Editing The City of the Tracklayers/Variant text

The player has a great deal of influence over {{IL|The City of the Tracklayers}}, from its location and architecture to the political and cultural inclinations of its citizens. The city's writing reflects this, using variant text far more frequently than any other part of the game to acknowledge the minor details particular to the player's version of the city. Some of these details are used on multiple pages, so are collected here.
<noinclude>[[Category:Tables]]</noinclude>

== City ==

=== City name ===
<section begin="City name" />
[[File:Hinterlandcity.png|right]]
The name of the city is constructed of two parts. The first word is determined by the {{IL|Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Appearance=Chosen Site}}; the second is determined by {{IL|Hinterland City - Foundation|Appearance=Foundation}}, using the values it inherits from {{IL|Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Appearance=Official Alignment}} and {{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Founding Body}}. See the tables below.
<section begin="City name first word" />{{Variant table
|Condition =  Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Compact = yes
|Effect = First word of city's name
|Value Ealing = Ealing
|Value Evenlode = Barrow
|Value Balmoral = Rebel's
|Value Station VIII = Masters'
|Value Burrow = Pilgrims'
|Value Hurlers-Moulin = Steward's
|Value Marigold = Lily
}}<section end="City name first word" />
<section begin="City name second word" />
{| class="article-table mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! {{Use|Hinterland City - Foundation|Appearance=Foundation|Type=Text}}
! colspan="5" style="text-align: center;" | Second word of city's name
|-
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Appearance=Alignment}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Furnace|Image=furnace.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Furnace, Starved|Image=neathroof.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Cornelius|Image=cornelius.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Your Double|Image=attacker.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Manager’s Double|Image=mad.png}}
|-
!Liberationist
|rowspan="3"|Bluff
|rowspan="3"|Cautery
|rowspan="3"|Mandible
|rowspan="3"|Outopos
|rowspan="3"|Post-House
|-
!Radical Liberationist
|-
!Liberationist-Prehistoricist
|-
!Prehistoricist
|rowspan="3"|Acropole
|rowspan="3"|Transplant
|rowspan="3"|Scapula
|rowspan="3"|Antipolis
|rowspan="3"|Crossroads
|-
!Radical Prehistoricist
|-
!Prehistoricist-Emancipationist
|-
!Emancipationist
|rowspan="3"|Citadel
|rowspan="3"|Graft
|rowspan="3"|Jawbone
|rowspan="3"|Countertown
|rowspan="3"|Refuge
|-
!Radical Emancipationist
|-
!Emancipationist-Liberationist
|-
!Anti-Liberationist
|Pinnacle
|Hybrid
|Femur
|Dawn
|Lighthouse
|-
!Anti-Prehistoricist
|Stovepipe
|Cross
|Thighbone
|Commencement
|Hostelry
|-
!Anti-Emancipationist
|Kiln
|Strain
|Balljoint
|Counter-Commune
|Inn
|-
!Mixed
|Unionville
|Hollow
|Marrowbone
|Erewhon
|Bethlehem
|-
!Balanced
|Tracktown
|Absence
|Stockbone
|Erewhyna
|Embassy
|-
!Complacently Unrevolutionary
|rowspan="3"|Flat
|rowspan="3"|Analgesic
|rowspan="3"|Tendon
|rowspan="3"|Relondon
|rowspan="3"|Rest
|-
!Unknown
|}<section end="City name second word" /><section end="City name" />

=== Site (short) ===
<section begin="Site (short)" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Site (short)
|Value 1 = Near Ealing Gardens, in Ominous Proximity to London
|Effect 1 = Ealing Gardens
|Value 2 = Above the Magistracy of the Evenlode, with a Plentiful Supply of Bones
|Effect 2 = The Magistracy of the Evenlode
|Value 3 = Outside of Balmoral, Accessible to Communications with the Surface
|Effect 3 = Balmoral
|Value 4 = In the Shadow of Station VIII, Where the Masters Can Keep an Eye On It
|Effect 4 = Station VIII
|Value 5 = In the Parish of Burrow, Among the Parishioners of the Church in the Wild
|Effect 5 = Burrow-infra-Mump
|Value 6 = Between Moulin's Wastes and the Cold of Hurlers, Where No One Else Would Care to Live
|Effect 6 = Moulin
|Value 7 = Near Marigold, Snug Beneath the Walls of Hell
|Effect 7 = Marigold
}}<section end="Site (short)" />

