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+ | ====== The Eleven-Day Empire ====== | ||
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+ | ====A Tour of the Capital==== | ||
+ | {{FactionTour: | ||
+ | The shadow London of the Eleven-Day Empire is a mishmash of time-zones, with streets, buildings and landmarks taken from periods earlier or later than its eighteenth century foundations, | ||
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+ | As London has a certain geographical continuity (which is to say, the street layout has rarely changed over two millennia), it's possible to walk along a lane which switches from Enlightenment to Victorian to Roman and back again within the stretch of a few yards. This guide concentrates on following the route of the Feast of Fools through the streets, providing details of the rites which take place along the way. | ||
+ | =====The Feast of Fools===== | ||
+ | This is the annual beating of the bounds ritual, in which a masked pageant performs rites at key points around the symbolic boundary of the Eleven-Day Empire. Although the event takes place within the Empire' | ||
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+ | The Feast takes place on Twelfth Night (the 5th of January). Traditionally, | ||
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+ | The pageant takes the form of twenty-three primary characters or plays, enacted by various senior members of the organisation. These are followed by various supporting cast members, such as La Haut Papesse' | ||
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+ | The twenty-three masquerade characters are described in detail under their individual titles. They proceed along the route in a strict order, as marked by their assigned number and as coached by the Remembrancer, | ||
+ | ====00. Le Fou==== | ||
+ | - The Fool, or Wanderer - Westminster Palace | ||
+ | The first of the masqueraders in the annual Feast of Fools is in some ways the most important character. Normally played by the Acting Speaker of the House, the point of this ritual is for his or her authority to be inverted. His (even if the Acting Speaker is female, Le Fou is always male) role throughout is to lead the festivities, | ||
+ | At the start of the ceremonies he emerges from the Thames on the Members' | ||
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+ | The first stop on the processional route is Old Scotland Yard. | ||
+ | ====01. L' | ||
+ | - The Alchemist, or Magician - Old Scotland Yard | ||
+ | The role of L' | ||
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+ | Both the site and the ritual are about investigation and intelligence, | ||
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+ | When the Godfather playing L' | ||
+ | * The spear is raised first, reminding the crowd of the Military Wing. By tradition, the Alchemist calls on Lug to acknowledge this symbol and recognise the Faction' | ||
+ | * The cauldron is raised next, and is associated with the Bio-Research Wing. Bran is called upon to recognise this. Bran the Blessed is another hero of ancient Celtic mythology, his head said to rest under Tower Hill. Then again, the head of Brutus is also said to be buried there. Maybe they chat. | ||
+ | * The sword, or athame, is raised next. This is associated with the Ritual Wing, although the knife used is a replica of the Grandfather' | ||
+ | * The stone of destiny is raised last, and is associated with the Doubtless Fourth Wing. The stone was the symbol by which kings and queens of Scotland were crowned, granting them sovereignty over their land. It was brought to Westminster as an act of symbolism (or at least, an act of gloating) after being seized by Edward I, the Hammer of the Scots. In normal-time several versions of the stone exist, due to it having been stolen at least twice in piques of nationalism by both sides. The actual provenience of the stone used in the Eleven-Day Empire is unclear: it's simultaneously a fake and the real thing. | ||
+ | Once the ritual is complete, the cultist playing L' | ||
+ | ====02. L' | ||
+ | - The Empress - Westminster Bridge | ||
+ | L' | ||
+ | The Eleven-Day Empire' | ||
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+ | At the cake ball, all the Mothers and Fathers currently within the Parliament eat a slice from a cake: the Mother and Father who find the two English five Franc pieces (with Napoleon' | ||
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+ | When the parade reaches the statue of Boudicca, L' | ||
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+ | The procession continues along the Victoria Embankment, towards the back of the Banqueting House. | ||
+ | ====03. L' | ||
+ | - The Emperor - Banqueting House, Whitehall | ||
+ | L' | ||
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+ | The Eleven-Day Empire version of the character is dressed in a paper mache replica of full battle armour, complete with bat-skulled head-dress and a dark red cloak over his shoulders. He parades alongside L' | ||
