The Lilymire

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"Here, the bog is coated with a putrid sheen that gleams golden in the candle light. The stench of the rotting white flowers pervades the air. It is an unwholesome fog which cleaves to the gilded waters like a shroud. Little candles grow out of the lilies, like clumps of clotted fat."

The Lilymire is a swamp in the Hinterlands located near Marigold Station. The atmosphere of the swamp and its surroundings is putrid, and lit by thousands of rotting white lilies, each containing a candle. The waters here have been flooded by the runoff from Hell's law-furnaces; unprotected divers may emerge permanently altered.

Hell refused to conquer the Lilymire, instead choosing to reserve it for its "dead and exiled." Hell keeps the history of this place a secret, refusing to reveal who died here, whose grave this once was, or for whom the candles burn.