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* Conceivable, but not a given. There is nautical access to the surface via the Cumaean Canal, and trade vessels sometimes come and go by that route. Whether that's enough to supply oxygen to the entire Neath is unclear. Also, the restriction on resurfacing seems to apply mainly to those who have died or been in the Neath quite a long time. Lastly, their death on the surface seems to manifest as variably-paced ''immolation'', which seems rather unrelated to suffocation.

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Nice to be able to move one of these to confirmed rather than jossed, for once!



[[WMG: The Gracious Widow is a survivor of the Fourth City]]
Namely, [[spoiler:Karakorum, old capital of the Mongolian Empire. The reason she lived for so long without aging is because of the peach brandy, which is described as having a similar effect to Hesperidean Cider.]]
* Her origins and identity are (in the game's usual oblique way) given during the Affair of the Box. The spinoff game ''The Silver Tree'' provides further context as to her identity (as it does on most everything else about the Fourth City).



[[WMG: The Gracious Widow is a survivor of the Fourth City]]
Namely, [[spoiler:Karakorum, old capital of the Mongolian Empire. The reason she lived for so long without aging is because of the peach brandy, which is described as having a similar effect to Hesperidean Cider.]]
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[[WMG:EchoBazaar is a prequel to Metro 2033.]]

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* [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} with authority. The Sixth City is apparently [[ChekhovsGun Paris]], thanks to the aforementioned timey-wimeyness in the Lost In Reflections storylet. That still leaves the Seventh City, though.]]

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* [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} with authority. The Sixth City is apparently [[ChekhovsGun Paris]], thanks to the aforementioned timey-wimeyness in the Lost In Reflections storylet. That still leaves the Seventh City, though.]]

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[[WMG: March's identity.]]
So, a few years back, we met March of the Calendar Council - a jovial fellow who tried to undercut Mr Wines' business by distributing coffee. This past Hallowmas, the Haunted Doctor revealed that the Council had had him assassinate one of their own - a friendly chap who always offered him coffee - because their religion was getting in the way of the Council's politics. We learn more about the Doctor's victim from the Dauntless Temperance Campaigner - that they were a devout Christian and advocate of Temperance, called John, and that it was generally assumed that Mr Wines was behind their death. My guess - that this poor Councilman was in fact March, and further, that they were real-world coffee merchant John Cassell, of the Working Man's Friend.
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* Highly probable; In SunlessSea, players can visit Adam's Way- the sole port open to foreigners. When the player is famous (for being a Guest of Honor at a funeral feast) the Port Report dialogue changes. One of the new tidbits is the Dilmun Club petitioning the Prester for permission to begin an expedition.
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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]] (one that the Licentiate uses to discern their next target, much like how Gant [[spoiler: used blood to pin his crimes on someone else]]). Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.

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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]] (one that the Licentiate uses to discern their next target, much like how Gant [[spoiler: used blood to pin his crimes on someone else]]). Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.
DeathGlare. None can escape the Heptagant's gaze.
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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]] (one that the Licentiate uses to discern their next targets, much like how Gant [[spoiler: used blood to pin his crimes on someone else]]). Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.

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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]] (one that the Licentiate uses to discern their next targets, target, much like how Gant [[spoiler: used blood to pin his crimes on someone else]]). Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.
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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]]. Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.

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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]].colors]] (one that the Licentiate uses to discern their next targets, much like how Gant [[spoiler: used blood to pin his crimes on someone else]]). Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.
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[[RealityEnsues There's a reason why nobody builds real cities underground.]] With no access to the atmosphere and no green plants to produce oxygen locally, anyone who stays in the Neath for too long will eventually suffocate (especially with 19th-century London spewing toxic fumes in such an enclosed space). But since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in Fallen London, anyone who suffers death by suffocation just brushes it off as a bad dream and gets back to what they were doing.

