Editing The Vintner

{{Character|title1=The Vintner|image1=Vintner.png|location=The Progress of the Bells, near [[Hell]]|allegiance=[[Grand Devils]]}}<blockquote>''"She is held upon a Verdigris throne that encases her lower body. Her crown is a goblet and from her mouth, wine flows. Only the movement of her eyes suggests life: all seven fix upon you."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Beseech_the_Vintner|Beseech the Vintner|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>Not much is known about the '''Vintner''', but we do know that she is the oldest [[Grand Devil]], or one of the oldest.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlessskies.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Brazen_Brigade#The_Temple_of_Almost-Time|Pour libations to the Vintner Saint|Sunless Skies}} ''"The Curious Dilettante knows of a ritual performed for the oldest of saints."''</ref> This scarlet saint oversaw the distillation of [[souls]], a process that seems to be half religious ceremony and half brewery.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Breathe_in_the_scent_of_wine|Breathe in the scent of wine|Fallen London}}''"Servants and prisoners enter the palace according to complex hierarchies. All come bearing bottles [...] Sloshing within these, are bottled souls. [...] You can make out a variety of infinitely precise devices [...] Souls are drawn and divided by a range of prisoners, using these formidable machines. The souls are then removed to elsewhere within the palace. Hollow arches look onto scenes alternately alchemic and Bacchic [...]"''</ref> The last remnants of her living self reside in the Progress of the Bells, in the [[Hinterlands]] near [[Hell]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Beseech_the_Vintner|Beseech the Vintner|Fallen London}}''"The Vintner is long dead. Her corpse is scattered across the Progress, her tongue the clapper of a great bell, her blood a vintage in Hell. But in the Progress, she stands held at the moment of her end."''</ref>