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Characters

Basil Elton

Basil Elton is the lighthouse keeper who narrates The White Ship. His inherited responsibility and increasing isolation prepare his attraction to a mysterious vessel that carries him through visionary lands. The choice to abandon an experienced happiness for an unverified ideal ends with both a failed beacon and the loss of his former imaginative access to the sea.

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A lone traveler faces immense flooded ruins and a distant Cthulhu-like presence.
Literature

The White Ship

The White Ship is Basil Elton’s account of a voyage from his lonely lighthouse through lands embodying forgotten beauty, dangerous mysteries, pleasure and imagination. After finding a realm without suffering, he insists on pursuing a still more perfect destination. His return joins the loss of that imagined happiness to the consequences of a failed beacon.

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