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{{Neath_Location|image1=SS Locations The Undercrow Map.png|caption1=A deep, well-lit cavern, thick with a fungal smoke and cave moths. Art from Sunless Sea.|location=[[The Unterzee]]|alias=The Undercrow|allegiance=[[The Seven Against Nidah]]|notable_inhabitants=[[The Seven Against Nidah|Lorenzo]]}}
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</gallery>|location=[[Stormbones]]|notable_inhabitants=[[Lorenzo]]}}<blockquote>''"We enter the Stormbones. St Eligius sends his fire to dance on the air, on deck. Very far away we see the great light of the Ragged Crow."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Map#Ship.27s_Log|Stormbones|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>


The '''Ragged Crow''' is an enormous lighthouse in [[Stormbones]].<ref name = "enter">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Map#Ship.27s_Log|Stormbones|Sunless Sea}} ''"We enter the Stormbones. [...] Very far away we see the great light of the Ragged Crow."''</ref> It is described as ancient, but its origins are unknown.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Follow_that_ship!|Follow that ship!|Fallen London}} ''"They interpose the ancient lighthouse of the Ragged Crow between your vessels, and dart between the ice floes when the great light obscures them from view."''</ref> It is a key landmark for zailors that pass nearby,<ref name = "enter"/> and it attracts dangerous, ship-sized [[Tyrant-Moths]] like ''literal'' moths to a flame.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Tyrant_Moth|Tyrant Moth|Sunless Sea}} ''"Location: Ragged Crow"''</ref>
''"Far above, a lighthouse fire burns. The scent of it is curiously medicinal. It clouds your head and burns your lungs. Farther into the fog, you can make out laboured breathing."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|The Undercrow|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


The '''Undercrow''' is a cavern below the [[Unterzee]]'s surface that links to the lighthouse above. It is choked with smoke and fog, and its sole inhabitants are moths and the lighthouse's keeper,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Undercrow#Port_description|Port description|Sunless Sea}} ''"A deep, well-lit cavern, thick with a fungal smoke and cave moths. Far above, a lighthouse fire burns. The scent of it is curiously medicinal. [...] Farther into the fog, you can make out laboured breathing."''</ref> an extremely old [[The Tomb-Colonies|tomb-colonist]] formerly known as [[Lorenzo]] of the [[Seven Against Nidah]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Approach a voice from the fog|Sunless Sea}} ''"No tomb-colonist ever looked as ancient or unwell as the Almost Dead Man before you. Grey, bloated, and nearly embalmed by the fungal smoke [...]"''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Ask the Almost Dead Man to rejoin the Seven Against Nidah|Sunless Sea}} ''"Once, he was Lorenzo, their Guide."''</ref> He uses a complex pulley system to deliver flammable fungus to the lighthouse's burner, and the resulting smoke has preservative properties.<ref name = "port report">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Assemble a Port Report|Sunless Sea}} ''"A ramshackle array of pulleys allows the Undercrow's reclusive resident to feed the fire above. The herby smoke of the fungal fire has preservative qualities, [...] the fire distracts the more aggressive moths and warns ships far above."''</ref> The Undercrow is closed off to visitors,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Explore the fog|Sunless Sea}} ''"A hollow voice rings down through the fog. "No visitors!" [...] "No use for new faces," [...]"''</ref> though in the past, the [[Presbyterate Adventuress]] was able to gain entry to the Ragged Crow and climbed up the stairs to the light.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Presbyterate_Adventuress|The Last Night: Record her memories of her travels|Sunless Sea}} ''"[...] when the way to the Ragged Crow opened, and we went up the stairs together to the light [...]"''</ref>
'''The Ragged Crow''' is a great lighthouse located in [[The Unterzee]] region of '''Stormbones'''.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|The Undercrow|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
==Moths and Regret==
As a giant source of light across the dark [[The Unterzee|Unterzee]], The Ragged Crow attracts tons of moths- from those similiar to their [[The Surface|Surface]] counterparts, to the ship sized [[Bestiary#Tyrant-Moth|Tyrant-Moths]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|The Undercrow|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Tyrant_Moth|Tyrant Moth|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
Under the lighthouse proper lies '''The Undercrow'''- a large underwater cavern filled with moths, fungal smoke and the lighthouse's solitary lightkeeper called [[The Seven Against Nidah|Lorenzo]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|The Undercrow|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> 
 
The lighkeeper's life is slowly coming to an end however- within [[The Seven Against Nidah|Lorenzo]] sleeps a member of an outstanding species of moth called '''The Most-Moth''', and it will [[The Tomb-Colonies#Emergence|emerge]] from him no matter what. Before that happens [[The Seven Against Nidah|Lorenzo]] wishes to apologize to some of his [[The Seven Against Nidah|old friends]], to lessen the regrets of his long life and make his final moments less painful.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|Approach a voice from the fog|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|Entertain a dying man's last requests|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|Attend to the hatching|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


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