Airmen's Quarter

The **Airmen's Quarter** is a district in the city of Amalo where the airships are made and the people who made the airships live.

## Appears in

*The Goblin Emperor*

*The Witness for the Dead*

*The Grief of Stones*

## Description

It had many apartment buildings, warehouses, manufactories, and teahouses. The Airman's Quarter was south of the Veren'malo, and was connected to the Dachenostro via the Zulnicho tramline. It appeared to share a border with the Sanctuary of Csaivo, though there was a wall between them to block out sound from the Airmen's Quarter.

The municipal cemetery for this district was the Ulvanensee. It “was a dreary building, soot-stained red brick on the outside and yellowed, cracking plaster on the inside.” There were also tiny cemeteries that dotted the district.

The Amal-Athamareise Airship Works was located in the Airmen's Quarter, and had enormous domes. It's near General Taravar Street, which shares a corner with Summer Street. The nearest tram exit is Taravar Ostro.

It possibly contained the Stone Tree, a teahouse where the Curneisei were known to meet. It also possibly contained the Cloud Horses, an airman's bar.

It contained the Chapterhouse of the Amaleise Brethren, which was the home of the local Vigilant Brotherhood, and an old building. “The Chapterhouse was built out of massive blocks of stone, carved at eye-level with the names of the dead Praeceptors who lay in the Chapterhouse crypt. In the six or seven hundred years since that practice had started—at a time centuries after the Chapterhouse was built—they had filled twenty-nine blocks. . . . The basement of the Chapterhouse had never been fitted out for gaslight; the brethren kept a rack of lanterns hanging by the door. . . . The Chapterhouse crypt was the only place in the Airmen’s Quarter where a body could be stored for long.”

The Ulzhavada compound was located there, known as a slowly shrinking island amidst the rest of the district. Along the route to the main house was a broad and straight path lined with elsesth trees likely planted when the compound was built. “The house was dark inside, great somber brocade hangings on every wall, and the drapes all drawn closed.” There didn't appear to be gas lighting, and the residents made use of candles instead. There were many narrow passages and interconnected rooms.

The Marigold Rookeries were a tenement in the Airmen's Quarter, and Thara Celehar considered it the worst part of the district. It "was filthy and dark, and people had put up partitions and knocked out walls seemingly at random, the result being a maze that no outsider could penetrate."

There was a municipal bathhouse in the district.

## Residents

* Aina Shulivar (former) (deceased)
* Amiru Chonhadrin
* Atho Narchanezhen (former) (deceased)
* Brenaro Osthonharad (former) (deceased)
* Evrenis Bralchenar (former) (deceased)
* Keila Osthonharad
* Thara Celehar

## Trivia

* Characters buried there: Arveneän Shelsin, Tura Olora.
* Nearly a third of the city's citizens were involved in the manufacture of airships.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Addison, Katherine. *The Witness for the Dead*, First ed., Tor, 2021.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Addison, Katherine. *The Grief of Stones*, First ed., Tor, 2022.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Addison, Katherine. “28. A Letter from Mer Celehar.” *The Goblin Emperor*, English eBook ed., Tim Doherty Associates, New York, NY, 2014.