Dahut

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"Drownies built a copy of London as it never was: a cathedral, and houses, and fields of flowers, all underwater. The water is cool and luminous, and at the same time it is breathable air."

Dahut is an under-zee city inhabited by Drownies.

They Sing

"'...we came to Dahut wretched. They made us welcome. They bid us join them at their feasts. My bo'sun lay with his bride in a field of white flowers, and there I left him. My navigator refused to swim with us, and there I left him. My cabin boy joined the cathedral's choir; his eyes filled with light as his lungs filled with song, and there I left him. I should have stayed.'"

Perhaps some of the drownies miss their old homes in London. Perhaps they simply wanted to have a place to live and had no other inspiration. Regardless, Dahut is surprisingly blissful for a city filled to the brim with walking drowned corpses. Drownie hymns and moans fill the air, and when caught up in the festivities and singing one might feel as if one is enjoying a warm summer day. If one listen to the hymns long enough, perhaps one can make out what they mean, or perhaps they will drive one mad with fear.

Captains in the vicinity are advised to tread carefully, as the song of the drownies can be indirectly fatal.

They Scream

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There are captives being held in the crypts below. These unfortunate individuals are kept there until they are ready to be drowned to create more Drownies.

Origins

Dahut in mythology is a name of the princess of Ys - a city on the coast of France, supposedly flooded and sunk after she opened the city gates to the devil.