Hallowmas (Guide)

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This content is only available during Hallowmas! For the history of this holiday see Hallowmas (historical)

A damp fog fills London’s streets. Londoners of all stripes lurk in its concealment: masked, cloaked, triply hidden. It is the season of Hallowmas, of the commission and purging of sin. Londoners seek out the Attendants – the masked representatives of the Bazaar – to be shriven.

Hallowmas is Fallen London's annual feast of masks and confessions. Hallowmas starts roughly a week before Halloween and ends a week afterwards.

During the festival, you can:

• Collect Confessions, which can be handed in to the Attendants to upgrade certain Companions
• Attend Hallowmas Masques, where certain Confessions can be swapped and Menaces can be raised
• Relinquish Menaces to the Fool's Apostate in exchange for Spirit of Hallowmas, for later rewards

Masks

At Hallowmas, Londoners wear masks. Those in the know will wish to pick a very particular mask. Three have particular import.

Each year, three of the four different Masks are available to wear. The ones available in 2025 are The Moth, The Infant, and The Crown. They grant stat bonuses and can cause an opportunity card to appear while worn during Hallowmas. Masks will become tattered and useless (except as a memento) by the end of the festival, unless you choose to purchase a gilded one for FATE.

Each mask grants you free entry to one of the Hallowmas Masques via an opportunity card. While attending a Masque with its associated Mask, a particularly lucrative option will be available to raise the associated Menace. When the Menace reaches 7, it can be relinquished to The Fool's Apostate in exchange for Spirit of Hallowmas.

Note: Scandal was not able to be submitted to the Fool's Apostate in 2025. Items shown in strikethrough were not available in 2025 but will return in 2026.

The main reason to choose a particular Mask is to make it easier to raise a particular Menace, due to the privileges the Mask grants at its affiliated Masque. Changing your Mask costs 10 x Spirit of Hallowmas — though if you have any of the Fate-locked gilded masks, you can swap between them and your temporary mask whenever you wish. If you switch masks 7 times that way (not counting the initial time you received your first mask), you will get a Vanity Quality, An Indecisive Masquer, when Hallowmas ends.

Temporary Mask	Gilded Mask (30 FATE)
The Demon	The Violant Demon
The Infant	The Ephebe, Manifold
The Moth	The Gant Moth
The Crown	The Cosmogone Crown

Not available in 2025: The Demon / The Violant Demon.

Menaces

The Fool's Judgement Summary

Limited-Length Activity

Setup

0 A

Progress

4+ A

End

1 A

Progress Details

Raise Nightmares, Suspicion or Wounds to 7 and turn in to the Fool's Judgement. Cash out at the end of Hallowmas.

Items Inputs/Outputs

Outputs

• Appalling Secret
• Tale of Terror!!
• Muscaria Brandy
• Bazaar Permit
• Favour in High Places
• Cellar of Wine
• Vital Intelligence
• Silent Soul
• Night-Whisper
• Element of Dawn
• Mountain-sherd
• Direful Reflection
• Searing Enigma
• Vial of Tears of the Bazaar

Raw EPA

1.90

Raw SPA

1.12

The Fool's Apostate is the arbiter of Hallowmas. He judges whether Londoners have adequately entered the spirit of the festival.

Three Menaces are part of the Hallowmas festivities every year. The Menaces for 2025 are Wounds, Nightmares, and Suspicion ( Scandal cannot be turned in).

Menaces can be raised at Hallowmas Masques, or in any of the usual ways. See Menaces (Guide) for Menace-raising strategies.

When one's Menaces reaches level 7, a storylet will appear: The Fool's Judgement, where you can trade all of that Menace to The Fool's Apostate and receive 28 x Spirit of Hallowmas. This can be traded in at the end of the festival for rewards of valuable items. Additionally, the Menace you turn in the most of will grant you a particular Affiliation.

Note: The Fool's Judgement is not an autofire storylet; you will have to leave any storylet you are currently in, and then click on The Fool's Judgement. Don't get distracted and overshoot, as you will be sent to the associated Menace area if it reaches 8! (This isn't as punishing as it would otherwise be, as during Hallowmas there are cards which let you return to London with 5 levels of menace remaining.)

You can track your Spirit of Hallowmas on the Myself page, under Stories. The quantity of individual Menaces you turn in are tracked by hidden qualities.

Confessions

Bring Confessions to the Attendants to upgrade certain Companions, improving their stat bonuses.

