Colwyn City
Names: Colwyn CityColwyn
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 4 (2)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 4Colwyn is a 170-year-old city on the River Cairns, with a major dock and starport serving the Izyum continent.
- Ch 14Colwyn City has a dock complex chosen as the wormhole's exit; forty thousand police will pass through in six hours, then a quarter million more.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 1Colwyn City's weather dome stops capsules, but a twenty-meter gap at its lower edge lets people walk out.
Connections
- containsNik's
- inViotia
- inEllezelin
- containsBovey's Bathing and CulinarywareGroby district
- containsChris Turner
- part ofViotia
- containsBodant Park
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 4Araminta quits and celebrates
Araminta gives notice at Nik's and unwinds at the Glayfield planning property purchases. She goes to a bar, drinks with Jaful and spends the night with him.
- Book 1 · Ch 8Araminta's development gamble
Araminta finishes Shelly's flat sale, tours her new Bodant block with Cressida, who warns of Living Dream unrest, and starts renovation with Mr Bovey.
- Book 1 · Ch 12Araminta meets Likan
At Likan's business lecture in Colwyn City, Araminta discusses expanding her property business with him. He invites her for a weekend with his wives, and she accepts.
- Book 1 · Ch 14Planning the wormhole and police deployment
Phelim and Ethan plan to open a wormhole at Colwyn City, send police, and halt traffic to confine the Second Dreamer in the city.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Soldiers arrive through wormhole on Viotia
Chris Turner sees a wormhole open at the Colwyn City docks; over a hundred armored soldiers and capsules pour through from another star's world.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Ellezelin annexes Viotia
After a staged invitation and acceptance, a wormhole opens in Colwyn City's docks and armored Ellezelin paramilitaries and capsules pour through, stunning Chris Turner and shutting down the city.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Elvin's Payback sneaks into Colwyn docks
Using stealth and hacked networks, Oscar's crew lands the ship unseen in a barge repair bay at the docks in the rainy night.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Araminta wakes to invasion and devourment
After refusing the Skylord, Araminta learns Ellezelin forces have invaded Colwyn and the Void's devourment phase has begun. She insists on going home despite Mr. Bovey's worries.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Araminta returns across the city
Araminta leaves Mr. Bovey's, rides through Living Dream checkpoints unnoticed and reaches her apartments, where she worries about neighbours Danal and Mareble.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Cressida offers escape
Cressida calls with plans to charter a starship off Viotia and reserves Araminta a seat; Araminta agrees to avoid suspicion.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Gore's appeal to the Second Dreamer
Gore Burnelli broadcasts a message to Araminta asking her to persuade the Skylord to let his daughter Justine enter the Void, and warns that factions are hunting her.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Cheriton infiltrates the confluence nest
Cheriton, in disguise, joins Dream Master Yenrol's staff in Colwyn and installs routines that secretly blind the nest to the Second Dreamer.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Oscar's team prepares to intercept
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio ride in a captured police capsule, learning that Living Dream's welcome team is heavily armed and discussing whether biononics work in the Void.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Raid on Danal's apartment block
Welcome team and support troops, including Oscar's covert team, seal the building and round up thirty-three residents, but the Second Dreamer has already escaped.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Search of apartment four
Oscar and Tomansio find signs of recent habitation in Araminta's half-refurbished apartment and plan to trace her.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Araminta emerges from hiding
Hours after the raid, Araminta climbs out of the hot water tank, barricades the door, and makes tea while wondering what to do next.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Oscar deduces Araminta is the Second Dreamer
Over breakfast Oscar's team reviews Liatris's findings and Oscar concludes Araminta, who vanished, is the Second Dreamer. They decide to mislead Honilar and return to the apartment.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Araminta escapes the cordon
Araminta crawls out through a waste-pipe opening, unscrews fence boards, dons an old jacket and walks past paramilitary guards unnoticed.
- Book 2 · Ch 8False Araminta seized in Colwyn City
Honilar's welcome team violently captures an innocent lookalike on Daryad Avenue. Oscar's team watches, and Oscar feels guilt. The team then meets Cheriton, who reports on Living Dream.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Araminta speaks with the Skylord
In the gaiafield Araminta avoids Living Dream traps and talks to the Skylord, which will not take anyone to the nucleus before fulfillment.
- Book 2 · Ch 11Araminta escapes Viotia
Araminta follows a hidden path through the forest at the edge of Colwyn City's force field and emerges on a beautiful alien world.
- Book 3 · Ch 3Oscar's team confronts Mr. Bovey
Oscar, Beckia and Tomansio press Mr. Bovey to reveal Araminta's whereabouts, warning others will come. Cheriton and Liatris then report Living Dream has located her after she shared Inigo's Eighth Dream.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Araminta returns to Bovey
Araminta reshapes the path to reach Bovey's burned home, finds five of his bodies killed, and tells him she must act alone as fighting erupts in Francola.
- Book 3 · Ch 8Araminta reveals herself
Araminta, empowered by the Skylord, stops the mob, subdues Captain Darraklan, faces down Phelim and walks through the wormhole to Ellezelin followed by cheering followers.
- Book 3 · Ch 14Araminta calls Oscar
Oscar and his team, preparing to give up and flee, receive a call using his onetime code from someone claiming to be Araminta, who asks to meet.