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Origin: Poet
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Category Facet
Type Origin
Data ID 131148

Origin: Poet is considered a Origin Facet in Sunless Skies.

Accomplishment description[ | ]

"Sappho and Swinburne; Boccaccio and Baudelaire. And now: you?"

Obtaining[ | ]

Origin: Poet is one of the eight character origins you can select at the character creation.

You were a poet
Poetry was popular in Old London. Some poets sought fame, others art. Some simply enjoyed Bohemian company.

Three pre-eminent artistic movements have come to prominence.

Which are your works most associated with?

Hearts icon Hearts = 25
Affiliationbohemia icon +1 x Affiliation: Bohemia
Pastscandal icon Flickering = 1

The Celestials The Nocturnals The Sovereign School
In Old London, they wrote nostalgically of the Surface and the Sun. Now, they write of the Stars, and the Treasures of Heaven.
The Celestials revere the complexities of the natural order. All things have a place – from highest to high, from lower to least. They favour the intricate; the tranquil; the reflective.
A radical, outlawed school that delights in freedoms found in the dark.
Their sentiments are revolutionary, so to avoid the censorious ink of the Ministry of Public Decency, they conceal their message in code and in margins: liberation!


A new tradition, born in the Empress' Court. Their works are patriotic, bombastic, and occupied with the iconography of time: clocks and seasons and sand and so forth.
Members of the Sovereign School can find wealthy patrons. The dream is to catch the attention of the Empress herself. Some of her own children are luminaries of the school.

Quality status[ | ]

Origin: Poet has different statuses according to your actions, defined by the comment in front of the quality.

Journal description[ | ]

  • [10] You belonged to the Celestial school
  • [20] You belonged to the Nocturnal school
  • [30] You belonged to the Sovereign school

Variable Interaction description[ | ]

These desciptions appear when a specific group is called for text.

Magdalene[ | ]

  • [0]
  • [1] Your old companion is reclining on the bed you remember. Were you lovers once? Did you share honey together? Comrades in vice, or muse and artist? Perhaps all at once, perhaps none. Their smile is maddeningly enigmatic, but their intention is not. "

OverTheEdge[ | ]

  • [1] The titles of all your poems, and the reasons you wrote them."

Storm1[ | ]

  • [1] The voice of an old rival who wrote beautifully, loved too quickly, and died at jealous hands in a grimy alley."

Ghost[ | ]

  • [0] Ghost

Interactions[ | ]

Interactions in Brief[ | ]

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Interaction Action Result Type Change
Who Were You? 'The Celestials' Default / Challenge Fail = 10
Who Were You? 'The Nocturnals' Default / Challenge Fail = 20
Who Were You? 'The Sovereign School' Default / Challenge Fail = 30
Pasts 'Fifteen Minutes of Fame' Requirement ≥ 1
Explore London 'Entirely rewrite the Decadent's Work – and give that to the Publisher instead' Requirement ≥ 1
Approaching the Avid Horizon 'A memory of patronage' Requirement ≥ 30 ≤ 30
Approaching the Avid Horizon 'A memory of liberation' Requirement ≥ 20 ≤ 20
Approaching the Avid Horizon 'A memory of fulfillment ' Requirement ≥ 10 ≤ 10
The Bathroom 'Show off' Requirement ≥ 1
Ambition: an Old Friend '...an Earnest Rival' Requirement ≥ 10

Interactions in Detail[ | ]

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Story Action Required Effect
Who Were You? The Celestials None Default:
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 10 [You belonged to the Celestial school]
    • Pastscandal icon Flickering = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as intermittently tantalising with an aftertaste of disappointment.]
    • Iron icon Clear = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as disappointingly clear; almost transparent.]
The Nocturnals None Default:
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 20 [You belonged to the Nocturnal school]
    • Hunger icon Fermented = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as pungent, febrile and unappetising.]
    • Pastscandal icon Flickering = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as intermittently tantalising with an aftertaste of disappointment.]
The Sovereign School None Default:
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 30 [You belonged to the Sovereign school]
    • Pastscandal icon Flickering = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as intermittently tantalising with an aftertaste of disappointment.]
    • Fire icon Curdled = 1 [The devils of Carillon claim to be experts in the assessment and improvement of the soul. They would describe yours as sickly, cloying and unappetisingly crawling. ]


