Port Noon

'There is a choice that every immortal must make: enter the service of an Hour, or return to the mortal ranks, or face extinction. The sunny little island-port called Noon is the exile-realm of the immortals who refused all those options.'
'Port Noon'

Port Noon is an island hidden amidst the Evening Isles in the West. The island contains a spring touched by the gods-from-Nowhere, and those who drink from it are forgotten by the world. As such, it has become a sanctuary for Long who wish to escape the attention of the Hours and their servants, as renegades, exiles, or those who simply wish to be left alone.

Still, there are still those few amidst the Long of Noon who consider themselves Birds of a Feather, or, even more rarely, Worms of a Scale, and continue their work coordinating with forces of the outside world.

Most who seek refuge from the Hours or the investigations of the Suppresion Bureau during the twentieth century first found their way to St. Doves, a parish in Kerisham, followed by passage arranged on the Hebe Stanton.

Notable Locations

'Port Noon is where the Long go to enjoy the sea and the sun, to drink from the Spring that makes them forgotten, and to stay out of trouble. Mostly out of trouble. The stories you can hear in the Hotel Ciervo are golden-dewed, quintuple-distilled toasts to memory, served straight up.'
'Port Noon Anecdote'

• Hotel Ciervo: A hotel owned by one Mr Burrs, which appears to serve as a meeting place on the island for Long, and perhaps others with ties to the Invisible World.

• Cryppys Club: A rooftop club where the Birds of a Feather gather.

• Bar Vienna: A cellar bar where the Worms of a Scale gather.

• Poscind Park: A small garden behind the Hotel Ciervo, where the Hokeys gather, shunned from the rest of society.

• Toussaint Road Cemetery: A gravesite where a Madame Rogier visits periodically to let Miss Naenia, gentlest of the Elegiast’s names, walk in her dreams.

Other Notes

• A story of the founding of the House of Lethe similarly describes a stream discovered in the Wood which makes those who drink go unnoticed. As an order of Long who no longer serve any Hours and use the “arts of water” to remain hidden, they likely had a hand in the establishment of Port Noon, though this has never been explicitly stated.
• Though Noon serves as a sanctuary primarily for Long, the mortal Christopher Illopoly also sought safety there in the 70s and managed to acquire a cabin on the Hebe Stanton departing for the island. What happened to him afterwards is unknown.
• The Hotel Ciervo is known on at least one occasion to have hosted a guest lecture by Arun Peel, as a representative from the Committee of Hush House, one of the great libraries. The use of St. Dove as a connection point to Port Noon, the involvement of Hush House, and the implied relation to the House of Lethe all suggest the Elegiast has some involvement with Port Noon, and may be helping to keep it hidden from the rest of the world.

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