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{{Major spoiler}}<blockquote>''"There are a thousand speculations on why Death is strange in the Neath. Perhaps one is true."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Seekers_of_the_Garden|The Seekers of the Garden|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote><blockquote>''"THIS COUNTRY - MOUTH-OF-THE-RIVER - THIS WAS THE PLACE OF HER OVERTHROW"''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_jewelled_future_1|A jewelled future 1|Fallen London|}}</ref>
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{{Neath Location|title1=The Garden|image1=Foliage.png|location=[[The Mountain of Light]]|alias=Eden?|allegiance=[[The Presbyterate]]<br>
"''In the Garden is the Design; in the Garden occurred the Ascents; in the Garden were selected the Shames. Therefore none shall enter it without that they be blinded with thorns and bound with the Three Oaths. And should any seek to alter the Design or repeat the Ascent or uncover the Shames, they shall be given to the Wax-Wind''."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Vespertine,_Irresistible|Order Vespertine, Irresistible|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>[[File:Foliage.png|thumb|The taste still lingers. The smell of earth and grass when you sleep. What will it bring?]]'''The Garden''', hidden deep within the [[Mountain of Light]], predates the [[Bazaar]]'s presence in the Neath by a wide margin. Its precise location is unknown, and it may not even be a true garden, but it is ''heavily'' sought after by those who know of its power, as they see it as the ultimate source of Neathy immortality. Unfortunately for them, only the birds and the bees (hah) can enter it freely at the moment;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_His_Amused_Lordship|A word with His Amused Lordship|Fallen London|}}</ref> the [[The Presbyterate|Presbyterate's]] College of Mortality guards the entrance.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Years_Later|Liberty, equality, eternity| Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
[[Stone]]|notable_inhabitants=Flying beings<br>
[[Snuffers]] (banished)<br>
Humans (banished}}<blockquote>''"There are a thousand speculations on why Death is strange in the Neath. Perhaps one is true."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Seekers_of_the_Garden|The Seekers of the Garden|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote><blockquote>''"THIS COUNTRY - MOUTH-OF-THE-RIVER - THIS WAS THE PLACE OF HER OVERTHROW"''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Approach_to_the_Mountain|The Approach to the Mountain|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Garden''', hidden deep within the [[Mountain of Light]], predates the [[Bazaar]]'s presence in the Neath by a wide margin. Its precise location is unknown, and it may not even be a true garden, but it is ''heavily'' sought after by those who know of its power, as they see it as the ultimate source of Neathy immortality. Unfortunately for them, only the birds and the bees (and other flying things) can enter it freely at the moment;<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/A_word_with_His_Amused_Lordship|A word with His Amused Lordship|Fallen London|}}</ref> the [[The Presbyterate|Presbyterate's]] College of Mortality guards the entrance.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Seven_Years_Later|Democratise death| Sunless Sea|}}''"With a cry, you charge, and in a short, bloody battle force your way into the College. [...] At the back of the College a vast door guards the way into the Mountain's heart."''</ref>


