Editing The Ragged Crow

{{Neath_Location|image1=RaggedCrowSprite.png|caption1=The Ragged Crow|location=[[The Unterzee|The Stormbones]]|allegiance=[[The Seven Against Nidah#Lorenzo, the Guide|The Almost Dead Man]]|notable_inhabitants=The Almost Dead Man|image2=The Undercrowgaz.png|caption2=The Undercrow}}''"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 name = "stormbones">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Map#Ship.27s_Log|Stormbones|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>

The '''Ragged Crow''' is an enormous lighthouse in the [[Unterzee]]. Below the lighthouse lies the [[Undercrow]], a cavern that leads to the interior of the lighthouse, with an entrance found below the Unterzee's surface.__forcetoc__

== A Standard Candle ==
''"Far above, a lighthouse fire burns. The scent of it is curiously medicinal. It clouds your head and burns your lungs."''<ref name = "undercrow port description">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow|Port description|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>

The Ragged Crow is an important landmark for zailors traveling the [[Unterzee]].<ref name = "stormbones"/> As a great source of light in the dark, 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 Undercrow ===
''"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, it's difficult to tell where his skin ends and the stone bed beneath him begins."''<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>

The mysterious '''Undercrow''' is a large underwater cavern below the Ragged Crow's lighthouse, 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"/> 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>

Unfortunately, and understandably, the Undercrow is generally closed off to visitors,<ref name = "explore the fog">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Undercrow#The_Undercrow|Explore the fog|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> though some have managed to gain entry in the past.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Presbyterate_Adventuress|The Last Night: Record her memories of her travels|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:Lorenzo.png|thumb|100px|[[The Seven Against Nidah#Lorenzo, the Guide|Lorenzo]]]]
The Almost Dead Man of the Undercrow is [[The Seven Against Nidah#Lorenzo, the Guide|Lorenzo]] of the [[Seven Against Nidah]].<ref name = "approach voice from fog"/> His life is slowly coming to an end, but 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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