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The Pole possesses a powerful attractive force that calls out to any being nearing the end of its 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 Pole possesses a powerful attractive force that calls out to any being nearing the end of its 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 have followed the call tend to congregate at the very center of the stone heart that makes up the Pole, inside a big pool of [[ | The humans that have followed the call tend to congregate at the very center of the stone heart that makes up the Pole, inside a big pool of [[gant]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|The Gant Chamber|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> These old zailors only leave the pool 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 elderly, some of them are truly ancient, and might even date 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== | ==Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead== | ||
Revision as of 02:30, 28 November 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 the 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 being nearing the end of its 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 have followed the call tend to congregate at the very center of the stone heart that makes up the Pole, inside a big pool of gant.[6] These old zailors only leave the pool to feed on the zee-beasts that have just arrived at the Pole.[7] While all of the pool's zailors are elderly, some of them are truly ancient, and might even date 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 divine answers to questions from the last moments of the dying zee-beasts. They are led by an old Third City woman called the Fading Haruspex,[9] who was exiled from Whither for breaking its laws to spare a child's tears. She wishes to find an answer to a fabled Question that can only be answered with truth.[10]
Disarmed and Dismembered
A zubmarine 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]
IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED
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This giant stone heart once belonged to an enormous Shame, a defilement of The Great Chain.[14] The Gant Pole was created when the Shame fell in love; its advances were spurned, and the lovelorn Shame tore out its own heart.[15] The organ sunk beneath the zee-waves, and began to emit sadness and melancholy, which was mistaken by the various zee-monsters for a sense of peace that could comfort them in their dying days.[16]
References
- ↑ Gant Pole, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Where the Zee Goes to Die, Sunless Sea
- ↑ You heard the Glory's story, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Bring Recent News to the Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Gant Chamber, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Attempt to speak with the Old Zailors, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Share your secrets, Sunless Sea
- ↑ The Fading Haruspex, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Ask what she seeks down here, Sunless Sea
- ↑ You have defeated the Irrepressible!, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Attempt to detach the Irrigo-cannon, Sunless Sea
- ↑ A Zubmarine surfaces!, Sunless Sea
- ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "The heart once belonged to a Shame(...)A creature that should not be. A defilement of the Great Chain."
- ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "It was spurned by its beloved and tore out its own heart"
- ↑ Leviathan, Fallen London "Now the heart emits sadness, and beings at the end of their lives mistake it for peace"
