The Donjon yard
The Donjon yard is a site of executions, the place where leaders of the Siblingry were hanged on two occasions in the period preceding the events of City of Last Chances. Each hanging followed a confrontation between the march and the Duke's people, making the yard a marker of the recurring cycle of resistance and reprisal that defines the Duke's relationship with the Siblingry. Though physically associated with the Donjon, the yard is a distinct location, and its use for public hanging marks it as an instrument of the Duke's punitive authority. Its significance in the series is retrospective: it surfaces not as a scene of present action but as the remembered ground on which past confrontations were settled in death.
Because the yard appears only as a referenced site, the reader encounters it through the weight of what was done there rather than through description of the place itself. Its two recorded hangings stand as the visible endpoints of conflicts whose causes and courses lie elsewhere in the narrative. The Donjon yard thus functions as a terminus-the last space a Siblingry leader occupies-rather than as a location at which the story unfolds.
The Place
Geography & Character
The Donjon yard is identified only as a yard associated with the Donjon but physically distinct from it; the narrative records no description of its dimensions, its walls, its ground, or any other physical detail. What is established is its function: it is the place where hangings were carried out. No other use of the space is recorded.
Who Holds It
The yard is implicitly under the Duke's authority, since it is the Duke's people who conduct the hangings there following confrontations with the march. No individual caretaker, gaoler, or official attached to the yard is named.
What Happens Here
The only events staged at the Donjon yard are the two hangings of Siblingry leaders, each following a confrontation between the march and the Duke's people. The yard's role is thus confined to the terminal act of those confrontations: the public execution of the defeated side's leadership. No trial, ceremony, or subsequent disposal of bodies is described.
History
City of Last Chances
The Donjon yard is identified as a site of executions: it is the place where Siblingry leaders were hanged on two prior occasions, each instance corresponding to a confrontation between the march and the Duke's people - ch 38. The notes record no further description of the yard's physical layout, its relation to the Donjon itself (which is a distinct location), or the identities of those hung, beyond the fact that they held leadership roles within the Siblingry.
Relationships
- Siblingry - The Siblingry is the group whose leaders are hanged at the yard. The two recorded hangings correspond to two separate confrontations between the march and the Duke's people, establishing the yard as the site where the Siblingry's leadership losses are made public. The identities of the hanged individuals are not recorded beyond their leadership role within the Siblingry.
Notable Quotes
No verbatim quotations from the source sections bear on this place.
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