Sampalok district
Names: Sampalok districtSampalokSampalok mansion
First appears in Book 1: The Dreaming Void, chapter 9 (Inigo’s fourth dream)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: The Temporal Void
- Ch 9District run by the Diroal family, who champion the gangs, give them sanctuary and excluded Edeard from the district.
- Ch 9Sampalok is a district with organic-looking buildings whose residents are resentful; it erupts into rioting and looting during the arrests.
- Ch 9Rioting gangs held Sampalok, looting shops and burning barricades, then fled to Bise's mansion when Edeard advanced.
- Ch 9Sampalok is a district whose square holds over a thousand people for the ceremony; its new Master and Mistress are Macsen and Kanseen.
- Ch 12Sampalok has the longest voting queues and the most constables; seven Representative candidates stand, three pro-Waterwalker and four pro-Bise.
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
Connections
- part ofMakkathrandistrict where most gangs are based
- inMakkathran
- led byMacsenDistrict Master
- led byKanseenDistrict Mistress
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 9Spying on Buate's gang lords' meeting
Using Finitan's ge-mouse, Edeard and the squad watch Buate and other gang lords. Buate announces a plan to resist arrest with citywide riots before the election.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Sampalok riots
Buate's call triggers mass rioting and looting across Sampalok; arrest teams struggle and only eight of the hundred are caught, and Kanseen is shot but saved by her waistcoat.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Wedding of Macsen and Kanseen
Edeard prompts Macsen to propose with a ring from the wreckage, and a Mother marries the couple in Sampalok square before the crowd.
- Book 2 · Ch 9New mansion for Sampalok's Master and Mistress
Edeard clears away the debris of Bise's mansion, presents Macsen and Kanseen as the new Master and Mistress of Sampalok, and begins reshaping the city to grow their new hexagonal mansion.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Meeting in Sampalok
Edeard and Kristabel visit Macsen and Kanseen to discuss the housing crisis caused by the pilgrims awaiting the Skylords.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Meeting with Macsen and Dinlay in Sampalok
Edeard learns of Macsen's breakup and decline, Dinlay's marriage to Hilitte, and the history of Our City, Doblek's election and the militia blockade.
- Book 3 · Ch 20Gore's elevation
Using the nova's power through the Anomine elevation mechanism, Gore transcends and shares the method with the Firstlife and the Heart, showing an alternative to Ilanthe's inversion.