If a scrimshaw compass is the kind of frightening uncanny bone-needled blood-seeking China Miéville nautical artifact it sounds like, then I think absolutely you need one.
Ha! No, scrimshaw is the name of art by-products from whalers. You know, they're bored at sea and have nothing better to do than play with giant marine mammal teeth.
If a scrimshaw compass is the kind of frightening uncanny bone-needled blood-seeking China Miéville nautical artifact it sounds like, then I think absolutely you need one.
ReplyDeleteHa! No, scrimshaw is the name of art by-products from whalers. You know, they're bored at sea and have nothing better to do than play with giant marine mammal teeth.
ReplyDeleteTeeth which undoubtedly have eldritch properties! Especially if the whales died by violence.
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