Objects
Every entry. ✔ = has its own page; - = below the significance bar for now (promotable as the registry grows).
- ✔ Alborandi palisade · Days of Shattered Fait ch 15 - a wooden wall enclosing the Alborandi presence at the Waygrove; staved in by an ogrodon during the fight - ✔ ammie · House of Open Wounds ch 3-15; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - a rolled flatbread, standard army ration; Masty gives one to Klimmel to defuse tension - ✔ Angler's Eye · Pretenders to the Thro ch 8-27 - referenced in the Boat Songs alongside "the face of the crab god"; a beacon beaming out through the fog (likely the Lighthouse, though the chapter does not equate them) - ✔ animated wooden crab · Days of Shattered Fait ch 48 - a mule-sized wooden crab wielded by an old Beast Artist, tearing Pal soldiers apart - ✔ arcanolite · House of Open Wounds ch 2 - a tripod-mounted lens device on the watchtower used to activate the Dead Eye; described as "a telescope wearing an extra pair of spectacles" - ✔ arctinic lamp · House of Open Wounds ch 8 - a workshop lamp with three heads emitting a soft blue/teal glow that heats metal to malleability; powered by a tablethi; used to sculpt war-grade bronze and steel "like clay" - ✔ argamesh · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - an alchemical ingredient that must dissolve properly or the reaction cannot "enter the third house" - ✔ bezoar specials · House of Open Wounds ch 17 - a medicine for sky-sickness, kept in a small box; available via Confiscations - ✔ Bile of the Earth · Pretenders to the Thro ch 8 - a thick black liquor from Austentarn; wells up between rocks in mines; "you have never had anything with more kick, or rarer" - ✔ Black flask · House of Open Wounds ch 1-41 - Ollery's flask of lethal pain-killers; "a quiet draft from the black flask because there's no help here but a cessation of pain" - ✔ Blue salts · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - a stronger stimulant that "hiss and seethe against the back of" the throat; causes Jack to cry tears of blood - ✔ bonecutter · House of Open Wounds ch 12-13 - a Palleseen weapon whose blast edge caused surface amputations on the wounded - ✔ charged rod · Days of Shattered Fait ch 39 - a concealed ranged weapon; the Emir-Jarl of Farasland was killed by one - ✔ Charms necklace · City of Last Chances ch 9 - ✔ circle chalk · City of Last Chances ch 3 - a conjuration-related item available from Mother Guame's; used as a low-value stake - ✔ clappa · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - a powdered substance; "a noseful of powdered clappa" serves as a narcotic for officers - ✔ corpselight lamps · Days of Shattered Fait ch 20 - lamps in the House of Hard Angles that feed off ghosts to produce light - ✔ Crabshell · Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-36 - the Leachan ancestral armour and sword; polished and reassembled by Usrach; adorned with a mannikin bearing a "hideous gurning face"; contains a demon that requires the heir's name to function as a battle-guide - ✔ dawn-charge chime · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - a device measuring celestial light, set to chime at a threshold of ambient radiance to signal the start of a dawn offensive; unofficially adopted throughout the Sway - ✔ demon jar · Days of Shattered Fait ch 12 - a clay vessel shaped like a skull, sealed with sigils, used to imprison demons; Flint drinks from one after emptying it - ✔ Devil Jack's amulet · Pretenders to the Thro ch 3 - worn at his belt where a knife would go; "you couldn't look quite at" it, eyes water, light twists, designs unreadable; described as a key to "the gates of Hell" - ✔ dhanver · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - yellow crystalline condiment, "tart," must be pinched onto sauce not eaten from a spoon because they "react against the silver" - ✔ Drathel's bandoliers · Days of Shattered Fait ch 44 - three bandoliers heavy with uncharged tablethi, worn under her jacket for harvesting the crypt's accumulated power - ✔ fireberg · House of Open Wounds ch 33-34 - Loruthi artillery projectile; each impact the size of "a modest townhouse"; produces massive craters and ashen smears of soldiers - ✔ Firesian bile · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - a yellow alchemical substance that eats wood; measured with metal spoons - ✔ flint ramaht · Days of Shattered Fait ch 21 - the sharpest variety of ramaht; "will strip the skin from your throat and the paint from your walls" - ✔ gaun thistle · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - a substance Banders keeps in a crate and plans to sell to a Fellow-Monitor - ✔ ghost-eater arrow · House of Open Wounds ch 9 - A weapon that kills by being "eaten up" into the victim's body; the spy was struck by one while escaping - ✔ ghost-launcher · House of Open Wounds ch 41 - ✔ Gil's hidden blade · Days of Shattered Fait ch 4 - a small razor strapped under her arm, carried during the duel; she uses it to sever her bonds at the prison doors - ✔ Godflesh · Days