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'''Akinah''' is the ancient capital of the [[Silver Kingdoms|Silver Kingdom]] of [[Aimia]] on [[Roshar]].{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} In more modern times, it is also known as '''The Rock of Secrets''' and '''The Void's Playground'''. The city itself was destroyed long ago, and during the [[Era of Solitude]] it exists only as a ruin. It is the location of an apparently functional [[Oathgate]] and its underwater caverns formerly contained a [[Dawnshard]].
== Appearance ==
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Akinah is located on a small island in the northern section of Aimia, somewhat near the large main island.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} The city seems to have once been grand, with ornate buildings arranged in a tenfold symmetry radiating out from a round central hub.{{File ref|Four_Cities.jpg|Kabsal's Cymatics notes}} This tenfold symmetry is connected to ten being an important number on Roshar.{{wob ref|8614}} From above, the city looks like a flower with radiating petals.{{book ref|sa3.5|4}}
The island features dark, tall rock formations along its center that look almost like the walls of a city{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} and uniform buildings in the "tips" of the flower petals as seen from above.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}} The ruined city—which [[Rushu]] speculates is fake, concealing the real city which sank into the [[crem]] years ago—is covered with crem and the rocky beach around the city is cluttered with the corpses of dead [[greatshell]]s and deceptive, fake gemhearts.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}}
=== Caverns ===
The caverns underneath Akinah housed the city's Oathgate and the [[Akinah Dawnshard mural|Dawnshard mural]].{{book ref|sa3.5|15}}{{book ref|sa3.5|18}}
Great pains had been taken to hide the Oathgate. A chamber with a false, seemingly defunct Oathgate was built atop the true Oathgate. The real Oathgate was housed underneath in a room about twelve feet high and expansively wide.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}}
Akinah's other secrets were hidden beneath the island in a cavern accessible only via underwater tunnel. Inside the air-filled chambers, a corridor that had been carved out of the stone featuring murals of people falling through portals led to a small room with a large mural on the far side, a set of Shardplate, ornate weapons and clothing, and eight [[Soulcaster]] devices. A metal door on the left side of the room opened to a larger corridor with six huge [[larkin]] skulls.{{book ref|sa3.5|15}} The large mural - which was not an ordinary mural - was formerly the Dawnshard.{{wob ref|14315}}
=== Soulcast Defenses ===
The island is ringed by a wall of enormous Soulcast stone spikes around forty feet tall and guarded by additional Soulcast underwater spikes, seemingly designed to pierce the hulls of approaching ships.Three underwater spikes and one wall spike were removed by Soulcasting during a failed expedition in 1174.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}
=== Protection Storm ===
A terrible and persistent storm - an unusual weather pattern - bolstered the island’s defenses {{book ref|sa3.5|1}}, but had been weakened by 1174.{{book ref|dawnshard|19}} [[Sleepless#hordelings|Hordelings]] that had bred with larkin and were thereby able to drain [[Stormlight]] flew through the clouds as a safeguard against [[Surgebinding|Surgebinders]].{{book ref|sa3.5|19}}
Sleepless hordlings in the form of giant sea monsters also protected the island.{{book ref|sa3.5|17}}
== History ==
=== Capital of Aimia ===
The origin of the city is unknown, but it is quite ancient. At some point in the past, air was Soulcast into massive spikes surrounding the city.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} In the Heraldic Epochs, Akinah was known as the
=== Abandonment ===
Over the following time, the city itself entered into the realm of myth and legend, earning it the names The Rock of Secrets and The Void's Playground and a sinister reputation.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}
=== Vazrmeb's Expedition ===
In
Afterwards the crew took several dinghies towards the shore, where [[Kaza]] Soulcast several of the spikes surrounding the island into smoke.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}}
=== Rysn's Expedition ===
▲Afterwards the crew took several dinghies towards the shore, where Kaza Soulcast several of the spikes surrounding the island into smoke.{{book ref|sa3|i|4}} At that point Vazrmeb and his crew, beginning to feel the effects of the poison, collapsed and died. Due to her growing inhumanity, the poison impacted Kaza less severely, so she managed to row her boat in alone, collapsing on the shore. When she regained consciousness, she crawled towards the city itself before collapsing again. The Aimian confronted her there, revealing herself as the poisoner. In her last moments before the poison killed her, Kaza Soulcast the ground beneath them both into smoke.
Five months after Vazrmeb’s doomed expedition to the island, [[Yalb]], now crewing for a Thaylen military vessel, spotted a ghost ship limping along at sea. Revealed to be ''[[First Dreams]]'',{{book ref|sa3.5|prologue}} the ship's discovery prompted [[Navani]] to issue a request and a reward for another ship to travel investigate the region where Akina’s ruins were rumored to be found. Rysn accepted the mission some two months after the discovery of ''First Dreams'' in the hope that bringing [[Chiri-Chiri]] to Akinah would restore Chiri-Chiri’s failing health.{{book ref|sa3.5|1}} With a full crew, the incognito Dysian Aimian [[Nikliasorm|Nikli]], [[Lopen]], [[Huio]], [[Cord]], Rushu, and Chiri-Chiri, Rysn began the ''[[Wandersail (1174 ship)|Wandersail]]'s'' voyage to Akinah.{{book ref|sa3.5|4}} The expedition wildly exceeded expectations, yielding the Akinah Dawnshard, a fact known only to the Dysian Aimians, Rysn, and Cord; the location of the Oathgate, which appeared to still function; eight Soulcaster devices, three of which went to the Alethi and five to Thaylenah; Shardplate, now owned by Cord; and a mountain of real gemstones.{{book ref|sa3.5|epilogue}}
== Notes ==
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