Winterborne — Objects

Throne of Bones

Regalia

• Bk 1The Iceheart throne in Centurion.
• Bk 1Calibor can never hold it again.
• Bk 1Sits on a stone slab with carved steps; its upper ridge flares into a jagged crown of spear-tipped vertebrae and ribs.
• Bk 1Escurion's skeleton stands behind it.

Cevada

Weapons

• Bk 1Calibor's sword; lives beneath the skin of his right arm as blue lightning-lines and surfaces when called.
• Bk 1Henric killed Mr. Silverstein and Caspiden with it.
• Bk 1Broad, gleaming blade with a rain-guard shaped like a dragon's open jaws, the blade spilling from its mouth.
• Bk 1Felt light to Henric and shrank to fit his hands.
• Bk 1Returns to its bearer by melting into a thick black liquid that slithers into his arm.

Ring of Udebar

Regalia

Also known as Udebar

• Bk 1Thelon gave it to Henric at the welcome celebration; Henric wears it on his right index finger.
• Bk 1A twin ring is worn by Hundarian, which Henric slid onto his finger.
• Bk 1A blue stone set with a dragon wing and a scorpion tail.
• Bk 1Hundarian's twin ring once belonged to King Romendan.
• Bk 1Forged in Elkon's Plains of Ristharoth; only two were made, the stone said to be cut from the Heart of Snow's source.
• Bk 1Brought to Henric in a small box by a Six Voices member.

Silver dragon-skull ring

Regalia

• Bk 1Silver ring with a blue dragon-skull gem, taken by Henric from a drawer in his chambers.

Heart of Snow

Relics

Also known as the Heart, the jewel

• Bk 1Seized by Hellsbeth after she killed Romendan.
• Bk 1Stolen by the Tryorians, severing the dragons' bonds.
• Bk 1Silverlamb set it inside Hondebur's skull and bound the lives of every elf to it.
• Bk 1Mr. Silverstein was after “the jewel.”
• Bk 1Appears as a round white light throbbing inside Hondebur's skull, near the forehead.

Heathen Crown

Relics

Also known as crown of the Prince of Winter

• Bk 1The crown of the Prince of Winter, forged by Silverlamb after foreseeing his coming.

Dragon-ridder

Weapons

• Bk 1Designed by Silverlamb knowing it would end the dragons; she wept while building it. Every dragon died.

Ghoul blades

Weapons

Also known as ghoul blade

• Bk 1Black, jagged daggers whose dark handles are carved to match.
• Bk 1Forged in the Prison of Elemar; their wounds leave a victim lingering between life and death.

The Dragon and His Prince

Books

• Bk 1Written and illustrated by Thelon; read to Henric as their secret to keep ice dragons alive in his mind.
• Bk 1A worn brown leather book with laced strings and yellowed, illustrated pages; Henric also calls it The Prince and His Dragon.

Lonely Wing

Relics

Also known as pendant

• Bk 1Pendant Demhalt gave Hundarian after a mission; glows blue at a whispered word.
• Bk 1A necklace holding a single dragon wing.
• Bk 1Kellenen wears an identical dragon-wing pendant; both light when wrapped around the hand and spoken to.

Portrait of the First Kings

Relics

Also known as First Kings portrait

• Bk 1A huge silver-framed painting of Cebrahim Ventera and Romendan Eltemore, painted in the Eastworld.
• Bk 1One king has brown skin, dark eyes and thin braids, wearing the crown Thelon now wears; the other is paler, with white eyes and a black crown.
• Bk 1Both wear high, scale-textured collars and stand shoulder to shoulder.

Dragon-eating-a-snake

Marks

Also known as tattoo, Tryorian mark

• Bk 1Carved into Demhalt's forehead by the Tryorians.
• Bk 1Peter bears a vanishing tattoo of it.
• Bk 1A masked intruder in Henric's chambers wore it as a necklace pendant.
• Bk 1The Tryorian sovereignty flag shows it over a background of the Six Voices' symbols.

Little Berryfly

Songs

Also known as Father's song

• Bk 1Demhalt sang it to the singlehorns.

Talibark

Nature

Also known as talibarks, talibark trees

• Bk 1Sacred trees planted by the River Goan, their brown standing out against the snow.

Openwider

Food & drink

• Bk 1A coffee-like Winterborne drink served from a clay jar.

Emalar

Rites

• Bk 1A clear, sweet-smelling liquid made by boiling ice flowers, poured over the dead to cleanse the soul for Orphares.