Rosina, Sunless Sea "Rosina is dying of animescence, the disease of the Elder Continent. Any passion speeds the disease. She must, [...] lie very still in an ice bath and think of things that do not interest her. Going sharp in the spleen protects her against the passion of anger, but other passions are still a danger."
- ↑ Offer to help a Sharp Hunter, Fallen London "Anthe, it is called [...] where crystalline flowers grow and sufferers of Animescence seek a cold respite."
- ↑ Cultivate the capacity for sharpness, Sunless Sea "It isn't easy to go sharp as the Antheans do. But most who come here find themselves desiring the condition, sooner or later."
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Listen in on the nearest group of people, Sunless Sea ""Once you've gone sharp, you might not have a use for corsairs any more. I was going to be a horologist, but..." She waves a translucent hand. "I'd rather stay here and continue my... development.""
- ↑ Mingle with Hurriers, Getters and Thrusters, Sunless Sea "Are you planning to leave Anthe? Are you sure? Most people don't... but you may have the fuel if you need it. The only thing is, if you do go fully sharp, they'll take it back to offer to someone else that can use it."
- ↑ Chase down a Polythreme Exile, Sunless Sea "He shows you the palms of his hands, where triclinic crystals grow every which way, ragged and disorganised. It is difficult for clay to go sharp. Sometimes it succeeds, but the failures are awkward."
- ↑ Offer to help a Sharp Hunter, Fallen London "Anthe, it is called [...] The Sharp Hunter was dragged into it by a zee-current while diving for pearls, a foolish mistake [...] His left hand is now delicate and crystalline, white as bone and sharp as a knife. But what frightens away lesser surgeons are the quartz flowers blooming on his chest; every so often, he lets out a soft cough, hacking shards of rock from his slowly crystallizing lung. [...] You […] cleave his body into two: One warm and alive; another, cold and sharp. […] The Hunter, no longer Sharp, will be short one hand and a little short of breath."
- ↑ Cure the sharpness you gained in Anthe, Sunless Sea "Enough time in Polythreme, and your sharpness will dissolve back to flesh."
- ↑ Offer to help a Sharp Hunter, Fallen London "He tells the tale of how he acquired a cold sharpness in a place of flowers beneath the waves. You have the skill to excise it."
- ↑ Unearth a portrait of a time, Sunless Sea "It was said that a flower in the zee grew within the zee, one that any true lover would pluck for their beloved. If nothing else, it was a proof of bravery, devotion, and diving talent - all conventionally attractive qualities. Many dived, most died: but a few found the flower, and found that it was not what they expected. It was beautiful beyond their imagining. And though a pretty poetic conceit had send them below, it was not enough to bring them back up. They abandoned their old lovers, in death or for beauty."
- ↑ Story description, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Interaction description, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Meet Rosina, Sunless Sea "Going sharp in the spleen protects her against the passion of anger, but other passions are still a danger."
- ↑ Go sharp in the spleen, Sunless Sea "Surrender your capacity for anger. Join the society of diplomats, saints, and cold-blooded tyrants."
- ↑ Go sharp in the liver, Sunless Sea "Take on a proud indifference to toxins. Fraternise with spies, assassins, professional poisoners, and those who need to survive on strange diets."
- ↑ Listen in on the nearest group of people, Sunless Sea ""I'm going sharp in the lungs next," [...] "They say you can smoke all day long and never develop a cough." "
- ↑ Let your lungs become a chamber of crystal, Sunless Sea "Breathe less often and more purely. Take on the companionship of divers, opera singers, coal miners and producers of poisonous gas."
- ↑ Flourish in the groin, Sunless Sea "Diminish passion, promote hygiene, perfect performance, and dazzle any onlookers. Pursue the company of Anthe's nuns, celibates, dancers, and brothel habitués."
- ↑ Gather flourishing intelligence among the sharp-livered, Sunless Sea "[...] and that has taken him to the chambers of the Tongue." The man next to her makes a face. "Those people are all terribly rude," he says. "Stay here with us.""
- ↑ Undergo acumination of the tongue, Sunless Sea "Give up soft speech and slow words. Come to know poets, court jesters, liars, and artists in cipher. [...] The sharp-tongues gather on a point of rock. There is little room for newcomers. The wit is crisp and dry. The diction is precise. Nothing is slurred, and nothing said in error."
