The Spiral Politic Database
The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital
The "shadow" London of the Eleven-Day Empire is a mishmash of time-zones, with streets, buildings and landmarks taken from periods earlier or later than its eighteenth century foundations, and shouldn't be mistaken for the real London of 1752. The authenticity of the Empire's version is irrelevant: what matters is its symbolic weight. As London has a certain geographical continuity (which is to say, the street layout has rarely changed over two millennia), it's possible to walk along a lane which switches from Enlightenment to Victorian to Roman and back again within the stretch of a few yards. This guide concentrates on following the route of the Feast of Fools through the streets, providing details of the rites which take place along the way.
Characters
Le Fou
L'Alchemiste
L'Impératrice
L'Empereur
Le Fou des Ombres
La Justice
Le Haut Papesse
Le Hierophant
L'Amoureux
Liberté
Thomas Paine
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Evans
James Tilly Matthews
John Wilkes
Victoire
Sweeney Todd
Margery Lovett
La Force
Marie Charpentier
Baron von Kempelen's lion
Le Fortune
L'Hermite du Temps
Le Pendu
Morte
Godfather Frei
Oliver Cromwell
L'Arbre
Jack Wild
Les Diables
L'Etoile
La Lune
Le Soleil
L'Ange du Jugement
L'Univers