Ethersilk
About[]
A highly valuable substance. It is mostly used only for practical purposes such as protective clothing and webbing, and only the wealthiest can afford to use it extensively and frivolously.
Uses[]
- Ethersilk is used in the etheric webbing that is erected around airships, allowing them to move.[1]
- It is also used in a tunic like a bulletproof vest as part of a Guardsman's or Aeronaut's gear. Etheric Weapons will have little effect on a piece of clothing with high-quality ethersilk in the lining.[2]
Origins[]
One of the reasons that ethersilk is so valuable is that it is produced by the silkweavers, who are virtually untameable, aggressive and toxic. [3]
In its original form, the ethersilk forms enormous ropes.[4] [5]
Silkweaver Nest[]
A contains small nodules of ethersilk all over the floor—possibly cradles for little silkweavers. It also contained a huge cradle high above the floor for the Silkweaver matriarch. [5]
Details[]
- Grimm's coat that he got from Efferus Effrenus Ferus when treated for a poisonous bite is apparently lined with high quality ethersilk.[6]
Connections[]
- Airships Parts, Gear and Technology
- Etheric webbing
- Silkweavers
- Ventilation Tunnels
- Airships
- House Nine-Claws
- Habble Landing
Events[]
(Spoiler section)
1. Aeronaut's Windlass[]
The Predator put up its Etheric webbing made of ethersilk.[1] The crew of the Predator wore tunics lined with ethersilk—they were old, the silk harvested a generation ago. They would only be effective against an indirect blast from a moderate range. They were the best Grimm was able to find for his men—better than no armor.[6] The coat lined with high-quality ethersilk that Grimm got from Efferus Effrenus Ferus likely saved his life in the skirmish at the Lancaster Vattery.[6] Major Renaldo Espira threatens his men with: "I will send every one of you up the ropes."[7]
The House Nine-Claws escorted Bridget, Rowl and Folly to a passageway in the Ventilation Tunnels of Habble Landing that had a hole in the roof with "ropes" of ethersilk hanging out of it.[3] With the help of Folly and her Lumin crystals using the ethersilk to make light, Bridget discovers a silkweaver nest above the hole where the ropes of ethersilk were hanging. It was filled with a treasure of ethersilk. And and enormous bower for the silkweaver matriarch. The implications of the threat to Spire Albion were enormous.[5]
2. The Olympian Affair[]
Book References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 1
- ↑ Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 14p140
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 34 Cite error: Invalid
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 38
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 15, p. 149
- ↑ Aeronaut's Windlass, ch. 32