Editing Corpsecage Island

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{{Neath_Location|image1 = Corpsecage.png|caption1 = Rumors and smoke. Art from FL.|allegiance = Mostly uninhabited|notable_inhabitants = None|location=Stormbones}}<blockquote>''"A spit of black rock and stunted heath. Touched by all the previous cities, so they say."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Destination:_Corpsecage_Island|Destination: Corpsecage Island|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>'''Corpsecage Island '''is a tiny, desolate, and rocky islet that is said to have been part of all the [[Fallen Cities]] to date, except for [[London]]. The island is rife with relics from cities past;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Religions_of_Corpsecage_Island|The Religions of Corpsecage Island|Fallen London|}} ''"All these relics of the Bazaar's previous cities. What can they tell you about their spiritual beliefs?"''</ref> as such, access is permitted to archaeologists working with the [[Dilmun Club]].  

Corpsecage is mostly populated by bats that carry intelligence from players of the [[Great Game]] - though these secrets are quite expired.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Corpsecage_bat|The Corpsecage bat|Fallen London|}} ''"The bats are surly, but they don't object to you getting close and removing tiny cylinders from their legs. [...] One of the messages is written in the picture-alphabet of the Second City. The part you can make out says, '..all the Pharaoh's daughters bar one are gone...'"''</ref> London's [[Constables]], the only other parties officially allowed access to Corpsecage, exile the city's "worst and most scandalous" prisoners here;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Inauspicious_iron|Inauspicious iron|Fallen London|}} ''"The manacles are of a style that was standard issue for the Constables of ten years ago. But not even the Velocipede Squad would stoop to this barbarity, would they?"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Rummage_around_the_fire|Rummage around the fire|Fallen London|}} ''"You consider the mind of a criminal. Perhaps a revolutionary. Where, during a brief escape, would such a person hide something of value? There. [...] Radical texts, jade, and the discarded manacles and mask of a prisoner. So the stories were true."''</ref> this is said to have been a tradition of law enforcement in the [[Neath]] since the [[Second City]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Digging_up_bones_and_rough_justice|Digging up bones and rough justice|Fallen London|}} ''"Certain radicals say that the Constables occasionally dispose of the worst and most scandalous criminals here. They say this is a tradition that began in the Second City."''</ref> A confiscated and discarded diary found on the island belonged to a certain political visionary with much to say about class and capital, who seems to have met his end on Corpsecage.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_zee-caves|The zee-caves|Fallen London|}} ''"It's a little wooden chest, with the lock wax-sealed [...] The seal bears the locked-book crest of the Ministry of Public Decency. You force it open and extract a small book. It's a decade-old diary. You flip through the pages. The author was evidently a radical thinker. Good Lord! There's some complex stuff here about class and capital. It's no wonder the author ended up here."''</ref> There is one other, isolated prisoner on the island: the [[Devils|deviless]] [[Virginia]]'s former lover, a [[Grand Devil]] and one-time prince of [[Hell]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Heart%27s_Desire_%E2%80%93_the_Prince%27s_Prison|Ambition: Heart's Desire %E2%80%93 the Prince's Prison|Fallen London|}} ''"You climb to a gorsed dell, tucked against a shoulder of a cliff. At its middle is a hollow, and at the bottom of the hollow a hole, barred with rusting iron. From within comes a nagging drone, the speech of locusts. A chain rattles, musically. Something wraps around the bars from below. Not fingers. Fingers lack chitin."''</ref> 

A group of people came to Corpsecage from the [[Fourth City]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Digging_up_bones_and_rough_justice|Digging up bones and rough justice|Fallen London|}} ''"You unearth the remnants of the past. [...]. Horse-bone amulets and cracked clay rice-bowls. A stone monument, its bell-like shape familiar to you from your outings to the Forgotten Quarter, now subsumed by clinging moss. The denizens of the Fourth City came here in numbers."''</ref> but they left and zailed eastward,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/What%27s_written_here%3F|What's written here?|Fallen London|}} ''"This is a map. Well, a set of directions. You can't decipher all of it [...] But there's somewhere East over the Unterzee. Somewhere that zailors of the Fourth City called 'our last bastion and salvation'."''</ref> with a detour to the [[Elder Continent]] on the way.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/What%27s_written_here%3F|What's written here?|Fallen London|}} ''"There's somewhere East over the Unterzee. But on the way there, the zailors of the Fourth City visited the Elder Continent."''</ref> This is consistent with the expedition of the Great Khan toward the end of the Fourth City, which resulted in the founding of the [[Khanate]] after a failed invasion of the Continent.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Write_a_history_of_the_Khanate%27s_failed_invasion_of_the_Elder_Continent|Write a history of the Khanate's failed invasion of the Elder Continent|Fallen London|}} ''"Before founding the Khanate as we know it, the Great Khan first attempted a landing on the shores of the Elder Continent. Neither side likes to tell the story."''</ref> There is also evidence of [[Third City]] settlement,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/See_what_you_can_dig_up|See what you can dig up|Fallen London|}} ''"Your finds confirm what the carvings on the walls suggested. Skyglass shards, perished lumps of indiarubber, a few bones. This court was definitely built and used by people of the Third City. It's chilly up here. They must have wrapped up warm."''</ref> and the gossip of the bats<ref name=":0" /> suggests potential [[Second City]] involvement as well.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Writing_it_all_down|Writing it all down|Fallen London|}} ''"You have seen proof of Fourth and Third City inhabitation, and some evidence suggesting the Second City."''</ref> 

== Historical Inspirations ==
That political visionary could only be [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Karl Marx], who did spend much of his life in London. Marx needs little introduction, but for those less familiar, his best-known works include his coauthorship of ''The Communist Manifesto'', and ''Das Kapital,'' a foundational philosophical text and critique of capitalism.

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