The Fields of Roses

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"Rusting machinery dots the scarred landscape, ruined by the troop movements: the raising and toppling of defences; the casting down of commanders. Here and there, roses rise from the earth: red as open wounds."[1]

The Fields of Roses are a location near Marigold Station in the Hinterlands.[2] This area was a battleground of the Campaign of '68,[3] and remnants of the war's machinery and fortifications remain.[4] The roses that grow here have a fiery glow, and may burn those that get too close.[5][6]

Near the field are the Trenches of the Faithless, where London's forces fought and died.[7] Their bodies still remain,[8] some preserved with Law-Furnaces,[9] as do the weapons of the belligerents: the comparatively primitive artillery of London, and the devastating war-engines of Hell.[10]

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  1. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London
  2. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "I'll arrange for the train to make a brief stop at Marigold Station."
  3. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London ""Here, Hell routed London.""
  4. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "Rusting machinery dots the scarred landscape, [...] the raising and toppling of defences; [...]"
  5. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "[...] roses rise from the earth: [...]"
  6. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London ""They're burning!" [...] you can see that the roses are haloed by soft fires, like candle [...] leaning in and almost scorching his eyelashes off [...]"
  7. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "Enter the Trenches of the Faithless [...] the enemies of Hell fought and fell there."
  8. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "Corpses lie together [...] "
  9. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "[...] three bodies still hang. [...] preserved: an edict from the Law Furnaces."
  10. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "[...] cannon here, a chain-gun there; [...] When London's forces ran out of ammunition, they turned to antique weaponry: the trebuchet [...] you can find the detritus of Hell's weaponry. A slumbering Utterance [...] aftereffects of a Brazen Doctrine, [...] a War-Furnace; decreeing death, torpor and desertion."
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