of Shattered Fait ch 37 - the divine substance in the preserved organs of Kakrops; Drathel estimates it could "refill every tableth on the Successor Coast" - ✔ Hackle Throne · House of Open Wounds ch 30-48; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - the Bracite throne; "cold and uncomfortable, even with the cushion they gave him" - ✔ Haggle · Pretenders to the Thro ch 10 - the cheapest liquor in Eres Ffenegh; "so poor you should be paid to drink it, not the other way round"; loved by dock types - ✔ henq salts · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - pale blue crystalline alchemical ingredient; the darker variety curdles the mixture - ✔ Hus · Days of Shattered Fait ch 1-45 - the strong Cotto liquor the pirates drink; tastes of fish; not named in the chapter text but identified by the reference - ✔ isfel · House of Open Wounds ch 10; Pretenders to the Thro ch 29 - a greenish powdery condiment, "root and leaf, ground" - ✔ ivrel · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - a condiment Lochiver demands seconds of - ✔ Jagged Hand That Feeds · Days of Shattered Fait ch 48-50 - Cotto pirate vessel on open ocean; site of the godflesh ceremony - ✔ Kakrops Jars · Days of Shattered Fait ch 39-41 - containers holding the body of the god Kakrops, kept in a monastery at the foot of the falls, protected by the Usrani monks; Berkely demands their seizure - ✔ Kaleithi's necklace · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 10 - a necklace of gold and amber in the spiralling shape of a tree; Kaleithi's personal jewellery; given to Angilly by an Alborandi monk and passed to the Alkhand - ✔ Kepi of the Kepishi · Days of Shattered Fait ch 21 - a small hat worn by foreigners (Kepishi); seen on Croskin's misshapen head; draws Dekamran's eye - ✔ Lancewort Specials · Pretenders to the Thro ch 8 - purple-black lozenges smelling of aniseed; bring "extreme sharpness of mind for a relatively short span" followed by headaches, double vision, nightmares; used by Aspel for "Very Hard Sums" - ✔ Leaping Demon matches · City of Last Chances ch 17 - Ilmari brand of matches; used by Hellgram in his divination - ✔ Lilac salts · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - a further stimulant beyond blue; keeps the user sleepless; fortified the student who overextended - ✔ Maric's rope scar · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - a weal on Maric's throat suggesting a hanging or attempted execution - ✔ Maserley's demons · House of Open Wounds ch 14 - leathery, thorn-skinned, shambling creatures that snap and snarl; ride in formation during the retreat, exuding dry heat and a mephitic stench - ✔ mid-grade adduction catalyst · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - a medical supply in crates; Ollery sends Banders on a deliberate fool's errand to fetch four nonexistent crates - ✔ Mirror Throne · Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-31 - the scallop-backed throne of Usmai; "a dreadful, hungry weight that drew all the world to it"; surrounded by a still pool crossed only by the Alkhand and his guards - ✔ Mordant · Days of Shattered Fait ch 40-50 - the Pal ship anchored at the sea wall, sent to receive the jars; overrun by Cotto - ✔ Naturae · Days of Shattered Fait ch 27 - the slender packet ship that brought Annet and Dalry; formerly a blockade runner against the Loruthi navy, a smuggler, and a carrier for the Commission; now "pretending to wear the uniform" - ✔ Ochelby's ward · City of Last Chances ch 10 - priceless protection manufactured by Palleseen artisans for the ambassador's passage through the Anchorwood; lost by Sage-Archivist Ochelby; not found in Ivarn Ostravar's rooms - ✔ ogrodon · Days of Shattered Fait ch 11-33 - enormous scale-hided, shield-headed beasts with ramming horns, used by the Ibaleth to carry howdahs and as the armoured fist of Usmai's military; the Usmiat call them by this name - ✔ Oloumanni blend · Days of Shattered Fait ch 17 - a tea Oathan had been saving; brought out only for "serious" occasions - ✔ Oloumanni-Alta blend · House of Open Wounds ch 2; Days of Shattered Fait ch 27 - the very best tea, from plantations in the Oloumanni territories; the chief reason Oloumann was added to the Palleseen Sway; scarce in the camp - ✔ Orange salts · House of Open Wounds ch 12-13 - a fizzing stimulant in paper twists, taken orally; first grade of the escalation - ✔ Pal folding stool · Pretenders to the Thro ch 30 - a type of seat from the Palleseen army; God perches on one in the medical tent; Jack associates them with war memory - ✔ Pal work lamps · Days of Shattered Fait ch 45 - work lamps used in the House's bowels. - ✔ pearl knife · Days of Shattered Fait ch 50 - at Loret's belt; shines in the evening sun - ✔ Purple salts · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - mentioned as beyond lilac; the previous day's maximum dose - ✔ Ramaht · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9; Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - ✔ Rectitude · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3 - a Palleseen supply carrack attacked by the Red Grieving Bat Society the previous month - ✔ Red · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - a stimulant beyond lilac, "to come"; Ollery confirms they have it - ✔ red salts · House of Open Wounds ch 13-41 - the next escalation in the Butcher's stimulant regime; "What comes after the red?" / "Nobody knows" - ✔ resistance linen · City of Last Chances ch 3 - material associated with resistance networks; Fleance "shouldn't be airing" it - ✔ rummell · House of Open Wounds ch 22-23 - ration drink of rum and herbs, "very good for you, stops your fingernails falling off," strong especially when heated - ✔ sacred fire · House of Open Wounds ch 21 - the fire that had burned for ten thousand years at the High Fane; Tallifer smuggled it out, dropped it in flight, and Mazdek the Chastising Flame appeared where it went out - ✔ Sage's badge · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6 - the insignia of the Sage-Invigilator rank; given to Angilly along with promotion papers - ✔ scrimshawed shark ring · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8 - given by Hullseer Orhuhst to Kilbery as payment; a curved shark carved from bone - ✔ Shantrov Sirovar's painting · City of Last Chances ch 18 - a painting by Shantrov depicting a knight on a road surrounded by inviolable darkness; Ruslav uses it as a mental anchor to see through the Reproach's illusions - ✔ shark ring · Days of Shattered Fait ch 10 - a token given to Kilbery by the Cotto; Kilbery considers giving it to Enshili at the palace but loses his nerve - ✔ shark rum · City of Last Chances ch 15 - drink Dostritsyn always has - ✔ sigil-copper-plaques · Pretenders to the Thro ch 33 - five copper plaques engraved with precise glyphs, placed across enemy-held streets to "spread a net" of ward-work; too exacting to survive being fired from artillery, hence placed by hand - ✔ skia · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8; Days of Shattered Fait ch 4-7 - long straight duelling sword, the province of women; has a hooked claw pommel for close-quarters tricks - ✔ Sonori · House of Open Wounds ch 8-46 - nine-foot-tall humanoid war machines, originally built in the bell foundries of temples in Jarokir to fight the invading Pal forces; hollow bodies that sound like dirgeful bells when they move; heads shaped like Pal soldiers in peaked caps but with the original "howling, horrible face" below the brim; adopted into Pal service after the conquest of Jarokir - ✔ Stavers · House of Open Wounds ch 21 - artillery; "great bundles of treated rods on wheeled carriages, horse-drawn or hauled by hand" - ✔ straw doll · City of Last Chances ch 2 - a worthless piece of "occult dressing" hung on the wall of Mother Guame's circle house; substituted for the true warding bundle in Ochelby's satchel while he was in his undergarments - ✔ tablethi · City of Last Chances ch 1-42; Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5; Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-50; Pretenders to the Thro ch 2-41 - uncharged units of power, "grey and lustreless," "familiar from across the city since the Occupation"; used in lamps, batons, and apparently as storage for decanted divine essence - ✔ tablethi-charge · Days of Shattered Fait ch 35 - power source used in the Salient's wardroom to run cooling devices mistaken for lamps. - ✔ tablethi-fire · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - fuel source used in lanterns behind red glass to light the dueling circle; described as giving "a properly hellish aspect" - ✔ the Alder · House of Open Wounds ch 6-50 - a long, flexible whip made from the treated roots of the mobile, predatory trees of Jarokir; stays supple forever if properly cared for - ✔ the Allorwen dressing gown · House of Open Wounds ch 37 - a garment once belonging to a Lord of the White Manor; charged with tablethi, potent enough to make "a truculent demon just about have exploded on contact" - ✔ the aristocrat's cutlery · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - a silver set with scrollwork and forks bearing "two curved tines, like trailing fishtails," obtained by Ollery in trade for a pox cure from a "particularly pox-ridden Sage-Inquirer" - ✔ the bell · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - a hollow rounded torso of a former temple construct, struck by a hammer on a water clock; rendered useless by the rain - ✔ the bellows engine · House of Open Wounds ch 43 - a vast iron bellows with ridged pipes rammed into Runkel's opened torso, cranked by three Whitebellies to mechanically inflate and collapse his chest cavity - ✔ the big stone-cracker · Pretenders to the Thro ch 11 - a large siege weapon that can be "wheeled" into position once resistance is pushed back - ✔ the Bitter Sisters' pet · City of Last Chances ch 14 - an unnamed creature kept in the pit; bird's-nest of angular legs too dense to see its body; a blunt grasping hand-with-eyes instead of a head; long whip-like feelers; feeds on chunks of meat (sheep, pig, or worse); "politically omnivorous" appetites; known to be proactive about feeding times - ✔ the bone wand · City of Last Chances ch 5 - a wand carved with scenes of Loruthi hunting walrus, unknown provenance; stolen from Blackmane's shop. - ✔ the box · House of Open Wounds ch 5-43 - carried by Maric Jack on his back; has sinister little pigeonholes; Tallifer feels an irrational pull toward it and something jostles and complains inside - ✔ the bronze sigil · City of Last Chances ch 46 - "a twisted shape of verdigrised bronze" about a foot across, mounted atop a splintered carriage-shaft spar; it looks "occult" and resembles "the sort of symbol you'd see as part of a warding circle to keep things out. Or in" - ✔ the bug tongue · Days of Shattered Fait ch 33 - a living, broad, segmented creature with claw-legs found inside a Louse Speaker's mouth; Flint discovers it still alive after killing the emissary - ✔ the Butcher's alchemical paraphernalia · House of Open Wounds ch 51 - the travelling medicine-kit carried by the Butcher and his boy - ✔ The caged bird · City of Last Chances ch 17 - Dostritsyn's bird hung on his back; keens and beats its cage as the Reproach's power peaks - ✔ the cat · Pretenders to the Thro ch 17 - Abellaime's childhood pet, killed by her family - ✔ the centipede-demon · City of Last Chances ch 7 - a creature five men long, kept half-starved in the pit at the Fort; came from the Anchorwood (or was a conjurer's last work); kills Useless - ✔ the clay phial · City of Last Chances ch 19 - a small clay vessel with a wax stopper carried by Nihilostes; "distances the mind from the body. Hunger, pain... Brings clarity of thought, too. Which may not be a blessing." - ✔ the conjuring circle · City of Last Chances ch 44 - ✔ the consecrated knife · City of Last Chances ch 42 - from Hellgram's medical kit; used to carve healing sigils into his own forearm - ✔ the coral-and-shell knife · Days of Shattered Fait ch 40 - a knife with a coral hilt carved as octopus tentacles and a six-inch pearlescent shell blade; used to cut Loret open; given to her by Orhuhst after the rite; "the ridiculously delicate knife that she knew she couldn't have broken with a smith's hammer" - ✔ the cord · Days of Shattered Fait ch 11 - a weapon associated with the Halberandi monks and the old Moeribandi wholeness-of-body doctrine; kills without shedding blood - ✔ the crab armour · Pretenders to the Thro ch 4 - armour of the Os-Fferegh, "that crab stuff," with residual magical "potence"; Lovern returned it to the Carcers, angering the Stoat - ✔ the creature in the pit · City of Last Chances ch 34 - a glittering winged thing with vast eyes, a scorpion's tail, claws, fangs, and a carpet of limbs; kept alive in the Fort's pit to consume the dead; the Sisters call it "our own bug god" - ✔ the cruet · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - a Jarokiri-made condiment set: an intricate fretwork wooden box with human and animal faces peeking between slats, eight silver jars each inscribed with a different serpent, the contents named in Jarokiri characters spelling out Pel words; Ollery's prized possession, "well beyond non-regulation and into actual punishable unorthodoxy" - ✔ the cursed centipede monster · Days of Shattered Fait ch 44 - the Warden's "pet" or "creature," imprisoned within the House's walls, which the Under-warden intends to free - ✔ the Duke's scaffolding · City of Last Chances ch 41 - execution platform where Kosha was hanged - ✔ the falchion · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - Tarcomir's sword; "not quite an Usmiat clavar"; a curved hacking blade used in Loruthi combat style - ✔ the folding glass · Days of Shattered Fait ch 17 - a stolen spyglass fit with a tableth; Kilbery used it to watch the coronation from a rickety roof - ✔ the four-panelled corselet · Days of Shattered Fait ch 17 - Usmiat noble cavalry armour; worn by Gorbudan at the pools ceremony - ✔ the gold-shod sceptre · City of Last Chances ch 39 - a faculty regalia item "formerly used only at particularly formal faculty dinners"; Gowdi uses it to kill a Palleseen officer - ✔ the gown of jet and filigree · Pretenders to the Thro ch 34 - woven by an infernal artisan depicting Hell as a demon sees it; the contract for its weaving took a month to negotiate - ✔ the greenstone-plated skull · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7-9 - Oparan's brother's skull, plated in greenstone, worn as regalia; allegedly contains the brother's bound ghost - ✔ the Hand · City of Last Chances ch 36-45; Days of Shattered Fait ch 21-33; Pretenders to the Thro ch 11 - a magical/mystical phenomenon that shatters the barricade at the moment Ivarn is preparing to declaim poetry - ✔ the howdah · Days of Shattered Fait ch 48 - the seat atop the ogrodon; Flint rides in it with an Ibaleth mahout and sharpshooters - ✔ the Indweller mask · City of Last Chances ch 36-48 - a small eyeless mask, "a piece of wood, really, barely carved, painted with faded hues," that belonged to the Indweller killed by