The Fallen Line
Histories, guides and documents from the world of Tetherfall: the morning the ribbon fell, the Compact that turned it into a road, the towns that grew along it and the Authority that keeps it. Some of these papers were never meant to be read by runners.
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Entries
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Entry 1
The Snap
4 min read
An hour-by-hour history of the 41 hours in which thirty thousand kilometres of elevator ribbon fell around the world, compiled for the runners' halls from logs, testimony and the places where they disagree.
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Entry 2
Forty years on the Line
4 min read
The Saltreach runners' hall chronicle, year by year from the Snap to now: the Toll Wars, the Compact, the coming of the Authority, the great storms, and the runners the Line has lost along the way.
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Entry 3
The Couriers' Compact
4 min read
The four rules every line-runner lives by, as the halls read them aloud each new year, with the story of the eleven days at Saltreach when nine towns agreed to stop burying one another.
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Entry 4
Line towns
4 min read
A runner's gazetteer to the Line, from Port Anselm at kilometre zero to the far end of the ribbon: where to find water, where to park your sled, and what each town will and won't forgive.
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Entry 5
Sail-sleds
4 min read
A sledwright's primer to the narrow, tall-sailed craft that run the ribbon, from clamping shoes to storm drill and pennant colours, with pencilled notes in the margin from a mechanic with opinions.
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Entry 6
Mara Quell
4 min read
A portrait of Saltreach's fastest and most stubborn runner, written for the hall's book of runners by the person who has fixed her sled more often than anyone: her oldest friend, Dov Aster.
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Entry 7
The Line Authority
4 min read
The Line Authority's own guide for licence holders: its charter, its wardens, its fees and what it asks of runners, in the patient voice of an office that keeps the Line in order and would like it to stay that way.
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Entry 8
What Anchor says
4 min read
A restricted file from the warden of the western reach: forty years of runners' reports of the ribbon singing, and the reports from this season that made someone start keeping them in a locked drawer.
