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|relationships = | <blockquote>''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> | |||
'''Mr Iron''' is | '''Mr Iron''' is in charge of trade in tools, engines, weapons, and printing presses.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London|}} ''"Tools, printing-presses, guns, steam-engines: taxes from trade in these are payable to Mr Iron. They say it never speaks, but can write with both hands simultaneously."''</ref> Silent and humorless, it is best known for communicating only through written means, often writing with both hands at once. It also heads the Iron and Misery Company, and supervises its Funging Station in [[Demeaux Island]], one of the most abhorrent places in the Neath.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Demeaux_Island|Demeaux Island|Sunless Sea|}}''"Iron & Misery Company Funging Station"''</ref> | ||
Mr Iron actively discourages individuals from gaining notoriety and forging their own stories, as it seems to have a degree of animosity with the [[Bazaar]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_invitation_3|Accept the invitation 3|Fallen London}}''"THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GREAT GAME. LET NONE OF US BE CHESSMEN. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ARE. DO NOT TRUST THE BAZAAR. I HAVE NOT WRITTEN THIS NOTE."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_cowled_and_silent_figure|A cowled and silent figure|Fallen London}}''"BEWARE COMEDY. BEWARE TRAGEDY. BEWARE THE STORIES. MOST OF ALL, BEWARE HAPPY ENDINGS."''</ref> Rumor has it that it is also secretly in charge of the game of [[Knife-and-Candle]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Knife-and-Candle:_The_Gamekeeper%27s_Cottage|Knife-and-Candle: The Gamekeeper's Cottage|Fallen London}}''"Is it true the Game of Knife-and-Candle has begun again? In secret, unsanctioned by Mr Iron?"''</ref> | Mr Iron actively discourages individuals from gaining notoriety and forging their own stories, as it seems to have a degree of animosity with the [[Bazaar]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Accept_the_invitation_3|Accept the invitation 3|Fallen London|}}''"THERE IS MORE THAN ONE GREAT GAME. LET NONE OF US BE CHESSMEN. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU ARE. DO NOT TRUST THE BAZAAR. I HAVE NOT WRITTEN THIS NOTE."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_cowled_and_silent_figure|A cowled and silent figure|Fallen London|}}''"BEWARE COMEDY. BEWARE TRAGEDY. BEWARE THE STORIES. MOST OF ALL, BEWARE HAPPY ENDINGS."''</ref> Rumor has it that it is also secretly in charge of the game of [[Knife-and-Candle]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Knife-and-Candle:_The_Gamekeeper%27s_Cottage|Knife-and-Candle: The Gamekeeper's Cottage|Fallen London|}}''"Is it true the Game of Knife-and-Candle has begun again? In secret, unsanctioned by Mr Iron?"''</ref> | ||
Mr Iron has also been known as '''Mr Bronze''',<ref name="sidebar">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London}}''"It's hard to be certain, but some have traded under more than one name. ... Certainly Mr Iron used to trade as Mr Bronze."''</ref> was known as the '''Khan of Swords''' during the time of the [[Fourth City]] | Mr Iron has also been known as '''Mr Bronze''',<ref name="sidebar">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets|Sidebar Snippets|Fallen London|}}''"It's hard to be certain, but some have traded under more than one name. ... Certainly Mr Iron used to trade as Mr Bronze."''</ref> was known as the '''Khan of Swords''' during the time of the [[Fourth City]]<ref name="khans">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dubious_attribution|Dubious attribution|Fallen London|}}</ref>, and is called the '''Saint of Blades''' by the Cult of the Sanctified at [[Avid Horizon]] in the ''Sunless Skies'' timeline.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Jolly_Anchorite|Give an Offering|Sunless Skies|}} ''"The Jolly Anchorite [...] implores one of your stokers to lie with [...] his feet between a tallow candle and a rusty blade. [...] "And there we have the Saint of Blades [...]""''</ref> | ||
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