- ↑ Mineralise your skeleton, Sunless Sea ""True, you won't break your bones. Now they'll break you. Tear right through your muscle and skin, and stick out! [...]"
- ↑ Mineralise your skeleton, Sunless Sea "Strength that cannot be seen is often the most praiseworthy. Walk among the labourers, the circus strongwomen, the persons of iron will and unshakeable integrity."
- ↑ Let your skin be clear as water and hard as armour, Sunless Sea "The sharp-skinned of Anthe have no reason to fear heat, or edged implements, or bruising rocks."
- ↑ Qualities description, Sunless Sea "Are you transparent? Do you display your ligatures to the world?"
- ↑ Let your skin be clear as water and hard as armour, Sunless Sea "This is where the fighters are, and those who got tired of their scars, and the people too proud to hide anything about themselves."
- ↑ Let your skin be clear as water and hard as armour, Sunless Sea "These people have the most to do if they wish to conceal their condition from those above the Unterzee. They almost never leave Anthe, but if they do, they wraps themselves in bandages and pass as Tomb Colonists, or mask themselves like a native of Visage. "
- ↑ Offer passage to the Tomb Colonies, Sunless Sea "She went clear in the skin to prevent bruising in the embrace of a mineralised wife. [...] She wishes to reach Venderbight without undue attention from strangers. She has a pile of bandages and a coffin [...]"
- ↑ Gather a port report on Anthe, Sunless Sea "Access to Anthe is restricted by type of sharpness: those who are sharp in the ears do not necessarily mingle with the sharp-tongued."
- ↑ Visit the Dauntless Palate, Sunless Sea "He smiles. His teeth are also clear. "
- ↑ 45.0 45.1 Contribute to the celebration, Sunless Sea "The captain who brought it went sharp in the bowels. She doesn't eat now. Help yourself."
- ↑ Story description, Sunless Sea "[...] a woman in an obvious state of illness. Several Antheans attend her, one with deft, clear fingers."
- ↑ Study the chambers of Anthe, Sunless Sea "To progress through Anthe is to take on more and more of these attributes, to enter the deeper chambers restricted by sharp-style."
- ↑ Go sharp in the spleen, Sunless Sea "The Venous Salon [...] It is a party game here to take turns reading aloud offensive letters to the London newspapers, and insulting missives from home, and to compete at not caring in the least."
- ↑ Go sharp in the liver, Sunless Sea "The Salon of Silver Salts is hung with small lights, and the inhabitants look ordinary. They are sipping arsenical teas and dining on poisonous toadstools."
- ↑ Let your lungs become a chamber of crystal, Sunless Sea "The Salon of Incense [...] The chamber is lined with black crystal. Braziers are lit and a low haze hangs in the air, troubling none of the inhabitants."
- ↑ Flourish in the groin, Sunless Sea "The Chamber of Pillow-cut Rock [...] The walls of the chamber are hard, but the facets and the deep red colour give them the shimmer of whorehouse velvet. [...] for the most part, the inhabitants wear cream-coloured robes and make no display of their altered state."
- ↑ Undergo acumination of the tongue, Sunless Sea "Tongue-point Pinnacle [...] The sharp-tongues gather on a point of rock. There is little room for newcomers. The wit is crisp and dry. The diction is precise. Nothing is slurred, and nothing said in error."
- ↑ Mineralise your skeleton, Sunless Sea "The Bone-Barrow [...] The room is oval in cross-section and about fifty feet long. [...] The inhabitants take turns to hold up the part of the ceiling that is in danger of caving in."
- ↑ Let your skin be clear as water and hard as armour, Sunless Sea "The Blistering Abyss [...] The sharp-skinned of Anthe have no reason to fear heat, or edged implements, or bruising rocks. Snakes and stinging insects are a game to them. The suicide of wasps on crystal Anthean skin is one of their primary sources of comedy."
- ↑ Sell your song of Broken Hulls to the Singers in the Shell, Sunless Sea "Lung and Tongue are both crystal, the better to sing. [...] The concert hall was once the shell of an impossible oyster. [...] the singers of Anthe perform."
