Aigul

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### Alias

Station VI
The City of Regret

### Notable Figures

The First Mate
Aigul

> *"The station is pinned to the surface of Aigul. Once it was a roving vessel, the Fortas Kettle, and floated freely from place to place. Now it is stuck on spines of fluke-rock."*
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**Aigul** is a huge, stationary lorn-fluke. When a British zubmarine, the ***Fortas Kettle***, was sunk by its spines, London turned the whole mess into **Station VI**.

## Memories Layered with Memories

> *"There is a scent of green bitter things, of fermentation. (Cactus pulp renders an acceptable wine.) Someone once died in a desert and you are traversing the cause of their death. (They lived long enough to regret.) Here is the memory of a dying man seeing a vulture overhead. (The sky.)"*
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Aigul is a stationary lorn-fluke filled with an enormous amount of regrets taken from a variety of different sources, ranging from infants to living celestial bodies. The main way of amassing these painful memories involves a person being stabbed by one of Aigul's many spines. This process relieves a person of their regrets; as a result, people from all across the Unterzee travel here to let themselves be pierced and freed from bitter memories.

> *(We may occasionally break down a wall or two. Don't mind it.)*
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## The Crew

> *"When there is nothing left of my skin but the spines of Aigul, then I will be allowed to rest," says the First Mate. "Until then, if I cannot alleviate these sorrows, I must at least bear witness."*
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The crew of Aigul, using Rubbery rituals not unlike the Shapeling Arts, are capable of growing regrets into spines. No, not backbones; rather, they are protrusions, similar to those of the Lorn-Fluke. **The First Mate** is an expert in this field, to the point that this unfortunate person of mysterious and indistinct gender is quite deformed.

These spines are used to store regrets, in the hope that they may possibly alleviate them, though this process is extremely addictive. The Captain of the crew, a formerly jovial man, is in a state of perpetual ailing and injury; a particularly obnoxious wound opens every time the First Mate grows another regret. Due to the crew's fierce dedication to their Captain (to the point that the First Mate considered wedding him), none of the crew members can leave.

> *(The First Mate would give up anything for the Captain, except us.)*
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## Historical and Cultural Inspirations

Aigul is a Turkic feminine name meaning "moonflower"/"flower of the moon."

## References

2. ↑ Descend, *Sunless Sea*
3. ↑ Only forward exists, *Sunless Sea*
4. ↑ Note the regret but leave it where it lies, *Sunless Sea*
5. ↑ Observe the First Mate with a Pilgrim, *Sunless Sea*
6. ↑ Consume ten Needles of Fortas, *Sunless Sea*
7. ↑ Bribe the First Mate, *Sunless Sea*
8. ↑ Observe the First Mate in research, *Sunless Sea*
9. ↑ Grow the Brother's Regret into a spine, *Sunless Sea*
10. ↑ Ask the First Mate about the Captain, *Sunless Sea*
11. ↑ Convince the First Mate to stop harvesting Aigul, *Sunless Sea*
12. ↑ Aygül, *Behind the Name*