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| [[The Unterzee]]<br> | | [[The Unterzee]]<br> |
| [[London]]|allegiance=Independent}}<blockquote>''"The Monster-Hunter winnows the lesser terrors from the true. She has slain That Which Makes Light In The Deeps, eaten of its flesh in remembrance of certain Feasts of the Zee, and fashioned her weapon from its remains. She was human, once."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Become_a_Monster-Hunter|Become a Monster-Hunter|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>__forcetoc__ | | [[Fallen London]]|allegiance=Varies|relationships=[[That Which Makes Light In The Deeps]]}}''"The Monster-Hunter winnows the lesser terrors from the true. She has slain That Which Makes Light In The Deeps, eaten of its flesh in remembrance of certain Feasts of the Zee, and fashioned her weapon from its remains. She was human, once."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Become_a_Monster-Hunter|Become a Monster-Hunter|Fallen London|}}</ref> |
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| '''Monster-Hunters''' are ferocious warriors who hunt the nightmarish terrors of the [[Unterzee]]. | | '''Monster-Hunters''' are incredibly ferocious warriors who hunt the nightmarish terrors of the [[Unterzee]].__forcetoc__ |
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| == Dark-Eyed, Wild-Eyed == | | ==Bone-Knappers== |
| <blockquote>''"You rise from the water with your harpoon hooked neatly through the Seal's neck-plates as it follows meekly in your wake. Your bo'sun sees the predator's secrets in your eyes, and lowers his gaze."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Engage_the_plated_seal_in_single_combat|Engage the plated seal in single combat|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Monster-Hunters most commonly roam near the [[Chelonate]], but they can be found all across the zee;<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Doomed_Monster-Hunter|Doomed Monster-Hunter|Sunless Sea|}}''(May be hired at Codex, Khan's Shadow, or the Chelonate)''</ref> their rites are respected even in the civil auspices of [[London]]. They can be distinguished by their [[peligin]] eyes; they have consumed the flesh of zee-beasts, elevating them to something beyond human.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Become_a_Monster-Hunter|Become a Monster-Hunter|Fallen London|}} ''"The thing's flesh is peligin, [...] when you are finished, so are your eyes."''</ref>
| | ''"Lighter than wood, harder than steel, sharper than the teeth of the thing you wrenched it from, and hungrier than those Who Seek the Name."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Notched_Bone_Harpoon|A Notched Bone Harpoon|Fallen London|}}</ref> |
| | [[File:Harpoon.png|alt=A vicious bone harpoon with a single strap.|thumb|A Notched Bone Harpoon.]] |
| | Monster-Hunters most commonly roam near the [[Chelonate]], but they can be found all across the zee;<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Doomed_Monster-Hunter|Obtaining|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> their rites are respected even in the civil auspices of [[Fallen London]]. What separates a true Monster-Hunter from a common zailor, aside from their skill and brutality, is their extremely unique choice of dietary supplement: the [[peligin]] flesh of slain zee-beasts, which stains their eyes the same color and elevates them to something beyond human.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Become_a_Monster-Hunter|Become a Monster-Hunter|Fallen London|}} ''"The thing's flesh is peligin, [...] when you are finished, so are your eyes."''</ref> |
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| Monster-Hunters are most famous for their unique and voraciously hungry harpoons, fashioned from the bones of their most significant kill.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Notched_Bone_Harpoon|A Notched Bone Harpoon|Fallen London|}}''"Lighter than wood, harder than steel, sharper than the teeth of the thing you wrenched it from, and hungrier than those Who Seek the Name."''</ref> They make use of a plethora of other armaments as well: explosives,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Staff_your_Parabolan_Base-Camp_with_colleagues|Staff your Parabolan Base-Camp with colleagues|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] a depth charge designed for flushing the creatures out of the Zee [...]"''</ref> firearms, traps, an arsenal of knives.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Business_of_a_Monster-Hunter|The Business of a Monster-Hunter|Fallen London|}} ''"Preparation is everything – and you are prepared. Snares, firearms and silver nets; stoppered vials of antivenom; knives of iron, ravenglass and flint in a hundred evil shapes. [...] Your harpoon, sharp as sin and gleaming."''</ref> But preparation is everything, and this is not found solely in one's weapons. On a Monster-Hunter's ship, one might also find maps, bestiaries, specimens, and emergency remedies like antivenom.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Monster-Hunter%27s_Labours|The Monster-Hunter's Labours|Fallen London|}} ''"On your study wall: a map of the Neath, studded with brass pins to mark sightings. Various academic and amateur papers on anatomy, behaviour and folklore are stacked on your desk. You trawl them for weaknesses that one day might separate life from death."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Monster-Hunter%27s_Labours|The Monster-Hunter's Labours|Fallen London|}} ''"The formaldehyde stink of specimen jars. Maps, bestiaries and sheaves of bloodstained notes."''