Editing The Empress

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''"The Traitor Empress and her consort live safely in the Shuttered Palace, in the protective custody of the Bazaar. No-one is permitted to use her name anymore."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets#The_Traitor_Empress|Where is the Traitor Empress?|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote> The '''Traitor Empress''' is the ruler of [[London]] and all its territories. __NOTOC__

The Empress is the sole party responsible for London's fall into the Neath, having orchestrated the Fall to save the life of her dear Consort.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Procure_a_handful_of_more_costly_bottles|Procure a handful of more costly bottles|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Love_is_light|Love is light|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets#The_Traitor_Empress|What happened to the Traitor Empress' consort?|Fallen London}}</ref> She and her family are confined to the [[Shuttered Palace]]. There is a reason for this; they are not what they seem, anymore...<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The Gift|The Gift|Fallen London}}</ref>

The Empress is sensitive to light and noise,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sidebar_Snippets#The_Traitor_Empress|Why is the Empress' palace shuttered?|Fallen London}}</ref> although she is known to enjoy symphonies which attempt to imitate the [[Correspondence]], indicating that she is more powerful than she looks.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Somewhat_challenging_music|Somewhat challenging music|Fallen London}}</ref>

In the final days of 1899, to the consternation of many who were anticipating great festivities, the Empress declared that the following year would be marked on calendars as a repeat of 1899 rather than 1900.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Calendrical_Confusion_of_1899|The Calendrical Confusion of 1899|Fallen London}}</ref>

In the summer of the second year of 1899, scientist [[F. F. Gebrandt]] opened the Museum of Prelapsarian History in [[Veilgarden]]. The quantities of [[The Salt Lions|sphinxstone]] demanded for the museum's construction caused much suspicion among Londoners who knew of the substance's true nature - it retains memories, concentrated nostalgia.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Bright-Eyed_Sequencer#Story_description|The Bright-Eyed Sequencer|Sunless Sea}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch_as_Gebrandt_explains_her_machine|Watch as Gebrandt explains her machine|Fallen London}}</ref> Their questions were answered when Gebrandt put on a grand spectacle of a demonstration, in which an experimental device briefly summoned an apparition of the Consort, very much alive compared to his... questionable current state.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Cover_your_mouth|Cover your mouth|Fallen London}}</ref> The two embraced, though the Consort seemed rather confused at his predicament.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch,_furtively|Watch, furtively|Fallen London}}</ref> As the device failed and the Consort disappeared,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Keep_an_eye_on_the_machine|Keep an eye on the machine|Fallen London}}</ref> the Empress forbade Gebrandt from switching it off,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Watch,_yet_more_furtively|Watch, yet more furtively|Fallen London}}</ref> resulting in a massive space-time abnormality that forced pieces of the [[Second City]] into [[London]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Walk_around_Veilgarden|Walk around Veilgarden|Fallen London}}</ref><br />

Freed from the grip of the [[Masters]] when she launched London into space at the turn of the 20th century, '''Empress Victoria''' is now able to use her real name, as well as the title of "Her Renewed Majesty." She now presides over time itself thanks to her artificial star - the [[Clockwork Sun]]; she rules her little corner of the [[High Wilderness]] from the Throne of Hours.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Albion|Albion|Sunless Skies}}</ref> She is so powerful that she has managed to wrangle at least one former Master into her service.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Chiropterous_Hoarder|Ask about the other masters|Sunless Skies}}</ref> She is purportedly capable of ending lives on a whim and could, in theory, deal with the unraveling time in her domain, but that would be beneath her.<ref>Citation needed</ref> Despite this power, she is still reclusive, only allowing her subjects an audience with a body double.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/An_Audience_with_the_False_Victoria|An Audience with the False Victoria|Sunless Skies}}</ref>

Unfortunately, thanks to leaving the unnatural vitality of the Neath, Prince Albert is in even worse shape than before.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Inside_the_Tomb|Inside the Tomb|Sunless Skies}}</ref> He is interred in the [[Most Serene Mausoleum]], along with a number of the Empress' favorite courtiers - who are alive, being provided with extra hours, and living in luxury there, but ''legally'' dead.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Most_Serene_Mausoleum#Courting_the_Deathless|Courting the Deathless|Sunless Skies}}</ref>

 

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