Editing The Piper

{{Character|title1=The Piper|image1=Piper.png|location=Henlys, [[The Hinterlands]]<br>
[[Pan]] (1905)|allegiance=[[Grand Devils]]|caption1=Art from Sunless Skies|relationships=[[The Drummer]]}}<blockquote>''"Her innumerable voices are so thorough, so precise in their gestalt descriptions, that it is as if she was drawing a map on the fabric of your memory."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies|}}</ref></blockquote>The '''Piper''' is a [[Grand Devil]], one of [[Hell]]'s imprisoned saints. This ancient being was a witness to the war between the Solonacean Conjunction and the Binary<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Winter%27s_Reside#A_Solitary_Cobbled_Street|Find the tomb of the Mantle-bearer|Sunless Skies|}} ''"The Binary went to war. Against the storied sons of the Solonacean. And the Bellows Saint did mantle the king in a raiment of killing light."''</ref> that resulted in the murder of the [[The King Who Speaks|King Who Speaks]], forming the [[Halved]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies|}} ''"When you are done, she tells you of a great war fought before the devils fell; of a new Conjunction in heaven; of diets of war and of peace; of counsels betrayed and feasts where the sky ran with spilt starlight; of the death of a king, and the end of all idylls in Eleutheria."''</ref> Later, she became one of the leaders of Hell's rebellion against the Judgements, and found a way for her kind to enter and hide in [[Parabola]].<ref>{{Citation|1=https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|2=Entreat the Piper to emerge|3=Sunless Skies|4=}} ''"Once, she helped lead a rebellion against the Judgements. When it failed, she found a way for the devils to escape to the land behind mirrors."''</ref> She is now interred beyond a gate at the bottom of the gorge at '''Henlys''', not too far off the Moloch railway line.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London|}} ''"There is a princess on the other side of the gate."''</ref> Someday, her followers will free her and rejoice in her music.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London|}} ''"Her devotees will find her again, with thyrsus and stones, and they will play their music."''</ref> [[The Drummer]] was once her paramour.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return the message|Sunless Skies|}}''"Now you have the missive from her old paramour, you must deliver our message to the Piper in the Adamant Idol [...]"''</ref>

In the ''Sunless Skies'' timeline, the [[Brazen Brigade]] has liberated the Piper and brought her to their base near [[Pan]], where she resides inside the Adamantine Idol. She is not happy with this change of scenery,<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Entreat the Piper to emerge|Sunless Skies|}}''"She is not pleased that the Brigade have returned her to the heavens she fled, and has no intention of leaving the confines of her idol. But she is merciful today, and sends you on your way."''</ref> and does not wish to defy the [[Judgements]] again,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Ambition: Ask "What is the Courtesy?" |Sunless Skies|}}''""They exchanged war for murder," the Piper's droning voices say. "And that is half your answer. The other half, even I cannot say." She rebelled against the Judgements once before. She will not risk it again."''</ref> to the disappointment of her followers.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return to the Scarlet Condottiere|Sunless Skies|}}''"So be it. [...] She shall rise again. She will guide us to the trapped saints in Caduceus and the Well and all the rest. When the saints go marching, Heaven will fall."''</ref>

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 {{Character|title1=The Piper|image1=Piper.png|location=Henlys, [[The Hinterlands]]<br>
-[[Pan]] (1905)|allegiance=[[Grand Devils]]|caption1=|relationships=[[The Drummer]]|alias=The Eglantine Regent (likely)}}<blockquote>''"Her innumerable voices are so thorough, so precise in their gestalt descriptions, that it is as if she was drawing a map on the fabric of your memory."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies}}</ref></blockquote>The '''Piper''' is a [[Grand Devil]], one of [[Hell]]'s imprisoned saints. She was a witness to (if not a participant in) the war between the [[The Well of Wonders|Solonacean Conjunction]] and the Binary<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/Winter%27s_Reside#A_Solitary_Cobbled_Street|Find the tomb of the Mantle-bearer|Sunless Skies}} ''"The Binary went to war. Against the storied sons of the Solonacean. And the Bellows Saint did mantle the king in a raiment of killing light."''</ref> that resulted in the murder of the [[The King Who Speaks|King Who Speaks]], forming the [[Halved]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies}} ''"When you are done, she tells you of a great war fought before the devils fell; of a new Conjunction in heaven; of diets of war and of peace; of counsels betrayed and feasts where the sky ran with spilt starlight; of the death of a king, and the end of all idylls in Eleutheria."''</ref> This led to Hell's rebellion against the [[Judgements]], of which she was a leader; after it failed, she found a way for her kind to enter and hide in [[Parabola]].<ref>{{Citation|1=https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|2=Entreat the Piper to emerge|3=Sunless Skies|4=}} ''"Once, she helped lead a rebellion against the Judgements. When it failed, she found a way for the devils to escape to the land behind mirrors."''</ref> She is now interred beyond a gate at the bottom of the gorge at '''Henlys''', not too far off the Moloch railway line.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London}} ''"There is a princess on the other side of the gate."''</ref> Someday, her followers will free her and rejoice in her music.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London}} ''"Her devotees will find her again, with thyrsus and stones, and they will play their music."''</ref> The [[The Drummer|Drummer]] was once her paramour.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return the message|Sunless Skies}}''"Now you have the missive from her old paramour, you must deliver our message to the Piper in the Adamant Idol [...]"''</ref>
