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"Marigold Station sits in the very shadow of Hell. The white walls of that city loom on the horizon, like stormclouds before the first crash of thunder. The station is a small splash of orange in the harsh and broken moorland before Hell."[1]
Marigold Station is the last stop on the Great Hellbound Railway, near the walls of Hell itself.
End of the Line?
Marigold Station itself isn't much to talk about; it is small, with a single bench and walls grown from marigold flowers.[2] But it exists for a reason; it is both the last stop before reaching Hell on the Moloch Line,[3][4] and the terminus of the Great Hellbound Railway.[5]
Those Who Bear the Marigold
Thanks to the signing of the Treaty of the Marigold, toward the end of Hell's Season of Revolutions, dissenters among the devils are offered a choice: they must either recant their views and accept the majority opinion, or they are exiled. Those who have chosen exile wear marigold badges, and can only be welcomed back if they succeed at a typically impossible task decided upon by Hell.[6] The Gnarled Stationmaster is tasked with keeping an eye on the progress of these Knights of the Marigold.[6]
A Tourist's Guide to Hell's Surroundings
Marigold Station stands in the vicinity of several landmarks of the Hinterlands.
The Road to Hell
"The drone is as insistent as toothache and its pull begins in the bottom of your stomach. The stones ahead form a path now. The way to Hell is clear. How could you have ever missed it?"[7]
A road paved with white stone leads to the entrance to Hell.[7] The great city calls...
The Lilymire
"This is a place Hell has refused to conquer: only its dead and its exiled linger here."[8]
The Lilymire served as Hell's graveyard[9] until it was flooded by the city's waste.[10] It is now a marsh, filled with candles that grow out of rotting lilies.[11] The hallucinatory waters pose an additional hazard for anyone foolish enough to plunge into the bog.[10]
The Edict of Towers
Hell has abandoned this place. No devil comes here – at least, not of their own free will.
South of Hell lies The Edict of Towers:[12] an old defensive array of walls and towers, only one-fifth of which, or even fewer, are real.[13] This mirror-strewn labyrinth[12][14] was constructed while Hell still resided in Parabola.[13]
Saint Trezigor's Folly
"There is a laughter buried deep in the stones of Saint Trezigor's. You hear it in the walls, a sibilant mix of litany and mockery. The tongue hisses, as though cloven."[15]
Saint Trezigor's Folly was a communal living place for a group of goat-demons long ago;[16] now, it only contains their bones.[17] The walls of the place move and shift when spoken to, and it might even speak back.[18] A goat head carved in stone serves as its face.[15]
The Ancient Amphitheatre
"An ancient arena stands high upon a hill. Colossal basalt stones lean against each other to form a colosseum. Each stone bears a sigil, larger than a London townhouse. The stone seats are gargantuan and grooved in ways incompatible with human physiology."[19]
On a hill near the station lies the ruins of an Amphitheatre.[19] Beneath it is a chasm that serves as the prison of a Grand Devil, the Mandolinist.[20]
The Chapel of the Brazen Brigade
"Light, carmine and full of loathing, blazes at the edge of the gloomy chapel."[21]
Through the Lamentation of Violets, past the old battlefields of Hell, lies the chapel of another Grand Devil, the Chandler.[22] This chapel is the meeting place of the Brazen Brigade, a group that seeks to free Marigold Knights of their duties.[23][24]
