- If you are looking for the female equivalent of mime-lords, see Mime-queen.
Mime-lords, the male equivalent of a mime-queen, are gang leaders in the clairvoyant syndicate; or specialists in mime-crime. The mime-lord generally has a close group of five to ten followers, but maintains overall command over all clairvoyants in one section within a cohort. All mime-lords are members of the Unnatural Assembly. In Paris, the equivalent term is patrones.
Description[]
The prefix "mime-" is shorthand for "mimic," and refers to the fact that most mime-lords and mime-queens don't always do their own work. Instead, they trade in spirits to get the work done. The term was conceived by the first Underlord, Thomas Ebon Merritt, and was intended as a respectful term to humble voyants, who were forced to remember that they could only ever mimic the greatness of their spirit guides. Jaxon Hall quotes Tom Merritt in On the Merits of Unnaturalness:
"I have raised you to Roles of great Importance, so you shall be called the Lords and Queens of these wretched Folk; yet see that I have humbled you anew with a prefix, mime. For though you are a Monarch, remember that you are only a Mimic. The Spirits of the Dead have granted us their Knowledge so that we may whore it on the Streets for Coin, sacrificing their Secrets for the sake of our continued Existence. You, the Unnatural, can only ever imitate their Greatness."[1]
All voyant businesses are supposed to give a cut to their local mime-lord or mime-queen. This is called the syndicate tax.
Known Mime-lords[]
- Haymarket Hector: I-1 Cohort (formerly)
- Jaxon Hall: I-4 Cohort (formerly)
- Jack Hickathrift: I-4 Cohort; III-1 Cohort (formerly)
- The Rag and Bone Man: II-4 Cohort (formerly)
- Tom the Rhymer: III-5 Cohort (formerly)
- The Glym Lord: III-6 Cohort (formerly)
- Jimmy O'Goblin: II-1 Cohort
- The Heathen Philosopher: IV-6 Cohort
- The Hare: VI-2 Cohort (formerly)
- The Lord Costermonger: IV-5 Cohort
- Spring-Heel'd Jack: I-6 Cohort
- Ark Ruffian: II-3 Cohort
- Bloody Knuckles: II-5 Cohort (formerly)
- The Bully-Rook: III-1 Cohort (formerly)
- The Mudlark Prince: III-2
- The Buried King: IV-2 Cohort
- The Guy: V-4 Cohort
- The Ferryman: V-6 Cohort
- Halfpenny: II-5