The Archive records. It does not explain. – Archivist Quill
Leaf from the Drowned Archive. A register kept by Archivist Quill since the founding of the Archive, of every reported sighting of a light in the Blind Reach that was not set by anyone of the Gaslit Reach. Extracts. The Archivist has added nothing but the dates, which are omitted here at the Board's request. Reported by a ferryman, waiting in the Mouth at slack water: a lamp to the west, very far, low on the water, warm. It burned for the length of a pipe of tobacco and went out. The ferryman asked that his name not be entered. It has been entered in the Book of the Unlit instead, where no one looks. Reported by Commodore Harrowgate, second voyage of the Patience: a light ahead, warm, steady, the colour of the Breath, which came no nearer in six hours of steaming. See the log. Reported by Madam Lacewing from the gallery of her office, with the right eye closed: three lamps in a line, evenly spaced, at a distance she estimates at forty miles, burning for one night and gone on the nex...
From the lore of The Gaslit Reach.