Ochelby; Culvern forces Hegelsy to wear it as the one outstanding matter the Indwellers require resolved before reopening the Anchorwood to Palleseen traffic - ✔ the Indweller's staff · City of Last Chances ch 6 - carried into the Anchorage; taken from unresisting fingers by soldiers - ✔ the island · House of Open Wounds ch 16-32 - a half-mile flattened disc of rock studded with crystal stelae on its underside, descending from the sky to serve as transport for the whole Forthright Battalion across the sea - ✔ the jade-topaz-amber necklace · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 7 - Kaleithi's ornate necklace of interlocking spirals suggesting a tree; she removes it during the rite - ✔ the Jar · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - metallic container in the chest of the corpse Fessel possesses; used to command the Dead Companies. - ✔ The Lapwing crest · City of Last Chances ch 17 - emerald cut into a necklace Dostritsyn finds on a corpse; the Lapwing is "the bird of ill omen, never used by any family or faction since" - ✔ the Lich Queen's cloak · Pretenders to the Thro ch 6 - a mantle of tarnished scales over geometric patterns of black, gold, jade, and turquoise; the patterns are a script never fully translated into Pel; carries the message of ritual, religion, and gods; its mere presence in the command tent unsettles Dantell - ✔ the Loruthi Snakepot · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - left-over Loruthi siege engine, a cauldron-like device that fires segmented spiral stones shattering into thirty shards. - ✔ the mechanical tree · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 5 - a copper-framed mechanical artifice in the Wolf Palace antechamber with jewelled birds that sing at random intervals; charms Angilly initially, then infuriates her by the nineteenth repetition - ✔ the ornamented skull · Days of Shattered Fait ch 13 - Oparan's constant companion, a carved skull he crooks around in his arm; its ornate surface lets the blind man "see" it with his fingers - ✔ the painting · City of Last Chances ch 14 - left for Ruslav by Lemya; depicts a lone figure on a haunted mountainside, a ruinous castle, a moon, deep perspective; Ruslav uses matchsticks to try to burn it; feels his emotions are "imprinted" on the canvas - ✔ the Pal artifact · City of Last Chances ch 29 - an unnamed Palleseen object of enormous value that Blackmane demands from Ivarn; the Pals searched Ivarn's rooms for it; Ivarn admits he never possessed it - ✔ the Pal batons · City of Last Chances ch 35 - the weapons of the occupation, named as a possible "clean death" Shantrov would prefer - ✔ the pearl-bladed knife · Days of Shattered Fait ch 42 - carried by the Pal girl; after Wattery's death its blade "swirled with clouded red as though the demonist's blood was diluting into an infinite sea" - ✔ the rapier · Days of Shattered Fait ch 2 - Gil's service weapon; "not quite a skia"; a long straight needle-blade - ✔ the Rationant · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - a Pal ship wrecked in the bay outside Eres Ffenegh, proof that Pal blockade attempts have been broken - ✔ the Reckoner's scales · Days of Shattered Fait ch 7 - balancing scales with weights; the Reckoner loads them until the arms tilt and balance, knitting wounds at a distance; a precise transaction with no tips - ✔ the Salient · Days of Shattered Fait ch 35-50 - mentioned as the sister ship of the Mordant - ✔ the sceptre of office · Days of Shattered Fait ch 14 - the heavy gilded symbol of the Alkhand's authority, placed by Oparan's hand in the tent; he uses it to shatter Sorthist's skull - ✔ The seams coat · Pretenders to the Thro ch 35 - a specially stitched uniform made for Istreddy for the assault, whose panels part when the wearer transforms into a Lycanthropist beast - ✔ the serpent necklace · Days of Shattered Fait ch 30 - a thick articulated-serpent chain with jasper eyes, part of the war chest - ✔ The servant with the brass plate · City of Last Chances ch 22-23 - presents a plate to Gowdi, who taps her pipe out on it - ✔ The servant with the samovar · City of Last Chances ch 1-28 - pours expensive tea - ✔ The seven binding stones · Pretenders to the Thro ch 41 - seven chunks of masonry on the face of the Pandaemonium, inscribed with Abellaime's wards, anchoring her conquest of the ancient sea temple; destroyed by artillery directed through Aspel's mathematics - ✔ the ship's bell · House of Open Wounds ch 10 - "the old ship's piece" Ollery's boy rings from outside the tent to call the department to dinner - ✔ the spectral sword · City of Last Chances ch 44 - a sword Hellgram can "call from nowhere"; used to direct the creature at Carelia - ✔ the sword · Pretenders to the Thro ch 26 - ✔ the Sword of Ffen · Pretenders to the Thro ch 7 - the champion's sword, now physically present but spiritually empty after the Pals decanted it; Kiff carries it in a sack with plates - ✔ the Tarsier · Days of Shattered Fait ch 17 - left the dock the previous night; the Alkhand's people came angry