Silfen path
Names: Silfen paththe pathSilfen pathspathsSilfen
First appears in Book 2: The Temporal Void, chapter 11 (FIVE)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
What you know
Book 3: The Evolutionary Void
- Ch 1The paths shift in response to the traveler's wishes, have no fixed ends, and are used by uncountable millions; the Silfen avoid technologically advanced civilizations' planets.
- Ch 1The path dropped Araminta at a desert oasis, then she found it behind her after crossing the desert near a settled world with roads and starships.
- Ch 1The Silfen path ends somewhere beyond the crater wall near Miledeep Water; travelers have supposedly emerged from it confused about time.
- Ch 5A Silfen path opens to Araminta like a flower and carries her from the desert of Chobamba to a lush alien landscape.
- Ch 6The path is fluid, anchored by wishes sung by the Silfen millennia ago, and Araminta can alter it with her own tunes.
- Ch 8The Silfen path registered in the gaiafield but no one emerged, and it shrank away as such paths do when scrutinized.
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 5Escape onto the Silfen path
Pursuing capsules arrive at Miledeep Water as Araminta rides a bike into the desert. The path engulfs her, the bike dies, and she follows a streambed out of Chobamba into a lush alien land.