Editing Aestival

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|location = [[The Unterzee|The Calumnies]]|allegiance = Uninhibited|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/submergio-viol Submergio Viol]|port=Lesley's Harbour}}<blockquote>''"Sun! A great beam of sunlight bathes the island! Squint into the dazzle: far above, there's a hole in the roof. In that light you see beaches of white-gold sand; trees heavy with bright fruit; the reds and blues and greens of the Surface."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>

'''Aestival''' is an island in the [[Unterzee]] above which lies a hole in the [[Roof of the Neath]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea|}} ''""Sun! A great beam of sunlight bathes the island! [...] far above, there's a hole in the roof."''</ref> The [[sunlight]] shining through gives it appearance of a picturesque beach, with white sand, fruit trees, and other features evocative of the [[Surface]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Location_description|Location description|Sunless Sea|}} ''"In that light you see beaches of white-gold sand; trees heavy with bright fruit; the reds and blues and greens of the Surface.""''</ref> Unfortunately, sunlight is both deadly and highly alluring to denizens of the [[Neath]], and zailors who visit Aestival may lie down on the sands as their life fades away with a smile.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Interactions|Gather supplies|Sunless Sea|}} ''"[...] on the way back to the ship, one of your crew topples over [...] She's smiling blissfully. "Go on, cap'n," she says. "I've missed the zun." Her eyes close. Sunlight is perilous for those who've lived in the Neath too long."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Menaces:_Yearning,_Burning#Interaction_description|Interaction description|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Enough of this darkness. Go to the sun. Give yourself like a spark to smoke."''</ref>

Given the dangers, Aestival is completely uninhibited barring some wildlife.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Interactions|Gather supplies|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Soft-shelled crabs and plump birds too stupid to know a hungry zailor from a tree."''</ref> There are some ruins, however: a country house filled with skeletons who were just getting ready for breakfast.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Interactions|Investigate the ruins|Sunless Sea|}} ''"There was some sort of installation here - and what looks like a handsome country house. [...] what happened to them? [...] Chairs strewn with bones - a half-dozen skeletons. [...] These people died peacefully, sitting down to breakfast, as the Surface sunlight spilled over them."''</ref> Hidden within Aestival is a mysterious meteorite-like object: a mechanism of the [[Red Science]]. This object was a prototype launched by the [[Iron & Misery Company]] at the roof, breaking it open and letting the sunlight pour through.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Aestival#Interactions|Seek the Iron & Misery company prototype component|Sunless Sea|}} ''"Seek the Iron & Misery company prototype component [...] Days of back-breaking labour unearth a [...] a meteorite. A broken armature of steel and copper sheathes its sides. The zailors fall back before it as the glyphs on its side crawl with fire. [...] "This must be what broke the roof. [...] A Seal of the Red Science!! [...]"''</ref>