The World of Halidom

Halidom works vertically. Towers anchor the Cloudline, power the grid, regulate the rain. The villages below do the work the towers won't. Maintenance, repair, the constant rhythm of hands on ropes and tools on steel.

The towers decide when it rains. The Rooted remember what rain means. And buried between sky and soil lies the truth that could reunite them: the split was never structural. Someone chose it.

Above the Cloudline – The Ten Towers

• Tower of Halvex (Central Spire): Once the beating heart of the sky system, now named by its usurper. The seat of the Council and the story’s central lie.
  “Not the oldest. Just the loudest.”

• Thessa’s Crown: A spiraled tower near the cliffs. Known for air-coded signals and shell chimes.
  “When the wind sings, the sea listens.”

• The Ember Spire: Copper-skinned, fireproof. Built over ruin.
  “They say it can’t burn again. We don’t test it.”

• Valeheart: Fortified, cold, authoritarian. Hidden exits, strict silence.
  “If a storm comes, this will be its mouth.”

• The Needle of Sarin: The quietest tower. A blade of steel and signal. Listens to the stars.
  “It hears what others won’t admit.”

• Glassmere: Blazing white and furnace-fed. Birthplace of glass, panels, and mirrored power.
  “Where sunlight is melted into memory.”

• Tarnspire: Mirrors the sky, never speaks truth.
  “A reflection with no memory.”

• Wellsend: Short, pulsing, alive with blue geothermal power.
  “Where the steam heals and children float.”

• The Archive Pillar: The Council’s info fortress. All records locked.
  “The truth isn’t lost. It’s shelved.”

• The Ascendant Fang: First tower built. Cracked, patched, enduring.
  “Obsolete only to the forgetful.”

• The Lost Spire: Not officially on any map. Flickers in the mist.
  “If you see it, it’s remembering you.”

Beneath the Cloudline – Rooted Villages & Landmarks

• Ashgrove: Beneath Ember Spire. Home to riggers, rope-singers, and Jax.
  “Where soot and story share the same air.”

• Stillmere: Floating village under Tarnspire. Rafts, stars, and puddle-readers.
  “You don’t trust the mirror. You watch the ripples.”

• Mossmere & Underfern: Beneath the Needle. Mist and bio-glow.
  “Where fog remembers and roots hum.”

• Stoneveil: Below the Ascendant Fang. Central hub of the Rooted.
  “If the towers are ribs, this is the heart.”

• Canopy Reach: Hidden in the trees below Valeheart.
  “We hear before they march.”

• Echo Vault: (below Archive Pillar) Analog memory archive. Rhythmic storytelling.
  “We don’t write truth. We dance it.”

• Wellsend Baths: Healing spring pools warmed by geothermal veins.
  “No one floats alone.”

• Singing Ledge: Carved cliffside homes under Thessa’s Crown.