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+ | The procession now moves along the Embankment to La Haut Papesse. | ||
+ | ====04. La Haut Papesse==== | ||
+ | - The High Priestess, or Female Pope & Cleopatra' | ||
+ | La Haut Papesse is the first of the spiritual guardians which follow L' | ||
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+ | The role of La Haut Papesse tends to fall to Mothers initially recruited in the 1920s, who have an enthusiasm for the neo-Egyptian iconography. She wears a plain white shift, decorated with a large gold collar, and her face is veiled in white. She's accompanied by two of her protege-Cousins, | ||
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+ | When they arrive at Cleopatra' | ||
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+ | Once this rite is complete, La Haut Papesse falls silent again and the procession moves along the Embankment to enter the Temple region. | ||
+ | ==Footnote== | ||
+ | __Cleopatra' | ||
+ | This Egyptian obelisk, erroneously known as Cleopatra' | ||
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+ | It originally stood at the entrance to the temple of the sun at Heliopolis, and is said to exert a malevolent presence on the Thames: certainly this is the most popular spot for suicides on the River, and in the Feast of Fools it marks the start of the journey towards the Empire' | ||
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+ | It may also have been the site of one Cousin' | ||
+ | ====05. Le Hierophant==== | ||
+ | - The Hierophant, or Pope - Temple | ||
+ | This character in the parade is played by the highest-ranking male member of the Ritual Wing (ideally the Godfather, or a notable Father if the head of the wing is currently a Godmother). His mummer takes place in the round nave of the Church of the Templars in the Temple area. | ||
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+ | He's dressed as a Cardinal, in a mixture of red and black robes. One arm is generally hidden - or actually missing, in the case of the more fervent Fathers - and the other carries a staff. He's accompanied by a protege-Cousin, | ||
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+ | After several trial and errors, a shadow play became the standard ceremony. The players act out an initiation rite, with as much fumbling and overacting as possible. The red-robed Cousin is tied with silk ropes and stands in a brightly lit circle. Le Hierophant brings down the staff between the Cousin and his shadow, separating the two. The silk ropes fall away and the bifurcated Cousin dances about the nave, his shadow mimicking him. They (eventually) lead the congregation out into Pump Court, where Le Hierophant reads out the inscription on the sundial there: shadows we are, and like shadows depart. At this, both Cousins disappear into the night, generally in the direction of Trafalgar Square. | ||
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+ | This ritual is a male counterpoint to La Haut Papesse' | ||
+ | ====06. L' | ||
+ | - The Lovers - Fleet Street | ||
+ | The two individuals who perform a rite on Fleet Street are costumed as Sweeney Todd - the demon barber of Fleet Street - and Margery Lovett, his lover and accomplice. They' | ||
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+ | At 186 Fleet Street, the crowd waits outside while all the characters in the parade make their way into the barber shop, sliding down Todd's corpse-chute into the catacombs below. The masqueraders then make their way through the vaults and skeletons under St Dunstan' | ||
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+ | This brief sojourn marks the first rebirth in the cycle of rituals, as the various characters descend into the charnel-house before climbing back into the open air. It takes place after the spoof initiation by Le Hierophant, and signifies the end of the first stage and the freeing of the body from the constraints of society, just as Todd and Lovett went beyond the bounds of their own time. It's also the first rite to contain both male and female primary characters, indicating a form of equality, leading to the next rite: Liberte. | ||
+ | ====07. Liberte ==== | ||
+ | - Liberty - Fetter Lane | ||
+ | Liberte | ||
+ | Fetter Lane is on the very edge of the boundary between the Eleven-Day Empire and the City, one of the few literal boundaries of the Empire which the route follows. To go further East is to go outside the bounds of the Empire' | ||
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+ | The disguised masqueraders walk up the Lane handing out free pamphlets to the torch-bearing crowds. These freesheets contain manifestos and treatises on diverse subjects, as well as satirical cartoons and libellous comments about Godfathers and Godmothers. These are deliberately lo-tech, badly-printed and mis-spelt, in order to suggest that they' | ||
+ | * Cousin Thomas the Optimist, based on Thomas Paine, whose 1791 Rights of Man was conceived here. The Father playing this figure normally leads a speech beginning "we have it in our power to begin the world over again", | ||
