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<blockquote>''"Violet light encroaches at the margins of the pool: shudders through it and is gone. A spined shape the size of a seal floats curled within. The urchin touches your elbow. "Ask me. I'll give you her answer. She misses the servants so." His eyes are marbled with greyish-green like streaks of decaying fat in meat."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Do_you_recall_how_they_came_to_that_place%3F|Do you recall how they came to that place?|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''"Violet light encroaches at the margins of the pool: shudders through it and is gone. A spined shape the size of a seal floats curled within. The urchin touches your elbow. "Ask me. I'll give you her answer. She misses the servants so." His eyes are marbled with greyish-green like streaks of decaying fat in meat."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Do_you_recall_how_they_came_to_that_place%3F|Do you recall how they came to that place?|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
'''Do You Recall?''' are the opening words of a recurring poem describing the [[Echo Bazaar]]'s fateful arrival at [[Axile]]. | '''Do You Recall?''' are the opening words of a recurring poem describing the [[Echo Bazaar]]'s fateful arrival at [[Axile]].__forcetoc__ | ||
== Lore == | == Lore == | ||
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And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires.<br> | And we tilted our vanes and ennobled our spires.<br> | ||
They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs.<br> | They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns, and still waits the Sun."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Answer_the_door_%E2%80%93_carefully|Answer the door – carefully|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns, and still waits the Sun."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Answer_the_door_%E2%80%93_carefully|Answer the door – carefully|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Violet Amber === | === Violet Amber === | ||
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They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.<br> | They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.<br> | ||
We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
If we could remember those days. If only we could remember."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Nodule_of_Violet_Amber|Nodule of Violet Amber|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | If we could remember those days. If only we could remember."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Nodule_of_Violet_Amber|Nodule of Violet Amber|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Offering the Sky === | === Offering the Sky === | ||
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They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.<br> | They tilted their vanes and ennobled their spires.<br> | ||
You welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | You welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
You can remember those days. It can be as it was."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Sky_(10_FATE)|The Sky (10 FATE)|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | You can remember those days. It can be as it was."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Sky_(10_FATE)|The Sky (10 FATE)|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Amber in the Water === | === Amber in the Water === | ||
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<blockquote>''"Your wake foams with forgetting. The core weeps into the water, a tide of letting-go. The sticky amber clots begin to flow and lighten, relinquishing what they were in favour of the dead Fluke's endless stream of unbeing."''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''"Your wake foams with forgetting. The core weeps into the water, a tide of letting-go. The sticky amber clots begin to flow and lighten, relinquishing what they were in favour of the dead Fluke's endless stream of unbeing."''</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>''"Your brain throbs with something half-remembered. Do you recall how they were robbed of that place? A song in the water, forgetting a forgotten world."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Mount_your_Fluke-Core_upon_the_prow|Mount your Fluke-Core upon the prow|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''"Your brain throbs with something half-remembered. Do you recall how they were robbed of that place? A song in the water, forgetting a forgotten world."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Mount_your_Fluke-Core_upon_the_prow|Mount your Fluke-Core upon the prow|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Slobgollion === | === Slobgollion === | ||
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Not disgrace, not disgrace, no, not when you sing of it.<br> | Not disgrace, not disgrace, no, not when you sing of it.<br> | ||
Your voice coaxes: an encouragement.<br> | Your voice coaxes: an encouragement.<br> | ||
You remember the melody. So does Mr Martin McIntosh."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Slobgollion|Slobgollion|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | You remember the melody. So does Mr Martin McIntosh."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Slobgollion|Slobgollion|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Unorthodox Arrangement === | === Unorthodox Arrangement === | ||
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<blockquote><em>"Do you recall how it came to that place?<br> | <blockquote><em>"Do you recall how it came to that place?<br> | ||
Why it suffered their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?<br> | Why it suffered their lightnings and shapeful disgrace?<br> | ||
I’m sorry. Too much time in the archives."</em><ref name = "arrangement">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Unorthodox_Arrangement|An Unorthodox Arrangement|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | I’m sorry. Too much time in the archives."</em><ref name = "arrangement">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_Unorthodox_Arrangement|An Unorthodox Arrangement|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Visitor at Hallowmas === | === Visitor at Hallowmas === | ||
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And It tilted Its vanes and ennobled Its spires.<br> | And It tilted Its vanes and ennobled Its spires.<br> | ||
