Collection of Notes on the Shades of the Blue Kingdom
- 1 In General
- 2 Journey to the North
- 3 Petrichor
- 4 Questions
Shades (or known as spirits) are what happened to a living being after they die. When you died, you became shade. The purpose of every Shade in the Blue Kingdom is to pass through Death's Door, a celestial gate in the northernmost part of the Blue Kingdom.
Shades of those that dabbled in immortality (but died anyway) are known as the Failed Dead/ Erroneous Dead.
The Shades began their journey at the Toll-Tower in the Sky Barnet. They appeared "through gates that are never closed". Before the establishment of the London embassy (and even longer before that?), spirits have to pay a toll to enter the rest of the Blue Kingdom.
Next, they are judged at the Stone-Faced Court. Those who are deemed …
To Do List
This wiki needs a lot of work. Granted, it's basically the only place to get comprehensive lore for this series, but it's patchy, and I'd like to fix that.
There's a lot of information in Sunless Skies that turns things here on it's head, and I'd hope that we can take a lot of that information, and put that on this wiki.
Anyways, To Do:
-Add Sunless Seas Creatures
-Add Sunless Skies Creatures
-Add Sunless Skies Officers
-Finish Port information for Sunless Skies
Resources for Creating Pages
Some resources to use when creating, expanding, and citing pages:
community.failbettergames.com- The official Failbetter forums. There are lore subforums you can pore through.
fallenlondon.wiki- The official Fallen London gameplay wiki. Has some lore, but you'll have to look through the pages for many of the options in each storylet to find juicy lore.
sunlesssea.gamepedia.com- The official Sunless Sea gameplay wiki. Useful for location information, art, and some lore details.
sunlessskies.gamepedia.com - The official Sunless Skies gameplay wiki. Useful for location information, art, and some lore details.
saint-arthur.tumblr.com- Spacemarine9's Fallen London Q&A tumblr. Now an archive, but still a very, very good and addictive lore source. 677…