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Remade are a horribly exploited underclass of New Crobuzon, consisting of criminals forcefully modified by order of a Magister, usually in combination with a prison sentence. Occasionally, horses and other service animals, such as nashorn and whales, are Remade with mechanical parts for greater speed or power.
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Most, but not all, Remade are forced into indentured servitude and slavery as a condition of their sentencing and modifications. However, some Remade, like the infamous Jack Half-A-Prayer, have used their remaking to their benefit, becoming vigilante heroes and styling themselves as "fReemade".
Remaking in New Crobuzon[]
The Remade are usually, but not always, humans who are caught up in the criminal justice system and then forced to undergo a capricious and cruel alteration at the hands of New Crobuzon's bio-thaumaturges.
In the punishment factories, the prisoners' bodies are horrifically altered, limbs and other body parts replaced with steam-powered machinery, heavy mechanical metal parts, or grafted together with human or animal components. Live foxes sewn into chests, torsos attached backwards to a horse, tentacles and pistons and caterpillar treads and eyes and lizard claws fitted wantonly wherever they will go; the sadism of Remaking knows no limits.
Remaking in other contexts[]
In Armada, biothaumaturgical practitioners are willing to undo or mitigate the effects of New Crobuzon's Remaking for a reasonable sum, or even to perform the rare Remaking on request. Elsewhere in Bas Lag, Remaking is almost unheard-of.
History[]
Events of Perdido Street Station (1779)[]
Events of The Scar (1779–1780)[]
Events of Iron Council (1804–1805)[]
Trivia[]
- The inspiration for Remade may come from a metaphorical remark made by Karl Marx in Das Kapital, where he famously described exploited workers as "an appendage of flesh on a machine of iron".