== Eden? ==
== Eden? ==
The Mountain of Light, daughter of [[the Sun]] and [[the Echo Bazaar]] who is worshipped as [[Stone]], provides a strange vitality to the Elder Continent. Fruit can grow from rocks, bones can sprout from the soil, and in some cases, inanimate objects have minds of their own.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Way_Upstream|The Mountain's Blood|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> An area's "liveliness" depends on its proximity to Stone, so people who die in faraway places across [[the Unterzee]] often die permanently, while those who live on the mainland (such as [[London]]ers) can often recover from death with nothing but a bad headache, and people of the Elder Continent itself can live a century and still look good.<ref name="hundred">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Presbyterate_Adventuress|Ask the Adventuress why you've been ambushed by assassins from her homeland|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>
<blockquote>"''In the Garden is the Design; in the Garden occurred the Ascents; in the Garden were selected the Shames. Therefore none shall enter it without that they be blinded with thorns and bound with the Three Oaths. And should any seek to alter the Design or repeat the Ascent or uncover the Shames, they shall be given to the Wax-Wind''."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Order_Vespertine,_Irresistible|Order Vespertine, Irresistible|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote>The [[Mountain of Light]], daughter of the [[Sun]] and the [[Echo Bazaar]] who is worshipped as [[Stone]], provides a strange vitality to the [[Elder Continent]]. Fruit can grow from rocks, bones can sprout from the soil,<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.fandom.com/wiki/Way_Upstream|The Mountain's Blood|Sunless Sea|}} ''"At four o'clock [...] the ship begins to speak to you. It apologises for what will happen next. Only you can hear it. At seven o'clock, the engine bursts like a heart. [...] Your bones will grow in the muds of the river's shore."''</ref> and inanimate objects have minds of their own.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Way_Upstream|The Mountain's Blood|Sunless Sea|}}''"In London, they never imagine what grows here. Orchards of bones. Iron upright as aspens. Flint pillars, fecund with faceted apples. Gemmed faces turn to watch you from the rock."''</ref> An area's "liveliness" depends on its proximity to Stone, so people who [[Death|die]] in faraway places across the [[Unterzee]] often die permanently, while those who live on the mainland (such as [[London]]ers) can often recover from death with nothing but a bad headache. People of the Elder Continent itself can live a century and still look good.<ref name="hundred">{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Presbyterate_Adventuress|Ask the Adventuress why you've been ambushed by assassins from her homeland|Sunless Sea|}}</ref>


The Garden is the source, or perhaps one source, of this vitality. It is in fact one of Stone's many, many wombs, where she fosters life that would not be allowed on the [[Surface]].<ref name=":0" /> The waxen beings now known as [[Snuffers]] once roamed the Garden freely;<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"In her deep wombs, she fosters life that would not be permitted above. The Garden was one of those wombs. And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it."''</ref> they were cast out of it when the [[Snuffers|Thief-of-Faces]] stole jewels from Stone's wombs.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred."''</ref> To this day, the Snuffers remember the Garden,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"We are both barred from the Garden, but we remember it and you do not."''</ref> and long to return to it, but their aspirations seem all but impossible.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''""And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it. I still hope to go there some day.""''</ref>
The Garden is the source, or perhaps one source, of this vitality. It is in fact one of Stone's many, many wombs, where she fosters life that would not be allowed on the [[Surface]].<ref name=":0" /> The waxen beings now known as [[Snuffers]] once roamed the Garden freely;<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"In her deep wombs, she fosters life that would not be permitted above. The Garden was one of those wombs. And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it."''</ref> they were cast out of it when the [[Snuffers|Thief-of-Faces]] stole jewels from Stone's wombs.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred."''</ref> To this day, the Snuffers remember the Garden,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''"We are both barred from the Garden, but we remember it and you do not."''</ref> and long to return to it, but their aspirations seem all but impossible.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flint|Flint|Fallen London|}} ''""And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it. I still hope to go there some day.""''</ref>

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"There are a thousand speculations on why Death is strange in the Neath. Perhaps one is true."[1]

"THIS COUNTRY - MOUTH-OF-THE-RIVER - THIS WAS THE PLACE OF HER OVERTHROW"[2]

The Garden, hidden deep within the Mountain of Light, predates the Bazaar's presence in the Neath by a wide margin. Its precise location is unknown, and it may not even be a true garden, but it is heavily sought after by those who know of its power, as they see it as the ultimate source of Neathy immortality. Unfortunately for them, only the birds and the bees (and other flying things) can enter it freely at the moment;[3] the Presbyterate's College of Mortality guards the entrance.[4]

Eden?

