Editing London

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{{Neath_Location|image1 = Orig_header.png|caption1 = Deep. Dark. Expensive. Marvellous. Art from FL.|image2 = London.png|caption2 = Zailors dawdle at the rail, watching for the lights of London. Art from Sunless Sea|location = [[The Unterzee]]|alias = Fallen London<br>The Fifth City|allegiance = [[The Masters of the Bazaar]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/wolfstack-lights Wolfstack Lights]}}

<blockquote>''"Fallen London: once capital of the British Empire, now home of the Bazaar. Deep. Dark. Expensive. Marvellous. Here you can find everything from immortality to unnervingly good mushroom wine.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets#Places|What's so special about Fallen London?|Fallen London|}}</ref>"''</blockquote>

Now known as Fallen London or the Fifth City, '''London''' was formerly the capital of the British Empire... until it was kidnapped by the [[The Echo Bazaar|Bazaar]] and its [[The Masters of the Bazaar|Masters]] and placed in the lawless cavern called the Neath, in exchange for the life of the ailing Prince Albert, [[The Empress|Victoria]] loved him dearly.  

Things have changed since [[The Fall of London|the Fall]], and names have been replaced - but more strangely, as the years pass, Londoners have begun to notice that new maps contradict their predecessors (let alone the illegal ones from before the fall).<ref name=":0" /> Perhaps there are just no worthy cartographers in this city; but seasoned zailors and geography professors have reported similar observations all over the Neath. For someone standing just under the spires of the [[The Echo Bazaar|Bazaar]], the directions to any other point of interest would be the same, but the route would be different each time. There are rumors about a map of London so precise that it can even track the smallest deviations of each road.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Complete_your_Hoard|Complete your Hoard|Fallen London|}}</ref> But if something like this existed, it would be locked away from the public - the Masters don`t like it when people dig too deep...<gallery>

It is said that London has seven labyrinths,<ref name="orphanage">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Enter_the_Labyrinth_of_the_Orphanage|Enter the Labyrinth of the Orphanage|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Rat_in_a_Sewery_Maze|A Rat in a Sewery Maze|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref name="noctivagant">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Neighbourhood_Noctivagant|Neighborhood Noctivagant (Level 60)|Fallen London|}}</ref> but no definitive lists of these mazes are known. The streets of London are known to behave unpredictably, a prime example of the [[Treacheries|Treachery of Maps]].<ref name = "streets">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Shifting_Streets_(Storylet)|Shifting Streets|Fallen London|}}</ref> The city's shifting pathways are thus considered one of its labyrinths.<ref name="noctivagant"/> So convoluted is [[London|London's]] legal system, with its precedents, exemptions and overlong subordinate clauses, that it is called one of its great labyrinths. Uniquely, it is consistently numbered as the fifth.<ref name = "law">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Have_a_Legal_Document_drawn_up|Have a Legal Document drawn up|Fallen London|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Offices_of_Baseborn_%26_Fowlingpiece|The Offices of Baseborn & Fowlingpiece|Fallen London|}}</ref> Its foibles and contradictions have caused speculation that the human heart is the Seventh Labyrinth of Fallen London<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_House_of_Chimes|The House of Chimes|Fallen London|}}''"Is the human heart really the Seventh Labyrinth of London?"''</ref> Other mazes such as the [[Labyrinth of Tigers]] or the maze surrounding the [[Orphanage]]<ref name="orphanage">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Enter_the_Labyrinth_of_the_Orphanage|Enter the Labyrinth of the Orphanage|Fallen London|}}</ref> may be one of the Seven Labyrinths, but this is unconfirmed.

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