Goriah
Names: Goriahthe capitalthe cityCastle of Glassthe castle of Goriahthe citadelGoriah citadelCastle Goriahthe castle
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 28 (8)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 4The Castle of Glass in Goriah has a high spire with a parapet and glass-floored turret.
- Ch 5Rumor says a human usurper rules Goriah, may marry Nodonn's widow, and would elevate torced humans to aristocracy.
- Ch 7Goriah is a whitewashed, rose-tiled city of four square kilometers dominated by the Castle of Glass, visible from the Laar mouth 30 km away.
- Ch 10Goriah is Aiken Drum's new headquarters and now the de facto capital of the Many-Colored Land.
Connections
- led byNodonn
- led byMercedes LamballeLady of Goriah
- led byAiken Drum
- includesRocilanprotectorate of Goriah
- containsstorage vaults
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 4Meteor shower on the spire
Aiken has the city lights put out and brings Mercy to the Castle of Glass parapet to watch the March meteors; he conjures a false crown of lights, which she dismisses as illusion.
- Book 3 · Ch 4Aiken's love exposed
Mercy probes Aiken's mind and discovers his love. They quarrel over Nodonn and the baby. She says she will marry him in May, and he admits he already loves her and that the meteors were not his doing.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Breaking the wild chaliko
Brazos Ben subdues a huge wild roan chaliko with a running W and gentle mind contact while Aiken, Culluket and Alberonn watch.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Arrival of recruits at Goriah
Aiken and Culluket meet a batch of Tanu and human recruits from Afaliah and Calamosk, including Sullivan-Tonn, Olone and Aiken's old friend Raimo.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Aiken welcomes the newcomers
Aiken rebukes Congreve, ends searches of arrivals, and invites everyone to a party at the Castle of Glass.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Rocilan guests welcomed at Goriah
Aiken and Mercy greet Eadnar, Morna, Tirone and Bleyn from Rocilan on the quay with the Tanu Song; Morna criticises Aiken, who appeals to her telepathically and wins a grudging concession.
- Book 3 · Ch 11Royal progress planned
Using Mercy's idea, Aiken plans to tour the cities before his coronation, starting with Afaliah, accompanied by the High Tablers. They fly back to Goriah.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Aiken's cavalcade returns to Goriah
Aiken returns secretly by night, exhausted, and recounts the progress including the VarMesk assassination attempt by Miakonn, foiled by Culluket.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Aiken and Mercy become lovers
After Mercy calls him Amadán, Aiken kisses her and they go upstairs for their first true coupling under auroras.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Firvulag strike fails on the Night of Secret Love
During the masquerade, Sharn, Ayfa and ten ogres mesh minds and fling a bolt at Aiken Drum, who is occupied with Olone; the bolt apparently fails.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Tanu mass wedding and maypole night
On May Day the Tanu and human couples wed, led by Aiken and Mercy; that night they dance up the maypole in a mystical ecstasy and Mercy asks whose he is.
- Book 3 · Ch 27Coronation of Aiken Drum
Before 6000 Tanu, Firvulag guests and 15,000 humans, Elizabeth presents Aiken with a black glass crown; he names his High Table and is acclaimed King.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Aiken probes Mercy
Aiken secretly probes sleeping Mercy's mind, learns of a hidden beloved named Joy, nearly alerts her subconscious, and vows never to probe her again.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Abaddon contacts Aiken
Abaddon farspeaks Aiken from across the Atlantic, reveals Felice's hideout near Mount Mulhacén, and they agree to a deal including a stronger metaconcert program and a rendezvous at the Río Genil in a week.
- Book 3 · Ch 31Aiken sees Nodonn in Mercy's dream
After the contact, Aiken probes Mercy's dream again and confirms her lover is Nodonn Battlemaster, alive and hidden.
- Book 3 · Ch 36Felice searches for Culluket
Felice flies as a raven across the Tanu cities seeking Culluket, finding them emptied, and turns home to Mulhacén at day's end.
