"It's the Hillchanger Tower. The one that appears on Aescwine Hill and then travels other places. I've thought for some time that represented another power."[1]
Aescwine Hill is a landmark near the outskirts of Ealing Gardens.[2] The summit is a popular painting spot for landscape artists,[3] if they can brave the enormous scorpions that infest the slopes.[4] It is also one of the resting points for Hillchanger Tower, which travels across the Hinterlands[5][6] but returns atop Aescwine every midnight.[7]
The aforementioned scorpions are the size of cats and unusually "well-trained."[8] Their venom can only be extracted when Hillchanger Tower is at Aescwine; otherwise they produce only smoke.[9]
↑Constellations, Fallen London"[...] it's easier to make out the silhouettes on the horizon: the outline of Aescwine Hill [...]"
↑Upper River Artistry, Fallen London"The more Nocturnalist Bohemians have taken a liking to Ealing Gardens. [...] some simply paint landscapes of the vista from Aescwine Hill.
↑Offer your defensive escort, Fallen London"[...] a little trouble, [...] a troupe of [...] scorpions the size of house-cats [...] Your party does not get even halfway up the hill before you are swarmed by [...] scorpions?"
↑Build the station at Moulin, Fallen London"[...] the Hillchanger Tower. The one that appears on Aescwine Hill and then travels other places," [...] It has taken up a place in Moulin now [...]"
↑Offer your defensive escort, Fallen London"[...] a troupe of perhaps two dozen scorpions the size of house-cats, [...] are those scorpions? How are they so large? And so well-trained?"
