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<blockquote>{{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]] | |||
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></blockquote>'''The Gant Pole''' is a gigantic calcified heart, and the 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 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 the 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 Corridors of The Heart== | ||
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==Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead== | ==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 [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|zee-beasts]]. They are led by an old [[The Fallen Cities|Third City]] woman called '''the Fading Haruspex''',<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|Ask what she seeks down here|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | 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 [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|zee-beasts]]. They are led by an old [[The Fallen Cities|Third City]] woman called '''the Fading Haruspex''',<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|Ask what she seeks down here|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> | ||
==IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED== | ==IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED== | ||
Revision as of 18:54, 30 January 2023
"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]
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.[11] The Gant Pole was created when the Shame fell in love; its advances were spurned, and the lovelorn Shame tore out its own heart.[12] 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.[13]
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