Mercury

Location from Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Sun-scorched warfront where the Republic's forces became trapped in a grinding siege. The Ash Rain falls here — volcanic debris that chokes the sky and buries the dead.

Also known as: Mercury, the Ash Rain front, the Mercury campaign

What They Know

• Site of a years-long grinding siege between Republic forces and Society remnants
• Atlas au Raa orchestrated the guerrilla defense that trapped Darrow's forces
• The Ash Rain — volcanic debris that falls constantly — defines the battlefield
• Darrow's prolonged absence here allowed political enemies to undermine the Republic from within
• Heliopolis is the primary city and main theater of urban warfare

Connections

• contains — heliopolis
• besieged_by — darrow
• defended_by — atlas

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