SomeNewGuy
Since: Jun, 2009
Jul 12th 2014 at 10:22:27 AM
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Well, this is supposed to be set in the Fallen London verse, which takes place in an alternate Victorian England era.
So, the story has a lot of the Age of Sail about it, while the actual setting is in the Age of Steam... and, because the titular sea is not only sunless but all but windless, the ships themselves look more like their 20th-century counterparts than the steam-and-sail hybrids of most of the 1800s. The dreadnaught is an obvious example, but the frigate, the customs cutter, the corvette, the armed merchantman... they wouldn't look terribly out-of-place in an early-to-mid-20th setting. Is this a trope at all, or simply a bit of historical trivia/Useful Notes?
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