+ | * Cousin Mary, based on Mary Wollstonecraft, | ||
+ | * Cousin Thomas the Inky, based on Thomas Evans, a Jacobin (pro-French-Revolutionary) who turned his hand to printing, pornography and running a coffee-house. | ||
+ | * Cousin James, based on James Tilly Matthews, a greengrocer turned political activist who was eventually locked up in Bethlehem Mental Prison (better known as Bedlam) after accusing a Home Secretary of treason. | ||
+ | * Cousin John, based on John Wilkes, the " | ||
+ | Once the crowd have taken their fill of wine and libel, the pageant moves onto Holborn. | ||
+ | ====08. Victoire==== | ||
+ | - Victory, or the Charioteer - Holborn to Tyburn | ||
+ | Victoire takes the form of a Chariot race along Holborn. Four Roman two-horse Chariots are used, one for each of the Wings. Each Wing puts forward a Charioteer, except for the Doubtless Fourth Wing, whose Chariot is unmanned (as the Wing has never been properly identified even within the Faction) and is taken wherever the horses want to go. The race actually begins at Holborn Circus, just to the East of Fetter Lane, and runs as far as Tyburn with the Chariots battling for the lead along a course of torchlit streets only wide enough for two of the vehicles to run side by side. | ||
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+ | This route follows a Roman military road, the Wide Here Street, which linked the Roman garrison within the City to the original Watling Street and thus to Thorney Island (Westminster). The two ancient pathways met and still meet at Tyburn, and the crossroads may well have been fixed as an execution site at that time. The route from Holborn to Tyburn has been a road towards death for millennia. | ||
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+ | The four Chariots are built by the Little Brothers and Sisters of the various Wings, in secrecy, during the preceding fortnight. Each year the builders try to create the wildest and most improbable display in order to impress the crowd. The vehicles are kept out of sight until the majority of the mob has reached the top of Fetter Lane. The four Chariots are then lined up at Holborn Circus and the three Charioteers are led to them, with a great deal of show to the crowd (the Doubtless Fourth Wing's Chariot is held by the Little Brothers and Sisters involved in its construction). With a signal from Le Fou, the race is started. The Charioteers use any means necessary to try to win while the fourth Chariot weaves amongst them, the horses following the pack. The first to arrive at Tyburn is declared Victoire and returns to Lincoln' | ||
+ | ====09. La Force==== | ||
+ | - Fortitude, or Strength - High Holborn | ||
+ | La Force is played by a young female cultist, drawn from any of the Wings. Dressed as a French Revolutionary, | ||
+ | The young female, often barely adolescent, is dressed as Marie Charpentier: | ||
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+ | The lion represents the old order, that of the Homeworld, recalling the idea of the lion as a symbol of monarchy and divine right. It's also an automaton, one of Baron von Kempelen' | ||
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+ | The clockwork lion, then, represents a constructed order which is overthrown by the unarmed but powerful revolutionary spirit. To defeat it, La Force must get past its weapons and throw a switch on its belly. Previous members who have played La Force are recognisable by the scars from wounds the lion inflicts. Having overcome the old controlling order, the pageant happily throws itself to the vagaries of Le Fortune. | ||
+ | ====10. Le Fortune==== | ||
+ | - Fortune, or Fate - Lincoln' | ||
+ | Le Fortune rests in Lincoln' | ||
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+ | At the centre of the field a giant wooden wheel is set up, roughly twenty feet in diameter. On the circumference of the wheel, animals from the cryptozoology section of the Eleven-Day Empire' | ||
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+ | Until the Fates arrive with the main procession the Wheel stands idle, but once set in motion it doesn' | ||
+ | ====11. L' | ||
+ | - The Hermit of Time - Seven Dials | ||
+ | L' | ||
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+ | Unlike all the other primary masquerades of the pageant, L' | ||
+ | The Seven Dials area is poorly-lit, with shady figures congregating about the pillar in the centre of the junction. More astute followers of the pageant will notice that the pillar, after which the area is named, only has six sundial faces on it: the seventh is the junction itself, the pillar acting as the arm. The pillar was pulled down in 1773 by a mob in search of treasure which was alleged to be buried beneath it (repeating the idea of hidden riches). | ||
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+ | Almost inevitably, the Father playing L' | ||
+ | Having temporarily grasped the mystery of time, the crowd carries on up to St. Giles Circus. | ||
+ | ====12. Le Pendu==== | ||
