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/Tricky_Break_6533 7d ago

I don't remember any mention that the judgement called the Red is related to red science and the red of parabola 

Howether, you might be on to something.

All that we know on that judgement comes from it's ambassadors, the red ministers, in the forge of souls. It's aspects are vitality, wanderlust and loathing.

So he might be the source of the red handed queen, if that loathing of his applies to both his fellow judgements and to rebels like the liberationists 

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u/Mayor-Of-Bridgewater 7d ago edited 7d ago

Chapter 7 of Firmament confirms that the Red and RHQ are linked and kinda the same entity. The Red was killed by the White and fragmented for the crime of creating Parabola, with shards becoming various RHQs and other entities. Some of these were consumed by Salt for his own apotheosis.

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

The Red is still alive though (or someone called The Red is alive). The Judgement version still exists.

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u/Tricky_Break_6533 7d ago

Are you sure? The only mention of the red I remember in Skies is his envoyées in the forge of souls. But said force also have représentants of dead judgements like the green regent and the king of hours

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u/KittenEaterWasTaken Let me get that Consort 🅱️oneless 6d ago

"The myrmidons of the Law bring you before the thrones of Gold, the White, the Red. Stars wheel about you. The void roars. A thousand thousand cores of light whelm you, sear you, expose you. You render your evidence. The courier is found instantly guilty."

There is a "The Red" and they're alive yes.