Confessions are released throughout the festival: seven at the beginning, and seven more a week later. You will get a random assortment of the available Confessions: Curiosity, Guile, Impropriety, Pride, Violence, and Whimsy. Different combinations of Confessions can be traded to the Attendants in order to upgrade certain Companions. Different companions are upgradeable each year.

Sources

• Procure A Mysterious Confession: Seven free Confessions are given out on the first day of Hallowmas, and seven more seven days later. (See the timeline.)
• FATE: Purchase another Mysterious Confession (15 FATE).
• Trade confessions with another player: You can trade any Confession you have for any Confession one of your Contacts has, assuming they accept the trade. (The request will appear in their Messages tab.)
• Exchange Confessions at Masques (discussed below).

At the end of Hallowmas, you can turn in leftover Confessions at The Fool's Justice. Any Confessions you hold onto after Hallowmas will disappear when next Hallowmas begins; they cannot be saved from year to year.

Masques

During Hallowmas, three Balls will be held in different locations across London. Attendance is by invitation only.

The Masques appear as storylets, with a Favour required for entry. At each Masque, different options are available depending on Airs of the Hallowmas Season (which changes randomly with each action you take). These allow you to obtain small rewards, raise that Masque's associated Menace, and swap certain Confessions for others.

Attending the Masques

Each year, three Masques are in swing; click their titles to see all the actions available there. Each location also allows for the trading of certain types of confessions, as described in the table below.

The Roof Below — Mrs Plenty's Carnival

Options to raise Wounds. The Infant allows free entry via the opportunity card The Squall of Infants; otherwise you can spend a favour from Rubbery Men, Constables, or Criminals.

Saint Dunstan's Sacristy — Spite (not active in 2025)

Options to raise Scandal. The Demon allows free entry via the opportunity card The Devil's Gambit; otherwise you can spend a favour from Hell, the Church, or Bohemians.

The Wreck of the St Elmo — Watchmaker's Hill

Options to raise Suspicion. The Crown allows free entry via the opportunity card The Crown's Splendour; otherwise you can spend a favour from the Docks, Urchins, or Tomb-Colonies.

The Pavilion of Butterflies — Veilgarden

Options to raise Nightmares. The Moth allows free entry via the opportunity card The Flight of Moths; otherwise you can spend a favour from Society, the Great Game, or Revolutionaries.

Exchanging Confessions

All exchanges require Airs of the Hallowmas Season 34–66; this can be cycled using the other options at the Masque.

Location	Required Confession	Gained Confession
The Roof Below (Mrs Plenty's Carnival)	Whimsy	Guile
	Curiosity	Pride
The Pavilion of Butterflies (Veilgarden)	Impropriety	Curiosity
	Violence	Whimsy
	Whimsy	Pride
The Wreck of the St Elmo (Watchmaker's Hill)	Impropriety	Violence
	Pride	Impropriety
	Guile	Violence

(Confessions can also be exchanged via social actions: Trade confessions with another player who has the one you need.)

What to do with all these Confessions? Seek out the Attendants, and hand in your Confessions to upgrade certain Companions you may have acquired.

Companions and Items

At Hallowmas, specific combinations of the Confessions can be brought to the Attendants. If you have a certain Companion, these Confession combinations can be used to upgrade that Companion to a superior, Hallowmas version of that Companion.

Obtaining Companions

See Hallowmas (Guide)/Item Comparison for a detailed breakdown of stats and uses for Hallowmas items

When Hallowmas begins each year, a new Companion joins you. In 2025, you can meet the Perforated Diver companion, who could also be upgraded using Confessions. Other past companions can be acquired for Fate.

The freely available companions in 2025 are:

• Perforated Diver, a Dangerous +5 and Inerrant +1 companion that increases Nightmares build up.

It's also possible to meet the Rabble of Revellers crew in 2025, without Fate, if you didn't meet them in 2024 (by playing a character created after 2024, for example). You cannot upgrade the crew this year, however.

The many, many companions from Hallowmases past, available each year for Fate, may be perused at Let Slivvy Speak.

Upgrading Companions

If you have certain Companions already, the right combination of Confessions will allow you to upgrade them. Note that if a companion is freely available, and you then upgrade it, you no longer have that companion -- which generally means you can then re-acquire the base companion for free again. You don't necessarily have to sacrifice the base companion to get an upgraded variant.

For example, in 2025's Hallowmas, it was possible to end up with Perforated Diver, Perforated Zubmariner and No One of Consequence, if you so choose. As such, if you upgrade a free companion, don't forget to claim another copy of the base companion before Hallowmas ends.

