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{{Neath_Location|image1=RaggedCrowSprite.png|caption1=The largest lamp-post|location=[[The Unterzee|The Stormbones]]|alias=The Undercrow|allegiance=[[The Seven Against Nidah]]|notable_inhabitants=[[The Seven Against Nidah#Lorenzo, the Guide|Lorenzo]]}}
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''"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 name = "undercrow port description">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|Port description|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
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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>
The '''Ragged Crow''' is an enormous lighthouse that acts as a major landmark in the [[Unterzee]]. Under the lighthouse lies the '''Undercrow''', a cavern with an entrance found below the Unterzee's surface.__forcetoc__


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>
== A Standard Candle ==
''"No use for new faces. Find my student. Back in Port Carnelian. Or maybe hunting in Venderbight. Tell him he hasn't long."<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Explore the fog|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
As a giant source of light across the dark [[Unterzee]], the Ragged Crow attracts many varieties of moths - from those similar to their [[Surface]] counterparts,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Entertain a dying man's last requests|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> to the dangerous, ship-sized [[Bestiary#Tyrant-Moth|Tyrant-Moths]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Tyrant_Moth|Tyrant Moth|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
The mysterious Undercrow is a large underwater cavern filled with moths, fungal smoke and the lighthouse's solitary keeper,<ref name = "undercrow port description"/> an extremely old [[The Tomb-Colonies|tomb-colonist]] known as the '''Almost Dead Man'''.<ref name = "approach voice from fog">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Approach a voice from the fog|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> This individual uses a complex pulley system to deliver flammable fungus to the lighthouse's burner, and the resulting smoke has preservative properties, though it also coats the entire cavern in grey soot.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Assemble a Port Report|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
==Moths and Regret==
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''"Mortality has a way of finding us in the end. I must set my affairs in order. I owe that much to my successor. So, would you help an old man say his farewells?"''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Entertain a dying man's last requests|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
[[File:Crowsfeet.png|100px|thumb|The Undercrow]]
The true identity of the Almost Dead Man is [[The Seven Against Nidah#Lorenzo, the Guide|Lorenzo]] of the [[Seven Against Nidah]].<ref name = "approach voice from fog"/> Unfortunately, his life is slowly coming to an end; however, within him sleeps a member of an outstanding species of [[Bestiary#Frost-Moth|Frost-Moth]] called the '''Most-Moth''', and its [[The Tomb-Colonies#Emergence|Emergence]] is imminent.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Ask the Almost Dead Man to rejoin the Seven Against Nidah|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Lorenzo's student, the '''Incomparable Aurelian''', is an insect collector who wishes to witness the Most-Moth's hatching and observe the moth's wings, and must be by his master's side for the process to take place.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Port_Carnelian#Interactions|Assist a specialised collector|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Speak with the Incomparable Aurelian|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Attend to the hatching|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Before his final dissolution, however, Lorenzo wishes to send several messages to his former friends and set his affairs in order, to say farewell to his once-comrades of the [[Seven Against Nidah]] once and for all.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Entertain a dying man's last requests|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Deliver a letter of farewell to a Sprightly Visionary at Hideaway|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


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