=== Founding Body ===
<section begin="Founding Body" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Body|Compact = yes
|Value 1000 - 2000 = Furnace 
|Value 3000 = Cornelius
|Value 4000 = Your Double
|Value 5000 = The Manager
}}<section end="Founding Body" />

=== Founding Body (formal) ===
<section begin="Founding Body (formal)" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Body (informal)|Compact = yes
|Value 1000 = Furnace Ancona
|Value 2000 = Furnace Ancona, Starved
|Value 3000 = Cornelius
|Value 4000 = Your Own Double
|Value 5000 = The Double of the Manager of the Royal Beth
}}<section end="Founding Body (formal)" />

=== Founding Body (informal) ===
<section begin="Founding Body (informal)" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Body (informal)|Compact = yes
|Value 1000 - 2000 = Furnace 
|Value 3000 = Cornelius
|Value 4000 = your double
|Value 5000 = the Manager
}}<section end="Founding Body (informal)" />

=== Founding Body-city ===
<section begin="Founding Body-city" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Body-city|Compact = yes
|Value 1000 - 2000 = the Furnace-city
|Value 3000 = the Cornelius-city
|Value 4000 = City-you
|Value 5000 = the Manager-city
}}<section end="Founding Body-city" />

=== Leader ===
<section begin="Leader" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Leader of the Tracklayers|Effect = Leader|Compact = yes
|Value Furnace Ancona = Furnace Ancona
|Value Cornelius = Cornelius
|Value A Lackey of Mr Fires = Fires' Lackey
|Value A Lackey of Yours, Formerly Aligned with Mr Fires = Your Lackey
|Value January = January
}}<section end="Leader" />

== Buildings and Layout == 

=== Street ===
<section begin="street" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Street name|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing = Little Helicon
|Value Evenlode = Barrowview
|Value Balmoral = Little Glasgow
|Value Station VIII = Apothecary Street
|Value Burrow = Kettledrum Parade
|Value Moulin = Little Waswood
|Value Marigold = Excruciation Way
}}<section end="street" />

=== Style landmark ===
<noinclude>{{Incomplete|Missing text for no style}}</noinclude>
<section begin="Style landmark" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - The Style of a City|Condition alias = Style|Effect = Landmark|Compact = yes
|Value None = ?
|Value First City = monumental statue of a bearded king
|Value Bethlehem = staring eye-windows of the meeting hall
|Value School of Beatrice = peaked roof of the meeting hall
|Value Porous = lattice-windowed meeting hall
|Value Ivory = great orrery
|Value Attenuated = austere pinnacle of the meeting hall
|Value Remembered = impossible spire
|Value Celestial = balconied meeting hall
|Value Auroral = opalescent surface of the meeting hall
|Value Nocturnal = lightless silhouette of the meeting hall
|Value Bazaarine = peaked roof of the treasury
|Value Mycologene<br>Terpsichorean<br>Heliconian<br>Cartographical = {{FontFate}}
|Value Cenotaphic = ornamented roof of the great mausoleum
|Value True Beatrice = peaked roof of the meeting hall
}}<section end="Style landmark" />

=== Founding Body landmark  ===
<section begin="Founding Body landmark" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Landmark|Compact = yes
|Value Furnace Ancona = reserve silo
|Value Furnace Ancona, Starved = amber spire
|Value Cornelius = hatching arena
|Value Your Own Double = amphitheatre
|Value The Double of the Manager = grand hotel
}}<section end="Founding Body landmark" />

