Roslo

Roslo hosts a Quentis throne-room reception where the Turan rangers, Prince Zavier, the Guardian, and two Voster priests gather, and political and marital arrangements involving Quentis and Turah are negotiated.

Roslo's public square is the execution site for the scullery maid and gambling nobleman who arranged Odessa's poisoning, and their bodies are left exposed there for a week.

The previous crux migration lasts nearly two months in Roslo and kills thousands despite the city's walls, keeps, and catapults.

Odessa returns to Roslo by ship and reports the early crux warning to the ruler of the city and kingdom. It is not yet clear whether Roslo's population receives or acts on the warning.

Roslo's royal castle and underground barracks host Odessa's reunion with Ransom while he is imprisoned in a cell beneath the city wall.

Roslo is the setting for Andreas's coronation, Caspia's hidden childbirth in the royal suite, and the throne-room confrontation with four Voster priests.

The throne room's marble floor is the place where Odessa's father held Caspia's body for two days after killing her.

Roslo stands on the Quentin coast beside Roslo Bay, with the ocean and harbor visible from Odessa's cliffside above the city.

Roslo's docks have ships being readied beside the piers, and Odessa leaves the city aboard the Cutter as the Turan ships sail out of Roslo Bay, watching the shoreline and city disappear across the bay.

Ships entering Roslo at night cross the calm bay toward the lit city and gold-plated castle before tying to the dock and lowering a plank for the travelers and horses to disembark.

The city includes white buildings, crowded streets, markets, docks, and a royal castle. From Odessa's cliffside, the city and harbor are visible.

Roslo's dock district contains walkways, stalls, ships, and merchants selling fish, fruit, herbs, jewelry, tonics, and cloth. Before the shops fully open, the same area is open enough for the walkways and stalls to stand out clearly.

Roslo has tunnels and shelters built deep into the surrounding rock walls to protect its population during crux migrations. Odessa believes the crux cannot enter them.

Roslo has strong walls, keeps, and catapults, but thousands of people still died there during the last crux migration, which lasted nearly two months.

The royal castle is a large, guarded complex with lofty towers, gilded beams, crystal chandeliers, marble floors, underground migration chambers, and tunnels or cellars cut into the surrounding cliffs. Its gallery preserves paintings of crux migrations, and its enormous library keeps its most important books belowground because earlier crux attacks destroyed many volumes.

Andreas's house sits on a hill overlooking Roslo and the bay, with aquamarine water and ships visible from its balcony. The harbor district below has crowded wooden walkways, market stalls, traders, fish sellers, tonic sellers, and numbered streets.

The barracks stand at the city's farthest edge against the stone wall, appearing aboveground as a short, narrow white building with a brown roof and teal door. Beneath that facade, rooms cut into the rock include Roslo's original migration chambers, military dormitories, and windowless jail cells.

The royal castle has king's vaults beneath it, where a recovered orbit is locked away, and Caspia's suite contains a secret compartment under the dressing-room floor for her necklace and journal.

Roslo's harbor supports trade and maritime traffic, with docks used by Quentin and foreign ships and market stalls supplying food, herbs, jewelry, tonics, and cloth. The dead marroweels brought by the Turans are displayed at the docks after the attacks that endangered the trade network.

Roslo's infirmary uses korakin during amputations and surgeries because it removes pain, even though the substance can leave patients addicted.

The restricted castle library stores the most important books belowground to protect them from destruction during crux migrations.

The underground barracks can serve as military housing, migration shelter, and prison. Ransom is held in the last cell of the otherwise empty facility, and two bars in that cell have been bent outward by force.

Roslo is Quentis's capital and remains visible from Odessa's bedroom.

After Odessa leaves Quentis, Roslo remains the home that Brielle longs to return to and the place Odessa still names as her home, even while the treehouse in Treow temporarily fills that role for her.

In Caspia's time, Caspia and Andreas live in Roslo at Andreas's hilltop house overlooking the city and bay.

Alore's workshop and the royal infirmary are located in Roslo, where officials and military forces increase as preparations for the migration accelerate.