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{{Neath_Location|image1=Hanging Mountains.png|caption1=Peaks that graze the shadowed ground.|location=[[Parabola]]|allegiance=|notable_inhabitants=The Viscountess of the Hanging Mountains}}<blockquote>''"The Hanging Mountains are a constant in Parabola's changeable cartography. Always, they divide the Wastes from the Wanting-Way, and they are never to be found near the [[Smoking Shore]]. There was some great war between those places, long ago. The Mountains prevent a recurrence.''


''"The Mountains hang below the Coiling Spire. Along their peaks and barriers are speckled refuges and redoubts, the holdfasts of silverers and exiles, monks and the very lost."''<ref name=":0">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consider_the_Hanging_Mountains|Consider the Hanging Mountains|Fallen London|}}</ref>
{{Neath_Location|image1=Hanging Mountains.png|caption1=Peaks that graze the shadowed ground.|location=[[Parabola]]|allegiance=[[Parabola]]}}
</blockquote>'''The Hanging Mountains''' are a rare example of a constant landmark in the ever-shifting dreamscape of [[Parabola]].<ref name=":0" /> The [[Skin of the Sun]], Parabola's false-sun, hangs below them.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Through_the_Hanging_Mountains|Through the Hanging Mountains|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
Despite the inherent hostility of a range of upside-down mountains, not to mention the cold,<ref name=":1">{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Return_to_the_Hanging_Mountains|Return to the Hanging Mountains|Fallen London|}}</ref> they are certainly not uninhabited by humans,<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Gather_the_Flowers_of_Nevermore|Gather the Flowers of Nevermore|Fallen London|}}</ref> and the '''Viscountess of the Hanging Mountains''' claims the region for the [[cats]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Warn_the_vendor_of_the_Duchess%27_policy|Warn the vendor of the Duchess' policy|Fallen London|}}</ref> The [[Viscountess of the Viric Jungle]] has a hideout on a low-hanging peak,<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_the_Viscountess%27_Refuge|Reach the Viscountess' Refuge|Fallen London|}}</ref> and there is an observatory high above, at the base of a slope, that allows a close-up view of the Skin of the Sun.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_the_Hanging_Mountains|Reach the Hanging Mountains|Fallen London|}}</ref> The highest - er, lowest - peak is commanded by the Jaded Pagoda, a [[Fourth City]] temple.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Secure_the_Jaded_Pagoda|Secure the Jaded Pagoda|Fallen London|}}</ref>
 
== References ==
[[Category:Places]]
[[Category:Parabola]]
[[Category:Unfinished]]
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