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{{Neath_Location|image1=lilymire.png|caption1=The Lilymire|location=[[The Hinterlands]]|allegiance=[[Hell]]}}<blockquote>''"Here, the bog is coated with a putrid sheen that gleams golden in the candle light. The stench of the rotting white flowers pervades the air. It is an unwholesome fog which cleaves to the gilded waters like a shroud. Little candles grow out of the lilies, like clumps of clotted fat."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lilymire|The Lilymire|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | {{Neath_Location|image1=lilymire.png|caption1=The Lilymire|location=[[The Hinterlands]]|allegiance=[[Hell]]}}<blockquote>''"Here, the bog is coated with a putrid sheen that gleams golden in the candle light. The stench of the rotting white flowers pervades the air. It is an unwholesome fog which cleaves to the gilded waters like a shroud. Little candles grow out of the lilies, like clumps of clotted fat."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lilymire|The Lilymire|Fallen London|}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
The '''Lilymire''' is a swamp in the [[Hinterlands]] located near [[Marigold Station]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Brave_the_Lilymire|Brave the Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"A place of bloated marshes and corpsecandles."''</ref> The | The '''Lilymire''' is a swamp in the [[Hinterlands]] located near [[Marigold Station]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Brave_the_Lilymire|Brave the Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"A place of bloated marshes and corpsecandles."''</ref> The atmosphere of the swamp and its surroundings is putrid, and lit by thousands of rotting white lilies, each containing a candle.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Brave_the_Lilymire|Brave the Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"The route [...] effluvia of the grave [...] lilies float by – they are alight, [...] sweet, rotten scent [...] the flickering of thousands of lily-candles."''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lilymire|The Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"Little candles grow out of the lilies, [...]"''</ref> The waters here have been flooded by the runoff from [[Hell|Hell's]] law-furnaces; unprotected divers may emerge permanently altered.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Search_for_a_Hellish_artefact|Search for a Hellish artefact|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] dive into the [...] waters of the mire, fattened with the effluvia of Hell's law-furnaces. [...] The Lilymire churns [...] Old laws alter the composition of your heart [...] The accrual of edicts wears away at your protections, [...] you are forced to withdraw, lest you be irrevocably altered."''</ref> | ||
Hell refused to conquer the Lilymire, instead choosing to reserve it for its "dead and exiled."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lilymire|The Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"This is a place Hell [...] refused to conquer: only its dead and its exiled linger here."''</ref> | Hell refused to conquer the Lilymire, instead choosing to reserve it for its "dead and exiled."<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Lilymire|The Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"This is a place Hell [...] refused to conquer: only its dead and its exiled linger here."''</ref> Hell keeps the history of this place a secret, refusing to reveal who died here, whose grave this once was, or for whom the candles burn.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Dive_into_the_Lilymire|Dive into the Lilymire|Fallen London|}} ''"[...] Brass Embassy does not publish [...] those who died in this mire. Hell will not reveal whose [...] grave this once was, nor for whom the candles burn."''</ref> | ||
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