In the table below, strict Best-in-Slot stats are marked bold, shared Best-in-Slot is italic, and stats which are neither are in regular case.

Note: The information under Uses will be filled in as uses for the new Companions are discovered.

Hallowmas Companions and Items available in 2025

Original	Confessions	Upgrade	Stats	Uses
Perforated Diver	Impropriety Violence	No One of Consequence	Affiliation: Dangerous +4 Dreaded +4 Shapeling Arts +1	Trade stories with the servants of Flute Street in Helicon House
	Curiosity Guile Pride	Perforated Zubmariner (A Broken Barb will be granted instead to players who haven't unlocked Agents, to be used to unlock this agent at such a time as they do.)	Agent: Watchful 60 Shadowy 10 Zeefaring 2 Salvaging 10 Human Zubmarine Capabilities Nautical	Agents (Guide)
Associating with Radical Academics 75 A Web Awaiting Its Spider 10	Curiosity Violence Whimsy	The Ragged Recusant	Agent: Shadowy 65 Dangerous 65 Persuasive 65 A Player of Chess 2 Intelligencier	Agents (Guide)
Violant Moon-Miser or Alchemical Moon-Miser	Impropriety Guile Pride	Coruscating Miser-Mount	Transport: Bizarre +2 Kataleptic Toxicology +1 Shapeling Arts +1	Can be used as a steed when hunting in the Risen Burgundy
Analgesic Rhetorician (FATE)	Impropriety Guile	Glimsatin Gown	Clothing: Persuasive +6 Bizarre +1 Mithridacy +1
Associating with the Candlefinder Society 10 Rookery Password	Curiosity Whimsy	Topsy Tailcoat	Clothing: Watchful +6 Shadowy +6	Promenade around in full view to get Casing... using a Watchful challenge instead of a Shadowy challenge; requires being a PoSI
The Chap on the Corner (or 2 Favours: Constables if Renown: Constables <25) and Ex-Privateer Charter Clerk (or 2 Favours: The Docks if Renown: The Docks <10)	Guile Pride	Shipful of Schemers	Crew: A Player of Chess +1	An option on A Spit of Land during zailing that gains you a Vienna Opening
Rose-Bearing Maggot (FATE)	Violence Whimsy	Maggot-Bearing Rose	Adornment: Dangerous +4 Bizarre +1 Insubstantial +1	Wait for somebody to flirt with you in Helicon House
The Chap on the Corner	Curiosity Pride	Nimble-fingered Intelligencer	Companion: Watchful +6 Bizarre +1 Dreaded +1	Marry him to get Flexible Intelligencer, A Player of Chess Spouse
Ex-Privateer Charter Clerk	Impropriety Violence	Only-Semi-Retired Privateer Charter Clerk	Companion: Watchful +6 Dangerous +7	Marry her to get a Joyful Charter Clerk, A Player of Chess Spouse
Forty-Nine-Voiced Warbler	Curiosity Pride Whimsy	Portable Fingerking Moot	Companion: Persuasive +8 Mithridacy +2	Auto-convince the Jovial Contrarian during Railway Board voting
Misplaced Ring	Impropriety Guile Violence	Recalcitrant Sculptress	Companion: Watchful +6 Dreaded +3 Monstrous Anatomy +1 Artisan of the Red Science +1	Enlist expert assistance in the Jericho Library

Scar Under Skin

With Scar Under Skin 3-4, you can find a Regal Confessor among the Attendants and reveal a scarred truth, awarding you with:

• An Absence, an Insubstantial +1 affiliation

This concludes the storyline, starting from the Advent Calendar, to Millicent's Parlour during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose, De Gustibus during Whitsun, Audiences with the King-in-Coral during the Fruits of the Zee Festival, and finally here.

Rewards

When the Hallowmas revelries come to an end, you will encounter a universal storylet named Hallowmas: The Fool's Justice. Here, your Spirit of Hallowmas may be traded in for a variety of rewards, and you will receive a gift from one of the leaders of the Masques depending on which Menace you submitted most often.

Spirit of Hallowmas

Each reward costs a certain number of Spirit of Hallowmas. You can spend your Spirit however you want—take the highest-tier reward, and then smaller rewards to spend whatever you have remaining, or opt for more of the smaller rewards. For example, 1600 Spirit could be spent as 1000 + 500 + 100, or 3(500) + 100, or 16(100), etc.

