Place · Book 7, This Inevitable Ruin

The all-tree

One tree under the whole sixth floor, reflecting magic; a whisperer of apostates to a god; Grimaldi's roots. The high elves' castle stands in the middle of a grove of its outcroppings.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 7 — Donut Holes; the Semeru dwarf
• Chapter 8 — Larracos, City of Dreams
• Chapter 54 — The Waffle Maker; Hellik's message
• Chapter 65 — Bear Witness
• Chapter 76 — The Oak Fell
• Chapter 79 — Tart

Arc

The Semeru dug for their gods and found roots instead, the thing that connects everything, and built a castle on them as an apology: 'Some things should never be woken up' (ch. 7). Hellik says it is beginning to rot (ch. 54). Carl's bare feet in one of its roots as a dwarf's voice tells him he is family now (ch. 65); 'By the All Tree was that exhilarating,' says Eris (ch. 76); Map the All Tree, one mana, twelfth floor and deeper (ch. 79). Dead roots as thick as elephant trunks over a hole where the castle stood (ch. 86).