The Nest that would not stay buried

"All flight returns to the same wind."

Built into a crescent-shaped cliff face overlooking the Vaultwinds, Featherhollow is the oldest known Aureline settlement—and the most repeatedly rebuilt. Local lore claims it has collapsed seven times, each downfall aligning with theological schism, heretical discovery, or celestial misinterpretation.

The Seven Rebuildings

- Burning Nest – Destroyed during the Glyph Purge when forbidden wing-scrolls suggested flight could alter fate.

- Shatter of Plumes – An earthquake cracked the cliff and exposed ancestral bones used in relic-forging, sparking a revolt.

- Reclamation – Rebuilt with memory stone, only to be dissolved when Featherfall heretics claimed divine vaultwinds whisper personal truths.

- Silence Arch – Introduced a decree banning aerial song. Later overruled after sky-borne glyphs formed halos above pilgrims.

- Hallow Judgement – Wingjudges declared the city unworthy of divine flight and razed it in ritual skyfire.

- The Unbinding – Featherhollow shifted to spiral architecture to reflect Vault resonance but collapsed during a rare stillwind equinox.

- Current Form – A hovering spire of boneglass and echo-feather, rebuilt by Pontiff decree. Its foundations cling to atmospheric pressure rather than stone.

Importance:

- Pilgrimage Site: Believers climb its wind-shell stairs to confess misremembered truths.

- Heretic Vaults: Below its floating tiers lie sealed archives from earlier eras—some glow with memory ink, others hum with silence.

- Symbol of Divine Contradiction: Worshipped as proof that failure is a form of devotion, and collapse can carry flight.

Beneath Featherhollow’s seven resurrections lies the Vault of Shattered Wings—a buried, boneglass sanctum said to contain the windbeats of erased Pontiffs, its entrance sealed by silence that no feather dares disturb.