Vale

Vale is a town located at the foot of Mt. Aleph, and is home to Isaac, Garet, Jenna, Felix, and their respective families, alongside the scholar Kraden. It is the main town both at the beginning of the first book and the end of the second.

When Saturos and Menardi raid Sol Sanctum initially, they trigger a trap that causes a thunderstorm to fall upon both the mountain and Vale, and in turn a precariously placed boulder on Mt. Aleph falls into and crashes through Vale, sweeping away Felix, his parents, and Isaac’s father Kyle. Saturos saves them and brings them back to Prox, leaving the rest of Vale to believe that they had all died.

Three years later, once Jenna and Kraden are kidnapped by Saturos in his second raid of Sol Sanctum, the volcanic eruption that occurs as a result threatens to defeat the town, but the Wise One directs the lava flow away from the town. At a town meeting right afterwards, the townspeople are forced to agree that the responsibility falls upon Isaac and Garet to stop Saturos by order of the Wise One. Therefore, on the next day, Isaac and Garet set out on their worldwide pursuit after Saturos.