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|caption1=All are welcome here, provided that they are welcoming of all here. Art from Sunless Skies. | |caption1=All are welcome here, provided that they are welcoming of all here. Art from Sunless Skies. | ||
|region=[[Eleutheria]] | |region=[[Eleutheria]] | ||
|allegiance=Criminals<br>[[The Halved]] | |allegiance=[[Criminals]]<br>[[The Halved]] | ||
|music=[https://soundcloud.com/ | |music=[https://soundcloud.com/user-290015198/the-last-lamp-post The Last Lamp-Post] | ||
}}''"The Last Lamp-Post gleams through the fog; the furthest-flung piece of [[London]]."'' | }} | ||
''"The Last Lamp-Post gleams through the fog; the furthest-flung piece of [[London]]."'' | |||
''"A | ''"A house of numberless rooms and diverse guests. Founded by Lord Langley, it is a refuge for those willing to brave the dark."'' | ||
'''Langley Hall''' is | '''Langley Hall''' is a mansion in [[Eleutheria]] founded by the eponymous Lord Langley. | ||
==Welcome | ==Welcome Home== | ||
''"Here, the vanished Lord Langley founded a home away from home; a London for the exiled, the lost and the lovelorn. Distance is suspended inside; no one has ever claimed to have charted the entirety of the limitless hall."'' | ''"Here, the vanished Lord Langley founded a home away from home; a London for the exiled, the lost and the lovelorn. Distance is suspended inside; no one has ever claimed to have charted the entirety of the limitless hall."'' | ||
Langley Hall is | Langley Hall is inhabited mostly by exiles, criminals, or those that are lost. More specifically, Lord Langley invited those who aren't accepted, or don't feel accepted, by [[New London]]. | ||
The mansion has a supernatural property: those who leave the building after a night or two there have an unnerving desire to return immediately. Staying there for a shorter period of time usually relieves the issue, but this isn't exactly an easy proposition. | |||
Lord Langley himself | You see, the mansion is bigger on the inside than on the outside; Lord Langley himself is said to be lost in its labyrinthine structure. This phenomenon is known as the '''Treachery of Distance'''. | ||
==Sanctuary for the | ==Sanctuary for the outcasts== | ||
{{major spoiler small}} | {{major spoiler small}}The mansion is heavily implied to be built from the remains of the original [[Scrive-Spinster]] library. [[The Halved]] tasked Lord Langley with building a sanctuary from the remains of the library, for reasons that remain unknown. | ||
Tourists | Tourists keep coming back to the Hall because the Halved inscribed Lord Langley's body with [[The Correspondence|Correspondence]] sigils that attract people. | ||
[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:The High Wilderness]] | [[Category:The High Wilderness]] | ||
[[Category:Eleutheria]] | [[Category:Eleutheria]] | ||
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