The Viscount Who Loved Me

Overview

In May 1814 the party came to Bath for Harriet Palmer’s wedding to Viscount Huntley — Marina and the newly joined Charlotte Thorne as bridesmaids. The Viscount died on his wedding night, a curse leaving only his shrivelled heart in green ichor, and the investigation ran through the murderer-thief Francis Fable to the bones of a Siren beneath the city. Fable persuaded the party he meant to banish the entity; in the church, mid-ritual, they realised he was summoning it, and stopped him in blood as the statue stirred. The Siren remains unbound beneath Bath.

Full record: Chapter 0.6 Wrap Up.

Key NPCs

• Francis Fable — valet-murderer, heart-thief, would-be Siren-binder; stopped at the church
• Viscount Huntley — groom and curse victim
• Harriet Palmer — bride, widowed within a day
• Lt. Oliver Hawksley — wounded, melancholic, Scottish; Georgiana’s unexpected warmth
• Sir Lionel Peregrine — groomsman
• Robert Garrick — Marina’s brother, pressed into impersonating the groom

Key Locations

• Bath Abbey — the wedding
• The Huntley house — scratch marks, the hidden paper, Marina’s fall from a window
• The Siren’s cave beneath the river — Georgiana’s fish phobia, Marina’s break and the stabbing of Gus
• The church — Fable’s ritual and the climax

What Carried Forward

• Georgiana Wentworth — permanent fish phobia, acquired diving in the Siren’s cave
• Charlotte Thorne — Juel’s new character, established in play
• The Siren — unbound and still beneath Bath
• The party turned to London and the Aeternum Choir — Chapter 1