Culverit family mansion
Names: Culverit family mansionCulverit mansionMirnatha's mansionzigguratziggurat mansionCulverit ziggurat
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 4 (Inigo's Ninth Dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 5The Culverit ziggurat is Edeard and Kristabel's home in Makkathran, with a hortus outside Kristabel's study.
Connections
- has memberHomeltcaptain of house guard
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 4Mirnatha abducted and ransom demanded
Mirnatha is kidnapped from her nursery at the Culverit mansion; a note demands eight thousand guineas delivered by Edeard alone to Owestorn at midnight. Florrel blames Edeard.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rescue of Mirnatha
In a gunfight in the cellar, Edeard and his squad kill the kidnappers and free Mirnatha. Edeard uncovers and kills the last concealed kidnapper, who dies and Edeard sees his soul leave.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Edeard proposes to Kristabel
Learning the meaning of 'a week and the day', Edeard sneaks past Lorin's guards and proposes. Kristabel accepts in principle but insists he think it through before approaching her father.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Edeard and Kristabel discuss family relocation
At the Culverit mansion, Kristabel explains how the family must be rearranged and cousins moved out ahead of her marriage to Edeard. They lunch with Julan and Mirnatha.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Honeymoon and return
The couple honeymoon twenty days at the Culverit coastal lodge, then return home to the mansion's tenth floor, where Edeard begins reshaping rooms.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Death of Buate
Edeard tortures Buate to death with his mind in the Culverit courtyard; Macsen and Kanseen then depart as souls.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Strange light seen near Alakkad
The Liliala Hall ceiling reveals Gicon's Bracelet with a new moving patch of light near Alakkad. Edeard recognises it with awe and later shows Kristabel through his telescope; she wonders if it is a ship from outside the Void.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Edeard's sleepless night
Awake in the tenth-floor bedroom, Edeard reflects on the fading passion in his marriage to Kristabel.