![]() Individuals mired in scandal are exiled to the Tomb Colonies, where the not-quite-dead live out their final days. Across the vast ocean of the Unterzee lies the Khanate empire, the impenetrable Elder Continent, and the screaming island of Polythreme, which exports clay labour to London. Urchins, criminals, and revolutionaries hide from constables in the rooftops while hidden conflicts unfold below in shadows and reflections. ![]() Artists and academics explore new possibilities unimaginable before the fall. Hell maintains an embassy in the city and trades in souls, to the consternation of the church. While the industry, poverty, and high-class society of Victorian London remain, its strict social mores have been disrupted by strange new factions roaming its streets. Even physical laws lose their supremacy beyond the sunlight clocks and maps can no longer be trusted, rats and cats wag tongues as well as tails, and death is often a temporary inconvenience, although at the cost of never seeing sunlight again. While London retains a monarch, a parliament, and a mayor, the true power lies with the Masters of the Bazaar-cloaked inhuman beings who oversee domains of trade and enact mysterious agendas. The city's streets twisted into a labyrinth centred on the Echo Bazaar, which serves as the centre of commerce and covets stories of love. ![]() Forty years ago London, First City of the British Empire, became the fifth city stolen into the Neath-a vast cavern beneath the earth. ![]()
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