Citadel
Names: CitadelIce CitadelIce Citadel worldthat bastard worldIce Citadel planetcold house
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 12 (ELEVEN)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 12The Citadel is a terraced mound on the icy plain, topped with a green beacon, where humans and Korrok-hi live.
- Ch 13A crystal-covered pyramid with a green lighthouse beam, possibly a Silfen lodge, heated by hot springs; it is the only town on the planet.
- Ch 13Its great domed hall is carved with thousands of figures and serves as the residents' meeting place, with a steaming pool and hearth.
- Ch 17The Ice Citadel is a frozen planet whose Silfen-built light ducts flood it with red light through a twenty-one-hour day.
- Ch 17The Ice Citadel is a worn, medieval-level refuge near a crater surrounded by crystal trees, heated by hot springs, with humans and aliens living communally.
- Ch 17Inhabitants survive on crystal tree fruit, fungi, lichenweed and icewhale meat, and have five big sleds, seven small ones and nine singletons.
- Ch 18The Ice Citadel is an ancient crystal-mirrored building on a cold red-sunlit world, home to humans and aliens who need the icewhale meat to survive.
- Ch 18Five other people are also trying to find a path off the planet with Ozzie.
- Ch 18The Ice Citadel's standard meal is mashed crystal tree fruit and fried icewhale rashers.
- Ch 18The Ice Citadel world was a dreadful, hostile frozen world that the travelers spent two days crossing before apparently escaping.
Connections
- containsSara Bush
- containsSararesident
- has memberSara
- has memberGeorge Parkin
- containstochee
- related tocrystal tree forestforest borders the depression around the Citadel
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 12Rescue at the ice plain
After a freezing trek in which the animals die, Ozzie and Orion signal with flares, answered by a green beacon. Sara Bush and Bill arrive by sledge and take them to the Citadel.
- Book 1 · Ch 13Ozzie and Orion reach the Ice Citadel
Sara takes them by sled to the Ice Citadel, explaining the Silfen paths and the dangers of leaving; they descend into the vast domed hall full of many species.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Ozzie proposes mass escape
Ozzie suggests to George that everyone leave together by following the Silfen hunt on lighter sleds pulled in relays. George refuses, arguing the Ice Citadel has a purpose and the risks are too great.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Ozzie gives Orion dating advice
Orion, lonely and inexperienced, asks Ozzie how to talk to girls; Ozzie offers a lame pickup line that Orion finds funny.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Ozzie decodes Tochee's language
Testing the tochee, Ozzie realizes it communicates through ultraviolet light patterns from its eye. He sees them with his retinal inserts and starts matching symbols to objects.
- Book 1 · Ch 17Orion learns of the breakthrough
Orion finds Ozzie surrounded by sketches of symbols. Ozzie explains the discovery and that Tochee asked to be taken out. Tochee then requests a communications device, and Orion stays to watch.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Silfen arrive to hunt
A procession of about 250 Silfen reaches the Ice Citadel to hunt icewhales. They party in the central chamber, and Sara secures permission to follow and keep the carcasses.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Preparing to leave
Ozzie, Orion and Tochee pack and sort gear, leaving surplus items behind, and agree to follow the Silfen off the world. Tochee asks not to be abandoned.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Orion breaks down after the icewhale hunt
After witnessing the Silfen hunt, Orion despairs, hurls away his pendant and fears for his parents. Ozzie calms him and pockets the pendant.
- Book 1 · Ch 18Escape from the frozen world
After hours of skiing through snow, Ozzie's group notices the snow melting and finds real trees. They conclude they have left the Ice Citadel world and emerge into a green mountain valley at dawn.