The Piebald Dreamer

"Are you quite sure you want to know this?"

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"A splotchy piebald specimen, she would be unremarkable by London rat standards were it not for two things. One: her spectacular doublet ensemble, complete with billowing slashed sleeves and golden needlework in tiny ratty hand. Two: she is here, in Parabola, where rats are not usually found."^[1]

The Piebald Dreamer is a Rattus Faber who wanders through the Viric Jungle of Parabola.

The Questing Rat[]

""I'm on a quest," the Piebald Dreamer repeats, lowering her voice as if she hadn't just been shouting this fact to an angry panther and all the Parabolan undergrowth. "I'm looking for the first ratty historians – the Endless Chroniclers.""^[1]

The Piebald Dreamer is a young and lavishly dressed adventurer who has become concerned with the fact that Rattus Faber in London seem to only live in the present day. She feels that London's rats seem to be increasingly comfortable with fitting into human Londoners' views of them as talkative vermin or useful laborers - in other words, they are assimilating into London society and completely forgetting their own history and culture in the process.^[2]

Her solution to this overlooked crisis is to search for the Endless Chroniclers, whom she claims are the survivors from the days of the Saints; storytellers of the past, trapped in Parabola by a vast and ancient power.^[3]

The Knot of Tales[]

""The Knot of Tales is a Fingerking, I think. Some of the stories say that it appeared as a writhing knot of tails. Some of them say rats' tails, even. But –" she almost pauses, as if unsure about putting forward her hypothesis "– tangled tails is just a common anxiety dream. I'm pretty sure it's a snake.""^[1]

The Piebald Dreamer's ultimate goal is to find the Knot of Tales: a mysterious Fingerking living in the mythical Garden of Knots, hidden deep within Parabola, far from the routes frequented by most travelers. She has found that the Garden of Knots is somewhere between the Waswood and the Moonlit Chessboard, and that the cost of entering the Garden is a story.^[4]^[5]

References[]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London
↑ A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""To most of you, we're either unusually talkative vermin, or useful labourers. We make things – and we make them well. We eat less than a human, and we can live comfortably in a shoebox (...) That is the story London tells about us. And if we don't have other ones to push back, it'll become the story we tell to each other, too.""
↑ A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""If I find the Chroniclers and rescue them, we'll have to remember. They'll all have to care about stories again.""
↑ A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""The Knot of Tales is a Fingerking, I think." An ophidian power of Parabola, and the ancient antagonists of the cats of dream."
↑ A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""I found something about a Garden of Knots, too. Which might be its prison – where it's keeping the Chroniclers." A pause. "Or the Garden might be a metaphor. Or a maze.""

[our_lady-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London

[2] A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""To most of you, we're either unusually talkative vermin, or useful labourers. We make things – and we make them well. We eat less than a human, and we can live comfortably in a shoebox (...) That is the story London tells about us. And if we don't have other ones to push back, it'll become the story we tell to each other, too.""

[3] A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""If I find the Chroniclers and rescue them, we'll have to remember. They'll all have to care about stories again.""

[4] A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""The Knot of Tales is a Fingerking, I think." An ophidian power of Parabola, and the ancient antagonists of the cats of dream."

[5] A Dream of a Thousand Tails, Fallen London ""I found something about a Garden of Knots, too. Which might be its prison – where it's keeping the Chroniclers." A pause. "Or the Garden might be a metaphor. Or a maze.""

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