The Why of Eels

Pale flesh pulled taut over malformed bone. A sharp, protruding nose; a twinkling human eye. An endlessly grinning mouth, stretching back well beyond any human jaw. An eel?

Eels: a Fifth City delicacy, and an ichthyological mystery. It is eel migration season in the Neath, and the Stolen River runs black with slippery bodies. But where does their migration end? And why does this specimen have an unsettlingly human face? Eat inadvisable zeefood; track the creatures to their spawning ground; find an answer to the why of eels.

This is a FATE-locked story.

Author: Harry Tuffs
Artist: Paul Arendt
Editing and QA: Luke van den Barselaar

It was originally published as an Exceptional Story in May 2025.

The story can be unlocked from The Fate page for 45 FATE points.
It can not be reset.

More information can be found here.

Notable Rewards and Tie-ins

• A Brief Stint as an Eel

Unique options with:

• Zubmersibility
• 500 Leviathan
• The Inconstant Friendship of a Retired Zubmariner
• Abyssal Sawtooth
• Unerring Elver
• Immaculate Eel
• Uttermost Eel
• 5 Shapeling Arts
• A Disquieting Suspicion That You Might Be Spiders
• 15 The Boatman's Opponent
• Water in the Blood
• Stars Under Skin
• Your Own Severed Head
• Crimson-Handed
• A Clay Arm
• exactly 1 Red Science at the Gant Pole
• A Metamorphosed Moth-Self
• The Robe of Mr Cards
• A Notched Bone Harpoon
• Tatterskin Shawl
  

Starting Storylet

• An Exceptional Story: The Why of Eels