Editing The Writhing River

<blockquote>{{Neath_Location|image1=Ruins1.png|caption1=Fecund and poisonous, a place where serpents clog the waterways.|location=[[Parabola]]|alias=the Wanting Way|allegiance=[[Fingerkings]]|notable_inhabitants=Poisoned Oracle<br>

[[Fingerkings|Satrap of Shallows]]<br>[[Cats|Countess Palatine]]}}''"Fecund and poisonous, where serpents clog the waterways and the Wanting Way plunges through regions of untrammelled terror."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Return_to_the_Writhing_River|Return to the Writhing River|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>'''The Writhing River''' is a great river of poisonous serpents that flows through [[Parabola]].

<blockquote>''"Between hither and there, however, are many insidious marches. This is disputed land, and in Parabola, everyone has a claim. The Writhing River courses thick with serpents, a much-contested section of the great Parabolan road: the Wanting Way."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Along_the_Writhing_River|Along the Writhing River|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>The Writhing River is the largest and most well known branch of the '''Wanting Way,''' the great [[Parabolan]] pilgrim road. It is said that anyone that travels through dreams with a driving need will find themselves along the River eventually.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consider_the_Writhing_River|Consider the Writhing River|Fallen London}}</ref> The venom produced by the [[Fingerkings|serpents]] that form the River creates clouds of toxic vapors that hang in the air around it, and can prove dangerous to anyone without suitable protection.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ambition:_Prepare_to_Travel_the_Wanting_Way|Ambition: Prepare to Travel the Wanting Way|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sail_the_Wanting-Way|Sail the Wanting-Way|Fallen London}}</ref> Being directly injected with the venom can also cause addictive sensations and show visions of jaundiced cities, lit by multiple red suns.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Court_of_Cats_(Story)|The Court of Cats (Story)|Fallen London}}''"On the return journey, we turned towards the Writhing River, where she and her staff stopped to bathe. They said I should join them; that the venoms granted sensations unknown in our world." ''</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Court_of_Cats_(Story)|The Court of Cats (Story)|Fallen London}}''"Later, you loll among venom-visions of jaundiced cities, silent beneath a black sky. Their night is set with old, red suns."''</ref>

As other great rivers do, the Writhing River has its own tributaries. Some of these lesser rivers can be found quite close to the real world; one flows near the cellars of [[Hunter's Keep]].<ref>{{Citation|https://sunlesssea.miraheze.org/wiki/Hunter's_Keep#Hunter.27s_Keep|Visit the cellar|Sunless Sea}}</ref>   

<blockquote>''"The Writhing River is the largest branch of the great pilgrim route: the Wanting Way. It is a broad river of running serpents, clouded in envenomed mists. Oracles, mountebanks, pilgrims, traveller's inns, false saints and sundered shrines speckle both sides of its banks."''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consider_the_Writhing_River|Consider the Writhing River|Fallen London}}</ref></blockquote>As it lies along the Wanting Way, the banks and towheads of the Writhing River are filled with many shrines, oracles and other travel destinations, for instance:

*The '''Entanglement of Glass''', where the [[Fingerkings]] torture and tempt captured [[cats]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Entanglement_of_Glass|The Entanglement of Glass|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Court_of_Cats_(Story)|The Court of Cats (Story)|Fallen London}}''"The Viscountess was once a hostage of the Conjugation of Miseries. They kept her for years in the Entanglement of Glass. I would never question her loyalty, of course. I'm sure she weathered her imprisonment stolidly. But an experience like that – could any of us emerge unchanged?"''</ref>

*The '''Enshrinement of Waters''', a red-stone temple dedicated to the [[Fingerkings|Satrap of Shallows]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Enter_the_Enshrinement_of_Waters|Enter the Enshrinement of Waters|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Approach_the_fountain|Approach the fountain|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Labyrinth of Cathedrals''', where the Gregorian cries of the tatterdemalion bats can always be heard.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sail_the_Wanting-Way|Sail the Wanting-Way|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Frowning Sepulchres''', where the [[The Tomb-Colonies#The Tomb-Colonists|Tomb-Colonists]] dream of their ancestral tombs.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Sail_the_Wanting-Way|Sail the Wanting-Way|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Menhir-Bridge''', built from coruscating menhirs inscribed from the inside with [[The Correspondence|Correspondence]] sigils.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Launch_a_naval_assault|Launch a naval assault|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Temple of the Outflung Rose''', where rose petals fall like rain in honor of a certain [[The Red-Handed Queen|bloody]] power.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Find_the_Temple_of_the_Outflung_Rose|Find the Temple of the Outflung Rose|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Poisoned Oracle''', a master in the arts of war and poisons, who lives in a reflection of the [[Sere Palace]].<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consult_a_Poisoned_Oracle|Consult a Poisoned Oracle|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Oracle of Glaziers''', who lives deep beneath the Wanting Way within in a labyrinth of stained glass. She is an expert on the matter of dream-reflections.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consult_the_Oracle_of_Glaziers|Consult the Oracle of Glaziers|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Place that was White and Gold''', a great lake that holds the final moments of the [[Fourth City]] within its depths.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Reach_the_Place_that_was_White_and_Gold|Reach the Place that was White and Gold|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Fourth|The Fall of the Fourth|Fallen London}}</ref>

*The '''Root of Need''', a system of caves located deep beneath the '''Mountains of the Mind''', and known as the source of the Writhing River.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Recover_the_Countess_Palatine|Recover the Countess Palatine|Fallen London}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Consider_your_current_store_of_Parabolan_geography|Consider your current store of Parabolan geography|Fallen London}}</ref> The '''Yearning Custodian''', the first winner of the '''Marvellous,''' can also be found here, willing to consecrate the cards of any new players arriving at his humble abode.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/The_Root_of_Need|The Root of Need|Fallen London}}</ref>

 

 

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