Luna

the city moon · Earth's moon

Earth's city-moon and seat of the Sovereign, a vertical metropolis of Gold towers over lowColor gutters.

Story so far

Luna is the city-moon of Earth and heart of the Society, where all ruling families gather at the Citadel for the Summit. Its one-sixth gravity lets the Luneborn build kilometers-high towers laced with rungPaths, and for two weeks the sun sets into a fortnight of night. From the Gold opera houses and the forested Citadel grounds—where House Augustus keeps a villa—the city plunges through Silver, Copper, and midDistricts down to the lightless gutters of Lost City, a lawless warren of gangs and lowColors ruled by a crime syndicate secretly answering to the Sovereign.

There Darrow descends in Obsidian disguise to meet the Jackal.

Appearance

A jagged steel moon glazed with a million lights, kilometers-high towers webbed by rungPaths, sinking to fetid, graffiti-covered gutter-districts under a polluted haze.

Role

Seat of the Sovereign and the Summit; the setting for the book's political intrigue and Darrow's descent into Lost City.

Relationships

Octavia au Lune — The Sovereign who rules from Luna's Citadel and secretly controls its Lost City underworld.

Darrow — Descends its gutters in disguise, out from under Augustus's protection, to bargain with the Jackal.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Red RisingBook 1

Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter

Chapter 7

Earth's city-moon and seat of the Sovereign, a vertical metropolis of Gold towers over lowColor gutters.