+[[Pan]] (1905)|allegiance=[[Grand Devils]]|caption1=Art from Sunless Skies|relationships=[[The Drummer]]}}<blockquote>''"Her innumerable voices are so thorough, so precise in their gestalt descriptions, that it is as if she was drawing a map on the fabric of your memory."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies|}}</ref></blockquote>The '''Piper''' is a [[Grand Devil]], one of [[Hell]]'s imprisoned saints. This ancient being was a witness to the war between the Solonacean Conjunction and the Binary<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/Winter%27s_Reside#A_Solitary_Cobbled_Street|Find the tomb of the Mantle-bearer|Sunless Skies|}} ''"The Binary went to war. Against the storied sons of the Solonacean. And the Bellows Saint did mantle the king in a raiment of killing light."''</ref> that resulted in the murder of the [[The King Who Speaks|King Who Speaks]], forming the [[Halved]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Trade mysteries with the Piper|Sunless Skies|}} ''"When you are done, she tells you of a great war fought before the devils fell; of a new Conjunction in heaven; of diets of war and of peace; of counsels betrayed and feasts where the sky ran with spilt starlight; of the death of a king, and the end of all idylls in Eleutheria."''</ref> Later, she became one of the leaders of Hell's rebellion against the Judgements, and found a way for her kind to enter and hide in [[Parabola]].<ref>{{Citation|1=https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|2=Entreat the Piper to emerge|3=Sunless Skies|4=}} ''"Once, she helped lead a rebellion against the Judgements. When it failed, she found a way for the devils to escape to the land behind mirrors."''</ref> She is now interred beyond a gate at the bottom of the gorge at '''Henlys''', not too far off the Moloch railway line.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London|}} ''"There is a princess on the other side of the gate."''</ref> Someday, her followers will free her and rejoice in her music.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Twelve-Fifteen_from_Moloch_Street|The Twelve-Fifteen from Moloch Street|Fallen London|}} ''"Her devotees will find her again, with thyrsus and stones, and they will play their music."''</ref> [[The Drummer]] was once her paramour.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return the message|Sunless Skies|}}''"Now you have the missive from her old paramour, you must deliver our message to the Piper in the Adamant Idol [...]"''</ref>
-In the ''Sunless Skies'' timeline, the [[Brazen Brigade]] has liberated the Piper and brought her to their base near [[Pan]], where she resides inside their Adamantine Idol. She is not happy with this change of scenery,<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Entreat the Piper to emerge|Sunless Skies}}''"She is not pleased that the Brigade have returned her to the heavens she fled, and has no intention of leaving the confines of her idol. But she is merciful today, and sends you on your way."''</ref> and does not wish to defy the [[Judgements]] again,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Ambition: Ask "What is the Courtesy?" |Sunless Skies}}''""They exchanged war for murder," the Piper's droning voices say. "And that is half your answer. The other half, even I cannot say." She rebelled against the Judgements once before. She will not risk it again."''</ref> to the disappointment of her followers.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return to the Scarlet Condottiere|Sunless Skies}}''"So be it. [...] She shall rise again. She will guide us to the trapped saints in Caduceus and the Well and all the rest. When the saints go marching, Heaven will fall."''</ref>
+In the ''Sunless Skies'' timeline, the [[Brazen Brigade]] has liberated the Piper and brought her to their base near [[Pan]], where she resides inside the Adamantine Idol. She is not happy with this change of scenery,<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Entreat the Piper to emerge|Sunless Skies|}}''"She is not pleased that the Brigade have returned her to the heavens she fled, and has no intention of leaving the confines of her idol. But she is merciful today, and sends you on your way."''</ref> and does not wish to defy the [[Judgements]] again,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Adamant_Idol|Ambition: Ask "What is the Courtesy?" |Sunless Skies|}}''""They exchanged war for murder," the Piper's droning voices say. "And that is half your answer. The other half, even I cannot say." She rebelled against the Judgements once before. She will not risk it again."''</ref> to the disappointment of her followers.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Return to the Scarlet Condottiere|Sunless Skies|}}''"So be it. [...] She shall rise again. She will guide us to the trapped saints in Caduceus and the Well and all the rest. When the saints go marching, Heaven will fall."''</ref>
-== The Eglantine Regent? ==
