Leviathans
Names: Leviathansfloatersfloater
First appears in Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost, chapter 23 (Chapter Twenty-Three: Huey)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 5: Not Till We Are Lost
- Ch 23Leviathans are living, hydrogen-filled floating creatures large enough to carry entire ecosystems on their backs.
- Ch 40Floaters are living hydrogen-filled floating islands, killed mainly by volcanism and lightning, that host dragon villages and forests.
- Ch 42Dragons revere floaters almost religiously; floaters reproduce slowly, so burning them could change Jabberwocky's ecology.
- Ch 53Floaters avoid the open sea because they dislike salt water, not, as dragons believed, the lack of cover.
- Ch 53Floaters are steered by crews applying pain, but they will endure pain rather than go over salt water.
- Ch 53A floater's central lake serves as ballast and reservoir; when hot, floaters suck up water to refill it.
- Ch 55Floaters store hydrogen in many small bladders with oxygen-absorbing tissue, but fire remains their biggest cause of death.
- Ch 55During a storm one floater catches fire, is cut loose from the flotilla, and burns as it falls into the ocean.
Key moments
- Book 5 · Ch 53Floaters refuse salt water
Turning out to sea, the floaters recoil from salt water and head back to shore; Alexander plans to heat them, fill them at a lake and cut their tendrils.
- Book 5 · Ch 55A floater burns in the storm
In a fierce storm, fire breaks out on a floater; Howard, Bridget and soldiers cut it loose and it falls burning into the sea, with dozens of dragons lost.