+ | - The Hanged Man - St. Giles Circus | ||
+ | Le Pendu is the first death, the rite of self-abnegation which leads to great spiritual power and echoes the initiation into Faction Paradox. The primary figure is hidden behind a calm, smiling mask as he's raised into a tumbril at Seven Dials. The procession heads towards St. Giles Circus, pausing at the Angel-in-St.-Giles inn as Le Pendu enjoys a last bowl of ale. He or she is a Little Brother or Sister, undertaking this rite as their own initiation. After their last drink, the figure' | ||
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+ | St. Giles is the crossroads, the centrepoint of the masquerade, as well as one of the central sites of the Eleven-Day Empire. In the normal timeline St. Giles is where the Northern and Central underground lines cross, and is close to the spot where the missing Eleven Days were given to Faction Paradox by George II: the spot on which the Eleven-Day Empire was born. St. Giles is also an area of outsiders and transience; first a leper colony, then the site of the rookeries (considered the worst slums in London). At this crossroads one of the masqueraders is hanged upside-down on the old gallows, sacrificing the self in order to go beyond base matter and reaffirm the Empire' | ||
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+ | Once Le Pendu is swinging, the pageant moves on towards Tyburn. | ||
+ | ====13. Morte==== | ||
+ | - Death - Tyburn Road (Oxford Street) | ||
+ | Morte is, unsurprisingly, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Once Le Pendu has been hanged, Morte draws the focus to the crowd to him for the walk along Tyburn Road (renamed Oxford Street in twentieth century London). He symbolically gathers the dead towards him by collecting severed human parts from hiding places along the route in a macabre form of Easter egg hunt. For example, he recovers the severed head of Oliver Cromwell from its hiding place in a chimney and carries it, held by the shaft of the spike which pierces it, until the pageant reaches L' | ||
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+ | Just as Le Pendu is about making a sacrifice in order to attain a higher level of understanding, | ||
+ | ====14. L' | ||
+ | - The Tree, or Tower - Marble Arch | ||
+ | This rite takes place at Tyburn Tree itself, an ancient crossroads and execution site, situated at the western end of Tyburn Road/ Oxford Street. At this point another re-enactment of a hanging takes place. Unlike the willing sacrifice of Le Pendu, this figure is unwilling. This is to indicate an overturn of fortune, a downfall. | ||
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+ | Tyburn Tree is sited where Nash's Marble Arch was eventually built in the normal timeline, despite Tyburn having been located in Connaught Square just to the north. Since people believe Marble Arch to be the site of the old execution spot, in the Eleven-Day Empire it is, regardless of the truth. | ||
+ | By this point in the Feast most of the crowd are drunk on both beer and the spirit of the night. The higher ranks of the Eleven-Day Empire move onto the wooden stands which look over the gallows, while the Cousins, Little Brothers and Little Sisters stay on the field. Morte climbs onto the scaffold, to the sound a slow drum roll, and throws his bag into the crowd. The drums increase in frequency as the crowd tosses the bag about. With a resounding crash the drums stops, and whoever' | ||
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+ | He or she is dragged out of the crowd and roughly dressed up as Jack Wild, a notorious thief and thief-taker of the eighteenth century, in a tricorn hat, breeches and a rough cotton blouse. As his hands are tied, the crowd starts pelting him with stones and mud, or with bottles. He's then raised on high, to great cheering from the crowd. He's cut down again, however, before his or her windpipe can be fatally crushed. The point is not to spill blood, but to recreate the sense of someone' | ||
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+ | The route now turns south into Mayfair. | ||
+ | ====15. Les Diables==== | ||
+ | - The Devils - Balfour Place | ||
+ | Les Diables are played by a Father and a Mother dressed as members of the Process Church of the Final Judgement. As the pageant makes its way through Mayfair from L' | ||
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+ | The Process Church of the Final Judgement was a self-awareness group which became a cult in 1960s London. They believed that Satan and Christ were complimentary characters, and that both should be praised equally (suggestive of the Faction' | ||
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+ | The brief service mimics the Sabbath Assemblies of the real Process church, held in the large ground floor room of a building in Balfour Place. On each wall of the room there are symbols representing the four Wings, while a circular altar rests in the centre, the sigil of the Great Houses scrawled on it in blood. The Omega move around this focal symbol, leading chanting and dancing until the group reaches a crescendo and the two leaders copulate on the altar. Generally speaking, it's at this point that the congregation rejoins the majority of the pageant outside the house and continues through Mayfair to the L' | ||