They welcomed it then and commingled all choirs.<br> | They welcomed it then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns."</em><ref name = "unmarked coach">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_unmarked_black_coach|An unmarked black coach|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | And not enough, not enough. Still It mourns."</em><ref name = "unmarked coach">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/An_unmarked_black_coach|An unmarked black coach|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Ambition: Enigma === | === Ambition: Enigma === | ||
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And we suffered their hammers and fearful embrace?<br> | And we suffered their hammers and fearful embrace?<br> | ||
We hardened our hands and believed all their liars.<br> | We hardened our hands and believed all their liars.<br> | ||
We began with the river when we set the fires."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Enigma|Ambition: Enigma|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | We began with the river when we set the fires."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Enigma|Ambition: Enigma|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Mask of the Rose === | === Mask of the Rose === | ||
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They shattered their panes and ignited their sires.<br> | They shattered their panes and ignited their sires.<br> | ||
We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | We welcomed them then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
If we could remember those days. If only we could remember.</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Mask_of_the_Rose:_a_Fallen_London_romance|Mask of the Rose: a Fallen London romance|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | If we could remember those days. If only we could remember.</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Mask_of_the_Rose:_a_Fallen_London_romance|Mask of the Rose: a Fallen London romance|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== St Erzulie's Service === | === St Erzulie's Service === | ||
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And It tilted our vanes and ennobled Its spires.<br> | And It tilted our vanes and ennobled Its spires.<br> | ||
They welcomed It then and commingled all choirs.<br> | They welcomed It then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
Now, now, O thou faithful, we shall commingle our choirs. (And then we shall feast.)"</em><ref name = "number 5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Attend_a_service_at_the_Chapel_(no._5)|Attend a service at the Chapel (no. 5)|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea. | Now, now, O thou faithful, we shall commingle our choirs. (And then we shall feast.)"</em><ref name = "number 5">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Attend_a_service_at_the_Chapel_(no._5)|Attend a service at the Chapel (no. 5)|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Chapel_of_Lights#Interactions|Attend a service at the Chapel (Erzulie)|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== Restitution for the Drowned Man === | === Restitution for the Drowned Man === | ||
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It sharpens the Judgement-light to the claws of candles.<br> | It sharpens the Judgement-light to the claws of candles.<br> | ||
It is the road when the wind rises.<br> | It is the road when the wind rises.<br> | ||
The Drowned Man has forgotten all that, and so now, again, will you."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Restitution_for_the_Drowned_Man|Restitution for the Drowned Man|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | The Drowned Man has forgotten all that, and so now, again, will you."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Restitution_for_the_Drowned_Man|Restitution for the Drowned Man|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== (Retired) St Forthigan's Candle === | === (Retired) St Forthigan's Candle === | ||
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For your freedom, from chains forged in a horizon-place, from the treachery of daughters.<br> | For your freedom, from chains forged in a horizon-place, from the treachery of daughters.<br> | ||
You gave me to their knives.<br> | You gave me to their knives.<br> | ||
A reckoning. The bill is almost due."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://nightmarethrenody.tumblr.com/post/69675861656/when-mr-eaten-comes-a-calling|St Forthigan's Candle (RETIRED)|Fallen London (external link)}}</ref></blockquote> | A reckoning. The bill is almost due."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://nightmarethrenody.tumblr.com/post/69675861656/when-mr-eaten-comes-a-calling|St Forthigan's Candle (RETIRED)|Fallen London (external link)|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== A Memory? === | === A Memory? === | ||
<blockquote>''"When they came to that place, they brought promises of union, unbound and untrammelled by the bright laws above. How could you have forgotten that?"''<ref name="memory of amalgamy">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_a_memory_of_amalgamy|Accept a memory of amalgamy|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>''"When they came to that place, they brought promises of union, unbound and untrammelled by the bright laws above. How could you have forgotten that?"''<ref name="memory of amalgamy">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_a_memory_of_amalgamy|Accept a memory of amalgamy|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
=== GRIEVE === | === GRIEVE === | ||
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They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs.<br> | They welcomed us then and commingled all choirs.<br> | ||
And not enough, not enough. Not enough.<br> | And not enough, not enough. Not enough.<br> | ||
Always the least, and now, nothing at all."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Choose_your_Question:_what_is_forgotten%3F|Choose your Question: what is forgotten?|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | Always the least, and now, nothing at all."</em><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Choose_your_Question:_what_is_forgotten%3F|Choose your Question: what is forgotten?|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Other Things of Significance]] | [[Category:Other Things of Significance]] |