=== Alignment building ===
<section begin="Alignment building" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Condition alias = Alignment|Effect = Building|Compact = yes
|Value Liberationist<br>Radical Liberationist = munitions factory
|Value Liberationist-Prehistoricist = weapons laboratory
|Value Prehistoricist<br>Radical Prehistoricist<br>Prehistoricist-Emancipationist = laboratory
|Value Emancipationist<br>Radical Emancipationist<br>Emancipationist-Liberationist = storehouse
|Value Anti-Liberationist = gasworks site
|Value Anti-Prehistoricist = bone-disposal site
|Value Anti-Emancipationist = debate hall
|Value Mixed<br>Balanced = meeting hall
|Value Complacently Unrevolutionary = shop
|Value Unknown = townhouse
}}<section end="Alignment building" />

=== Pub ===
<section begin="pub" />
{| class="article-table mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! {{Use|Hinterland City - Foundation|Appearance=Foundation|Type=Text}}
! colspan="5" style="text-align: center;" | Pub name
|-
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Appearance=Alignment}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Furnace|Image=furnace.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Furnace, Starved|Image=neathroof.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Cornelius|Image=cornelius.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Your Double|Image=attacker.png}}
!{{IL|Hinterland City - Founding Body|Appearance=Manager’s Double|Image=mad.png}}
|-
!Liberationist
|rowspan="3"|The Dark Lamp
|rowspan="3"|The Attenuated Swan
|rowspan="3"|The Peligin Hart
|rowspan="3"|The Crown and Anchoress
|rowspan="3"|The Black Lens
|-
!Radical Liberationist
|-
!Liberationist-Prehistoricist
|-
!Prehistoricist
|rowspan="3"|The Triple Bird
|rowspan="3"|The Pallid Hound
|rowspan="3"|The Mammoth and Castle
|rowspan="3"|The Marrow
|rowspan="3"|The Clay Raptor
|-
!Radical Prehistoricist
|-
!Prehistoricist-Emancipationist
|-
!Emancipationist
|rowspan="3"|The Beehive
|rowspan="3"|The Enervated Hart
|rowspan="3"|The Staff and Skeleton
|rowspan="3"|The Butcher's Table
|rowspan="3"|The Rose and Horned Crown
|-
!Radical Emancipationist
|-
!Emancipationist-Liberationist
|-
!Anti-Liberationist
|rowspan="7|The Boiled Swan
|rowspan="7"|The Elongated Lion
|rowspan="7"|The Frost-Moth
|rowspan="4"|The Black King
|rowspan="7"|The Fidgeting Mermaid
|-
!Anti-Prehistoricist
|-
!Anti-Emancipationist
|-
!Mixed
|-
!Balanced
|The Red King
|-
!Complacently Unrevolutionary
|rowspan="2"|The White King
|-
!Unknown
|}<section end="pub" />

=== Open space ===
<section begin="open space" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - The Style of a City|Condition alias = Style|Effect = Open space|Compact = yes
|Value None<br>True Beatrice = a wide courtyard
|Value First City = a public park
|Value Bethlehem = a charnel yard
|Value School of Beatrice = a cozy courtyard
|Value Porous = an abandoned courtyard
|Value Ivory = a broad square
|Value Attenuated = a broad terrace
|Value Remembered = an oddly familiar courtyard
|Value Celestial = an open lawn
|Value Auroral = a faintly luminous terrace
|Value Nocturnal = an unlit courtyard
|Value Bazaarine = a mosaic-tiled courtyard
|Value Mycologene<br>Terpsichorean<br>Heliconian<br>Cartographical = {{FontFate}}
|Value Cenotaphic = a memorial plaza
}}<section end="open space" />

=== District === 
<noinclude>{{Incomplete|Many unchecked values and potential spots for missing text}}</noinclude>
<section begin="district" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Foundation|Condition alias = Foundation|Effect = District name|Compact = yes
|Value 1100–?<br>1300-1810? = Warehouse District
|Value 1250? = Kennel District
|Value 2000–2810? = Ward of Silos
|Value 3000–3810? = Linen Quarter
|Value 4000–4810? = Hellward Quarter
|Value 5000–5810? = Visitors' Quarter
}}<section end="district" />

