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| <blockquote>{{Neath_Location|title1 = The Gant Pole|image1 = Locations Gant Pole.png|caption1 = Looks more like a heart than a pole. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = [[The Unterzee]]|allegiance = [[The Chelonate]]|notable_inhabitants = [[The Chelonate|The Chelonites]]
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| | {{Neath_Location|title1 = The Gant Pole|image1 = gantpole.png|caption1 = Looks more like a heart than a pole. Art from Sunless Sea.|location = The Chelonate|allegiance = The Chelonate|notable_inhabitants = The Chelonites |
| | The Fading Haruspex}}''The leathery carcasses of hollowed-out beasts line the ventricles of this stone heart. Ancient blubber bubbles up around paths of bone and hide that squelch with every step. A distant drip carves eternity into hours.'' |
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| | Located under the Chelonate and away from the stink, the '''Gant Pole''' is where zee monsters go to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/Gant_Pole|Gant Pole|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> |
| ''"The leathery carcasses of hollowed-out beasts line the ventricles of this stone heart. Ancient blubber bubbles up around paths of bone and hide that squelch with every step. A distant drip carves eternity into hours."''<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Gant_Pole|Gant Pole|Sunless Sea}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Gant Pole''' is a gigantic calcified heart, and the place where the creatures of the [[Unterzee]] go to die.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Gant_Pole|Where the Zee Goes to Die|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
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| ==The Corridors of The Heart==
| | Its mazes are only inhabited by elderly zailors, barely able to fight, and one haruspex, who tells the future in the entrails of zee monsters and might be as old as [[The Fallen Cities#The First City|the First City]]. One who inquires into her past will learn that she was exiled from [[Whither]] after answering a question. She is searching for an unavoidable question, a question that not even the Whithern can avoid answering.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> |
| The Pole possesses a powerful attractive force that calls out to any being nearing the end of its life, from the largest of [[The Chelonate#The Glory's Story|behemoths]]<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Irem|You heard the Glory's story|Sunless Sea}}</ref> to the simple humans.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|The Old Zailors|Sunless Sea}}</ref> The Pole's pull extends beyond the [[Neath]], and can even attract people from the [[Surface]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|Bring Recent News to the Old Zailors|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
| | [[File:Irrepressible.png|thumb|left|100px|The Irrepressible]] |
| | | A zub known as '''''The Irrepressible''''' patrols near the Gant Pole. Renowned as the most feared vessel in [[the Unterzee]], it fires [[irrigo]] ammunition, and it resembles a beast more so than any sort of ship.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/You_have_defeated_the_Irrepressible!|You have defeated the Irrepressible!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> Its captain is '''the Pianolist''', an exceptionally dangerous individual with a penchant for Vivaldi. He is the leader of '''the Set''', a group of mad artists who roam the zee. The Pianolist seems to relish poetic irony, especially when betrayal is involved.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.gamepedia.com/A_Zubmarine_surfaces!|A Zubmarine surfaces!|Sunless Sea|}}</ref> |
| The humans that have followed the call tend to congregate at the very center of the stone heart that makes up the Pole, inside a big pool of [[gant]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|The Gant Chamber|Sunless Sea}}</ref> These old zailors only leave the pool to feed on the [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|zee-beasts]] that have just arrived at the Pole.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Gant_Chamber|Attempt to speak with the Old Zailors|Sunless Sea}}</ref> While all of the pool's zailors are elderly, some of them are truly ancient, and might even date back to the [[First City]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Old_Zailors|Share your secrets|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
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| ==Elbow Deep in the Nearly Dead==
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| A notable exception to the Pole's usual inhabitants is a group of haruspices, who divine answers to questions from the last moments of the dying [[Bestiary#Deep Zee-Monsters|zee-beasts]]. They are led by an old [[The Fallen Cities|Third City]] woman called '''the Fading Haruspex''',<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|The Fading Haruspex|Sunless Sea}}</ref> who was exiled from [[Whither]] for breaking its laws to spare a child's tears. She wishes to find an answer to a fabled Question that can only be answered with truth.<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/The_Fading_Haruspex|Ask what she seeks down here|Sunless Sea}}</ref>
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| ==IT TORE OUT THE HEART. THE SHAME REMAINED==
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| This giant stone heart once belonged to an enormous '''[[The Shames|Shame]]''', a defilement of The Great Chain.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London}}''"The heart once belonged to a Shame(...)A creature that should not be. A defilement of the Great Chain."''</ref> The Gant Pole was created when the Shame fell in love; its advances were spurned, and the lovelorn Shame tore out its own heart.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London}}''"It was spurned by its beloved and tore out its own heart"''</ref> The organ sunk beneath the zee-waves, and began to emit sadness and melancholy, which was mistaken by the various zee-monsters for a sense of peace that could comfort them in their dying days.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Leviathan|Leviathan|Fallen London}}''"Now the heart emits sadness, and beings at the end of their lives mistake it for peace"''</ref>
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| [[Category:Places]] | | [[Category:Places]] |
| [[Category:The Unterzee]] | | [[Category:The Unterzee]] |
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| [[Category:The Neath]] | | [[Category:The Neath]] |
