Location from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
Tree of the Singing Winds — an abandoned Sithi city of impossible grace, drowned by a river that changed course, its towers and walkways crumbling into green ruin.
Da'ai Chikiza is what happens when the Sithi leave. The forest reclaims. The river rises. The towers that once sang with wind through their openings now stand in silence, their walkways broken, their stones colonized by moss and vine. It's one of the Nine Cities, and its abandonment tells the whole story of Sithi decline in a single image. The Stile — the ancient road through the Wealdhelm — connects Da'ai Chikiza to Naglimund, making it strategically important despite its ruined state. Travelers through the Stile emerge in the haunted beauty of a city that was designed for beings who thought in millennia.
A forest of impossibly graceful towers set like a jeweled puzzle in green, white, and pale blue stone. Tall slender towers and minarets connected by needle-thin walkways resembling spiderwebs. Located on the Aelfwent River on the east side of the Wealdhelm. Now partly flooded and crumbling — an earthquake altered the river's course centuries ago, and the water has been slowly reclaiming the city ever since.
Also known as: Da'ai Chikiza, Tree of the Singing Winds