Eyrie district
Names: Eyrie districtEyrietowers of Eyrie
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 9 (Inigo’s fourth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Dreaming Void
- Ch 9Eyrie is a nearly deserted district of twisted stalagmite-like spires and home to the Empyrean Lady's central church.
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 7The gun exchange takes place in a tall kinked tower in Eyrie near the Lady's central church.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 5Eyrie's crooked towers are where the old and ill once waited for the Skylord to guide their souls away from Querencia.
- Ch 7The Eyrie tower platforms have no rails and limited space; the elderly are carefully managed by Mothers, and fifteen had died waiting this week.
- Ch 7Crowds of pilgrims pack the towers of Eyrie three days before the Skylords arrive, overwhelming constables and defying the Mayor.
- Ch 13The crooked towers of Eyrie were sculpted by a bygone race; Skylords use them only out of respect, and tower spires glow when guidance occurs.
- Ch 15The towers of Eyrie send out opalescent flares that thrust ascending people's essence toward those who guide and onward to the Heart.
Connections
- containsLady's Church
- part ofMakkathran
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 9Salrana taken in by the Mothers
Edeard escorts Salrana to the Lady's central church in Eyrie, where the Mothers accept her. He then longtalks Topar and chooses to join the constables.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Raid on the Eyrie gun exchange
Edeard's squad and constables ambush the handover in the tower, capturing most gang members; Edeard chases Medath up the stairs and finds hidden foes on the platform, one striking him.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Edeard calls the Skylord
Unable to sleep, Edeard goes to an Eyrie tower top at night and calls to the Skylord with a thought of welcome; it answers.
- Book 3 · Ch 5Finitan's ascent of the tower
Edeard carries the dying Finitan up the tower, they discuss what the Heart might be, and Edeard leaves him on the platform before leaping off and being caught by the city.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Edeard's outburst and return in time
Enraged, Edeard shouts that he must unmake Our City's formation and the voyage, then jumps back to a memory at the foot of the Eyrie tower as a Skylord arrives.
- Book 3 · Ch 13Edeard takes guidance
Edeard, Kristabel, Macsen, Kanseen and Dinlay are accepted by a Skylord. As their bodies dissolve, Edeard gives the world the gift of travelling back through one's life to begin again.