Muriah
Names: Muriahrich Muriah on the White Silver Plainthe capitalAvenBalearic PeninsulaCity of the White Silver PlainDragon Range of AvenAven PeninsulaMuriah city
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 23 (3)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 23Muriah is the Tanu capital city, on the White Silver Plain in the south of the Many-Colored Land.
- Ch 24Muriah is the Tanu capital city, where Aiken and Stein will be sent.
- Ch 28Capital city of the Tanu, about five days away by river boat; Creyn promises to explain ramas there.
- Ch 38Muriah is the Tanu capital city, a blazing city on the tip of the Aven peninsula above the White Silver Plain.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 1Muriah is the Tanu capital, on a peninsular height above a saltflat dock at Aven; the High King's palace is there.
- Ch 1Muriah is a working capital of administration, education and vital operations, handled informally in a family fashion.
- Ch 5Muriah appears an idyllic, prosperous small city with classical buildings; it holds about 4,000 Tanu, a few hundred golds, under 1,000 silvers, 5,000 grays, 6-7,000 torcless, and many more ramas.
- Ch 5Torcless humans are second-class in Muriah: no torcless people sit at the Bakery Kleinfuss terrace, and ramas are served and tipped by mental means.
- Ch 7Tanu southland city on the Aven Peninsula with no city wall; has an arena and fighter school.
- Ch 8Muriah is a place where Nodonn's mother summons him over dynastic matters involving the Host of Nontusvel.
- Ch 10Muriah is the Tanu capital on a long peninsula, with a large arena and the Plain of Sports for contests.
- Ch 11Aven's Dragon Range will become Mallorca in six million years, and its hills will become Ibiza and Formentera.
- Ch 18Muriah is the capital; the torc factory lies in its Coercer Guild Complex, heavily secured, about 1,300 km south.
- Ch 20The strike-force plans to go to Muriah by riverboat in three to four days and attack early on the twenty-second.
- Ch 38Strange clouds, ground tremors and an odd sky are noticed over Aven on the evening of the Fifth Day.
- Ch 40A secondary surge flooded the Aven Peninsula, killing most remaining in the city, including nearly all the ramapithecine slaves.
- Ch 41After the flood the plain, tent-cities and sediments around Muriah were replaced by a jade-colored sea; much of the capital was devastated.
Book 3: The Nonborn King
- Ch 2Muriah, former Tanu capital of the Many-Colored Land, lies ruined and overgrown after four months of rain; its docks are submerged.
- Ch 2Muriah's ornamental gardens have run wild since most of the little rama gardeners died.
- Ch 9Muriah is a Tanu city of glass trumpets and arena sports; Kuhal hallucinated it reborn in splendor over the sea.
Connections
- inMany-Colored Land
- part ofTanuTanu capital city
- part ofMany-Colored Land
- containsCoercer Guild
- includesBalearis
- containsCastle Gateway
- containsCoercer Guild Complex
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 38Arrival at Muriah
On the sixth day after leaving Castle Gateway, the travelers reach Muriah, hauled up from the salt by helladotheria and welcomed with song by the Tanu.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Arrival at Aven
Tanu and human riders welcome the boat at Aven; hellads haul it toward Muriah while Bryan seeks Mercy and Highjohn explains torcs and Tanu society.
- Book 2 · Ch 1Welcome at the Tanu palace
The boat arrives at the King's palace in Muriah, where Lady Eadone greets the time-travelers and Elizabeth replies in Tanu and English before the escort erupts in celebration.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Time-travelers appear at the feast
The five time-travelers meet in new Tanu finery, joined by Aiken, who hints at coming mischief and shows he is working around his metafunction curb before the court procession.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Presentation to the High Table
The honorees are presented; Elizabeth is hailed with Slonshal. Thagdal and Nontusvel welcome them, Nontusvel promises Bryan he will see Mercy, and Ogmol is named as his assistant.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Thagdal explains Tanu breeding and torcs
Over the supper Thagdal and Nontusvel explain his sovereignty by fertility, the eugenic program with human help, and how honorary golden torcs were granted to key human arrivals.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Siblings press the Queen to kill Elizabeth
In the garden, Culluket, Imidol and Riganone persuade Nontusvel that Elizabeth threatens the dynasty through Gomnol's breeding scheme and cannot be allowed to flee. They agree she must die.
