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{{Neath_Location|title1 = The Gant Pole|image1 = Locations Gant Pole.png|caption1 = Looks more like a heart than a pole. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = The Chelonate|allegiance = The Chelonate|notable_inhabitants = The Chelonites
The Fading Haruspex}}''The leathery carcasses of hollowed-out beasts line the ventricles of this stone heart. Ancient blubber bubbles up around paths of bone and hide that squelch with every step. A distant drip carves eternity into hours.''


Located under the Chelonate and away from the stink, the '''Gant Pole''' is where zee monsters go to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Gant_Pole|Gant Pole|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
{{Neath_Location|title1 = The Gant Pole|image1 = Locations Gant Pole.png|caption1 = Looks more like a heart than a pole. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[The Unterzee]]|allegiance = [[The Chelonate]]|notable_inhabitants = [[The Chelonate|The Chelonites]]


Its mazes are only inhabited by elderly zailors, barely able to fight, and one haruspex, who tells the future in the entrails of zee monsters and might be as old as [[The Fallen Cities#The First City|the First City]]. One who inquires into her past will learn that she was exiled from [[Whither]] after answering a question. She is searching for an unavoidable question, a question that not even the Whithern can avoid answering.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
The Fading Haruspex}}''The leathery carcasses of hollowed-out beasts line the ventricles of this stone heart. Ancient blubber bubbles up around paths of bone and hide that squelch with every step. A distant drip carves eternity into hours.''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Gant_Pole|Gant Pole|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
 
'''The Gant Pole''' is a gigantic calcified heart, and a place where the creatures of [[The Unterzee]] go to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Gant_Pole|Where the Zee Goes to Die|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
==The Corridors of The Heart==
The Pole possesses a powerful attractive force that calls out to any old being that nears the end of their life: from the largest of [[The Chelonate#The Glory's Story|behemoths]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Irem|You heard the Glory's story|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> to the simple humans.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|The Old Zailors|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> The Pole's pull extends beyond [[The Neath]] and can even attract people from [[The Surface]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|Bring Recent News to the Old Zailors|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
The humans that followed the call of the heart tend to congregate at it's very centre, inside a big pool of [[The Neathbow#Gant|Gant]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|The Gant Chamber|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> The only time when these old zailors leave the pool is when they come to feed on the [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|Zee-Beasts]] that have just arrived at The Pole.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|Attempt to speak with the Old Zailors|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>  While all of the pool's zailors are old, some of them are truly ancient, even dating back to [[The Fallen Cities#The First City, date unknown|The First City]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|Share your secrets|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
==Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead==
A notable exception to The Pole's usual inhabitants is a group of haruspices, who divinate answers to questions from the last moments of the dying [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|Zee-Beasts]], and are led by an old woman called '''The Fading Haruspex'''.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> The woman herself hails from [[The Fallen Cities#The Third City, 800s-900s CE|The Third City]], although she had been living in [[Whither]] for many years before being exiled from the city for breaking it's laws to spare a child's tears. Now her only desire lies in finding an answer to a fabled Question that can only be answered with truth.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|Ask what she seeks down here|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
==Disarmed and dismembered==
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[[File:Irrepressible.png|thumb|left|100px|The Irrepressible]]
[[File:Irrepressible.png|thumb|left|100px|The Irrepressible]]
A zub known as '''''The Irrepressible''''' patrols near the Gant Pole. Renowned as the most feared vessel in [[the Unterzee]], it fires [[irrigo]] ammunition, and it resembles a beast more so than any sort of ship.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/You_have_defeated_the_Irrepressible!|You have defeated the Irrepressible!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Its captain is '''the Pianolist''', an exceptionally dangerous individual with a penchant for Vivaldi. He is the leader of '''the Set''', a group of mad artists who roam the zee. The Pianolist seems to relish poetic irony, especially when betrayal is involved.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Zubmarine_surfaces!|A Zubmarine surfaces!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
A zub known as '''''The Irrepressible''''' patrols near the Gant Pole. Renowned as the most feared vessel in [[the Unterzee]], it fires [[The Neathbow#Irrigo|Irrigo]] ammunition, and it resembles a beast more so than any sort of ship.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Irrepressible|You have defeated the Irrepressible!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Irrepressible|Attempt to detach the Irrigo-cannon|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Its captain is '''the Pianolist''', an exceptionally dangerous individual with a penchant for Vivaldi. He is the leader of '''the Set''', a group of mad artists who roam the zee. The Pianolist seems to relish poetic irony, especially when betrayal is involved.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/A_Zubmarine_surfaces!!|A Zubmarine surfaces!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
 
 
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==IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED==
''"Over time, their correspondence calmed the monarch, and when the time came for the monarch to depart, the monarch's appetite was transformed, like blood into tears."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Dark_Room|Fumble in the darkness|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
 
