The Tree of Pain

Location from Hyperion by Dan Simmons

A vast chrome tree with three-meter thorns on which the Shrike impales its victims — alive, conscious, their suffering broadcast into the Void Which Binds as a signal that something in the universe is listening.

Also known as: Tree of Pain, The Chrome Tree

What They Know

• Chrome steel tree with three-meter thorns — victims impaled alive, consciousness broadcast into the Void
• Technically a simulation — victims are in the Shrike Palace, pain is real
• Martin Silenus impaled for years — freed by Brawne Lamia
• Designed to attract the Human Ultimate Intelligence's fragment through suffering
• The Cantos' central horror: suffering instrumentalized as a cosmic signal

Connections

• created_by — shrike
• imprisons — silenus

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