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Olympus

The artificial mountain floating above the Institute's valley, where the Proctors watch and meddle in the war from a fairy-tale castle.

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Olympus is the artificial mountain that hovers two kilometers up in the star-spackled sky above the Institute's valley, its peak crowned by a shimmering fairy-tale castle. From it the Proctors — the Peerless Scarred like Fitchner and his flirtatious counterpart of House Ceres — watch each year's class wage its war, drinking wine, trading pranks, and occasionally descending on gravBoots to stun or referee. Darrow cannot fathom how it floats, and it looms over the whole game as the distant, godlike seat of those who set the rules.

Appearance

A floating artificial mountain two kilometers up, its shimmering peak crowned by a fairy-tale castle, hanging over the terraformed valley.

Role

The Proctors' floating seat above the valley war, from which they observe and interfere.

Relationships

the-institute-war — The valley war it overlooks and its Proctors help govern.
fitchner — The House Mars Proctor who watches from it and descends to meddle.
the-institute — The Gold proving ground whose game plays out beneath it.
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Chapter 21
  • The artificial mountain floating above the Institute's valley, where the Proctors watch and meddle in the war from a fairy-tale castle.
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