I was a candle

Moon-misers, or false-stars as they’re more commonly known. The Starved Men, barbarian-scholars who war and debate with equal ferocity. Some kind of weird infection. Gallblighters. Storm, the Long-Dead God. Not the Vake, who resides much closer to home.

The Roof. It’s covered in moon-misers, Starved Men, zeppelins, stalactite-citadels, infection, Storm is there, just a really great time all around.

The monks claim to be the descendents of the original Starved Men who lived in the stalactite, but the monks claim an awful lot of things. The citadel itself fell from the roof when the Starved Men living there blew it up at the root, for whatever mysterious reason.

I don’t think the Starved Men were involved with Salt’s transformation, but otherwise, I think that’s pretty much the rough gist of it.

It’s pretty cool, imo. The Elder Continent is, as expected, weird and hecked up as all hell. There’s a lot of neat new lore about the Thief of Faces and a few things about the Mountain of Light in there too, which is nice. I don’t really think the absolute details of the plot are massively strong (it’s pretty much “get some stuff from a pool”, in the end, but the journey is what matters, really, and it’s a pretty dang great one.

The Starved Men chill out in elaborately-detailed stalactite-citadels on the Roof, which are super bright because of all the glowy moon-misers that live up there. They practice and debate the shaping-arts used by the Rubbery Men, which they apparently stole from them at some point in the past, so not all of them are likely to look particularly human any more. They get around in zeppelins, I think, and also they fight a whole bunch and occasionally blow their citadels up.

The Starved Men are humans who’ve stolen the secret knowledge of flesh-shaping from the Rubberies. They debate those arts constantly, and also get into fights because there’s not much else to do up there except test out your sick new bioaugmentations by beating people up.

The Starved Men are the warlike nation on the Roof, who fight a whole bunch and live in fancy stalactite citadels. They’ve stolen the Vital Essence arts used by Rubbery Men and use them to reshape themselves. The infection thing is never mentioned in anything beyond Kickstarter teaser stuff, and will probably not be expounded upon unless the Castles in the Roof expansion for Sunless Sea is ever released.