the next morning - ✔ the three-horned beast · House of Open Wounds ch 13 - a five-to-ten-ton war creature with a scythe-beaked turtle face, three metal-capped horns, a bony shield with rivetted shields, an iron-plated howdah carrying batons and spearpoints; destroyed the hospital tent and left Jack between the lines - ✔ the Under-warden's device · Days of Shattered Fait ch 7 - a hand-held tool that clicks, sparks, and gives off a "faltering blue radiance"; used to cauterise wounds; loses power quickly - ✔ the Under-warden's machine · Days of Shattered Fait ch 44 - a grid of stolen magical components wired with copper, linked to the House's architecture via sigils and chalked alien-notation calculations on a wall-sized chalkboard, designed to breach the House's spiritual containment - ✔ The Uniform · City of Last Chances ch 43 - defined in the new contract as "the uniform of the Palleseen army"; the demons' task is to destroy at least seven wearers of it - ✔ the vast fish-like creature · City of Last Chances ch 46 - a thing with "a vast fish-like eye" and "a great slash of a mouth filled with wedge-shaped teeth" that breathes behind Brocklesby in the Wood - ✔ the vials of preserved rest · City of Last Chances ch 42 - two small vials Hellgram decanted a year before, containing "the freshness of a well-rested morning"; he drinks them to buy vitality for the upcoming fight - ✔ the war chest · Days of Shattered Fait ch 30 - Gorbudan's accumulated treasure from Mantekor; gold coins, a serpent-shaped chain with jasper eyes, rings, armlets, onyx monkey game pieces - ✔ the Warden's collection · Days of Shattered Fait ch 20 - the Under-warden hoards occult religious artefacts and ritual items from across the Successor Coast; obtained "not by free trade and ready coin" - ✔ the Warden's sword · Days of Shattered Fait ch 6 - carried by the masked figure; "a sword that shone in the dark with its own light, conjured from air" - ✔ the White Petal Crown · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9-10 - the crown of the Alkhand; Gorbudan is accused of placing it on his own brow - ✔ the Widow's kerchief · Pretenders to the Thro ch 32 - red with black embroidery "like a spiderweb"; used as a blindfold to permit perception of Hell - ✔ the wooden house · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - ✔ ulmel · House of Open Wounds ch 6 - a substance applied to the Alder before use; disinfectant and painkiller - ✔ Vhon grain spirit · House of Open Wounds ch 18 - a spirit added to army tea to evade the alcohol ban; undetectable by smell but severely intoxicating - ✔ Vorkovin's handler's notebook · City of Last Chances ch 49 - in which the Invigilator takes "prim, neat" notes of his every move - ✔ Windsaw · Days of Shattered Fait ch 8-11 - a Tesemer fighting beast kept by Teerasla in the palace mews; launched from her wrist "fast as baton-shot," kills birds by impaling them with its killing arms - - Basilisk wasps · Days of Shattered Fait ch 5-20 - wasps whose stings turn flesh to grey stone; their nests are clay that bakes hard as rock; Oparan was blinded by them thirty years ago and the residual stone dust now poisons his blood and lungs - - baton · City of Last Chances ch 1-36; House of Open Wounds ch 36; Days of Shattered Fait ch 2-22 - a weapon carried by Pallesand soldiers; fires bolts of pale magic powered by tablethi; the Anchorwood beasts are immune to its fire - - bone buttons · House of Open Wounds ch 1 - inscribed bone fragments set into a fracture to fasten it; "digested by the woman's blood over a week." - - chamfron · City of Last Chances ch 10 - forehead-plate armour worn by the demon steed - - Charged engine · Pretenders to the Thro ch 27 - Palleseen artillery piece, referenced when a stray strike hits the city - - Charms · - - - clavar · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 8 - curved hacking sword used in men's duelling; the Usmiri word is the root of the Palleseen equivalent - - clockwork mannikin · House of Open Wounds ch 31 - a lacquered box topped by a tiny automaton performing a sword drill or dance; a Bracite craftwork souvenir - - coloured stones · Pretenders to the Thro ch 9 - the tokens placed in a box by common clan members to elect their grandee (the "key to the fancy front door") - - copper flasks · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - containers (carried on a bandolier) for sealing ghosts before firing; Prassel's "handful of coppers" - - copper jars · House of Open Wounds ch 33 - small copper vessels carrying trapped souls ("Each one a soul. Each one a trapped ghost ravening for more life, touch, sight"); Prassel collects them from the hospital - - coppers · House of Open Wounds ch 35-42 - the material or entities among which a "containment breach" occurred during the battle, contributing to Killingly's possession - - courier skiff · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 9 - swift vessel carrying word from Peor; brings news of the war declaration - - demon hounds · City of Last Chances ch 39 - dogs kept as