Meaning

anonymous|Posted on Feb 22 2018 at 9:38 am

What does the Flavour text mean?

Adnoam|Posted on Feb 22 2018 at 10:16 am

Probably yet another <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollow_Men">reference</a> to T.S Eliot's works (like many others in Fallen London).

Balina|Posted on Sep 9 2021 at 4:14 am

The birthmark itself is a euphemism. It's a hickey that one of the Masters left you the first time you entered your spire. Well, okay, it's also a bite mark, but still. You just donated a fair amount of blood, though the game is cagey about admitting this. The fact that this apparently will never fully heal is its own fun lore implication.

The quote in the flavour text is from "The Hollow Men", specifically the final stanza, titled, "For Thine is the Kingdom" -- both of which bear at least superficial similarities to your physical state and your ascent to one of the highest places London can offer you.

anonymous|Posted on Jan 5 2023 at 12:55 pm

given the image i tought it was also a reference to the dawn machine and sunless skies

Balina|Posted on Jan 12 2023 at 10:34 pm

It's difficult to see with how shrunken it is, but the image is the Bazaar silhouetted against the Sun. The art itself likely comes from one of the Sunless games, yeah, as the "original" is much larger and makes it a little more clear.

I'm not actually sure if the art was chosen for any reason beyond "it is one of the few times the Bazaar has been depicted literally anywhere", so I'm not sure if the Sun is important or not.