The Sandcastle (Land Quadrant)

The Land Quadrant’s “castle”: a three-story sand fortress hunched against the necropolis wall, built around the tomb’s main drainage tunnel. There are two ways to take it. The easy way, Gwen’s plan, turns (or electrifies) a drainage wheel and hoses the whole castle to mud, but melts the mage and loses the winding box. The hard way, Katia’s plan, clips lightning-rod cables to two towers so a sandstorm bolt electrifies the door, opening a glass hallway for two hours. Inside, everything was transmuted to cloudy, frozen glass, a research castle caught mid-instant, with the sand-ooze boss living in the basement lab beside the mage.

Book 4 appearances

• Chapter 20 — Gwen’s team breaches its walls; Katia rigs the lightning-rod entry and stalls Gwen’s flood plan until Carl returns.
• Chapter 21 — The trio enters the glass interior (frozen fountains, a glass Lika statue) and finds the mage’s basement lab.
• Chapter 22 — Collapses as the ooze dies; Tran half-opens the drain and the whole castle washes into the water quadrant.

Related entries

• The Mad Dune Mage (Ghazi) (Character)
• Mrs. Ghazi (Sand Ooze) (Creature)
• The Necropolis of Anser (Place)
• Gwendolyn Duet ("Gwen") (Character)
• The Red Equinox (Lore)

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