"In the Garden is the Design; in the Garden occurred the Ascents; in the Garden were selected the Shames. Therefore none shall enter it without that they be blinded with thorns and bound with the Three Oaths. And should any seek to alter the Design or repeat the Ascent or uncover the Shames, they shall be given to the Wax-Wind."[5]

The Mountain of Light, daughter of the Sun and the Echo Bazaar who is worshipped as Stone, provides a strange vitality to the Elder Continent. Fruit can grow from rocks, bones can sprout from the soil,[6] and inanimate objects have minds of their own.[7] An area's "liveliness" depends on its proximity to Stone, so people who die in faraway places across the Unterzee often die permanently, while those who live on the mainland (such as Londoners) can often recover from death with nothing but a bad headache. People of the Elder Continent itself can live a century and still look good.[8]

The Garden is the source, or perhaps one source, of this vitality. It is in fact one of Stone's many, many wombs, where she fosters life that would not be allowed on the Surface.[9] The waxen beings now known as Snuffers once roamed the Garden freely;[9] they were cast out of it when the Thief-of-Faces stole jewels from Stone's wombs.[10] To this day, the Snuffers remember the Garden,[11] and long to return to it, but their aspirations seem all but impossible.[12]

Birds and other flying creatures carry the airs of the Garden; hence, hunting them is strictly forbidden in the Presbyterate. They say this is because the Mountain dreams of flight.[13] In ages past, birds stole seeds from the Garden; one of these seeds, now a tree, resides deep within the Mirror-Marches of Parabola.[14]

WHOSO THIRSTETH AND DRINKETH OF THIS, SO SHALL HE NEVER DIE.

One of the most coveted treasures in the Neath is Hesperidean Cider, brewed from the golden, robust Hesperidean Apples of the Garden. When drunk, Hesperidean Cider immediately restores its imbiber to their physical prime,[15] grants them a free escape from the slow boat,[16] and plagues them with mysterious visions of the Garden and the Mountain.[17] Following these visions may grant an imbiber a more permanent form of immortality.[18] The Masters of the Bazaar have stores of this precious drink,[19] but the Capering Relicker was the first to brew it.[18]

References

  1. ↑ The Seekers of the Garden, Fallen London
  2. ↑ The Approach to the Mountain, Fallen London
  3. ↑ A word with His Amused Lordship, Fallen London
  4. ↑ Democratise death, Sunless Sea "With a cry, you charge, and in a short, bloody battle force your way into the College. [...] At the back of the College a vast door guards the way into the Mountain's heart."
  5. ↑ Order Vespertine, Irresistible, Fallen London
  6. ↑ The Mountain's Blood, Sunless Sea "At four o'clock [...] the ship begins to speak to you. It apologises for what will happen next. Only you can hear it. At seven o'clock, the engine bursts like a heart. [...] Your bones will grow in the muds of the river's shore."
  7. ↑ The Mountain's Blood, Sunless Sea "In London, they never imagine what grows here. Orchards of bones. Iron upright as aspens. Flint pillars, fecund with faceted apples. Gemmed faces turn to watch you from the rock."
  8. ↑ Ask the Adventuress why you've been ambushed by assassins from her homeland, Sunless Sea
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Flint, Fallen London "In her deep wombs, she fosters life that would not be permitted above. The Garden was one of those wombs. And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it."
  10. ↑ Flint, Fallen London "The Mountain cast us all out of the Garden, when it found that our progenitor had taken jewels from its wombs, to make a weapon to serve its hatred."
  11. ↑ Flint, Fallen London "We are both barred from the Garden, but we remember it and you do not."
  12. ↑ Flint, Fallen London ""And we long to return to it, we Cousins. How we long for it. I still hope to go there some day.""
  13. ↑ The Last Night: Record her memoirs about her homeland, Sunless Sea
  14. ↑ Rarest fruit, Sunless Sea
  15. ↑ Take a mouthful, Fallen London
  16. ↑ Are you lost?, Fallen London
  17. ↑ Drink, and luxuriate in your bed, Fallen London
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Hand over a multitude of scrap for... something secret, Fallen London
  19. ↑ Ask about the Hesperidean cider, Sunless Skies
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