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The Vitrean Flats
Miles of sand that a falling cindrel turned to glass, on the long island south of Caerlune. In the wind the flats sing: a low glassy hum that changes key before a storm. Cindrels still surface here after a hard tide, which is why the Flats are full of prospectors, and why prospectors vanish here. The Aurel Combine stakes claims across the Flats and pays claim-jumpers to keep them. Its best prospector, Dessa Quill, knows the Flats better than anyone, and has found something under the glass she has told no one about. Dangers: sinkglass that gives way under a careless step; heat-shimmer that hides the edge of the sea; claim-jumpers with cindrel bombs. Walkers who cut themselves on the old glass and practise Brandwork say their Ash comes faster here.
Läs mer →The Orrery of Thale
A stargazers' tower from before the Fall, half sunk in the tide off the eastern shoals. Its great brass orrery still turns when the sea moves through the lower floors. The Astronomer Thale built it to watch the sky, and it was from its telescope that the star was first seen, on the last night the tower stood dry. The islanders call it unlucky and leave it alone. The Slackwater do not. At low tide the dais and the ramp are dry; at high tide only the dais is. Some say Thale never left, and that her ghost still keeps her last observation. See the timeline for the night the star fell.
Läs mer →The Heartcoal
The star's core, nine hundred feet down in the trench at the centre of the isles, still glowing. On a calm night, fishermen over the trench see a faint blue light far below the boat, and row away without a word. The Ilvaric Vigil calls it the heart of Ilvara. The Choir of Fathoms calls it the splinter in Morrow's side. The Aurel Combine calls it the only cindrel that never dims, and means to raise it. The Wickwardens believe waking it is what drew the Sallowkin in the first place, and the Slackwater want exactly that. No one in the starter arc goes there. Everyone in it is fighting about it.
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