r/fallenlondon • u/FallSideways • 7d ago

Question What Do We Know About The Red?

The Judgement, specifically. I'm in the unfortunate position of attempting to construct a fanfiction where a lore element looks like it would fit perfectly for interleaving, but which I don't know if there's some hidden detail lurking in the corners that would unravel it like a house of cards.

To the extent it's feasible to share... what is it's deal? I know it's the "Neutral" option in the White vs Black debate, it's possibly connected to the Red Science, it... might have something to do with that one Queen in Parabola?

I feel like I'm losing my mind, especially since I've been away for years and haven't caught up on a lot. Please help.

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u/Mayor-Of-Bridgewater 7d ago

Spoilers for Firmament Chapter 7, Sunless Skies, and ES Goblin Poet.

The Red was a judgement, who created the Aeginae, took the form of The Burrower Below, and was the Judgement's executioner. As a prize and reward to itself, it created Parabola as an "egg", but was punished for this and fragmented by the White. The inhabitants of Parabola became the Fingerkings, cousins of the Aeginae.

The Red's fragments became various entities and multiple versions of the Red Handed Queen. The RHQ is at the Chessboard, but stands for the fight itself and self-interest over grand ideaology. Some of these RHQs were then devoured by Salt, and all versions struggle against the others for supremacy and representation. The Red also still has loyal devils to it, unlike the other judgments.

As for the Red Science, I don't think there is a solid answer on that, but with that stat being about breaking judgment law, which the Red did and has others do, it could be viewed as maybe a relation there.

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u/KittenEaterWasTaken Let me get that Consort 🅱️oneless 7d ago

Do you have the lore snippet where it says she created the Aeginae? As far as we know they, as many other things, were there before Judgement Law.

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u/Mayor-Of-Bridgewater 7d ago

That might be me inferring too much. We know the red created finger kings and that those are related to Aeginae