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[[RealityEnsues There's a reason why nobody builds real cities underground.]] With no access to the atmosphere and no green plants to produce oxygen locally, anyone who stays in the Neath for too long will eventually suffocate (especially with 19th-century London spewing toxic fumes in such an enclosed space). But since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in Fallen London, anyone who suffers death by suffocation (but not drowning: Death by Water is a special case) just brushes it off as a bad dream and gets back to what they were doing.
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[[WMG: The reason Neathers eventually can't return to the surface even if they haven't died is because of oxygen deprivation.]]
[[RealityEnsues There's a reason why nobody builds real cities underground.]] With no access to the atmosphere and no green plants to produce oxygen locally, anyone who stays in the Neath for too long will eventually suffocate (especially with 19th-century London spewing toxic fumes in such an enclosed space). But since DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in Fallen London, anyone who suffers death by suffocation just brushes it off as a bad dream and gets back to what they were doing.
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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven. Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.

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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven.Seven-into-Seven, and "gant" also happens to be one of the Neath's [[FictionalColor special colors]]. Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.
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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven. Plus the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like.

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His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven. Plus there's the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like.goat-like, and he's got one [[StealthPun hell]] of a DeathGlare.
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[[WMG:[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney Damon Gant]] is a Heptagoat in human form.]]
His favorite number is [[ArcNumber 7777777]], i.e. Seven-into-Seven. Plus the unnatural lightning when he's angry and the way his hair and beard looks rather goat-like.
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* [[spoiler: {{Jossed}} with authority. The Sixth City is apparently [[ChekhovsGun Paris]], thanks to the aforementioned timey-wimeyness in the Lost In Reflections storylet. That still leaves the Seventh City, though.]]
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** [[spoiler:Jossed by [http://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-answered/].]]

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** [[spoiler:Jossed by [http://www.http://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-answered/].com/the-mysteries-answered/.]]
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* [[spoiler:Jossed by [http://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-answered/].]]

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* ** [[spoiler:Jossed by [http://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-answered/].]]
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* [[spoiler:Jossed by [http://www.failbettergames.com/the-mysteries-answered/].]]
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** As one can see behind a spoiler on the Characters page, Mr. Eaten's name may actually be a fair bit more prosaic than that.

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** * As one can see behind a spoiler on the Characters page, Mr. Eaten's name may actually be a fair bit more prosaic than that.



* Unless it refers to something else, it would appear his name is out and about.

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* Unless it refers to something else, it would appear his name is out and about.
about, and that's not it.

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Moving a couple entries to the Jossed section. Check a certain spoiler on the Characters page to see why.


[[WMG:Mr. Eaten's name is what you get if you draw a map of the city.]]
From what we've seen, Correspondence sigils look like complicated messes of lines and curves. The city streets are such a complicated mess of lines and curves that you can literally go insane trying to find your way around. Assuming that the Correspondence actually is a LanguageOfMagic, the Forgotten Quarter is in the center of a sigil for "something that has been forgotten", Wolfstack is near a sigil for "animal that never eats eyes", and other places have their own sigils ("a man who lives in dreams", "a place that cannot be found", "a dog that feeds on restraints", and such). The Name is a very complicated sigil, describing "a place powered by love where death has died and chains are consumed, where reckonings are postponed but not forever, where bodies are exchanged and souls are loose, where location is a matter of belief and mirrors, where

I just thought I'd post this, since I was walking by. Whoever wrote it seems to have disappeared; in front of the computer where it was written are several pages covered with some kind of scribbling (that were smouldering when I got here; water didn't seem to help but tearing them up did) and a set of neatly folded clothes.

** As one can see behind a spoiler on the Characters page, Mr. Eaten's name may actually be a fair bit more prosaic than that.

[[WMG: Mr. Eaten's name = your name]]
By the end of the Mr. Eaten story arc, you will have gone through everything that happened to him in the past. Therefore, you have become Mr. Eaten. Consequently, there was no reward to be gained.
* StableTimeLoop, perhaps?
* Unless it refers to something else, it would appear his name is out and about.



