Place · from book 5

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.

First appears: Book 5

Series arc

Through book 7

Roots instead of gods, and a castle as an apology (B7 ch. 7); rotting, says Hellik (B7 ch. 54); Carl's feet in a root and a dwarf's voice (B7 ch. 65); Map the All Tree (B7 ch. 79); dead roots over a hole (B7 ch. 86).

Open threads

Status is open or resolved; the chapter after it is the last one that moved the thread.

Thread	Opened	Status
A voice in the river, a dwarf's perhaps: 'You're family now'	B7 ch. 65	open — The voice in the river tells Carl 'This is the second time I've told you that you're not crazy' with his feet in an All Tree root, and 'She would be proud of you.' Hellik says the All Tree is rotting; Donut can map it on the twelfth.

All threads: Open threads.

Through book 5

One tree under the whole floor, reflecting magic (B5 ch. 25); a whisperer of apostates to a god (B5 ch. 55); Grimaldi's roots (B5 ch. 63).

Through book 6

The Semeru castle on its roots outside Larracos, where Demon Eviction is meant to happen (B6 ch. 54).

Where they appear

Book	Chapters they are in (of the book's)	Where
5 — The Butcher's Masquerade	4/78	Ch. 24, Ch. 25, Ch. 55, Ch. 63 · the book's own page
6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride	2/74	Ch. 32, Ch. 54 · the book's own page
7 — This Inevitable Ruin	6/89	Ch. 7, Ch. 8, Ch. 54, Ch. 65, Ch. 76, Ch. 79 · the book's own page

By book

The all-tree in book 5 — The Butcher's Masquerade

Holger raises the alarm that the all-tree has been attacked (ch. 24): any forest-kin within a few hundred metres of an outcropping is protected from magic, because the tree sucks the spell in and turns it on the caster, killing the outcropping, which grows back in a few months (ch. 25). A warning follows: stay away from all-trees, which whisper an apostate's location to Diwata (ch. 55). Grimaldi was planted beside a node and became one with the tree, as they all do in the end; its roots have survived every infestation (ch. 63).

The all-tree in book 6 — The Eye of the Bedlam Bride

Signet's massive tree that grows through all the worlds at once, remembered (ch. 32); the Semeru dwarves built their castle along its roots outside Larracos, where the eviction is meant to happen (ch. 54).

The all-tree in book 7 — This Inevitable Ruin

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).