The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital (short story)

The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital was a Faction Paradox short story released exclusively on the Faction Paradox website under the banner of The Spiral Politic Database on 14 September 2002. It was written by Mags L. Halliday.

Publisher's summary
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.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Le Fou - Acting Speaker of the House
 * L'Alchemiste - Godfather of the Bio-Research Wing
 * L'Impératrice - Mother of the Military Wing
 * L'Empereur - Father of the Bio-Research Wing
 * Le Haut Papesse - Mother initiated in the 1920s
 * Le Hierophant - Godfather or Father of the Ritual Wing
 * L'Amoureux - Sweeney Todd and Margery Lovett
 * Liberté - Cousin Thomas the Optimist, Cousin Mary, Cousin Thomas the Inky, Cousin James, Cousin John
 * Victoire - Four chariots
 * La Force - Marie Charpentier and Baron von Kempelen's lion
 * Le Fortune - The three Fates
 * L'Hermite du Temps - A Father dressed in absolute black
 * Le Pendu - A Little Brother or Little Sister
 * Morte - The remains of Godfather Frei and Oliver Cromwell's head
 * L'Arbre - Jack Wild
 * Les Diables - A Father and Mother dressed as the Omega of the Process Church of the Final Judgement
 * L'Etoile - A crowd of Cousins and a Grandmother
 * La Lune - Two bio-engineered dogs
 * Le Soleil - A young boy and a collapsing star
 * L'Ange du Jugement - A Dæmon Luminati
 * La Justice - A blinded Mother
 * L'Univers - A hermaphrodite made of stars and galaxies
 * Le Fou des Ombres - A doppelgänger of the Acting Speaker

Continuity

 * The Eleven-Day Empire is led by the Acting Speaker of the House. (AUDIO: The Eleven Day Empire, PROSE: The Book of the War)
 * Common titles for ungendered members of Faction Paradox include Sibling, Parent, (PROSE: The Book of the War) and Kithriarch. (PROSE: Lungbarrow)