guards; released by the fighting and maddened by blood - - demon steed · City of Last Chances ch 10-35 - the coach's horses, actually demons; they shriek "more like hawks than horses" and evaporate at the wards of the Reproach - - demon-breeds · City of Last Chances ch 32 - horned horses of the Armigers; "their coats metallic in the wan light, their heads jutting with horns"; their contracts are burned into the coachman's whip - - falx · Days of Shattered Fait ch 3-16 - the long-bladed, long-hafted two-handed weapon carried by Lhisamena and the Tesemer; "a brutal hacking thing, save they danced with it" - - Fetishes · City of Last Chances ch 9 - - Fish honey · Pretenders to the Thro ch 5 - - flag of parlay · City of Last Chances ch 37 - Palleseen flag of negotiation, "halved black and white"; the two halves mean "Either, you accept our terms, or you fall" - - Flags and banners with the names of Ilmari heroes · City of Last Chances ch 22 - stitched by Gownhall students, unfurled as defiance against the Pal soldiers stationed in three houses - - flying islands · Days of Shattered Fait ch 18 - Palleseen technology or magical constructs mentioned as a threat to Usmai; Tarcomir had advised Gorbudan on magically challenging ways to deal with them - - forge-lid shields · City of Last Chances ch 39 - improvised shields made from forge lids, carried by the Siblingry marchers - - ghost batteries · House of Open Wounds ch 33-35 - Palleseen artillery using copper jars of trapped souls launched by crane-thing trebuchets; yesterday's technology repurposed for tomorrow's war - - Ghost-mines · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - mines that produce "howling spirits briefly hissing about the field"; calibrated against the living, ineffective against already-inhabited corpses and Sonori - - ghost-throwers · House of Open Wounds ch 46 - artillery pieces that fire ghost-cannisters; they rattle when the main guns sound - - gilded mail · Pretenders to the Thro ch 40 - the Dead Company's armor; "their feet and the rattle of their mail" - - Great-batons · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - weapons that "spit searing energy at every enemy position" - - hand-lamp · House of Open Wounds ch 23 - a portable light source, powered by tableth - - hookloper · Days of Shattered Fait ch 11-13 - a Tesemer mount, horse-sized, six-legged, flat-sided, carapaced, with mantis-like hooked forelimbs; "land-shrimps" with great speed and stable gait - - kava · City of Last Chances ch 30 - a drink, "a vice from home," brought to Hegelsy's office as a peace offering - - knucklebug · Days of Shattered Fait ch 16 - animal kept in pens by village households; serves as waste-devourer and table protein (the source of "nice pink meat") - - medical moonshine · House of Open Wounds ch 44 - the Butcher's flask, from which Banders takes a swig during the hospital crisis - - monkey-face cloak clasps · Pretenders to the Thro ch 3 - wizened little monkey faces worked in bronze with ruby eyes; worn on Devil Jack's cloak; they bite Arduin's hand - - onion-skin · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 6 - the paper stock the administration uses for orders and dispatches, "remarkably hard for forgers to play games with" - - Orvechin's boots · City of Last Chances ch 28 - Orvechin's big, steel-reinforced, hardwearing work boots; perpetually stained with street muck, factory grime, and the "peculiar tacky residue" left where demons are held; he wears them deliberately as a "badge of office" and a provocation on Armiger carpets - - palanquin · Pretenders to the Thro ch 6-31 - the conveyance in which Prassel rides, shared with The Dead Emperor - - paper charms · City of Last Chances ch 17 - temporary Allorwen warding written on paper by the cheapest scribes; limited potency, one night only, vulnerable to moisture; provided by Meraqui - - possession grenades · City of Last Chances ch 42 - a weapon Hellgram threw in the war; the mechanism by which the Indweller ghost currently drives Fleance's body - - rail-side engines · Pretenders to the Thro ch 21 - naval artillery mounted on the Fisher King fleet's ships - - ram · City of Last Chances ch 32 - a metal-shod wooden cylinder with four brass handles and a tableth socket, used by Palleseen soldiers to breach the Gownhall gate - - rat-killers · City of Last Chances ch 44 - - Ritual chalk · City of Last Chances ch 9 - - ritual wards · City of Last Chances ch 29 - "string wrapped around sticks and herbs, decorated with trinkets and charms"; forest-wards made by the Indwellers, vanishingly rare and expensive; Blackmane provides them for Dorae and Tobriant - - shuttling press · City of Last Chances ch 38 - a machine described by Father Orvechin as having killed three men and a child in the factories - - Skull-shaped clay jars · Days of Shattered Fait ch 9 - three stoppered orange clay jars shaped like skulls, used as surrogate demon-vessels in the Day of Milk and Flowers rite; formerly real skulls with bound demons - - status-marks · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 