- Book 2 · Ch 4Plan to compel Elizabeth's self-destruction
Imidol and Culluket will design a compulsion to self-destruction, powered by the Host members in Muriah, while waiting for Nodonn and Grand Combat. They resolve to act after Brede's initiation and to hide it from the Thagdal and Gomnol.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Market and café talk
Ogmol pushes Bryan to take a golden torc; Bryan refuses. Over pastries Ogmol explains hybrid status and prejudice, then arranges a visit with Gomnol telepathically.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Mayvar prepares Aiken for the Delbaeth Quest
After repairing her clock and another testing, Mayvar gives Aiken the golden torc, explains the politics behind his boast to slay Delbaeth, and promises training and a secret weapon from her cellar.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Stein breaks free of Dedra's coercion
Enraged that Sukey's mind-call has stopped, Stein breaks Dedra's coercive hold and threatens her. She reveals Sukey is at Bybar's; Mayvar orders Dedra to take Stein there.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Nodonn reveals his troubles
Nodonn tells Rosmar they must go to Muriah on his mother's summons, voices worries about Delbaeth and hostile new humans, and Rosmar pledges to fight with him.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Suicide compulsion on the headland
The Host of Nontusvel bombards Elizabeth with suicide compulsion at the cliff edge; she shows she is aware of it and shuts them out, and they withdraw.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Stein's arena trial
At the Sport Meeting Stein slays the hyainailouros, is given the King's accolade, while Aiken upstages him, irritating Thagdal.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Royal box discussion
Bryan reports on his survey while Tanu leaders voice fears about human influence, and Greg-Donnet rants about cloning.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Nodonn arrives
Nodonn and Rosmar arrive; Rosmar reunites with Bryan. Nodonn goes to the arena, and Raimo desperately seeks Aiken.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Aiken aids Raimo
Raimo begs Aiken for help; Aiken eases his tormented mind, but six Tanu women arrive and carry Raimo off.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Aiken kills Phobosuchus
Thrown by his terrified chaliko, Aiken evades and rides Phobosuchus to the crowd's delight, then kills it with his lance through the skull.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Aiken's accolade
King Thagdal knights Aiken; Mayvar forbids him a Tanu name for now, and he is sent on the Delbaeth Quest.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Nodonn reveals his strategy
Nodonn outlines his plan to exploit the planned raid and expose the survey at the Grand Combat, summoning the top fighters to a reunion luncheon, and reveals Mercy's genes.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Aiken learns Stein's thoughts are a threat
Aiken and Mayvar overhear Stein's leaking thoughts; Mayvar suggests killing the pair, Aiken refuses, and she promises to send them out of Muriah that night.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Balloon escape of Stein and Sukey
Creyn brings Stein and Sukey to Elizabeth's balloon on the mountaintop and reveals Felice, whom Elizabeth is invited to save. The balloon then rises over Muriah and drifts southwest toward Gibraltar.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Mercy visits Bryan
Mercy visits the confined Bryan, tells her story, projects the First Day games for him, and leaves, asking him to wait until they come for him.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Thagdal confides in Nontusvel
After the chariot races, Thagdal tells the Queen of defections, escapes and Aiken Drum's rising support. They console each other.
- Book 2 · Ch 38Yeochee rallies the Firvulag
On the Fifth Day of the High Mêlée, Yeochee cheers wounded Firvulag in the hospital tent and prepares for the final battle.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Elizabeth wakes after the Mêlée
Elizabeth emerges from her fire cocoon, learns of the exotic woman's message, sees the flooded ruin of Muriah, and prepares to meet the survivors.
- Book 3 · Ch 2Felice finds a Redactor knight's tore
Felice, as the raven, detects gold in a flooded cave and finds a dead Redactor knight. She fears it is Culluket, but sees the armor is not his. She rips off the tore and takes it.
- Book 3 · Ch 9Kuhal's hallucination of Muriah
Delirious and exhausted, Kuhal sees Muriah shining over the sea and wades toward it. Fian forces him back, and Kuhal chooses life for both.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Aiken recalls his arrival in Muriah
Aiken asks Ochal to remember the feast at Muriah and the silver woman who sang, then plays the harp and sings for the North Americans.