- Book 3 · Ch 43Aiken's vengeance
Aiken Drum confronts them, tortures and burns Sullivan-Tonn to death, then takes Mercy upstairs where the Spear consumes her, leaving only ashes.
- Book 3 · Ch 44Kite trap destroys Nodonn's aircraft
Nodonn's two rhocraft fly into Aiken's conductive kite swarm and are grounded. Nodonn's flyer falls into the sea, and Aiken's Spear destroys Thufan's trapped flyer.
- Book 3 · Ch 44Battle in the Castle of Glass
Nodonn's knights fight loyalists in the courtyard. Congreve's elite guards stun Celadeyr's force after it surrenders. Kuhal finds Mercy's body in Aiken's bedroom, and Nodonn turns it to ash.
- Book 4 · Ch 2The King returns from his victory
After the duel, Aiken Drum returns to the castle with the silver hand, silent and psychically swollen. Bleyn, Alberonn and Tirone settle him in a retiring room; he declines healing, orders them to oversee mop-up, and plans to judge prisoners at 2100.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Judgment of the captured knights
The 129 surviving rebel knights are brought in chains before Aiken-Lugonn and the High Table, judged guilty of treason, and given the choice of choosing their own punishment.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Kuhal's submission
Kuhal pleads guilty on behalf of the company and pledges their service. Aiken frees them and demands to know where the other aircraft are hidden.
- Book 4 · Ch 4Aiken reveals Firvulag threat
Aiken reveals that the Firvulag are attacking Bardelask and threatening Roniah's weapons cache, and that Abaddon is coming.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Decontamination task assigned
Aiken and Bert Candyman examine the poison foam in the storage area; Bert devises an acetone solvent and Aiken gives him a team of Tanu nobles and seven days to finish.
- Book 4 · Ch 7Aiken's night of turmoil
Aiken revisits the emptied royal apartments, rebuffs Olone, reflects on his weakened powers, and farsenses Marc Remillard aboard the Kyllikki, who smiles at him.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Cloud rejects Kuhal
At the King's party, Kuhal confronts Cloud, who denies caring, then admits she does but refuses to replace his dead twin Fian and vanishes.
- Book 4 · Ch 14Aiken's night out
Bored with his party, Aiken disguises himself, joins Yosh and Raimo, visits the neputa workshop, and is jostled by a Most Exalted's retinue.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Aiken and Elizabeth confer
Aiken and Elizabeth discuss Marc's teleportation, a meeting to settle matters, and the Monte Rosa assault. Elizabeth shows him Stein, Sukey and baby Thor, and Aiken promises not to interfere.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Elizabeth and Minanonn arrive at the Castle of Glass
Flying through storms, they land at Goriah and Aiken greets them; Elizabeth reveals she has come on Marc's behalf and that Marc d-jumped Basil Wimborne from Monte Rosa.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Tour of the Guderian Project laboratories
Aiken shows Elizabeth the heavily secured labs and the Guderian device, explaining its progress and the deception about Tony's wife Rowane.
- Book 4 · Ch 26Elizabeth conveys Marc's proposal
Elizabeth tells Hagen and Cloud that the Milieu would accept them after atonement, then relays Marc's invitation to meet at Black Crag, with a hint about their genetic heritage.
- Book 4 · Ch 27Walter contacts Veikko
Walter, near Goriah aboard Kyllikki, tells Veikko of Marc's final appeal and advises him to wait for the proposal.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Cloud and Kuhal's talk
In the castle garden Cloud and Kuhal discuss guilt over the Flood, Marc's plan and the Unity. Cloud admits she needs Kuhal, and they walk hand in hand through the gate.
- Book 4 · Ch 29Hagen shows Diane Marc's plan
Hagen reveals to Diane that Mental Man means bodiless brains. They resolve to flee to the Milieu with Aiken's help and conceive a child, then find the King and his laboratory gone.