Any Spirit of Hallowmas above 2500 will be converted into CP for the The Knight of Hallowmas vanity quality at a ratio of 20:1 (in other words, plug the result of (Spirit of Hallowmas - 2500) / 20 into the CP Calculator as your CP gain). Obtaining this quality sets your Spirit to 2499, which you can then spend as you wish on the other rewards.

Any unspent Spirit of Hallowmas will eventually disappear and cannot be saved for the following year's event.

Affiliations

These are awarded depending on which Menace you submitted to the Fool's Apostate the most. If you already received the Affiliation associated with that Menace in a previous year, you will get the repeat reward instead, a non-unique but high-value item.

Not available in 2025: A Seat at the Bishop's Table (the Scandal Affiliation) or its repeat reward of 1 x Primaeval Hint.

Each of the affiliations you can gain has an associated Opportunity Card, with options to gain items or Favours. These cards can appear year-round, as long as you have the Affiliation equipped when drawing from your deck.

A Member of the Crew of the St Elmo — Drink with the Crew of the St Elmo

• Share Stories: Gain 1–5 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 and 2 x Memory of Distant Shores
• Carouse with the Crew of the St Elmo: Spend 5 x Bottle of Morelways 1872 to gain 1 x Favours: Criminals

Inducted into the Inverted Stalactite Society — Meetings of the Initiates of the Society of the Inverted Stalactite

• Ascend the Roof Below: Gain 45 x Nodule of Warm Amber and 2 x Ambiguous Eolith
• Light the Roof Below: Spend 5 x Phosphorescent Scarab to gain 1 x Favours: Rubbery Men

A Member of the Order... — A Shrouded Soiree with the Order of Those Who Will Not Be Caught Red-Handed

• Witness a feat of illusion: Gain 1–5 x Maniac's Prayer and 2 x Memory of Light
• Dress up: Spend 5 x Surface-Silk Scrap to gain 1 x Favours: Bohemians

A Seat at the Bishop's Table — Attend a dinner at St Fiacre's

• Enjoy a delicious repast: Gain 1–5 x Inkling of Identity and 1–2 x Scrap of Incendiary Gossip
• Provide a sermon for the table: Spend 5 x Romantic Notion to gain 1 x Favours: The Church

Confessions

Any leftover Confessions can be traded to the Fool for item rewards. Note that any Confessions kept after Hallowmas will disappear when next Hallowmas commences; they cannot be saved from year to year.

Confession	Reward
Curiosity	Extraordinary Implication
Guile	An Identity Uncovered!
Impropriety	Touching Love Story
Pride	Sworn Statement
Violence	Aeolian Scream
Whimsy	Bottle of Broken Giant 1844

Visitors

A smaller activity that can be done is attracting a visitor. Most of the actions are rather unremarkable, trading an action and some low value items for nightmares and making waves. This may be useful if you draw the card Visitors at Hallowmas. The option Open a window to the night air cycles the airs for an action. There are, however, 2 options here that are of note:

• Attend a lecture on 'spiritual hygiene' (7 FATE) will sell your soul and either provide a T7 item, or a Vial of Cantigaster Venom, which is a shared best-in-slot Kataleptic Toxicology item, though there are non-fate ways to obtain this.
  • Requires The Airs of London 32-35
• Feeding the River is the only way to raise Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies up to 3.
  • Requires Putting the Pieces Together: the Drownies 1
  • Requires The Airs of London 90-100

A separate card Visitors at Hallowmas allows the trading of 5 making waves and 5 nightmares to view a potential future and eventually obtain a destiny. Despite the in-game flavour text on Attract a Visitor at Hallowmas, the 5 MW and NM are only required once the card has been drawn. The card itself can be drawn at any time.

Strategies and Analysis

Strategies and Analysis →

Hallowmases Past

Hallowmases Past →

Timeline

It is useful to know what your deadlines are. All switch-overs happen at approximately around noon in GMT.

For 2025, the festival has been extended one day due to significant server instability. Note the revised dates below.

• First Monday (October 20, 2025): All main-event storylets are opened. First batch of 7 free Confessions is available.
• Second Monday (October 27, 2025): Second batch of 7 free Confessions is available.
• Third Monday (November 3, 2025 November 4, 2025): All main-event storylets are closed, and post-event turn-ins become available. Unused confessions can be turned in for 2.5 echo items on the storylet Hallowmas: The Fool's Justice. Upgrading Companions is closed.
• Fourth Monday (November 10, 2025 November 11, 2025): Post-event turn-ins are closed. Remaining spirit and confessions are wiped by Time, the Healer.