+ | ====16. L' | ||
+ | - The Stars - Devonshire House (Berkerley Square) | ||
+ | L' | ||
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+ | The rooms and grounds are decorated as constellations. As the primary characters enter, they parade through a series of rooms themed around the eleven Earth zodiacal signs (the Eleven-Day Empire refusing to accept the twelfth house as it includes the Homeworld' | ||
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+ | In the centre of the grounds, a small artificial lake has been installed, lit by seven large spheres of fire. As the last stragglers leave the house and enter the grounds, a Grandmother - guised as the house' | ||
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+ | The rite completed, the pageant moves on. | ||
+ | ====17. La Lune==== | ||
+ | - The Moon - St. James Street | ||
+ | La Lune is not a masked human member. Instead it takes the form of two bio-engineered dogs - the more excitable might call them hell-hounds - who take command in a street in St. James, after the visit to L' | ||
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+ | Most of the street is made up of the usual stuccoed terraces, but halfway along its length one house is missing and in its place is a waterfall and pool, with a golden disk set in the wall behind it. The two dogs sit back on their haunches and begin to howl, a long, complex, undulating cry. As they do so the moon appears, rising from the water to hang above the pool, reflected in its surface. The moon isn't the Earth' | ||
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+ | Risen, La Lune spins, obscuring and then partially revealing the gold disk on the wall. As the moon eclipses this disk the crowd begins to murmur, talking nonsense or shouting abuse at no-one in particular. This small area of Mayfair becomes, briefly, the land of the mad. This rite is designed to call on the lunar aspects of the spirits to accept the Eleven-Day Empire. As the " | ||
+ | ====18. Le Soleil==== | ||
+ | - The Sun - Shepard' | ||
+ | This takes place in the Shepard' | ||
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+ | May Day, and the May Fairs, are traditionally a celebration of spring and fertility as well as non-conformity. The May Fairs, after which the area of London was named, were a combination of drinking, bartering, whoring and rioting. The Fair was eventually outlawed in the 1700s, due to the extreme licentiousness upsetting the upper classes who were moving into the new Georgian estates in the area. | ||
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+ | Having watched La Lune set, the crowd moves down to Shepard' | ||
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+ | The sun is a collapsing star, grabbed out of time at the very millisecond before its death. It's actually held somewhere in the Stacks, within a network of complex gravitational buffers, but the globe is linked to it via the continuual strata and blazes as brightly as the sun itself. This is, of course, the only time the inhabitants of the Eleven-Day Empire see a yellow sun in their own realm. | ||
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+ | The pageant now moves on to Victoria railway station. | ||
+ | ====19. L'Ange du Jugement==== | ||
+ | - The Angel of Judgement - Victoria Railway Station | ||
+ | L'Ange du Jugement is played by one of the few surviving Demon Luminati bound to Faction Paradox. Indeed, some have cruelly suggested that the Luminati were only created in order to be used for this rite. | ||
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+ | The rite takes place, rather oddly, in the train shed of Victoria railway station. This seems an odd choice, since other London railway termini are more catherdralesque (Paddington) or Gothic (St Pancras) than the rather functional Victoria. On the other hand, if looking for a large cavernous and echoing hall in the Pimlico area, Victoria is perfect. The area around the station has been called anonymous and depressing, as is the station itself. It also recalls the idea of transience, of a restless mass of people waiting to move on, to travel elsewhere. One rather Catholic chronicler of the Feast of Fools has suggested that as L'Ange du Jugement is a play on the idea of Judgement Day, the choice of a station is meant to suggest purgatory: the place in which lost souls wait to be judged. | ||
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+ | The Demon Lumunati are an impressive bloodline, humanoform but asexual, with vast crystalline wings and pale, almost translucent bodies. They aren't the Eleven-Day Empire' | ||
