Thread:Vae Victis/@comment-6042046-20130526090455/@comment-6042046-20130527011435

The Bazaar is supposedly a mile beneath the Surface. The Neath is roughly the size of Europe. Your character remarks on it in prison. Or, um, that's how it went in the prison tutorial when I created my latest alt 7 weeks ago. The mechanics of moving between the Neath and the Surface haven't been fleshed out yet...like, literally, FBG is still coding the transition areas (something with a giant stalactite and a canal). I had the same thought as you about a pocket dimension. It might still hold true.

Clever manipulation of tectonic plates is used to swallow cities, or at least that's how I reason it. The newest one drops unceremoniously on top of the previous city. Of course, that wouldn't entirely explain the Forgotten Quarter's mysteries.

I really don't know if the Traitor Empress still rules the British Empire, or if FL remains a part of it. It's possible Fallen London is a separate sovereign state/country/metropolis of its own by now. The existence of the Fifth City alone is enough motivation to continue the Game. If there can be a Fifth, then there's likely to be a Sixth. Should other countries prepare against it or for it? And since FL is in possession of unique resources and technologies, other countries will seek them for the sake of competitive edge at the least.

"I'd still expect some human solidarity against the devils, the Masters and whatever else that lurks in that abyss."

Yeah, there's "some" like portions of The Church and the Revolutionaries. I say "portions of The Church" because there are several Churches now, the Good Book has been revised in multiple ways for multiple purposes, certain saints had a change of name, and so on. But, yes, The Church still opposes Hell. (Don't worry; I'm not telling you anything you haven't or couldn't read from the randomized sidebar snippets.)

The Revolutionaries oppose the Masters. You have to remember that people rarely say London was "stolen" nowadays; only anarchists use that word. I mean, the Revolutionaries are called "anarchists" and not "heroes" or "saviors of justice". I'm sure there was a great hullabaloo when the city first began its acquaintance with the Neath. The tuned has changed. The Masters have wealth and...peculiar instruments of power. Basically, most of the citizenry have been bought or threatened into submission. Mostly bought, I'd say.

Sometimes I even get the feeling that rather than being criminal, it's simply déclassé to plot rebellion. The internal class warfare can be more important than being dragged screaming into the Neath and pitted against devils, new overlords and zee-monsters. :P