Great Retort
Names: Great RetortRetort
First appears in Book 2: The Golden Torc, chapter 25 (12)
Appearances
B1
B2
B3
B4
What you know
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 36The Great Retort is a glass vessel on a high scaffold where cowards are sent as punishment.
- Ch 37Headless Tanu and human dead are stacked beneath the Great Retort to fuel the ultimate Combat offering.
- Ch 38The Great Retort is the place where Bryan, Aluteyn, Raimo and other torc-wearers are held; captives are tossed in at sunset.
- Ch 39The Great Retort is a glass enclosure where condemned prisoners, mind-burned and criminals are offered up and burned by Creator psychoenergy at the Combat's end.
- Ch 41The glass Great Retort was torn loose by the flood and floats half-submerged, carrying the condemned prisoners.
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 38Bryan revived in the Great Retort
Aluteyn pulls Bryan from his mind-cave; Bryan, longing for Mercy, learns he is in the Great Retort while captives speculate about earthquakes.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Aluteyn's futile warning in the Retort
Aluteyn tries to warn of coming seismic disturbance but is dismissed by a human coercer and mocked by the doomed; he etches a warning on the glass.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Survivors in the floating Retort
Raimo and Aluteyn caulk the Retort and sort survivors from the dead; Aluteyn gives Raimo Bryan's golden torc.