Aescwine Hill

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"With no lamps to dazzle your eyes, it's easier to make out the silhouettes on the horizon: the outline of Aescwine Hill, the inconsistent presence of Hillchanger Tower."[2]

Aescwine Hill is a landmark near the outskirts of Ealing Gardens.[3] The summit is a popular painting spot for landscape artists,[4] if they can brave the enormous scorpions that infest the slopes.[5] It is also one of the resting points for Hillchanger Tower, which travels across the Hinterlands[6][7] but returns atop Aescwine every midnight.[8][1]

The aforementioned scorpions, called Hillchanger scorpions, are the size of cats and unusually "well-trained."[9] Their venom can only be extracted when Hillchanger Tower is at Aescwine; otherwise they produce only smoke.[10]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Persuade Sinning Jenny/Tables, Fallen London "[...] considering how long it has sat on top of Aescwine without hurting anyone [...]"
  2. ↑ Constellations, Fallen London
  3. ↑ Constellations, Fallen London "[...] it's easier to make out the silhouettes on the horizon: the outline of Aescwine Hill [...]"
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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?"
  6. ↑ 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 [...]"
  7. ↑ Promise to retrieve the Honey-Mazed Bear again, Fallen London "They wanted to put the stash in 'illchanger Tower, [...] see 'em climb up one morning and find the 'ole lot gone off to Burrow-Infra-Mump [...]"
  8. ↑ Time the appearances of Hillchanger Tower, Fallen London "Whenever and wherever it goes, it is always back by midnight."
  9. ↑ 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?"
  10. ↑ Develop into an Envenomed Pickle of Vinegar, Vengeance, and Hillchanger Scorpion, Fallen London "To milk the venom from a scorpion stinger, [...] because these are Hillchanger scorpions – [...] perform the extraction during the time when the Hillchanger Tower is in Ealing. Otherwise, all one gets [...] is a curl of clove smoke."
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