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From: Perusing the Island Stalls
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"Answers not included!"
Game Instructions: You will receive a Baited Riddle.
Unlocked with 
Thalassic Favour 625
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[…] "Questions without an answer. Answers without questions. Querents without voices." She hands you a scrap of paper. "Best thing to do is trust. Things get to where they're due."
[…] It will ask you: "[Riddle]" You may, or may not, have an answer. […]Description summary:
The riddle varies based on the 
Airs of Irem. [1]
| Airs of Irem | Riddle |
|---|---|
| 1 | What is due? |
| 2 | What is forgotten? |
| 3 | Who is Salt? |
| 4 | What lies at the bottom of the High Wilderness' wells? |
| 5 | How many Masters are there, really? |
| 6 | What lurks in the sixth coil? |
| 7 | What is the Seventh City? |
| 8 | How much does the Sun know? |
| 9 | What is the message? |
| 10 | Who plays with the red pieces? |
| 11 | What does the Stone-Tentacle Key unlock? |
| 12 | What happened to the Empress' issue? |
| 13 | What is the path to Nidah? |
| 14 | How many Presbyters have there been? |
| 15 | Who sits at each of the Prester's hands? |
| 16 | What did devils leave behind in Irem? |
| 17 | Who is December? |
| 18 | Who is May? |
| 19 | Who is March? |
| 20 | Who is June? |
| 21 | What is the taste of black honey? |
| 22 | Who sits at the high table? |
| 23 | How many Judgements are still in their thrones? |
| 24 | Who is the Halved? |
| 25 | Who is Lady Black? |
| 26 | What did the Fathomking marry? |
| 27 | Which love felled the First City? |
| 28 | Who loves the Cantigaster? |
| 29 | What happened to Aigul? |
| 30 | How many days are there? |
| 31 | Who condemned the Masters? |
| 32 | What were the Masters' crimes? |
| 33 | What lies East? |
| 34 | What lies behind the Avid Horizon? |
| 35 | What new Power will rise in the West? |
| 36 | Who is the Moon's sibling? |
| 37 | What was drowned in poison at Jericho? |
| 38 | What awaits behind the Gates of Marigold? |
| 39 | What is death? |
| 40 | What have the Admiralty been building? |
| 41 | Who slew the King of Hours? |
| 42 | What did St Eligius become? |
| 43 | What use have devils for the candles of the Lilymire? |
| 44 | What price were the justificandes coined to pay? |
| 45 | What debt does the Bazaar owe? |
| 46 | What hides in the basement beneath Chapman's Boarding House? |
| 47 | What is inscribed on the Skin of the Bazaar? |
| 48 | What does the sphinxstone weep for? |
| 49 | What battles do cats fight, in dreams? |
| 50 | Who is Storm? |
| 51 | Who is Stone? |
| 52 | Is the Neath truly the skull of a long-dead god? |
| 53 | How did rats learn to speak? |
| 54 | What are the Yule rites of the Church in the Wild? |
| 55 | What is the Vake? |
| 56 | What is the value of a soul? [2] |
| 57 | What is the wax-wind's sibling? |
| 58 | What became of the Melipone Parliament? |
| 59 | What are the Prester's laws? |
| 60 | Who were the Seven Against Nidah? |
| 61 | What is written in the Discordance? |
| 62 | Who is the Taimen truly loyal to? |
| 63 | What is the value of a soul? [2] |
| 64 | What are the Stone Pigs? |
| 65 | What lies beneath the Bazaar? |
| 66 | What are the False-Stars? |
| 67 | What is an orbit? |
| 68 | What does the Red-Handed Queen play for? |
| 69 | Why do Londoners bear masks during Hallowmas? |
| 70 | Who is the White? |
| 71 | Who is the Black? |
| 72 | What lives in a cell within a castle that does not exist? |
| 73 | What do the Fingerkings desire? |
| 74 | What is Parabola? |
| 75 | Do you recall how you came to this place? |
| 76 | What lies behind the ruined path? |
| 77 | What future remains when all futures have been consumed? |
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You've gained 1 x Baited Riddle
You've lost 625 x Thalassic Favour
[Sights at the Festival change…] (random)
One question named. There are many others. (Sets Airs of Irem to 1-77 (random))
