Exile Locations

'Some travels are intended to broaden one's mind: others, to lengthen one's life.'
'Travel'

This article is about locations in the Exile Legacy. For specific regions and other locations in the Secret Histories universe, see The Wake.

The Exile DLC of Cultist Simulator contains a number of locations across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, which can be traveled to and explored. Unlike the base version of Cultist Simulator, which attempts to keep some level of ambiguity regarding places and their real-world counterparts, Exile is much more explicit, set amidst the turbulent mid 1920s.

Lonely Places Between

'There are always choices. I could die of thirst, or cold, or hunger. '
'Wilderness'

Lonely Places Between represents the wilderness of the world, far from civilization. There is little there for the Exile to take advantage of in this location and is a last resort when no other path remains. Whatever road onwards is presented, it must be taken.

Cities

'I might find safety here for a little longer... '
'Destination'

• Rhenish Aachen - A short-lived Republic on the western border of Germany. Lalla Chaima can be found here hunting the Merry Feaster, a monstrous work of the Lionsmith hiding in the sewers of the city. It also contains a shrine to the Colonel, the Shrine of St. Andrew Stratelates, a 3rd century Roman soldier who led an army against the Persians.
• Alexandria - An Egyptian city where the Invisible Serapeum lies hidden. A shrine to the Lionsmith is located here called the Anvil of the Bull, referring to Apis, a sacred bull to ancient Egyptian worship.
• Algiers - The capital of Algeria on the Mediterranean Sea. A Skaptodon Tomb sacred to the Lionsmith can be found here.
• Amsterdam - The capital of the Netherlands, where the Nameless Name of the Velvet lurks on misty evenings. While here, the Exile can encounter Ligeian Morgen, who has docked her Yacht in the city and is an acquaintance of the Nameless Name.
• Avignon - A French city where the eccentric smuggler Giorgiou can be encountered, planning a heist of the Chateau Tarascon. The Tarascons are rumored to breed monsters, an allusion to the Tarasque of French legend.
• Baghdad - A city in Iraq captured by the British during WW1. A friend of the Exile, Percy Styles, is stationed here working with the Suppression Bureau. At the time of Exile, the Bureau seems to be investigating the Althiban Abyss, where a fragment of the weapon which slew the Seven-Coiled has been sealed away.
• Budapest - The Hungarian Capital and the current base of a black market operation run by Lili, an old friend of the Exile. Medusa, the oldest of Ligeans, walks the streets of the city at night.
• Candia-Heraklion - A Cretan city where the influences of the Horned-Axe are strong. Here on Mount Ida can be found the Fane of Owls, a great hawthorn tree sacred to the Axe, and where the Exile can encounter Dr. Arun Peel, the renegade Knock-Long. Also on the island is a Roadside Shrine to an Iron Saint, dedicated to the Colonel.
• Cluj-Napoca - A Romanian city where Lili's criminal enterprise was located, before the city's transfer from Hungarian control.
• Granada - A Spanish city home to Mireya, a visionary gallery-owner, located near the Alpujarras mountains where an enclave of the Thunderskin resides.
• Istanbul - A troubled historical city in Turkey, home to the Black Arm remnants connected to the Exile’s old friend Kara Kemal.
• Kaunas (Little Paris) - A Lithuanian city where the baker Dominykas, with ties to the local Association of the Iron Wolf, resides.
• Kiev - The capital of Ukraine and the current feeding-grounds of the Ligean Marinette.
• Krakow - A Polish city bordering Czechoslovakia, home to the hospitable Yitzchok Ashlag and the Church of St Marzanna the White, someone who Yitzchok assurres doesn’t exist.
• Leningrad - The scarred old capital of the USSR, where the “Athenians”—akin to the Reckoner Mobs and enemies of such—operate and a certain Sushkin resides. There is also a shrine to the Colonel in the form of a repurposed Buddhist temple with a scarred Buddha statue inside.
• London - Also known as the Capital, residence of Sulochana the Ligean and home to various occult places of significance in ‘Cultist Simulator’ such as the Ecdysis Club and Morland’s Shop.
• Marrakech - A Moroccan city, unaffected by the country’s current guerrilla war against France. Home to the Ligean Echidna, who does not always bother with her human form in such a remote place. There is also a shrine to the Lionsmith, by the name of “Hall of Brass Mirrors.”
• Meshad - A remote Persian city, where a taenite meteorite with ties to the Lionsmith called the Shahrewar Stone resides.
• Munich - A German city where the vivisectionist Count Jannings lives, and where a shrine to the Colonel lies in the deepest cellar of the Nationaltheater.
• Nizhny - The Russian city where Sushkin’s Stolen Years trade for the “Athenians”—akin to the Reckoner Mobs and enemies of such— runs. A burnt-down lodge serving as a shrine to the Colonel can also be found here.
• Paris - The French Capital, also known as the City of Lights. A certain Tante Adeline, friend of the Exile, used to run the district of Marais.
• Prague - Capital of Czechoslovakia, “heart of Europe” and residence of Tante Adeline after her departure from Paris.
• Rostock - A riverside German trade city where Count Jannings owns a house.
• Samarkand - A troubled and remote arabic city in the USSR known for its importance in the silk trade and where a fire temple with an eternal flame serves as a shrine to the Lionsmith.
• Stalingrad - A city in the USSR, home to the “Bird-Eaters” (possibly Worms) and Zulfiya the Barber among their ranks. A shrine to a possible, unnamed Name of the Colonel can be found here.
• Strasbourg - A French city in contested lands, where the influence of the Horned Axe is strong.
• Sverdlovsk - An industrialised soviet city, where Zulfiya the Barber used to live before the Russian Civil War.
• Tiflis - A city in the USSR, home to Vasil the Fivegoer who escaped from the Reckoner Mobs at some point and is of “unhuman ancestry” from his grandmother's nature as a Raw Prophet.
• Tirana - Capital of Albania, lavish with flowers and the Flowermaker’s influence.
• Tripoli - Capital of Lybia and birthplace of the Exile, an Antaean. The Antaeum can also be located here, a shrine to Antaios the Opponent (ascendant of the Blood of the Earth) and the Lionsmith, of which a single initiate remains.
• Valletta - Malta’s capital, with a small “shrine” to the Colonel in a rotting room of a hospital.
• Venice - An Italian sea-city, residence of Orsolina, a former Skaptodon in service of the Lionsmith. A chapel to “St Mark of the Hammer” can also be found.
• Vienna - “The White City”, as it is known by adepts, ravaged by the Worm Wars and home to Frau Schlüssel—better known as Kleidouchos—the Ligean.

End Locations

'The time may come when I can run no further. Then I must choose whether to lose myself in the loneliest place I can find... or choose that place to turn and face my Foe. '
'Map's Edge'

• Bornholm - A granite island off the Blatic coast known as Sunshine Island for its famously good light, widely desired by artists.
• Cheko - An old meteorite crater turned lake, frozen over deep in the Siberian taiga.
• Ghardaia - A citadel of five built in the northern Sahara by the Mozabites, not to be confused with the Roman Pentapolis.
• Messana - A small oasis village in the Lone and Level Sands whose villagers boast supernatural longevity by feasting on a peculiar body, possibly of a dead Long.
• Morbihan - A small sailor-famed isle off the west coast of France, with a quiet monk-led priory.
• Paro - A cliff-face monastery to “the Diamond Vehicle” in a snowy region.
• Slettnes - A singular lighthouse in northern Norway, strangely turned away from the ocean.

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