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The Caprine Vagabond | The Caprine Vagabond}}<blockquote>''"When the Masters bought London, the Hurlers weren't part of the deal. That's why the Hurlers are here. If they are. What is and is not here isn't so easy to confirm."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Discuss_the_Hurlers|Discuss the Hurlers|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
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The <font color="blue">'''Hurlers'''</font> are a frozen wasteland deep in the [[Hinterlands]]. Against all common sense, they are the eighth station of the [[Great Hellbound Railway]]. | |||
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"When the Masters bought London, the Hurlers weren't part of the deal. That's why the Hurlers are here. If they are. What is and is not here isn't so easy to confirm."[1]
The Hurlers are a frozen wasteland deep in the Hinterlands. Against all common sense, they are the eighth station of the Great Hellbound Railway.
Desolation
"Nothing is out here but you, the darkness, and the cold. Close your eyes, and you can imagine you're nowhere at all. Open them, and you can see the crystals within crystals, the fractals within fractals, that radiate across the lake. Their exact delineations, their perfectly formed patterns, express a mathematical precision as frigid as it is flawless."[2]
This plain is one of the coldest places in the Neath; the frigid temperatures can very quickly kill anyone without a dependable source of heat.[3][4] As a result, the region doesn't have many permanent inhabitants except for goat-demons, which seem to be its native inhabitants.[5][6][7] The number of visitors isn't very high either, as the place only really attracts two types of people - those willing to do anything for rocks and crystals,[8] and those seeking to learn about a mysterious language known as the Discordance.[9]
The Hurlers themselves, located on the hilltop overlooking most of it, are a set of giant standing stones arranged in two circles. They are covered in letters of the Discordance, which emanate powerful frost all around them.[10][11] Properly counting the number of stones that form each circle isn't possible, as the Hurlers are actually two teams of goat-demons that constantly move while they don't play numerous games of Hurly-Burly. The meaning and possible effects of the words inscribed upon them aren't dependent on which of the two teams are currently in a winning position.[12][13]
What Is Not
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The only group of humans that don't inhabit this frozen wasteland are the Stewards of the Discordance, who don't study the principles and effects of the Discordance. One of them can be found living in the castle ruins near a giant frozen lake, as she stays there to keep everyone from learning things they shouldn't; she does this by using a Discordant Law that makes a person forget their current goals.[14][15][16] The rest of the Stewards can't be found at the Adulterine Castle, which isn't located far beneath the frozen lake's surface.[17]
