Editing The Cladery Heir

<blockquote>''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family. Then there are the rumours about my father. She would deny there's any truth in those."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>

[[File:Claderyheart.png|alt=A ship made from an ancient heart.|thumb|[[The Cladery Heart|The ''Cladery Heart'']]|130x130px]]

The Cladery Heir is a member of the '''House of the Knife''',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London}} ''"[...] the Fellow sold the majority of his possessions in order to fund expeditions – in search of 'the Heart, the chiefest treasure of the House of the Knife'."''</ref> a family that dates back to the [[First City]].<ref name="first city">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea}} ''"My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family."''</ref> Her mother, the [[The Surgeon's Child|Surgeon's Child]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Surgeon%27s_Child|The Surgeon's Child|Fallen London}} ''"The Heart was a – fragment? An organ? A lobe? – of the Bazaar, extracted by the Surgeon's Child."''</ref> was the daughter of a First City surgeon<ref name="first city" /> who passed her skills, as well as her city's ancient language,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Frostfound#The_Cladery_Heart_in_the_Ice|Bring it back to health|Sunless Sea}} ''"She speaks to it in the native tongue of the First City, a language cluttered with velar stops."''</ref> down to her Heir.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Invite her to dine with you|Sunless Sea}} ''"Perhaps she has missed a calling as a chef? [...] She denies it. "My mother was the child of a surgeon in the First City. You might say that knifework runs in the family.""''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Mr Iron? Truly?|Sunless Sea}} ''"But I have not met anyone who shares my particular skills. And I know my mother. I cannot see her in any ordinary liaison with an ordinary man [...]"''</ref> Thousands of years ago, the Surgeon's Child amputated the [[Echo Bazaar|Echo Bazaar's]] "cladent lobe" to remove its urge to wander.<ref name="ichor">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Explore her Surgery|Sunless Sea}} ''"Did you know my mother operated on the Bazaar itself? She cut away its cladent lobe so that it would be at peace and not have to wander on and on. But the operation changed her. She got some of the ichor on her skin."''</ref> She was accidentally exposed to the Bazaar's ichor in the process, which "changed her" and granted her an extremely long lifespan;<ref name="ichor" /> in fact, she was over three thousand years old when she bore her daughter.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|Mr Iron? Truly?|Sunless Sea}} ''"And I know my mother. [...] She was in her third millennium when she bore me."''</ref> The Surgeon's Child fashioned the cladent lobe into a living, autonomous ship called the [[The Cladery Heart|''Cladery Heart'']], but eventually lost track of its whereabouts.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Cladery_Heir|What happened to the cladent lobe?|Sunless Sea}} ''"Mother experimented on the lobe, [...] It wanted to be on the move, however, and in the end she put it on a ship, or built a ship around it: the Cladery Heart. But it got away from her."''</ref>