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Caves of the Void
Caves of the Void Information
Name(s) Caves of the Void
Major events The Search for the Black Crystals, Lord Vile and the Death Bringer, Rebirth of Darquesse
Inhabitants Anathem Mire, Gordon, creatures
Part of Ireland

The Caves of the Void are caves under Gordon Edgley's house. They are home to many unique creatures who are immune to, and often feed on, magic. There is also a vein of Black Crystals in the caves.

Locations[]

Source Fountain[]

A pool that makes anything you put into it magical. The God-Killers were placed into this pool by the Ancients. Much later, Darquesse possessed Stephanie's corpse by placing it in the pool. The cavern the pool was in was accessible by a fissure in the wall and was about the size of Valkyrie's back garden.

Anathem Mire's house[]

The sorcerer Anathem Mire built a house in the caves that was a replica of the house up on the surface. He built the house in a cavern connected to the Source Fountain, as none of the dangerous inhabitants of the Caves ever came close to it. When Mire left the vicinity to follow Valkyrie, he was attacked by the monsters in the caves and died, and the House disappeared, leaving an empty, flat space.

History[]

Gordon Edgley hides the Sceptre of the Ancients in a wooden chest in the caves. The entrance to the Caves is covered up, with the key being disguised as a brooch that Gordon leaves to Fergus and Beryl in his will.

Skulduggery Pleasant[]

At Grimwood House, Gordonโ€™s brooch is used to open the entrance to the Caves of the Void by Serpine, who leads a group of Hollow Men in to find the Sceptre. Skulduggery and Valkyrie arrive shortly afterwards and enter as well.

Skulduggery reads disturbances in the air to find which way Serpine went, and they head in the opposite direction, hoping to find the Sceptre first. They find a chocolate bar wrapper, which they believe to be evidence that Gordon had been this way. They get attacked by a monster, a dog-like creature. The creature rips off Skulduggeryโ€™s leg and Valkyrie is forced to leap onto a vine to escape it. Skulduggery pushes the monster into a chasm, and Valkyrie realises the vine is pulling her up. She tries to jump off but it wraps itself around her wrist and pulls her up rapidly.

The tentacle pulls her over a ledge and Valkyrie realises she is being dragged towards a gaping mouth. Realising the creature has no eyes, she goes limps and throws a stone at another tentacle, tricking it into directing it attention elsewhere, and manages to escape. She runs for a bit and then sees Serpine standing before the wooden chest. He breaks the lock on it and takes out the Sceptre of the Ancients. She slowly creeps closer and the Sceptre starts to ring as Skulduggery shows up and fights Serpine. He sets Serpine on fire and batters him, but his injuries heal themselves in seconds. Valkyrie rams into Serpine to stop him killing Skulduggery with the Sceptre. They are forced to flee the Caves, chased by Serpine and his Hollow Men.

Inhabitants[]

Trivia[]

  • The Caves have appeared in the final book of the three trilogies of the series.
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