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<blockquote>{{Neath_Location|image1 = Saltlions.png|caption1 = The (Ba)Salt Lions: maybe these fell from the Second City? Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[The Unterzee|Stonesoul Isles]]|alias = Station IV|allegiance = [[The Fallen Cities#The Second City, circa 1335 BCE|The Second City]] (previously) | <blockquote>{{Neath_Location|image1 = Saltlions.png|caption1 = The (Ba)Salt Lions: maybe these fell from the Second City? Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[The Unterzee|Stonesoul Isles]]|alias = Station IV|allegiance = [[The Fallen Cities#The Second City, circa 1335 BCE|The Second City]] (previously) | ||
[[The Echo Bazaar]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/lowlands Lowlands]}}''"Two basalt beasts, cathedral-sized. They frown eternally at each other across the black waves. The north one carries an encampment: creeping human figures eat away at its features like rot, pick-pick-picking. There's a supply dock below."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Salt_Lions|Salt Lions|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Salt Lions''' are two giant basalt lions that face each other across the Zee. | [[The Echo Bazaar]]|music = [https://failbettergames.bandcamp.com/track/lowlands Lowlands]|port=Zeel Port}}''"Two basalt beasts, cathedral-sized. They frown eternally at each other across the black waves. The north one carries an encampment: creeping human figures eat away at its features like rot, pick-pick-picking. There's a supply dock below."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Salt_Lions|Salt Lions|Sunless Sea|}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Salt Lions''' are two giant basalt lions that face each other across the Zee. | ||
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"Two basalt beasts, cathedral-sized. They frown eternally at each other across the black waves. The north one carries an encampment: creeping human figures eat away at its features like rot, pick-pick-picking. There's a supply dock below."[1]
The Salt Lions are two giant basalt lions that face each other across the Zee.
Station IV
The Salt Lions are in the process of being disassembled by the Unmakers; these workers led by the Unctuous Overseer have been sponsored by the Echo Bazaar to bring the Lion's building blocks back to London.[2]
The material the Salt Lions are made of is called sphinxstone, and it possesses several unique properties; most prominently, it induces nostalgia and longing for home in those nearby,[3] and the effect is magnified by consuming the substance.[4] F.F. Gebrandt asserts that Sphinxstone absorbs some element of passing time.[5] Sphinxstone also sometimes weeps tears, which can flood the hold of a ship transporting it.[6] The Echo Bazaar is not the only force that wants to acquire this peculiar stone for itself; agents of the Great Game,[7] the New Sequence[8] and the servants of all three gods of the Unterzee are known to use sphinxstone in their plans and rituals.[9][10][11][12]
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