Editing Port Cecil

{{Neath_Location|image1 = Portcecil.png|caption1 = Giant chess pieces! Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[The Unterzee]]|allegiance = The Principles of Coral|notable_inhabitants = The Principles of Coral<br>
[[Rubbery Men]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/benthic Benthic]}}''"Rumpled convolutions of coral fill the water, glimmering with silvery light. The harder you look, the more you see shapes amid the chaos, almost as if they were sculpted. This one could be a crenellated castle: that one, a horse's head.''

''A neat little port huddles into the side of a coral island - prosaic Imperial docks and houses tucked away in a baroque organic chaos. In that curious silvery light, among the frozen chaos of coral, the scene has the unreal air of a pencil sketch, crumpled and discarded."''<ref name = "port cecil">{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Port_Cecil#Port_interactions|Port Cecil|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>

'''Port Cecil''' is a town on the largest island in a coral reef in the eastern Unterzee.__forcetoc__

==The Grandmasters==
The port's main export is scintillack - glowing coral.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Venturer%27s_Desires|The Venturer's Desires|Sunless Sea|}}
</ref> Its inhabitants are strangely fond of chess; it seems that because of this they hallucinate that the pieces (which are sharp and often blood-soaked) have their own agendas. Well, those may not be hallucinations, as the chess matches the inhabitants play mirror the power struggles of the Neath, between the [[Lorn-Flukes]], [[The Echo Bazaar|the Bazaar]], [[Mt. Nomad]], and the [[Gods of the Unterzee|gods of the Zee]], among others.<ref name = "port cecil">{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Port_Cecil#Port_interactions|Port Cecil|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>

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==The Principles of Coral==
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{{Character|title1 = The Principles of Coral|image1 = Cavelake2gaz.png|caption1 = I never regret. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = Port Cecil|allegiance = |relationships = [[Flukes]] (sibling)<br>[[The Nacreous Outcast‎]] (servant)}}
''"The game soothes the pangs of dissolution in. But I want so to be less. I am tired of thought. Will you help me? Sleep will not enough. I desire no dreams. Will you help?"''

Underneath the port, there is another chess-loving power, called '''the Principles of Coral''', waited on by [[Rubbery Men]]. It used to be a Lorn-Fluke, and it wishes to descend to the bottom of the Great Chain of Being (it actually wants to become ''less'' important). To do this, it has to transform itself into inanimate rocks, and as coral, it's already most of the way there. It just needs a few more items to complete its odd goal...<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Pulse_of_the_Principles|The Pulse of the Principles|Sunless Sea|}}
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==References==
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[[Category:Places]]
[[Category:The Unterzee]]
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[[Category:The Neath]]