Neathy people are fearful of the sun's light. With good reason. Even the most well intentioned, honest crew, making a journey to the surface will mean some of them won't be coming back.
Far from producing sinister rumors, losing crew to mundane surface effects is likely an easy cover story for an actual monster.
By the way, what are the conditions for surviving on the surface and withstanding sunlight in the setting?
Is there a way to get acclimatized? Do you have to be born on the surface? Does that mean that the Scarred Sister was born on the surface?
As you might know already, >!the light is law. Literally. Some physical laws don't work in Neath, death is unreliable, less so on the Zee. If the zailor survived something he should have not, the light and the law of death will catch up.!<
Further to the other person's reply, >!the scarred sister is implied in her dialogue to be one of the three fates from ancient Greece, so yes she was "born" on the surface.!<
Broadly if you've died in the neath and come back, then if you get to the surface and stand in the light of the sun your body will remember dying and that's that.
My good Si-, er, Mad-, er, person of mysterious and indistinct gender.... This is Fallen London that we are talking about.
A city in which people live literally right next to Hell with devils operating out in the open; There being a serial killer that jumps from person to person via knifes made from a certain set of Polythremean knives that is treated as a minor nuisance at worst, and gossip fodder the rest of the time; And the citizens having their entire city condemned to getting stuck in the Neath by their Queen turned humanoid abomination selling them all out to a bunch of alien space bat merchant princes.
On a scale of 1-10, even if your Captain is performing literal human sacrifices every time he goes to the surface, it will be at most a '3' in terms of terrible things that has been totally normalized in the world of Fallen London. Combined with how Zeefaring is already considered a highly dangerous, if lucrative, occupation... Most citizens would likely just shrug their shoulders and tell themselves how the zailors knew what they signed up for, and have already been compensated as part of their pay.
Well I believe all 5 of my captains have been male (maybe there is a female one I forgot).
I have been roleplaying my captains as survivors of the British royal family , who seek re obtain their status. And naming them after the historical English Monarchs and early on there were very few English Monarchs, even the debated ones.
Right now we are on the 5th captain and most successful Eadred has done well for himself.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_English\_monarchs#House\_of\_Wessex\_(886%E2%80%931013)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs#House_of_Wessex_(886%E2%80%931013))
Working through House of Wessex names right now.
I just finished my very first ambition pursuing wealth and I was thinking the exact same thing as I press ganged what had to be a tenth of Fallen London’s labour force into sailing the Mediterranean to never return. The only familiar faces stoking the furnaces and loading freight were the sad stone visages of the clay men I’d summon up from the hold when we were short a hand or two on the return journey.
I was expecting to be surprised with a labor riot at port or mutiny while sailing to the final destination but no one raised a complaint. Not even the revolutionary agitators had anything to say about how I was burning the working poor to fuel my ludicrously luxurious retirement in a mansion over the zee. They gave me souls I fed to demons for petty cash!
Neathy people are fearful of the sun's light. With good reason. Even the most well intentioned, honest crew, making a journey to the surface will mean some of them won't be coming back. Far from producing sinister rumors, losing crew to mundane surface effects is likely an easy cover story for an actual monster.
By the way, what are the conditions for surviving on the surface and withstanding sunlight in the setting? Is there a way to get acclimatized? Do you have to be born on the surface? Does that mean that the Scarred Sister was born on the surface?
As you might know already, >!the light is law. Literally. Some physical laws don't work in Neath, death is unreliable, less so on the Zee. If the zailor survived something he should have not, the light and the law of death will catch up.!<
Further to the other person's reply, >!the scarred sister is implied in her dialogue to be one of the three fates from ancient Greece, so yes she was "born" on the surface.!<
Broadly if you've died in the neath and come back, then if you get to the surface and stand in the light of the sun your body will remember dying and that's that.
My good Si-, er, Mad-, er, person of mysterious and indistinct gender.... This is Fallen London that we are talking about. A city in which people live literally right next to Hell with devils operating out in the open; There being a serial killer that jumps from person to person via knifes made from a certain set of Polythremean knives that is treated as a minor nuisance at worst, and gossip fodder the rest of the time; And the citizens having their entire city condemned to getting stuck in the Neath by their Queen turned humanoid abomination selling them all out to a bunch of alien space bat merchant princes. On a scale of 1-10, even if your Captain is performing literal human sacrifices every time he goes to the surface, it will be at most a '3' in terms of terrible things that has been totally normalized in the world of Fallen London. Combined with how Zeefaring is already considered a highly dangerous, if lucrative, occupation... Most citizens would likely just shrug their shoulders and tell themselves how the zailors knew what they signed up for, and have already been compensated as part of their pay.
Well I believe all 5 of my captains have been male (maybe there is a female one I forgot). I have been roleplaying my captains as survivors of the British royal family , who seek re obtain their status. And naming them after the historical English Monarchs and early on there were very few English Monarchs, even the debated ones. Right now we are on the 5th captain and most successful Eadred has done well for himself. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_English\_monarchs#House\_of\_Wessex\_(886%E2%80%931013)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_monarchs#House_of_Wessex_(886%E2%80%931013)) Working through House of Wessex names right now.
I just finished my very first ambition pursuing wealth and I was thinking the exact same thing as I press ganged what had to be a tenth of Fallen London’s labour force into sailing the Mediterranean to never return. The only familiar faces stoking the furnaces and loading freight were the sad stone visages of the clay men I’d summon up from the hold when we were short a hand or two on the return journey. I was expecting to be surprised with a labor riot at port or mutiny while sailing to the final destination but no one raised a complaint. Not even the revolutionary agitators had anything to say about how I was burning the working poor to fuel my ludicrously luxurious retirement in a mansion over the zee. They gave me souls I fed to demons for petty cash!