Sigil-Ridden Navigator

Sigil-Ridden Navigator
Position	First Officer
Effects	+6 x Mirrors +3 x Veils
Promotions	Sigil-Eaten Navigator
Data ID	102989

Sigil-Ridden Navigator is a potential First Officer crew member.

Character description

"Has that tattoo grown since last you looked?"

Obtaining

The Sigil-Ridden Navigator can be recruited in

• London by doing the A new recruit! action and having a A New Recruit? value of 9 or 10, and paying 50 echoes.
• Shepherd Isles for 50 echoes

Promotions

The Sigil-Ridden Navigator can be promoted to the Sigil-Eaten Navigator by following his storyline.

Interactions

Speak with your Navigator

"I... yes. Yes, now is good. Thank you."

Actions	Requirements	Effects	Notes
Increase your Mirrors Maybe one of your secrets can drag something out of him.	1 x Secret Mirrors ≤ 100 Sigil-Ridden Navigator ≥ 1	"I'm sorry. It's the pain. No, this is what you wanted, I think." He is eager to instruct you, like a drowning man striking for air. But he struggles to put words to his understanding. Does his sigil give him his insights? Or is it old learning he has failed to forget? -1 x Secret +1 x Mirrors	Game note: Spend a Secret to improve your Mirrors, unless it's higher than 100.
Invite him to dine with you He has an admirable appetite for so slight a fellow.	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator ≤ 0 1 x Supplies	Forgetfulness Seconds, then thirds, disappear in small, hasty morsels. He is nervous, and not a gifted conversationalist. You do your best to plug in the silence. When you ask about his past, he winces. "I can't say, Addressed As. This -" he taps the livid sigil on his temple, which twitches like a scorpion's sting "-has burned away my memories. I recall I have a brother but not his name or where he is. I remember the names of the ships I've served on - the Implicit, the Bonny Swan - but not their crew." How did he come by the sigil? He clutches his head. "I don't know, I don't know. Thinking about it is like fire in my skull." He grits his teeth. "Someone must have hated me very much to curse me with it. But I can't even remember my enemy." Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 10 [Your Navigator's sigil has devoured his memories. He cannot recall his past.] -1 x Supplies	Game note: Speak to him again to advance his story.
"Captain. Captain!" "My sleep is riddled with dreams, Addressed As. Dreams of bells and candles!"	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator ≥ 10 and ≤ 15	A destination He paces the deck. "I see a lonely house lit by tallow and wick. A bell is ringing. It rings now! Do you hear it?" He scratches at his sigil, which has begun to bleed. "Do you know this place, captain? Can I plot a course?" A place of candles and bells. The Chapel of Lights - a northern church where no sin is too terrible. Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 15 (if ≤ 10) [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator wants to go to the Chapel of Lights, to find his lost memories.]
He stands at the rail, staring into the dark He flinches when you join him. His sigil has been troubling him of late.	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 20 [The Chapel of Lights has directed your Sigil-Ridden Navigator to Frostfound.]	The next step "I'm sorry, Addressed As. I was remembering the Chapel of Lights, and the priest's counsel. Frostfound, he said. You have been so kind - I hate to ask you for more, but..." His sigil dims. It coils like a poised serpent.
The ship's surgeon finds you "He's awake, Addressed As, and he's asking for you." The Navigator has slept - fitfully - since he collapsed on the Frostfound ice.	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 30 [Speak to your Sigil-Ridden Navigator to learn what he saw at Frostfound.] Something Awaits You ≥ 1 A Doctor Aboard ≥ 1	New purpose His sigil has grown. It reaches down to his cheek, now. The skin it marks is pitted and grey. "Captain! The ice told me. The sigil's reflection was its opposite. Or inverse. It doesn't matter. We must go North! North and North and North. To the Avid Horizon. To Void's Approach." He struggles to rise. "Where are my charts? My compass? My sounding-line?" Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 40 [Take your Sigil-Ridden Navigator to Avid Horizon to recover his memories.]
"Captain, may I speak with you? In private." His voice is dull. His sigil throbs, red as embers in the Neathy gloom.	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator ≥ 50 and ≤ 56	His forgotten crime He hands you his confession, retrieved from Void's Approach. "Please. Read." Triggers event:  The Navigator's Confession
His last request The truth has broken him.	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 60 [peak to your Sigil-Ridden Navigator to hear his last request.]	Parting ways He buries his face in his hands. "Even if I could Remember, I would not want to. But it is only a matter of time until this -" he runs a finger over his sigil "- takes something I can't do without. Maybe I will forget how to breathe. Or which way is north. Perhaps I will strand us all at zee again, and it'll be oaths of silence and straws in the dark. Be rid of me, Addressed As. Put me ashore somewhere I can be forgotten." Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 70 [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator wishes to retire. Speak with him to learn where he might find peace.]
Ask where he would like to disembark "Leave me on Codex, where my silence won't be questioned. Or at the Empire of Hands, where no one will care."	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 70 [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator wishes to retire. Speak with him to learn where he might find peace.]	Choices You have heard that the Mute Exiles on Codex reward anyone who brings them a new initiate. They pay with secrets of fire. There will be no such recompense from the apes of Port Stanton, but your Navigator offers to leave you his tools, charts and notebooks in return for his passage.	Game note: Abandon your Navigator at Codex to earn a valuable item, or at Port Stanton in the Empire of Hands for a lesser reward but an increase in your Mirrors. Or perhaps there is another, less pleasant option...
Suggest another option It would be a release for him - of a sort - and it has a certain sanguine poetry...	Learning About: The Sigil-Ridden Navigator = 70 [Your Sigil-Ridden Navigator wishes to retire. Speak with him to learn where he might find peace.] Menaces: Unaccountably Peckish ≥ 3	Your stomach growls You describe a rite that you could conduct at Kingeater's Castle. Afterwards, he would forget his pain. He would even forget that he forgot. The part of him that suffers will be gone, and whatever remains will serve you. He shudders. "It is not forgiveness," he whispers. "But perhaps it is justice."
Answer questions about your past You've kept your secrets long enough.	Memoirs: Your Past = 1 [A Past Wreathed in Shadows]	Triggers event:  Revealing your Past	Game note: Unmask yourself! This will allow you to select a Past, Ambition, and form of preferred address - also providing you with a specialist ability bonus.

Videos

This video shows the three outcomes for the Sigil-Ridden Navigator's Storylet