3 - forehead markings Angilly drew on herself as situational disguise during surveillance - - Tableth-charged mortars · House of Open Wounds ch 12 - Pal artillery hurling incendiaries and bonecutter shot - - thaumatic gauge · House of Open Wounds ch 9-42 - A new device of glass lenses and tablethi worn on the head; Thurrel calls it "thaumatic gauge" and is irritated when Jack calls it a "Hat"; measures and analyses magic; the same type was used by the Perfector of Ilmar - - the amulet · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 4 - a polished bronze sacred object torn from a Jarokiri temple of the sacred flame; retains divine potency because it was never drained by Decanters; Woret wields it as a weapon - - the Amulet at Jack's belt · Pretenders to the Thro ch 12 - sparks "in outrage at the disrespect" when a Helaseach conjurer shoves him. - - The demon sword · Pretenders to the Thro ch 37 - a sentient blade in the woman's scabbard, "mutinous," "eager to taste the air, and battle," "lusted for battle so fiercely"; promises Erd Mannet silently, "I would fight you" - - the fire monster · Pretenders to the Thro ch 1 - an elemental creature of fire that Varinecthes captured and bound into the tower's foundations centuries ago to provide heat; it breaks free when his grief and rage wake the tower's power - - the garotte · House of Open Wounds ch 24 - a thin wire used for strangulation; one cultist nearly tangles it in his pocket - - the general's coat · City of Last Chances ch 35 - an old Ilmari general's coat, too broad for Shantrov's shoulders, which Vidsya forces him to remove - - the Mask · City of Last Chances ch 6-47; House of Open Wounds ch 24 - taken during the succession ritual in the Pools - - the mirror · City of Last Chances ch 5-44 - an enchanted mirror; Blackmane insists he never had it; Ivarn Ostravar arranged for the Palleseen to take it from his shop; the Vultures demand it - - the necropolis doors · Pretenders to the Thro ch 20 - twenty-foot-tall stone gates inscribed with histories usable to teach advanced necromancy; sealed from the inside by a power the narrator could not challenge - - the Occupiers' tokens · City of Last Chances ch 3 - new Palleseen currency, described as "tacky little"; old Ilmari coin is now unspendable - - the ornate writing desk · City of Last Chances ch 5 - an Orcoba-period desk with an inspirational literary imp bound within; stolen from Blackmane's shop. - - the regulation chair · House of Open Wounds ch 38 - a torture device strewn with cords, tablethi, clamps, probes, and hooks; "the whole toolkit that allowed you to subject someone to extreme excruciation without actually hurting them, really"; powered by "harnessing a few magical currents" through tablethi - - the rubber stamp · House of Open Wounds ch 3 - a new Palleseen administrative innovation; rubber imported from Oloumann; Banders loves its springy feel and once peppered a requisition form with authorisations - - the strongbox · House of Open Wounds ch 49 - Maserley's military contracts are kept in a strongbox in his tent; Caeleen's contract is not there but on his person - - the three candlesticks · Pretenders to the Thro ch 24 - conjuring beacons worked into intertwined serpents and rose stems; visible from the depths of Hell no matter how bright the fires; all three are required to function - - the ward · City of Last Chances ch 25-44 - a talisman Fleance believes can "salvage a new life from the mess he'd made"; the single object driving his search; not in Johanger's rooms - - the water clock · Lives of Bitter Rain ch 1 - drives the bell; defeated by deluge-season rain - - the wooden box · House of Open Wounds ch 2-4 - a shrine God inhabits; contains the wooden box and a couple of co-tenant gods He loathes; the Palleseen would confiscate it if they knew - - the wooden frames · House of Open Wounds ch 24 - two frames driven into the earth at the hollow, used to bind the prisoners; replaced on the cart after the rescue - - the wooden object · City of Last Chances ch 40 - a carved or assembled item of wood placed on Culvern's desk by an Indweller with "a clack of wood on wood"; its nature and purpose are unexplained; Culvern's first instinct is to "take this apart and sift it for magic" - - Tomes · City of Last Chances ch 9 - - unnamed dead Pal soldier · House of Open Wounds ch 15 - corpse with a ghastly open mouth lying in the hollow with Jack, Masty, and Banders - - unnamed demon · House of Open Wounds ch 15 - a conjuration from the Realms Below flies overhead making a high weeping noise; avoided - - vineroot biscuits · City of Last Chances ch 30 - an imported luxury from elsewhere in the Sway, Brockelsby's favourite, also part of the interdepartmental peace offering - - warding bundle · City of Last Chances ch 2-36 - a rare and expensive protective item ("sticks and feathers, carven wood and precious metals") that prevents the Anchorwood beasts from attacking; made by "a dozen artisans and enchanters"; the shadow-markets of Ilmar swarm with fakes