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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/plausible-albatross/the-last-lamp-post The Last Lamp-Post] | |music=[https://soundcloud.com/plausible-albatross/the-last-lamp-post The Last Lamp-Post] | ||
}}''"The Last Lamp-Post gleams through the fog; the furthest-flung piece of [[London]]."''<ref>{{ | }}''"The Last Lamp-Post gleams through the fog; the furthest-flung piece of [[London]]."''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Langley_Hall#Log_Entries|Log Entries|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
''"A sprawling house of numberless rooms. Founded by Lord Langley, it is a refuge for those willing to brave the dark of Eleutheria."''<ref>{{ | ''"A sprawling house of numberless rooms. Founded by Lord Langley, it is a refuge for those willing to brave the dark of Eleutheria."''<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/Langley_Hall#Langley_Hall|Langley Hall|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
'''Langley Hall''' is an enormous mansion in [[Eleutheria]], founded by the eponymous '''Lord Langley'''.__forcetoc__ | '''Langley Hall''' is an enormous mansion in [[Eleutheria]], founded by the eponymous '''Lord Langley'''.__forcetoc__ | ||
==Welcome to the Hotel Eleutheria== | ==Welcome to the Hotel Eleutheria== | ||
''"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 primarily inhabited by exiles, criminals, and those | Langley Hall is primarily inhabited by exiles, criminals, and those that are lost. More specifically, Lord Langley invited those who aren't accepted, or don't feel accepted, by [[New London]]. The Hall itself is quite well-furnished, with enough provisions to satiate a dozen parties at once. However, the Hall's unintuitive and confusing interior can make it difficult to navigate; no one has ever mapped this place completely, they say.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/A_Jetty_off_the_Edge_of_Nowhere|A Jetty off the Edge of Nowhere|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
Those who leave the building after a night or two have an unnerving desire to return immediately. Staying here for a short period of time usually relieves the issue, but this isn't exactly an easy proposition, as the mansion is bounded on the outside but nigh-unbounded on the inside. This phenomenon is known as the '''Treachery of Distance'''.<ref>{{ | Those who leave the building after a night or two have an unnerving desire to return immediately. Staying here for a short period of time usually relieves the issue, but this isn't exactly an easy proposition, as the mansion is bounded on the outside but nigh-unbounded on the inside. This phenomenon is known as the '''Treachery of Distance'''.<ref>{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Study|The Study|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
Lord Langley himself doesn't come out too often. He usually resides within his personal chambers or the ballroom. Currently, he's draped in melancholy from losing his lover; many people love him, but Langley only loves one person back.<ref name = "lord langley">{{ | Lord Langley himself doesn't come out too often. He usually resides within his personal chambers or the ballroom. Currently, he's draped in melancholy from losing his lover; many people love him, but Langley only loves one person back.<ref name = "lord langley">{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Ballroom|The Ballroom|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
==Sanctuary for the Outcasts== | ==Sanctuary for the Outcasts== | ||
{{major spoiler small}}Langley Hall is heavily implied to have been built from the remains of the [[Scrive-Spinster]]'s original grand library. [[The Halved]] tasked Lord Langley with building a sanctuary from the remains of this library | {{major spoiler small}}Langley Hall is heavily implied to have been built from the remains of the [[Scrive-Spinster]]'s original grand library. [[The Halved]] tasked Lord Langley with building a sanctuary from the remains of this library, reasons unknown. | ||
Tourists are lured back to the Hall because the Halved inscribed Lord Langley's body with [[the Correspondence|Correspondence]] sigils that attract people.<ref name = "lord langley">{{ | Tourists are lured back to the Hall because the Halved inscribed Lord Langley's body with [[the Correspondence|Correspondence]] sigils that attract people.<ref name = "lord langley">{{FLCitation|https://sunlessskies.gamepedia.com/The_Ballroom|The Ballroom|Sunless Skies|}}</ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:The High Wilderness]] | [[Category:The High Wilderness]] | ||
[[Category:Eleutheria]] | [[Category:Eleutheria]] | ||
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