Pasts Fifteen Minutes of Fame Default:


Explore London Entirely rewrite the Decadent's Work – and give that to the Publisher instead
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet ≥ 1
Default:


Approaching the Avid Horizon A memory of patronage
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 30 [You belonged to the Sovereign school]
Default:
A memory of liberation
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 20 [You belonged to the Nocturnal school]
Default:
A memory of fulfillment
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet = 10 [You belonged to the Celestial school]
Default:


The Bathroom Show off Default:


Ambition: an Old Friend ...an Earnest Rival
    • Originpoet icon Origin: Poet ≥ 10
Default:
    • Dyingstar icon Ambition: the Truth = 15 [Your old friend associates with a group of seasoned captains that meet at the Promise of Days in New Winchester. Seek her there]



Facets
Type
Origins Originpoet icon Origin: Poet
Originpriest icon Origin: Priest
Originurchin icon Origin: Urchin
Flag icon Origin: Revolutionary
Originsoldier icon Origin: Soldier
Originzeecaptain icon Origin: Zailor
Originacademic icon Origin: Academic
Searingenigma icon Origin: Auditor
Past Book icon Past: Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Momentofinspiration icon Past: An Hour in Gethsemane
Pastunlikelyhaul icon Past: An Unlikely Haul
Genericcharacter icon Past: The Liberation of Night
Smokinggun icon Past: The Battlefield
Porthole icon Past: Worse Things Happen at Zee
Unlicensedchart icon Past: Your Masterpiece
Searingenigma icon Past: A Letter of Resignation
Pastscandal icon Past: Scandal
Stainedglass icon Past: Lost Love
Pastmentor icon Past: Mentor
Bronzewood icon Past: Family Footsteps
Amberblue icon Past: Pestilence
Youarenotalone icon Past: Haunted
Key icon Past: a Metamorphosis
Pastspellinprison icon Past: A Spell in Prison
CrateofNostalgicCrockery icon Past: Below Stairs
Pastsmoggystreets icon Past: The Smoggy Streets
Cobwebs icon Past: the Great Game
Terror icon Past: The Bell Tolls
Rubberyman icon Past: Rubbery Inclinations
Repentantdevil icon Past: the Devil you Know
Pastscarred icon Past: Scarred
Drink icon Past: Black Sheep
Fire icon Past: the Blockade of New Winchester
Locomotive icon Past: Steam & Soot
Hunger icon Past: Sunday Dinners
Undistinguishedsouls icon Past: Spirifered
Wind icon Past: An Exercise Regimen
Boot icon Past: the Long Arm of the Law
Ratronaut icon Past: an Honorary Rat
Pastinterlude icon Past: An Interlude in Red and Gold
Stovepipe icon Past: The August Avenues
BarrelofUnseasonedHours icon Past: A Promise of Days
Homestead icon Past: a Settler
Stormthatspeaks icon Past: the Seance
Envelope icon Past: Correspondent
Ringmaster icon Past: a House of Cards
Deeds Hull icon Deed: a Narrow Escape
Transitrelay icon Deed: Far-Travelled
Wreckgeneric icon Deed: an Esteemed Predecessor
Wreckgeneric icon Deed: a Disgraced Predecessor
Affiliationacadame icon Deed: a Secret Symposium
Affiliationbohemia icon Deed: a Coterie
Affiliationestablishment icon Deed: Your Club
Affiliationvillainy icon Deed: a Thief-Oath
Clock icon Deed: the Keeper of the Clocks
Smuggling icon Deed: Seasoned Smuggler
Originzeecaptain icon Deed: the Call of the Sea
Maskedshade icon Deed: A Jar with your Death in it
Devilshell icon Deed: A Knight of the Brazen Brigade
Mirrors icon Deed: the Witness
Bloody icon Deed: The Final Month
Ambition Heirloomwealth icon Past: Your Inheritance Heirloomsongofthesky icon Past: the Song of the Sky Unaccountablypeckish icon Past: a Terrible Secret Martyrkingscup icon Past: the Martyr-King's Cup
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