The Sigil-Ridden Navigator
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"When you ask about his past, he winces. '[...]This -' he taps the livid sigil on his temple, which twitches like a scorpion's sting '-has burned away my memories.'"[1]
The Sigil-Ridden Navigator is a nervous and timid[1] zeeman, whose right temple is marked with a sigil of the Correspondence.
A Wretched Past
"I regret it all. I will do anything. Please."[2]
Sometime before 1887, in the month of May, the Navigator and his brother, Richard, were both engaged aboard the Bonny Swan[3]. The ship had reached Kingeater's Castle, and, due to incompetence on the Navigator's part, the crew found themselves with no supplies and far from any port.[4]
The crew were forced to consider cannibalism in order to survive: the first to be eaten was the ship's captain, Swinburne[3], and the Navigator's own brother[4]. All told, seven crew members of the Bonny Swan were eaten until the rest could return to port.[2]
Although the survivors vowed silence, one of them confessed, and the Navigator fled to the zee in order to avoid legal retribution[2].
Almost Never Remembered
"If I cannot be forgiven, then I will forget. The Chapel of Lights will help me, for a price."[5]
Overwhelmed with guilt, the Navigator sailed to the freezing Avid Horizon[6], where penitents travel to, recording their name and crime in the hopes of being afforded forgiveness by the Admiralty[7].
Having not been selected for pardoning, the Navigator decided to solicit the Chapel of Lights, to forget about his actions and his guilt[5]. Indeed, he payed the Chapel to inscribe on his forehead the sigil of the Correspondence meaning "Almost Never Remembered"[8], which has drained his memories of the incident, as well as much of his past.
The Navigator now mistakenly believes that someone has cursed him with the Sigil, but cannot say who[9].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Invite him to dine with you, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Read the third page, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Read the first page, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Read the second page, Sunless Sea
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Read the fourth page, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Lead the Sigil-Ridden Navigator to a certain dock-pillar, Sunless Sea "Your Navigator hunts through the slips of paper. [...] He stops, stares at one, pulls it free. 'This is mine,' he says. 'I wrote this.' It is a confession."
- ↑ Retrieve Strategic Information, Sunless Sea "Below are the names of murderers, traitors, hopeless villains who've fled into exile. [...] The Admiralty will pick through the names and make their choice."
- ↑ Show the squatters your Navigator's sigil, Sunless Sea "A vertical sheet of ice rises before you, reflective as a conjurer's glass. Engraved upon it, twenty feet high, is the Navigator's sigil. [...] 'It means Almost Never Remembered.' "
- ↑ Invite him to dine with you, Sunless Sea "How did he come by the sigil? He clutches his head. 'I don't know, I don't know. Thinking about it is like fire in my skull.' He grits his teeth. 'Someone must have hated me very much to curse me with it. But I can't even remember my enemy.' "