</ref> These warriors are experts in dispatching eldritch creatures through unconventional methods; they may be hired to cull invasive species<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Track_down_an_invasive_species|Track down an invasive species|Fallen London|}} ''"Bloatfingers are native to the Elder Continent. [...] Bloatfingers cannot bear to be seen – they fly into a berserk rage at the feather-touch of another's gaze. But you do not hunt by sight alone. [...] Slow as dusk, silent as shadow, your violent delights take on the weight of sacrament. Abstract; holy; inevitable."''</ref> and rampaging predators,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Bring_balance_to_a_fragile_ecosystem|Bring balance to a fragile ecosystem|Fallen London|}} ''"In the silvered glade, it presents as a passable approximation of a very large badger. Within its sett – a void in the uncertain ground where the moonlight will not tread – it is altogether other. [...] All is still when you emerge from the den, and the woods do not exhale until you are gone."''</ref> retrieve eccentric pets,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Retrieve_an_escaped_darling|Retrieve an escaped darling|Fallen London|}} ''"The treasured pet of a Wealthy Sybarite has gone missing. Standard fare – except said "precious dear" also happens to be a vast, intelligent monster."''</ref> intimidate and halt the activities of [[Snuffers]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Hunt_that_which_wears_a_human_face|Hunt that which wears a human face|Fallen London|}} ''"Every time a Snuffer sees you (and you make sure they do, again and again) you wear the lightless mask of death. Their death. Your peligin eyes search them out in crowds, unerring. When they leave London, they take tales of your dire presence with them."''</ref> collect venom samples,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Extract_a_catalogue_of_venoms|Extract a catalogue of venoms|Fallen London|}} ''"You walk in the footsteps of the venomous, as unseen as the wind. As you fill your bandolier of stoppered vials, not one of these creatures knows how close they came to death."''</ref> or escort others through dangerous territory.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Escort_academics_through_the_Wastes|Escort academics through the Wastes|Fallen London|}} ''"It is not only artefacts that leak into the Moulin Wastes. Dream-tainted beasts dredge themselves from the Waswood, the predators of the never-were and used-to-be. [...] Slowly, painstakingly, you avoid anywhere a predator couldn't, wouldn't, shouldn't be."''</ref> | | Monster-Hunters are most famous for their unique and ''extremely hungry'' harpoons fashioned from the bones of their most significant kill,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Notched_Bone_Harpoon|A Notched Bone Harpoon|Fallen London|}}</ref> but they also make use of other practical weaponry, like depth charges and razor wire.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Staff_your_Parabolan_Base-Camp_with_colleagues|Staff your Parabolan Base-Camp with colleagues|Fallen London|}} ''"...a net of silver wire, a depth charge..."''</ref> They gather zee-maps and anatomical data to aid in their hunts, because the wise Monster-Hunter knows that preparation is key above (almost) all else.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Monster-Hunter%27s_Labours|The Monster-Hunter's Labours|Fallen London|}}</ref> |
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| The rites of the Monster-Hunter are as esoteric as the dark zee itself, and they must be conducted in absolute silence.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Proof_yourself_against_the_river%E2%80%99s_venoms_using_the_Monster_Hunter%27s_arts|Proof yourself against the river’s venoms using the Monster Hunter's arts|Fallen London|}} ''"You hunt them in silence, for a single word – a single scream or grunt – would violate the rites."''</ref> Certain phases of the rites, such as the '''Movement''' and the '''Act''', must also be performed strictly below the zee's waves, outside the view of any living person.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Engage_the_beast_in_single_combat|Engage the beast in single combat|Fallen London|}} ''"The Movement and the Act, which cannot be performed above the water or in the sight of living men - [...]"''</ref> After securing a kill, a Monster-Hunter may also consume the blood of the creature they have slain, as it is their sacrament.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Engage_the_plated_seal_in_single_combat|Engage the plated seal in single combat|Fallen London|}} ''"The blood, spilling warm into the icy water, so you can draw it into your mouth. The Hunter's sacrament –"''</ref> | | ==Rituals == |
| | ''"You rise from the water with your harpoon hooked neatly through the Seal's neck-plates as it follows meekly in your wake. Your bo'sun sees the predator's secrets in your eyes, and lowers his gaze."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Engage_the_plated_seal_in_single_combat|Engage the plated seal in single combat|Fallen London|}}</ref> |
| | [[File:Zeeztory.png|alt=A wavy sea.|thumb|The turbulent [[Unterzee]].]] |
