![]() OTHER INFO: “Allergic” to the sun in their own universe because of exposure to the aforementioned environmental effects. The vials contain chloroform and a deadly poison, respectively. The button hook can serve as backup lockpick in a pinch. All but one of the pens are empty containers, hiding lockpicks. The Diplomat’s looks normal at first glance, with a few pens, a set of keys, a pocket watch, a pair of dainty little scissors, a button hook, two distinct vials of smelling salts, and a small mirror. A chatelaine - an ornate keychain worn on the waist, from which hangs various knick-knacks useful for the resourceful Victorian individual on the go.There’s only a modest quantity of each - just enough for an emergency. Rostygold is ordinary metal of questionable value. Deep amber is faintly glowing and also slightly warm. Nevercold brass is always warm to the touch. Moon-pearls show the current phase of the moon. A small purse, carefully sectioned into various currencies - moon-pearls, nevercold brass, deep amber, rostygold, jade, glim and echoes.They glow green, but have no other special properties. ![]() Cloth replaced with a scrap of plain velvet. The colour irrigo makes you forget the contents as soon as they’re wrapped back up again. Joshua, saint of spies, wrapped in a scrap of irrigo cloth. 12 knives hidden in various places on their person.Has been used to a certain degree of immunity to death and other laws of nature due to environmental factors, but none of that is innate to them as a person. Most of all, the Diplomat has a voracious (zing) appetite for secrets and useful knowledge, and they’ll be very interested in everything and everyone in this new situation. In fact, they have very few secrets that can’t be bought - for the right price, of course. If revealing themself as a spy will get an interesting reaction, they have no compunctions about doing so. While spies are normally associated with a certain degree of subtlety, Fallen London spies tend toward the theatrical and dramatic, and the Diplomat is certainly prone to the same. Undoubtedly this is in large part because they’re assessing the other person’s worth as a source of information or other potential uses, but ultimately, isn’t that what all friendship is, really? SUMMARY: The Diplomat isn’t exactly a warm people-person, but they’re generally polite, friendly and professional in their interactions with others. TRAITS: Cynical, professional, well-mannered, sly, dangerous They don’t train their men to get caught, after all. Wherever an enemy of London suffers a sudden setback, their spies and assassins are conspicuously absent. Presently, the Diplomat is a powerful figure in London’s information trade, infamous for their ruthless pragmatism. In their 20s, they were present for the birth of an artificial god. Over the years, they have formed connections within every tier of society, from the roughest streets to the empress’s palace. Growing up in the gloom of the Neath, in a London infinitely complicated by magic and dark secrets, the Diplomat learned to navigate its intricate politics, and the complicated trade of secrets and favours that spies call the Great Game, to rise quickly through London’s intelligence service. The Diplomat was just a toddler when London left the surface, and remembers little of life under the sun. The rest of this section will be largely inference and headcanon. Willing to ally with dangerous forces if they think London will benefit. With that in mind, here are all the known canon facts about them: The world of Fallen London is at turns whimsical, frightening, or both, and its inhabitants have grown used to encountering all manner of magic, devils (from hell), talking animals, and incomprehensible horrors from space.ĬHARACTER HISTORY: The Voracious Diplomat is a very, very, very minor character. It is commonly agreed that this was all for the best and London couldn’t possibly be better off, and anyway, no one even misses the light of the sun much-at least if the speaker wishes to stay in good standing with the city’s new owners. eldritch horrors, cults, and eye trauma.ĬANON OVERVIEW: In 1861, Victorian London was stolen by bats and taken far underground. BACKGROUND CONTENT WARNINGS: Mostly only indirectly implied in the app, but er.
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