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+ | During the Feast of Fools, the chosen Luminati walks the route covered in a plain dark robe, wings uncomfortably furled. When the procession enters the great train sheds of the station it discards the robe and rises up to hang above the crowd. Having taken on the role of L'Ange du Jugement, it then reads out the latest list of crimes of which the Eleven-Day Empire has been accused by the outside universe, ranging from petty manipulations of history to the wholesale subjugation of major cultures. This role call of offences is greeted with cheers by the crowd, especially when the Faction didn't actually commit the crimes being described. L'Ange then passes judgement: guilty, of all this and more. | ||
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+ | This is followed by more wild cheering as L'Ange du Jugement descends to the floor, where it takes up the hand of blind Justice and leads her to her rite at the Panopticon. | ||
+ | ====20. La Justice==== | ||
+ | - Blind Justice - Millbank | ||
+ | La Justice takes the form of a blinded Mother, who's led by L'Ange du Jugement to the Panopticon, in which she pronounces the sentence for Faction Paradox' | ||
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+ | The Panopticon Prison at Millbank stood close to the spot where the Tate Gallery (or Tate Britain) will at some point be situated, near the point at which the river Tyburn flows into the Thames. It was designed in 1791 by Jeremy Bentham: the concept was of a circular, tiered cellblock with all the cells facing inwards, towards a single inspection tower from which the guards could observe every cell and every inmate. Although the prison built at Millbank was a modified version, the Eleven-Day Empire has created a Panopticon based exactly on Bentham' | ||
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+ | It's to the central tower that blind Justice walks. L'Ange du Jugement releases her arm as they move through the gates of the Prison. The primary characters in the pageant join her in the tower, looking out of the lower observation points while she heads for the very top. La Justice stands silent, waiting until the noises fall to a low murmur as the mob crowds onto the cellblock walkways. She then raises her arms to reveal the atheme, previously shown to the crowd by L' | ||
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+ | She passes sentence upon the Empire, based on the Judgement given by L' | ||
+ | ====21. L' | ||
+ | - The Universe - The New Palace of Westminster | ||
+ | L' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Cousins carry the ever-swirling L' | ||
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+ | When L' | ||
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+ | When those closest to the chamber can see again, all that remains of L' | ||
+ | ====00. Le Fou des Ombres==== | ||
+ | - The Fool of Shadows - Trafalgar Square | ||
+ | Normally played by the Acting Speaker of the House, Le Fou des Ombres is actually a specially-engineered doppelganger, | ||
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+ | When the route has been fully beaten, this last character runs forward, lapping the others and taking the lead. He directs the crowd up Whitehall and into Trafalgar Square. This is the signal that the Eleven-Day Empire has been safely bound and that the night' | ||
+ | ==Footnote== | ||
+ | __Trafalgar Square__ | ||
+ | This large open space is one of the central sites of the Eleven-Day Empire' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Square is very similar to Nash's Square in the normal timeline. The most noticeable feature is the huge column on which a statue of the Grandfather stands, usurping Nelson. At the base of Grandfather' | ||
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+ | To the North of the square is the National Gallery, containing shadow-casts of all those works of art considered to be of great iconic value by the Empire, including Fuseli' | ||
+ | =====Suggestions for the Linear World Traveller===== | ||
+ | The route of the Feast of Fools can be traced through modern London, although the compilers of this guide can't be held responsible for any consequences. Below are some notes for interested parties. | ||
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+ | The entrance gates to the Temple gardens on the Embankment are often locked (and always are on weekends). Retrace your steps to Temple Place, turn right and try the car-park gate. If that's locked, go up the steps into Essex Street and straight ahead to the Strand, then right into Fleet Street. Or walk the route in office hours on a weekday. | ||
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+ | The following pubs along the route have been tested by the compilers of this guide and pass the key recommendation criteria (not too busy, not too expensive)e | ||
+ | - Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese (Fleet Street): only open on weekdays. | ||
+ | - The Angel of St. Giles (Endell Street). | ||
+ | - Ye Grapes (Shepard' | ||
+ | - The Chandos (St. Martin' | ||
+ | In this compiler' | ||
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