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{{Neath_Location|image1= | {{Neath_Location|image1=Marigold.png|caption1=Marigold Station|location=[[The Hinterlands]]|allegiance=[[Hell]]|notable_inhabitants=The Gnarled Stationmaster<br> | ||
[[The Mandolinist]]<br>|image2=}}<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Horizons_of_Hell|The Horizons of Hell|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | [[The Mandolinist]]<br>|image2=}}<blockquote>''"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."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Horizons_of_Hell|The Horizons of Hell|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
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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?
"This station is the final stop before Hell on both the Moloch St Line and, now, your own – yet, there are no facilities, not even a waiting room. There is only a single bench, at which an elderly devil sits, chewing cloves."[2]
Marigold Station was built by Hell as the penultimate station of the Moloch Line,[3][4] and was later designated the last stop of the Great Hellbound Railway.[5] The station is little more than a building with walls grown from marigold flowers, containing a single bench.[2] An ancient Hellish amphitheater stands nearby;[6][7] within it is a gate leading to an enormous chasm containing the Mandolinist, a deposed Grand Devil.[8][9]
Other landmarks of the Hinterlands can be reached from here,[10] including the Lilymire, St Trezigor's Folly, the Edict of Towers, and Hell itself.
The Knights of the Marigold
"This Knight of the Marigold earned the enmity of Hell through their evasions. Hell rewrites its doctrine regularly: the revolution moves ever forward. This Knight, however, was once a historian. They attempted to create a comprehensive analysis of the revolution. They were given to the Marigold for their trouble and commanded to return only when they had found Truth."[11]
"You been to Marigold Station. I remember the stink of it."[12]
Near the end of Hell's Season of Revolutions, the warring factions signed the Treaty of the Marigold.[13] Per this treaty, dissenters among the devils are offered a choice: either recant their views and accept the majority opinion, or "take up the Marigold."[14] The latter group are given marigold badges and exiled, and may only return upon completing a typically impossible task.[15] The Gnarled Stationmaster monitors these Knights of the Marigold, and tracks them down after some time to check their status.[16]
Some examples of these Knights include a historian who tried to document the revolution when Hell demanded mutable history,[17] and the Marigold Menagerie Keeper, who proposed easing the tortures of the Grand Devils.[18] Many of these Knights meet bitter ends,[19] and it is implied Hell does not want them to succeed, instead cultivating false hope so they may run themselves into the ground.[20][21]
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