| | The rites of the Monster-Hunter are as esoteric as the dark zee itself, and they must be conducted in absolute silence.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Proof_yourself_against_the_river%E2%80%99s_venoms_using_the_Monster_Hunter%27s_arts|Proof yourself against the river’s venoms using the Monster Hunter's arts|Fallen London|}} ''"You hunt them in silence, for a single word – a single scream or grunt – would violate the rites."''</ref> Certain phases of the rites, such as the '''Movement''' and the '''Act''', must also be performed strictly below the zee's waves, outside the view of any living person. After securing a kill, a Monster-Hunter may also consume the blood of the creature they have slain, as it is their sacrament.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Engage_the_beast_in_single_combat|Engage the beast in single combat|Fallen London|}} ''"The Movement and the Act, which cannot be performed above the water or in the sight of living men"''</ref> |
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| The path of the Monster-Hunter has various branches, but only two are known extensively. '''Hierarchs of the Hunt''' devote themselves fully to the thrill and sanctity of the kill,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Exult_in_the_sacrifice_of_this_rough_beast|Exult in the sacrifice of this rough beast|Fallen London|}} ''"You will become a Hierarch of the Hunt – killer of killers and devotee of the Predator's Sacrament."''</ref> becoming "predator-priests"<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Exult_in_the_sacrifice_of_this_rough_beast|Exult in the sacrifice of this rough beast|Fallen London|}} ''"You are the predator-priest and you sacrifice only to yourself, each strike and scar and open wound a new tenet in your doctrine of strength and cunning. This is the ur-hunt [...]"''</ref> who can track and hunt monsters born from the metaphysical.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Eliminate_an_epistemological_aberration|Eliminate an epistemological aberration|Fallen London|}} ''"This is the wild belly of the church, where ideas have teeth. And that which hunts can also be hunted. [...] Something like prey, and something like blood, and something like death, transfigured by the Hunter's rites. You are replete with heresy and stained with rhetoric. The bookshelves shiver as you leave."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Protect_a_vulnerable_Midnighter|Protect a vulnerable Midnighter|Fallen London|}} ''"The evening is a haze of indigo, the details of the job obliviated. But there is a fervent, feral shard lodged within you that has nothing to do with memory."''</ref> '''Teratomancers''' are "butcher-haruspices" who reshape the beasts they hunt,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Divine_its_monstrous_nature_and_make_of_it_a_wonder|Divine its monstrous nature and make of it a wonder|Fallen London|}} ''"Shape informs nature. You cut the scarlet chains away, untouchable as smoke, surgeon-sharp. Bloodied futures bloom in the viscera: you see the death of the Aging Laocoonian, and excise it as painlessly as possible. The Hunting Beast changes, and changes again. Nature informs shape."''</ref> divine details of the lives of strange and foreign beasts,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dissect_an_anomalous_carcass|Dissect an anomalous carcass|Fallen London|}} ''"From spiracle, and statolith, and organs as yet unnamed, you extract a vast and cavernous past. [...] Shoulder-deep in a peligin Methuselah, you hold fast against a riptide of history."''</ref> and correct errors of creation.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Untangle_an_ancient_web|Untangle an ancient web|Fallen London|}} ''"The mind of the spider-schism is [...] warring always against itself. You are a stillness in the arthropod storm [...] There – a convergence of pain, the ragged scar where a zealous seamster wove together beings of incompatible desires. You witness the flight of your harpoon through a hundred eightfold eyes, and spear the spider-schism in two. Silence. And then: new futures bloom in the viscera. A pair of new-split spider-councils whisper warily [...]"''</ref>
| | All warriors seek a glorious end, and Monster-Hunters are no different. Individuals known as '''Doomed Monster-Hunters''' have decided that their lives have ran their course, and as such seek a glorious end at zee. For instance... being launched out of a specially designed hunting-cannon?<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Doomed_Monster-Hunter|Item description|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> That doesn't sound right... |
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| All warriors seek a glorious end, and Monster-Hunters are no different. Individuals known as '''Doomed Monster-Hunters''' have decided that their lives have run their course, and as such seek a glorious end. For instance, amalgamating a beast out of previous conquests to create a hunt worthy of dying on,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_Monster-Hunter%27s_Legacy|A Monster-Hunter's Legacy|Fallen London|}} ''"The Aging Laocoonian has built a behemoth from the remnants of your shared conquests – and now his body thrashes around in its beartrap maw."''</ref> or... being launched out of a specially designed hunting-cannon?<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Open_fire!_(Hunting_Ketch)|Open fire! (Hunting Ketch)|Fallen London|}} ''"The more reckless kind of Chelonite Monster Hunter is notorious for firing themselves out of cannons, harpoon-first, to strike at zee-beasts with the velocity of a cannonball and the fury of a starveling cat."''</ref><ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Doomed_Monster-Hunter|Doomed Monster-Hunter|Sunless Sea|}}"''But this Monster-Hunter is ready for a glorious ending. Icarus in Black awaits."''</ref>
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