A planet of perpetual dusk, its venues aglow; the scene, before the story begins, of one of Vesper's failed matchmaking schemes.
Readers first know Vellum through Vesper, who spent "a few Vellan months" there posing as a barista to engineer a romance that ultimately fell apart — the spark for Flash Fire. Its landmark Phorin Falls hosts a music venue behind "a glowing curtain of azure water." In Right Hand Man Vesper returns to console her heartbroken friend Cariad, giving us a first real glimpse of a Vellum native: grief here shows as shimmering "glitter-tears" — "Vellan grief," Vesper reflects, "was as heartbreaking as it was beautiful."