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Olympus

“Olympus Mons rises ~22 km — about 2.5× Everest, the tallest volcano in the solar system — and Olympus wears it as his crown, which is exactly why he still acts like the biggest thing that ever grew.”

A Stone world of Court of Stone

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The living story

The story so far

Mars was the Court's great hope and its great disappointment: the world that almost had it all and lost its air to the solar wind. He compensates with the crown — Olympus Mons, the single largest mountain any rocky world has ever raised. Seniority is his religion and the newcomers are his heresy.

Happening now

His crown has been venting thin wisps of vapor on windless nights — impossible, the Court's geologists insist, for a dead volcano. Olympus has started standing a little straighter. He tells no one, but he has begun to hope.

What may come

Whispers say the converging Primordial Suns will rekindle dead fires across the courts. Olympus polishes his crown every night now, just in case the whispers are right.