THE LEDGER · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS
Aelvyrenn
aka The Hanging Choir, The Choir Above, The Riven City
The elder Vyr's sky-seat — a great island of pale tiered halls hung in the cold air above Caer Vallen, where the oldest blood withdrew after the Sundering and the Riven King still reigns. Most of the Vale half-believes it a myth; it is reached only by a warp-pilgrimage, never on foot.
Before the Imperium put bronze roads through the Vale, the Vyr built the works that ran it, and Aelvyrenn was their high seat — a terraced city of luminous fluted stone that they raised out of reach when their own engine cracked the god beneath them. It hangs in the thin cold air directly above Caer Vallen, the seat where Vallen was drawn down and broken, so that the eldest Vyr are condemned to look down forever at the wound they made. Up here the ache of it — the guilt that maddens the ones who stay on the ground — is faint enough to bear; the only mercy the city has. Its halls are kept as a household keeps a mourning it will not name: attendants who have not aged since the drawing-down, tending a king who is more crack than man. The settled Vyr of the Far College are this city's grandchildren, emigrants who came down; almost no living human has stood here, and the few who claim to are not believed.
KIND
city
CLIMATE
thin, cold, wind-scoured sky above the Rampart
DANGER TIER
Tier VI
CONTROLLING FACTION
The Hanging Choir
Connected
Appears In
Type Fields
All Relationships (19)
located_in
- →Caer Vallen — The sky-city hangs in the cold air directly above Caer Vallen, so the elder Vyr look down forever at the wound they made.
- ←The Riven King — The Riven King keeps the still court of Aelvyrenn and has not left it in four centuries.
- ←The Hanging Choir — The Choir is seated in the sky-city it keeps mid-breath.
- ←The Wrights' Heirs — The Resonants keeps a seat/branch at Aelvyrenn.
- ←The Vyr Schism — All three silences of the schism play out inside Aelvyrenn, seat of the Menders and the Still Court alike.
- ←The Riven King — The Riven King sits the still court of Aelvyrenn, the sky-seat his people raised out of reach after the breaking.
- ←The Hanging Choir — The Choir keeps Aelvyrenn mid-breath above Caer Vallen, holding the city's silence and its king from going wholly quiet.
rival_of
- →Highbridge — The elder-Vyr sky-seat and the human ground-capital despise each other across the Rampart — sky-zealots vs. grave-robbers.
references
- →The Vyr — Aelvyrenn is the elder Vyr high seat; the Vale Vyr are emigrants who came down from it.
- →The Drawing-Down — The city was raised out of reach in horror and guilt after the breaking.
- ←The Farglass Shoulder — On a clear day the Shoulder is the one vista where Aelvyrenn hangs visibly in the sky.
- →The Drawing-Down — Aelvyrenn was raised out of reach in the aftermath — the Vyr fled upward in horror at what they had done and have watched the grieving Vale from above for four hundred years.
- ←The Fair Copy — The work is designed in the silence of Aelvyrenn, behind the cold courtesy the sky-seat shows the ambassadors it tells nothing.
- ←The Zeppelin Lines — The only common way up to the sky-city that does not involve a rift or a wing.
upper_pole
- ←The Duality — Aelvyrenn is the Heavens made literal — the Vyr sky-seat hung above the world, Aetherial beings literally elevated above the material. The upper pole of the Duality, incarnate.
explains
- ←Political Geography — Racial Tensions by Region, City, and Faction — Aelvyrenn is where the Vyr's contempt is undisguised — the one city where the performance of paternalism is not required. All diplomatic delegations are received impeccably and learn nothing.
member_of
- ←Nevaryn Vhael — [envoy_of] character.nevaryn-vhael → place.aelvyrenn
documents
- ←The Cairn-Scratch — [concerns] text.the-cairn-scratch → place.aelvyrenn
hidden_in
- ←The Draughtsman's Glass — The Glass surfaces where the sky-seat's leavings fall — recovering one means reaching Aelvyrenn, or the hard ground beneath it. Buried upper-world technology, placed by distance and danger, exactly the thing an Explorer crosses the world to find.
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