-<blockquote>''"AND THE EGLANTINE REGENT SAID unto the people: “I have signed a bargain with serpents; and I have given us a road to walk; and the mirrors shall open to us; and there we shall make new law; and there we shall draft the plans of a city that is already ours.” And upon hearing this, the people rejoiced."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Dark_Future|Discovered: A Dark Future|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>While there is no direct confirmation, it is highly likely that the Piper is the '''Eglantine Regent''' described in the Book of Roses. Like the Piper, the Regent was one of a few leaders among the [[devils]] in the wake of their rebellion.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Chilly_Future|Discovered: A Chilly Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 2:1-3: AND AMONG THE PEOPLE AROSE a great and fearful clamour, for they did not know what fate awaited them. And from this clamour arose a few great voices to lead them. And among these great voices arose the Eglantine Regent, she who bargains with serpents."''</ref> She signed a bargain with the [[Fingerkings]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Dark_Future|Discovered: A Dark Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 3:7: AND THE EGLANTINE REGENT SAID unto the people: “I have signed a bargain with serpents; and I have given us a road to walk; and the mirrors shall open to us; and there we shall make new law; and there we shall draft the plans of a city that is already ours.” And upon hearing this, the people rejoiced."''</ref> allowing the devils to stay in Parabola, and keeping their resolve high<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Discordant_Future|Discovered: A Discordant Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 4:6-7: AND THE PEOPLE SHED THEIR SKINS to squeeze through mirrors.  [...] the people faltered and regretted their flight. And the Eglantine Regent said unto them: "This place Is Not; and what Is Not may not harm us. For we do exist, and we exist more than anything in existence.""''</ref> while they crafted plans for their new home;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Jewelled_Future|Discovered: A Jewelled Future|Fallen London}} ''"The Book of Roses 5:4-5: [...] And said the Eglantine Regent: "Here we shall make camp, but we shall not build our city; for our city has always lain elsewhere.""''</ref> this is also a feat attributed to the Piper. The Fingerkings' side of the bargain was that they would use the devils as hosts to enter reality<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Nearby_Future|Discovered: A Nearby Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 6:5-7: AND THE PEOPLE BUILT FURNACES and made maps. They devised new numbers with which to calculate the position of their home. [...] And so said the Eglantine Regent: “Soon we will arrive in Hell.” And the Parlous Knot rejoiced, for it believed that it would accompany them."''</ref> - but when the time came, the Regent revealed that she knew all along that the devils could not host them, as the powerful Fingerking with which she had bargained perished inside her body.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Neon_Future|Discovered: A Neon Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 7:7-9: AND WHEN THE TIME CAME for the people to depart the Is-Not, they made their passage through Irem. [...] And so said the Eglantine Regent: “For the future to arrive one must have a present.” And the Parlous Knot cursed the name of the Eglantine Regent. And the Parlous Knot perished."''</ref>
-After leaving the Fingerkings behind in Parabola, the Eglantine Regent led her people to [[Irem]],<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Ruinous_Future|Discovered: A Ruinous Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 8:4-6: AND THE PEOPLE FOUND in this place the broken form of a stone serpent. And said the Eglantine Regent: "Let us repair this serpent of the Will-Be, as tribute to the future that shelters us.""''</ref> then across the [[Unterzee]]<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_A_Silvered_Future|Discovered: A Silvered Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 9:4-5: AND THE PEOPLE STOPPED before a cold and sunless sea. And they saw that the marvels around them were like those in dreams. And some among the people doubted whether they had left the Is-Not. Upon hearing this, the Eglantine Regent struck down one of the doubters, and made things plain."''</ref> and westward from the coast to where [[Hell]] now sits.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_An_Abyssal_Future|Discovered: An Abyssal Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 10:2-3: WHEN THE PEOPLE CAME TO THE END of their voyage west, they set down their baggage and began the work of building a new city."''</ref> At last, when the city of Hell was completed, she declared herself ruler, and was "struck down."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discovered:_An_Altered_Future|Discovered: An Altered Future|Fallen London}} ''"Book of Roses 11:5-7: AND WHEN THE LAST BRICK WAS LAID on the last wall of Hell, there arose a great and joyful clamour among the people. And there the Eglantine Regent lit the furnaces once again, so that those great voices among the people might devise new laws. And there the Eglantine Regent made a proclamation of her rulership. Upon hearing this, the people struck her down."''</ref> While this could have been the event that resulted in her being killed and entombed at Henlys (assuming she is the Piper), among other options, it is also possible that this last segment is a degree of more recent revisionism alluding to the [[The Season of Revolutions|Season of Revolutions]].
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