Whilforber Hill

Whilforber Hill, with Greenglass House atop it.

****W******hilforber Hill** is a wooded, tall, steep hill in Nagspeake on which stands Greenglass House. At the top of the hill is the Liberty of Gammerbund and also on the hill is the Ferrous Sanctus Monastery. The Slope is the hill's east face.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

Lucy noted that the hill on which Bluecrowne House stood was covered in blue pines. Liao later set off a firework from the hill, and Blister and Trigemine and saw it. Lucy did not like being in a house halfway up a hill that looked down on a river. Blister learned that the captain of the *Left-Handed Fate* owned the house on the hill. Lucy later arranged for Trigemine and Blister to come up the hill and teach Liao how to make a certain firework. After getting the *Driven Star*, Lucy and Liao went up the hill, finally arriving, breathless, at the gate. Trigemine and Blister arrived breathless as well.

### *The Raconteur's Commonplace Book*

While telling the story of Hugo Bankcliff, Mr. Haypotten noted that the Ferrous Sanctus Monastery was on Whilforber Hill.

### *Greenglass House*

Milo noted that Greenglass House sat on the side of a hill, and overlooked the Quayside Harbors. It was a very long climb up the steep hill to Greenglass House, three hundred and ten steep steps, so the Pines had built the *Whilforber Whirlwind* to carry guests up the hill. Milo noted that there was also a road that went down the side of the hill, from Greenglass House to the city proper.

Milo liked to sit on the fire escape and watch the sun go down behind Whilforber Hill. He told Meddy that the large window on the second floor had been made in Greenglass House because it was too big to get up the hill finished. Room 3W looked out onto Whilforber Hill. Owen hiked all the way up the hill, as the bell to call the *Whilforber Whirlwind* was not working. Milo noted that the red stone outbuildings were from the time when the land around Greenglass House had belonged to the monastery, which was at the top of the hill.

There used to be a gate at a different place on Whilforber Hill. Milo was confused, as most of the ridge was steep, rocky, dangerous, and covered in trees and undergrowth. He noticed, though, that there was a break in the woods where perhaps the gate could have stood. However, it was so steep that the Pines had put up a fence, and Mrs. Pine was afraid even the fence would fall off the cliff. Clem suggested that in two hundred years, perhaps part of the slope had collapsed. Milo and his father went sledding down Whilforber Hill.

### *Ghosts of Greenglass House*

Milo noted that there was a dock at the bottom of Whilforber Hill. The bell rang, not for the *Whilforber Whirlwind* down the hill, but for the Belowground Transit station up it. The Waits later came up the hill, and at first Milo could not see anything except the trees on the hill blocking the view of the river at the bottom. Mrs. Pine noted that only people on Whilforber Hill called the Liberty by its proper name, the Liberty of Gammerbund, and other Nagspeakers called it St. Whit Gammerbund's Rest Home for the Mentally Chaotic. Milo noted that the *Whilforber Whirlwind* was still at the top of the hill, and he had once seen someone climb all the steps up the steep hill.

Lucky noted that it was an hour's hike up Whilforber Hill to the Liberty. Doc Holystone's ghost promised Milo that he would attempt to stop anyone who tried to leave, and Milo supposed that they would go past him unless they had a car on the hill road. Lucky noted that carolers went to the other side of Whilforeber Hill and to the monastery at its top. According to Mr. Hakelbarend, the Liberty of Gammerbund has been up atop the hill for a very long time. The Waits later returned to the Liberty, walking up the hill through the cold.

### *The Thief Knot*

Marzana noted that she'd met Emmett when she'd visited the inn on Whilforber Hill. Mr. Otterwill told the students that the Slope was the east face of Whilforber Hill, and thus very steep. Meddy mentioned that Sanctuary Cliff was near Greenglass House, on the southwest side of Whilforber Hill. When they rode a Belowground Transit train from the Liberty of Gammerbund to the Printer's Quarter, it took a long time because the Liberty was at the top of Whilforber Hill and the Printer's Quarter was at the bottom, and Marzana commented on how the whole time had been going down.

## Locations

* The Slope
* Greenglass House
* Sanctuary Cliff Station
* Ferrous Sanctus Monastery
* Liberty of Gammerbund

## Trivia

* Different places in the books disagree about where Greenglass House is; some places say "halfway up" and others "at the top" of Whilforber Hill, but Greenglass House isn't at the top, because that is where the Liberty of Gammerbund stands.

## Gallery

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