Ethersilk

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.
• 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.

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.

In its original form, the ethersilk forms enormous ropes.

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.

Details

• Grimm's coat that he got from Efferus Effrenus Ferus when treated for a poisonous bite is apparently lined with high quality ethersilk.

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. 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. 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. Major Renaldo Espira threatens his men with: "I will send every one of you up the ropes."

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. 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.