Gossamer Line

"*Watch what you talk about in crowded Wunderground stations. The Gossamer Line's supposed to be top secret.*"
―Fenestra growled[src]
The **Gossamer Line** is a means of transportation within the Unnamed Realm. It allows a traveller's consciousness to travel on The Gossamer while their body remains in place. It can be a dangerous form of travel. A traveller is advised to leave behind an anchor (a deeply personal object) in order to tether them to where their body is located with a single Gossamer thread.

## History

There is a ghostly hour from the Avian Age between Brilliance Amadeo and Rastaban Tarazed discussing the theory behind possible self-projected travel on the Gossamer. This meeting is from before Ezra Squall was born.

"*The Gossamer Line simply gives us a way of traveling through those threads with intent. It was a by-product of interrealm exploration—something the League created about thirteen or fourteen Ages ago*"
―Jupiter North[src]
According to the Jupiter North quote above, the Gossamer Line was created thirteen to fourteen Ages ago by the League of Explorers. This is approximately the same time as the Gobleian Library was accidentally created and prior to the Courage Square Massacre.

"*The Gossamer Line is a wonderful thing, Miss Crow—I should know, I created it—but sometimes it’s a prison.*"
―Ezra Squall[src]
According to the Ezra Squall quote above, he created it. Creations by Wundersmiths often have a sponsor and a creator (E.G. Jemmity Park), so Ezra and Jupiter could both be telling the truth.

Before it was ready for public use the Gossamer Line was decommissioned due to its dangerous nature and should be kept secret.

## Travelling on The Gossamer Line

### Travel Advisory

"*This mode of transportation doesn't suit everyone.*"
―Jupiter North[src]The Gossamer Line is dangerous. Some travellers became permanently de-synchronised in body and mind which drove them mad. This was a major reason why the line was decommissioned.

### Planning your Itinerary

A traveller may chose to go to a specific location, such as when Jupiter and Morrigan visit Crow Manor or when Ezra visits Morrigan on the rooftop of Proudfoot house. Plans can also be a bit looser, like when Morrigan visits President Wintersea to try to solve the Hollowpox problem or when Ezra visits Morrigan when she is in random places in Nevermoor.

### Things to See and Do

Travellers on the Gossamer Line can be visible or invisible to persons at their destination — the traveller has a limited ability to control it. Travellers on the Gossamer Line cannot touch items at their destination but door present no problem as they may simply be walked through. Oddly, footsteps of persons using the Gossamer Line can be heard.

### Getting There

The Nevermoor Gossamer Line Wunderground station is located deep within the tunnels and staircases of the Wunderground system. It has its own platform with wooden benches, green tiles, and rail tracks.

Ezra Squall has a private Gossamer Line station in the Wintersea Republic.

## Behind the Scenes

* Jupiter North is able to access the line as he is an interrealm explorer with a level nine security clearance
	+ He mentions top-ranking military personnel are banned from it due to its dangers
* It is possible that Morrigan Crow is less susceptible to the dangers of the Gossamer Line as she is a Wundersmith.

### Morrigan's Journeys

Morrigan has travelled on the Gossamer Line three times:

1. With Jupiter, to visit Ornella Crow in the portrait hall at Crow Manor.
2. With Ezra Squall, to watch him perform at Crow Manor.
3. On her own, to visit
	1. President Wintersea in her dressing room, and
	2. Emmett at Crow Manor.

### Ezra's Journeys

Ezra Squall has travelled on the Gossamer Line (or projected himself on the Gossamer in a way that doesn't need the Gossamer Line) many times:

* to reminisce at the Hotel Deucalion
* to spy on Morrigan
* to help Morrigan out of danger
* to plan with Henry Mildmay

Morrigan has recognised Ezra travelling on the Gossamer Line several times:

1. To discuss the fallen chandelier in the hotel lobby
2. To discuss the shadow room on moonlit balcony of a fifth-floor drawing room
3. To discuss the fright trial after the Hallowmas parade
4. To tell her her ability on the Nevermoor Gossamer Line station
5. To teach her Nocturne at the Museum of Stolen Moments
6. To teach her Inferno on the rooftop of the Hotel Deucalion
	1. And then meet her at the Museum of Stolen Moments
7. To offer to teach her on the rooftop of Proudfoot House
8. To ask Morrigan to help her destroy the Hollowpox - they visit the hotel rooftop again
9. To heal the victims of the Hollowpox in the teaching hospital.

## Appearances

* *Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow* (First appearance)
* *Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow* (Mentioned only)
* *Hollowpox: The Hunt For Morrigan Crow*

## References

1. ↑ At the Fright Trial Ezra meets Morrigan in the alley.

On Golder's night, the voice that cajoles a delirious Morrigan is probably Ezra.
2. ↑ "She heard Jupiter’s footsteps crunching on the gravel behind her" Nevermoor (novel)
3. ↑ He spends a lot of time in Nevermoor and the Hotel Deucalion so it has to be somewhere safe for his body. Also, he is constantly humming, presumably to be summoning Wunder around his corporeal body to achieve some purpose, perhaps power production.