The Progress of the Bells

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"You stand in the midst of a snarl of toppled masonry, dominated by great bell towers still sounding their own death knells. The ravages of time have brought this once proud palace low."[1]

The Progress of the Bells is a location near Marigold Station in the Hinterlands.[2] It is a massive, decaying palace whose bell towers are eternally ringing.[3] It once belonged to Grand Devils,[4] and accordingly contains remnants of hives.[5] During the Season of Revolutions, Hell used Law-Furnaces to accelerate its deterioration[6] and to decree that it would stagnate "until Hell's fall."[7] Within the palace's amphitheater are two enormous corpses of the castle's former inhabitants, locked in a dying embrace.[8]

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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 "[...] a snarl of toppled masonry, dominated by [...] bell towers still sounding [...] The ravages of time have brought this [...] palace low."
  4. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "When the revolutionaries rose up against our nobles, the Brigade served here. [...] We guarded the greatest of us. Our lady's defences were formidable [...]"
  5. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "[...] you find the ravaged remnant of the hives: the chambers of the lord [...]"
  6. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London ""When the revolutionaries rose up against our nobles, [...] Our lady's defences [...] the only way the revolutionaries could win was to abuse the Law Furnaces. They accelerated the decay of the palace: [...] to its end.""
  7. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "The law furnaces decree this place will be as it is until Hell's fall."
  8. ↑ For All the Saints Who From Their Labours Rest, Fallen London "In a vast amphitheatre you find fragments of the lord [...] Wings the size [...] of cathedral buttresses; [...] faceted eyes. Clutched in its broken limbs, the [...] body another of its kin."
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