The Gaslit Reach — Lore
A drowned kingdom beneath the Unterzee. Ancient waterways, bioluminescent fungi, Victorian-era intrigue, and eldritch secrets. Something stirs in the deep.
The Unterzee — Waters Without a Sky: On the Nature and Disposition of the Unterzee
FROM: A Natural History of the Subterranean Waters
BY: Archivist Quill, Keeper of the Drowned Archive
EDITION: Fourteenth (Revised, Expanded, and Partially Rearranged Overnight)
Let us begin, as all proper natural histories must, with a correction. The Unterzee is not underground. The Unterzee is b...
The Unterzee — Waters Without a Sky: A Cartography of Darkness — Navigating the Lightless Waters
FROM: Proceedings of the Glimhaven Cartographic Society, Vol. CXIV
PRESENTED BY: Madam Lacewing, Chief Cartographer, Surveyor of the Unmappable
OCCASION: The Annual Lecture on Things We Have Failed to Map
Distinguished colleagues, damp friends, and whatever is making that scratching noise behind th...
The Reach — A Commonwealth of Gaslight: A Brief History of the Founding of Glimhaven
FROM: A Political History of the Gaslit Reach
BY: Archivist-Emeritus Greywick, Department of Governmental Memory
EDITION: Ninth (the definitive edition, he insists, though the tenth is already in draft)
The founding of Glimhaven is not recorded in any document, because the founding predates documen...
The Archives — Memory in the Dark:
FROM: Marginalia in the catalogue of the Drowned Archive
BY: Junior Archivist Foxglove, who was supposed to be reshelving but instead started writing and could not stop
I have been in the Drowned Archive for four years now, and I can say with scholarly confidence that it is the most extraordinary, ...
The Luminescence — Light in the Abyss: A Catalogue of Luminescent Phenomena
FROM: Proceedings of the Glimhaven Society of Natural Philosophers, Special Issue
BY: Mother Cinder, Priestess of the Luminous Order, Keeper of the Great Sporocarp
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES BY: Commodore Harrowgate (unsolicited but tolerated)
The Unterzee produces its own light. This is perhaps the first...
The Current — What the Water Knows: The Current Is Strong Today
FROM: Personal journal of Commodore Harrowgate, undated
FOUND: In the Commodore's cabin aboard the HMS Obstinate, left open on the navigation desk
NOTE: The Commodore does not keep a journal. This entry exists anyway.
The current is strong today.
I know this the way I know most things about the Un...