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."[1]

The Lilymire is a swamp in the Hinterlands located near Marigold Station.[2] The area has a putrid atmosphere and is lit by thousands of rotting white lilies, each containing a candle.[3][4] The waters here have been flooded by the runoff from Hell's Law-Furnaces; unprotected divers may emerge permanently altered.[5]

Hell refused to conquer the Lilymire, instead choosing to reserve it for its "dead and exiled."[6] They keep the history of this place a secret, refusing to reveal who died here, whose grave this once was, or for whom the candles burn.[7]

A being known as the Saint of the Lilymire is known to exist in Parabola, but the specifics or its importance are unknown.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ The Lilymire, Fallen London
  2. ↑ Brave the Lilymire, Fallen London "A place of bloated marshes and corpsecandles."
  3. ↑ Brave the Lilymire, Fallen London "The route [...] effluvia of the grave [...] lilies float by – they are alight, [...] sweet, rotten scent [...] the flickering of thousands of lily-candles."
  4. ↑ The Lilymire, Fallen London "Little candles grow out of the lilies, [...]"
  5. ↑ Search for a Hellish artefact, Fallen London "[...] dive into the [...] waters of the mire, fattened with the effluvia of Hell's law-furnaces. [...] The Lilymire churns [...] Old laws alter the composition of your heart [...] The accrual of edicts wears away at your protections, [...] you are forced to withdraw, lest you be irrevocably altered."
  6. ↑ The Lilymire, Fallen London "This is a place Hell [...] refused to conquer: only its dead and its exiled linger here."
  7. ↑ Dive into the Lilymire, Fallen London "[...] Brass Embassy does not publish [...] those who died in this mire. Hell will not reveal whose [...] grave this once was, nor for whom the candles burn."
  8. ↑ The Fair Unknown, Fallen London "[...] a list of the current competitors [...] the Saint of the Lilymire [...]"
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