 Great Gretchen is a symbol of pride and honor for Chronotopians, its largest and most magnificent clock tower, located in Blitzheim. It has kept an amazingly accurate measure of time since the birth of the city, and is the clock by which all other timepieces in Chronotopia are set. Great Gretchen has also become a byword for many Chronotopians, almost to the point of anthropomorphization, in such phrases of "What in the name of Gretchen," "I swear by Great Gretchen," and so forth. As far as can be told, there is no "Gretchen" that the tower is actually named after, but it is simply a nickname of unknown origin that became applied as a matter of tradition.
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