== People and Culture ==

=== Site newcomers ===
<section begin="Site newcomers" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect Newcomers|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing = Rubbery newcomers
|Value Evenlode = ex-prisoners
|Value Balmoral = retired highwaymen and former servants in the royal household
|Value Station VIII = former factory workers
|Value Burrow = retired laity from the Church of the Wild
|Value Moulin = befuddled historians
|Value Marigold = yellow-eyed exiles of Hell
}}<section end="Site newcomers" />

=== Founding Body newcomers ===
<section begin="Founding Body newcomers" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Founding Body|Condition alias = Founding Body|Effect = Arrivals|Compact = yes
|Value Furnace Ancona = workers from Iron and Misery
|Value Furnace Ancona, Starved = Starved persons tired of the roof
|Value Cornelius = displaced tomb colonists
|Value Your Own Double = folk from the Surface
|Value The Double of the Manager = Clay men and women
}}<section end="Founding Body newcomers" />

=== Site inhabitant ===
<section begin="Site inhabitant" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Site Inhabitant|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing Gardens = a Rubbery Crone
|Value Evenlode = a Disillusioned Junior Constable
|Value Balmoral = a Retired Footman
|Value Station VIII = a Dirigible Pilot
|Value Burrow = a Mischievous Choirmaster
|Value Moulin = a Don of Historiography
|Value Marigold = a Youthful Devil
}}<section end="Site inhabitant" />

=== Alignment citizen ===
<section begin="Alignment citizen" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Condition alias = Alignment|Effect = Citizen|Compact = yes
|Value Liberationist = a Weekend Bomb-thrower
|Value Radical Liberationist = a Scholar of Star-Poisons
|Value Liberationist-Prehistoricist = an Apprentice Mammoth-Mender
|Value Prehistoricist = an Experienced Beast-Mechanic
|Value Radical Prehistoricist = a Wild-Eyed Palaeontologist
|Value Prehistoricist-Emancipationist = a Patient Iron-Breeder
|Value Emancipationist = a Methodical Bookkeeper
|Value Radical Emancipationist = an Anti-Currency Advocate
|Value Emancipationist-Liberationist = a Revolutionary Newspaper Columnist
|Value Anti-Liberationist = a Purposeful Candlemaker
|Value Anti-Prehistoricist = an Antipalaeontologist
|Value Anti-Emancipationist = a Zealous Politician
|Value Mixed = an Overworked Publican
|Value Balanced = a Prolific Debater
|Value Complacently Unrevolutionary = an Unsuccessful Shopkeeper
|Value Unknown = a Grizzled Citizen
}}<section end="Alignment citizen" />

=== Charter-based person ===
<section begin="Charter-based person" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Charter of the Great Hellbound Railway|Effect = First Guest|Condition alias = Charter|Compact = yes
|Value 1 = a lady in midnight blue velvet
|Value 2 = a somewhat ragged-looking labourer
|Value 3 = a scholar in Benthic robes
|Value 4 = a burly woman with square fingernails
|Value 5 = a newly-minted vicar
|Value 10 = a Devil in luxuriant sideburns
}}<section end="Charter-based person" />

=== Airs of Balmoral-based person ===
<section begin="Airs of Balmoral-based person" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Airs of Balmoral|Effect = Second Guest|Compact = yes
|Value 1 - 14  = a man in a kilt
|Value 15 - 24 = a girl with a pistol tucked in her sash
|Value 25 - 34 = a young Scotsman
|Value 35 - 49 = a young Scotswoman
|Value 50 - 74 = an ageing portrait-painter
|Value 75 - 89 = a woman in a blue and grey tartan sash
|Value 90 - 100 = a landscape painter
}}<section end="Airs of Balmoral-based person" />

=== Alignment workers ===
<section begin="Alignment workers" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Condition alias = Alignment|Effect = Workers|Compact = yes
|Value Liberationist = lampbreakers
|Value Radical Liberationist = bomb-makers
|Value Liberationist-Prehistoricist = sightless work-beasts
|Value Prehistoricist = drill-beaked well-herons
|Value Radical Prehistoricist = sewer-moles
|Value Prehistoricist-Emancipationist = harvest-oaks
|Value Emancipationist = harvest-stewards
|Value Radical Emancipationist = silo-wardens
|Value Emancipationist-Liberationist = resistance fighters
|Value Anti-Liberationist = lamplighters
|Value Anti-Prehistoricist = dog-catchers
|Value Anti-Emanipationist = protesters
|Value Mixed<br>Balanced = citizen-creatures of all sorts
|Value Complacently Unrevolutionary = citizens in ordinary dress
|Value Unknown = workers in uniform
}}<section end="Alignment workers" />

