Place · Book 5, The Butcher's Masquerade

The Over City

The third floor, named once in the first book, when Zev tells Carl that 'once you do hit the over city' he will need something compelling. She says the third, sixth and ninth floors are linked in a way that will later become clear, and that they all come into existence at the same time.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 2 — Night weasels
• Chapter 5 — Zockau
• Chapter 14 — Were-castors
• Chapter 25 — Fort Freedom
• Chapter 29 — Blood and ink
• Chapter 52 — Gehenna Bramble

Arc

The third floor, remembered from the sixth: the swordsmen guards the Funeral Bells are not (ch. 2); the Desperado Club's 1920s-style entrance there (ch. 5); the city Signet fled to and joined the circus in, where Areson's brother Apollon, who went with her, was during the nine-tier attack (ch. 14, ch. 25, ch. 29); 'The Over City was devastated' (ch. 52).