Riddle Answers

This list is taken from a compilation by Sacchi on Discord, supplemented with other discussions on there and elsewhere:

• What is due? (A reckoning)
• What is forgotten? (Mr. Candles)
• Who is Salt? (The Judgement Who Went East)
• What lies at the bottom of the High Wilderness' wells? (Those the Judgements wish to unmake and punish most thoroughly)
• How many Masters are there, really? (11)
• What lurks in the sixth coil? (The Seventh Coil)
• What is the Seventh City? (Probably Berlin, as seen in a Neon Future)
• How much does the Sun know? (There are indications it knows but chooses to ignore the issue)
• What is the message? (The rejection of the Sun's love confession)
• Who plays with the red pieces? (Those who neither work for the Liberation nor the Status Quo)
• What does the Stone-Tentacle Key unlock? (Your change, and your future)
• What happened to the Empress' issue? (They consumed red honey, and turned into monsters)
• What is the path to Nidah? (Several different paths: You can choose to charge straight up the river with living ships, or go the long way around into the desert of delights)
• How many Presbyters have there been? (Don't think we can ever get an exact number, but probably 77 or 777)
• Who sits at each of the Prester's hands? (The Sacristans)
• What did devils leave behind in Irem? (The present, probably)
• Who is December? (An ex-Judgement worker, relative of the boatman, who founded the Calendar Council.)
• Who is May? (The Manager of the Royal Beth)
• Who is March? (There have been two: the previous was John Cassell and the current one we don't have a name or title for)
• Who is June? (The Architect of the Dawn Machine)
• What is the taste of black honey? ([...] smells sweetly of rot and sugar and damp wool. [...] you down the contents [...] nausea shudders through your body, even as your tongue delights in the rich, smothering sweetness of the honey. [...])
• Who sits at the high table? (The White)
• How many Judgements are still in their thrones? (Unanswerable)
• Who is the Halved? (The King-Who-Wars, ruler of Eleutheria)
• Who is Lady Black? (I don't think we know exactly, but she's one of the major powers under the Unterzee)
• What did the Fathomking marry? (The Pentamorous Bride)
• Which love felled the First City? (The Manager and the King of a Hundred Hearts)
• Who loves the Cantigaster? (The Duchess)
• What happened to Aigul? (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/Aigul">London turned it into Station VI</a>)
• How many days are there? (Curator's days: the day of bargaining, day of slaughter, etc. No specific number though it's probably some variation of 7)
• Who condemned the Masters? (Curators Society)
• What were the Masters' crimes? (<a class="external text" href="https://www.failbettergames.com/news/a-secret-about-the-masters">List of crimes</a>)
• What lies East? (Salt, and the infinity of Emerald-Gold)
• What lies behind the Avid Horizon? (The High Wilderness, and the domain of the King of Hours)
• What new Power will rise in the West? (The TLC, probably.)
• Who is the Moon's sibling? (The Creditor)
• What was drowned in poison at Jericho? (One of the Pharaoh's Daughters, the Swan Bride more recently, and potentially the player if they choose to)
• What awaits behind the Gates of Marigold? (Hell, Forgiveness?)
• What is death? (A boat trip to the river or a permanent stay in the far country)
• What have the Admiralty been building? (The Dawn Machine)
• Who slew the King of Hours? (The Sapphir'd King)
• What did St Eligius become? (The patron saint of rats; Eligius is Trezigor's human name)
• What use have devils for the candles of the Lilymire? (They're used in the lily-rites to hone one's character)
• What price were the justificandes coined to pay? (Responsibility for a debt? Whoever accepts the coins becomes indebted to the giver. [...] It was the devils who taught Irem to say not only 'will' but also 'should' and 'could' and 'must' [...])
• What debt does the Bazaar owe? (This is probably referring to the Creditor's debt)
• What hides in the basement beneath Chapman's Boarding House? (The Bazaar, and its connection to Horatia)
• What is inscribed on the Skin of the Bazaar? (The laws that bind its behavior, and the love stories that it has collected)
• What does the sphinxstone weep for? (Home)
• What battles do cats fight, in dreams? (To protect the Is from the Is-Not)
• Who is Storm? (An Aeginae, and guardian/enforcer of the Neath)
• Who is Stone? (The Mountain of Light, daughter to the Sun and Bazaar)
• Is the Neath truly the skull of a long-dead god? (No)
• How did rats learn to speak? (A saint blessed them with speech. Trezigor/Eligius specifically)
• What are the Yule rites of the Church in the Wild? (Whatever you decide it to be, though you only get to influence the Hinterland branch of the Church)
• What is the Vake? (Mr Veils)
• What is the value of a soul? (For a normal soul: 2 pennies selling at the Bazaar, 4 if buying. Special souls are worth more: 0.5 echo for brilliant, 2.5 for queer, 12.5 for silent, and 62.5 for judgment's egg)
• What is the wax-wind's sibling? (Many possible candidates: The Killing Wind, the Claiming Wind, Mt Nomad)
• What became of the Melipone Parliament? (During the day of the Fall, the Masters convened a session of Parliament in Parabola, where they were made to vote on things such as "the creation of a labyrinth" and "the eradication of Foxes" - meanwhile, during this meeting, Parliament's building was dropped directly into the Thames. When the Parliament session ended, all members of Parliament immediately drowned and now serve the Fathomking)
• What are the Prester's laws? (No living past 1k, no killing anything that flies, do not trespass against the design)
• Who were the Seven Against Nidah? (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thefifthcity.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seven_Against_Nidah">List of the Seven</a>)
• What is written in the Discordance? (No Law)
• Who is the Taimen truly loyal to? (The Fathomking?)
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• What are the Stone Pigs? (The Bazaar's engines.)
• What lies beneath the Bazaar? (The Stone Pigs, or the Sundered Sea)
• What are the False-Stars? (Moon-Misers)
• What is an orbit? (It is falling so fast that you keep missing the ground)
• What does the Red-Handed Queen play for? (Her own power. Alternatively: Red)
• Why do Londoners bear masks during Hallowmas? (Answered in Mask of the Rose)
• Who is the White? (The Judgement spymaster and most dangerous thing in the universe)
• Who is the Black? (A forgotten and almost destroyed Judgement, originator of the Discordance)
• What lives in a cell within a castle that does not exist? (The Black)
• What do the Fingerkings desire? (To become Is: freedom from Parabola, existence)
• What is Parabola? (The world of dreams, the world behind mirrors. Alternatively: An egg, and we skirt the shell)
• Do you recall how you came to this place? (And you sang of your lightnings and shapeful disgrace?)
• What lies behind the ruined path? (The Neon Future)
• What future remains when all futures have been consumed? (No Future)