The Why of Eels

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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 be reset for 25 FATE points.

More information can be found here.

Notable Rewards and Tie-ins

: guaranteed rewards; : rewards that require additional effort and could be missed but do not affect the story or availability of other rewards; : rewards specific to certain combinations of important choices; : rewards with unknown/unclear status.

• A Brief Stint as an Eel

Unique options with:

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

Starting Storylet

• An Exceptional Story: The Why of Eels