[[WMG:Mr. Eaten's name is what you get if you draw a map of the city.]]
From what we've seen, Correspondence sigils look like complicated messes of lines and curves. The city streets are such a complicated mess of lines and curves that you can literally go insane trying to find your way around. Assuming that the Correspondence actually is a LanguageOfMagic, the Forgotten Quarter is in the center of a sigil for "something that has been forgotten", Wolfstack is near a sigil for "animal that never eats eyes", and other places have their own sigils ("a man who lives in dreams", "a place that cannot be found", "a dog that feeds on restraints", and such). The Name is a very complicated sigil, describing "a place powered by love where death has died and chains are consumed, where reckonings are postponed but not forever, where bodies are exchanged and souls are loose, where location is a matter of belief and mirrors, where

I just thought I'd post this, since I was walking by. Whoever wrote it seems to have disappeared; in front of the computer where it was written are several pages covered with some kind of scribbling (that were smouldering when I got here; water didn't seem to help but tearing them up did) and a set of neatly folded clothes.



[[WMG: Mr. Eaten's name = your name]]
By the end of the Mr. Eaten story arc, you will have gone through everything that happened to him in the past. Therefore, you have become Mr. Eaten. Consequently, there was no reward to be gained.
* StableTimeLoop, perhaps?
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** So the Bazaar is on a FetchQuest?
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[[WMG:The Rubbery Men are the counter-argument to Devils.]]
In other words, they're Angels. The Flukes? Upper echelon Angels.
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* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}]], thanks to the financial efforts of a Female player named 'NiteBrite', the effects of the Cider have been reviled to be... [[spoiler:a supper-strong Wounds tonic and a unique Dream status about the Garden.]]

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* [[spoiler:{{Jossed}}]], thanks to the financial efforts of a Female player named 'NiteBrite', the effects of the Cider have been reviled to be... [[spoiler:a supper-strong super-strong Wounds tonic and a unique Dream status about the Garden.]]
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You can hack Feducci to pieces and he comes back a few times later, and mentions that you should visit his home sometime and your character assumes this isn't the Tomb Colonies. Add to this that the one time in the Black Ribbon duels you kill someone Feducci seems hungry, throw in the rumors that death fled the Neath because it was being hunted, and Feducci's love of hunting he mentions when you talk to him after dealing with the Drownie and you've got some definite hints at something bigger with the "tomb colonist" leader of the Black Ribbon Duelists, this even suggests the reason he hangs around with a bunch of death seekers, to try and catch death when it comes for them.

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You Possible spoilers for the Black Ribbon duels. [[spoiler:You can hack Feducci to pieces and he comes back a few times later, and mentions that you should visit his home sometime and your character assumes this isn't the Tomb Colonies. Add to this that the one time in the Black Ribbon duels you kill someone Feducci seems hungry, throw in the rumors that death fled the Neath because it was being hunted, and Feducci's love of hunting he mentions when you talk to him after dealing with the Drownie and you've got some definite hints at something bigger with the "tomb colonist" leader of the Black Ribbon Duelists, this even suggests the reason he hangs around with a bunch of death seekers, to try and catch death when it comes for them.]]
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[[WMG: Feducci Hunts Death]]
You can hack Feducci to pieces and he comes back a few times later, and mentions that you should visit his home sometime and your character assumes this isn't the Tomb Colonies. Add to this that the one time in the Black Ribbon duels you kill someone Feducci seems hungry, throw in the rumors that death fled the Neath because it was being hunted, and Feducci's love of hunting he mentions when you talk to him after dealing with the Drownie and you've got some definite hints at something bigger with the "tomb colonist" leader of the Black Ribbon Duelists, this even suggests the reason he hangs around with a bunch of death seekers, to try and catch death when it comes for them.
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* Then again, the rules regarding time in the Neath do seem to be a bit more... uh, ''[[TimeyWimeyBall loose]]'' than on the surface, and those Devilesses [[AwesomeAnachronisticApparel had to get their hats from somewhere...]]
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[[WMG: The permanent self-defilements you inflict on yourself as you Seek the Name are necessary so that you cannot simply forget the path that you are on.]]

At Hallowmas, it states that, no matter what, you will forget everything about the visit from Mr Eaten. It is stated in one option that [[{{Unperson}} "Lacre cannot bury the law".]] It is possible that Eaten's status as an Unperson is so firmly written into reality in the Neath that the further you delve into finding it out, the harder it is to remember it, therefore in order to remember (or perhaps ''comprehend''), say, The Number, you have to cover yourself in irremovable evidence of Mr Eaten's fate.
-> ''This will burn in you until you find out what I was: until you inscribe it on yourself.''

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