- ↑ Gather flourishing intelligence among the sharp-livered, Sunless Sea ""He's gone sharp in the liver, no doubt," says the woman with the venom-ruby ring. "But he is also a student of codes and encryptions, and that has taken him to the chambers of the Tongue.""
- ↑ Seek your spy, Sunless Sea "Seek your spy [...] Granite Corridor, where the most linguistically skilled assassins may be found. [...] Has your spy gone sharp in the brain as well as the liver and tongue?"
- ↑ Stop by the Smokehouse, Sunless Sea "A hedonistic sanctuary for those who have gone sharp in both liver and lung. [...] Trays circulate with every possible indulgence. Brandy from the surface. Cigars from Rosegate. Coffee. A drink made with squeezed oranges, rum, and smoldering cinnamon."
- ↑ Visit the Dauntless Palate, Sunless Sea "[...] those sharp in the liver, skin, and tongue [...] Contact toxins do not trouble their skin. Serpents cannot pierce them. Venoms milked from the fang cannot make them ill. A mycological poison is merely a challenge to their knowledge of toadstool terroir. [...] The club is run by a large jolly Anthean who poses daily challenges."
- ↑ Gather a port report on Anthe, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Story description, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Gather a port report on Anthe, Sunless Sea "As for the inhabitants who are sharp throughout their full bodies, they don't circulate much. There is said to be a cavern, [...] where the perfectly sharp grow old together. They aren't capable of anyone else's company any more [...] At any rate they are more like growing crystals than like people, slowly expanding and bonding with the rock."
- ↑ The Garden of the Sharpest, Sunless Sea "It is a cavern of giants. They were all at one time men or women or other creatures [...] But they are larger now, grown like oaks into the cavern floor. Their bodies are clear as lens-glass. Their faces are past the necessity of expression."
- ↑ Turn your muscles to stone, Sunless Sea "Your instructor squeezes you painfully between her finger and her thumb. "This will hurt," she says without sympathy. "And it will take a long time. [...] at night your instructor hits you with a stick to break the bad connections."
- ↑ Visit the garden of the Sharpest, Sunless Sea "You are almost all sharp, after all."
- ↑ Train your eyes to sharpness, with their help, Sunless Sea "The sharpness of the eyes is more difficult than any sharpness you have yet studied. Indeed, you may lose the mastery of everything else, in pursuing this one."
- ↑ The Pursuit of Sharpness, Sunless Sea "A woman gives advice to new Antheans: her eyes are cubes of salt."
- ↑ Train your eyes to sharpness, with their help, Sunless Sea ""The sharpness of the eyes is more difficult than any sharpness you have yet studied. [...] You must begin not with the lens nor with the vitreous humour, but with the tear ducts. If your eyes are not dry, they will never go sharp." [...] +5 x Mirrors"
- ↑ Hone your wits to a point, Sunless Sea ""To come to this place, you had to silence the sensations. Now you can gain a philosopher's mind; then you will easily master your body a second time." For ten days you [...] debate with him. He tells you distasteful facts that you do not like to accept. He tells you fearful facts that are difficult to imagine. He tells you convoluted facts that you can barely comprehend. But in the end, your brain is a cultivated latticework, [...] through which you can diffract both truth and its opposite."
- ↑ Offer your Drownie Love-song to the Drownies in the Cave-Pool, Sunless Sea "But a traveller came to us who had gone sharp in the brain. She could not be seduced. The prison would not hold her."
- ↑ Turn your muscles to stone, Sunless Sea ""This will hurt," [...] "And it will take a long time. You must go sharp without becoming too inflexible. Keep all the proper links between bone and bone. Respect the ligaments." All day you lie still developing the sharpness of your muscles, and then at night your instructor hits you with a stick to break the bad connections. Each morning, you begin again."
- ↑ Harden your heart to a chunk of salt, Sunless Sea ""Here is the business of a well-trained heart," [...] "To pity, but not to make undeserved allowances. To protect, but not to treat the beloved as a child. To admire, but not to lose the capacity of discrimination. To serve without abasement. To govern without dominance. To care for each, without forgetting the demands of all." Then she teaches you to dissolve and to regrow your heart from a grain of sorrow."
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