=== Alignment work ===
<noinclude>{{Incomplete|Missing Unknown alignment text}}</noinclude>
<section begin="Alignment work" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Official Alignment|Condition alias = Alignment|Effect = Work|Compact = yes
|Value Liberationist<br>Radical Liberationist<br>Emancipationist-Liberationist = law-decomposing
|Value Liberationist-Prehistoricist = peligination
|Value Prehistoricist<br>Radical Prehistoricist = lab-sanitising
|Value Prehistoricist-Emancipationist = mammoth-feeding
|Value Emancipationist<br>Radical Emancipationist = fungal stock-taking
|Value Anti-Liberationist = lamp-lighting
|Value Anti-Prehistoricist = vermin-eradicating
|Value Anti-Emanipationist = manifesto-delivering
|Value Mixed = consensus-building
|Value Balanced = attitude-balancing
|Value Complacently Unrevolutionary = coin-stamping
|Value Unknown = 
}}<section end="Alignment work" />

=== Performers ===
<noinclude>{{Wiki Note|The actual variant text is omitted as it currently used only by Fate-locked cards. The table is included here for completeness.}}</noinclude>
<section begin="performers" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Performers|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing Gardens = {{FontFate}}
|Value The Magistracy of the Evenlode<br>Station VIII<br>Burrow-infra-Mump<br>Moulin = {{FontFate}}
|Value Balmoral = {{FontFate}}
|Value Marigold = {{FontFate}}
}}<section end="performers" />

== Details ==

=== Landscape ===
<section begin="landscape" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Landscape|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing = half-populated
|Value Evenlode = cedar-shaded
|Value Balmoral = moonlit
|Value Station VIII = floodlit
|Value Burrow = hilly
|Value Moulin = frozen
|Value Marigold = white
}}<section end="landscape" />

=== Material ===
<section begin="material" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - Chosen Site|Condition alias = Chosen Site|Effect = Material|Compact = yes
|Value Ealing = amber
|Value Evenlode = cedar
|Value Balmoral = oak
|Value Station VIII = steel
|Value Burrow = stucco
|Value Moulin = crystal
|Value Marigold = brass
}}<section end="material" />

=== Stone ===
<section begin="stone" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - The Style of a City|Condition alias = Style|Effect = Stone|Compact = yes
|Value None<br>First City = blue-veined marble
|Value Bethlehem = crimson marble
|Value School of Beatrice<br>True Beatrice = limestone
|Value Porous = pale brick
|Value Ivory = brick
|Value Attenuated = grey stone
|Value Remembered = Bath stone
|Value Celestial = white Portland stone
|Value Auroral<br>Nocturnal = moon-coloured stone
|Value Bazaarine = red limestone
|Value Mycologene<br>Terpsichorean<br>Heliconian<br>Cartographical = {{FontFate}}
|Value Cenotaphic = black marble
}}<section end="stone" />

=== Scent ===
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<section begin="scent" />
{{Variant table|Condition = Hinterland City - The Style of a City|Condition alias = Style|Effect = Scent|Compact = yes
|Value First City = baking clay
|Value Bethlehem = copper
|Value School of Beatrice<br>True Beatrice = baking bread
|Value Porous = clean linen
|Value Ivory = iron
|Value Attenuated = seething amber
|Value Remembered = milk
|Value Celestial = mint leaves
|Value Auroral = night wind
|Value Nocturnal = night rain
|Value Bazaarine = cinnamon
|Value Mycologene<br>Terpsichorean<br>Heliconian<br>Cartographical = {{FontFate}}
|Value Cenotaphic = myrrh
}}<section end="scent" />