The giant stone heart once belonged to an enourmous [[Gods of the Unterzee#Stone|Shame]], a defilement of The Great Chain,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London|}}''"The heart once belonged to a Shame(...)A creature that should not be. A defilement of the Great Chain."''</ref> born from an union between [[The Echo Bazaar|two]] [[Judgements#The Sun|different links]],<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Adam's_Way|Go ashore with the Adventuress|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> one of them imbuing the [[Gods of the Unterzee#Stone|Shame]]  with the light of a star.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|Take a sample of Gant from the pool|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> The Gant Pole was created when the [[Gods of the Unterzee#Stone|Shame]] fell in love with a [[Gods of the Unterzee#Salt|Travelling Sun]]. While [[Gods of the Unterzee#Salt|The Traveller's]] hunger was soothed by his contact with her,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Dark_Room|Fumble in the darkness|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> his naked need couldn't be truly erased, and he eventually travelled towards the farthest East.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Corridors_of_Frostfound#The_Dark_Room|Fumble in the darkness|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> The [[Gods of the Unterzee#Stone|Shame]] was heartbroken by this, and so she tore out her own heart.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London|}}''"It was spurned by its beloved and tore out its own heart"''</ref> The heart sunk beneath the zee-waves and started emitting sadness and melancholy, which was mistaken by the lower beings as a sense of peace that could confort them while near their deaths.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London|}}''"Now the heart emits sadness, and beings at the end of their lives mistake it for peace"''</ref> 


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Revision as of 19:36, 1 June 2021

The leathery carcasses of hollowed-out beasts line the ventricles of this stone heart. Ancient blubber bubbles up around paths of bone and hide that squelch with every step. A distant drip carves eternity into hours.[1]


The Gant Pole is a gigantic calcified heart, and a place where the creatures of The Unterzee go to die.[2]

The Corridors of The Heart

The Pole possesses a powerful attractive force that calls out to any old being that nears the end of their life: from the largest of behemoths[3] to the simple humans.[4] The Pole's pull extends beyond The Neath and can even attract people from The Surface.[5]

The humans that followed the call of the heart tend to congregate at it's very centre, inside a big pool of Gant.[6] The only time when these old zailors leave the pool is when they come to feed on the Zee-Beasts that have just arrived at The Pole.[7] While all of the pool's zailors are old, some of them are truly ancient, even dating back to The First City.[8]

Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead

A notable exception to The Pole's usual inhabitants is a group of haruspices, who divinate answers to questions from the last moments of the dying Zee-Beasts, and are led by an old woman called The Fading Haruspex.[9] The woman herself hails from The Third City, although she had been living in Whither for many years before being exiled from the city for breaking it's laws to spare a child's tears. Now her only desire lies in finding an answer to a fabled Question that can only be answered with truth.[10]

Disarmed and dismembered


The Irrepressible

A zub known as The Irrepressible patrols near the Gant Pole. Renowned as the most feared vessel in the Unterzee, it fires Irrigo ammunition, and it resembles a beast more so than any sort of ship.[11][12] Its captain is the Pianolist, an exceptionally dangerous individual with a penchant for Vivaldi. He is the leader of the Set, a group of mad artists who roam the zee. The Pianolist seems to relish poetic irony, especially when betrayal is involved.[13]



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IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED

"Over time, their correspondence calmed the monarch, and when the time came for the monarch to depart, the monarch's appetite was transformed, like blood into tears."[14]

The giant stone heart once belonged to an enourmous Shame, a defilement of The Great Chain,[15] born from an union between two different links,[16] one of them imbuing the Shame with the light of a star.[17] The Gant Pole was created when the Shame fell in love with a Travelling Sun. While The Traveller's hunger was soothed by his contact with her,[18] his naked need couldn't be truly erased, and he eventually travelled towards the farthest East.[19] The Shame was heartbroken by this, and so she tore out her own heart.[20] The heart sunk beneath the zee-waves and started emitting sadness and melancholy, which was mistaken by the lower beings as a sense of peace that could confort them while near their deaths.[21]

References

  1. ↑ Gant Pole, Sunless Sea
  2. ↑ Where the Zee Goes to Die, Sunless Sea
  3. ↑ You heard the Glory's story, Sunless Sea
  4. ↑ The Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
  5. ↑ Bring Recent News to the Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
  6. ↑ The Gant Chamber, Sunless Sea
  7. ↑ Attempt to speak with the Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
  8. ↑ Share your secrets, Sunless Sea
  9. ↑ The Fading Haruspex, Sunless Sea
  10. ↑ Ask what she seeks down here, Sunless Sea
  11. ↑ You have defeated the Irrepressible!, Sunless Sea
  12. ↑ Attempt to detach the Irrigo-cannon, Sunless Sea
  13. ↑ A Zubmarine surfaces!, Sunless Sea
  14. ↑ Fumble in the darkness, Sunless Sea
  15. ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "The heart once belonged to a Shame(...)A creature that should not be. A defilement of the Great Chain."
  16. ↑ Go ashore with the Adventuress, Sunless Sea
  17. ↑ Take a sample of Gant from the pool, Sunless Sea
  18. ↑ Fumble in the darkness, Sunless Sea
  19. ↑ Fumble in the darkness, Sunless Sea
  20. ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "It was spurned by its beloved and tore out its own heart"
  21. ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "Now the heart emits sadness, and beings at the end of their lives mistake it for peace"
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