Cape Heladria
Cape Heladria is a headland on the northern sea coast of Eslura, facing the prison island of Morgaedion across the water.[1][2] It is lettered on the map of Eslura and listed in both novels' pronunciation guides, but the prose of the series names it exactly once, in Sacred 2: Flames of the Awakened.[1][3]
The cape
The map draws Cape Heladria as a rugged, boulder-strewn, forested headland jutting north-west into the sea, with the name lettered along the coastline. It sits north of the Meadow of Aezaros and north-west of Galecrest, and Morgaedion is drawn beyond it.[2]
No town, road or inhabitant is recorded on the cape. Nobody in the books is described as setting foot on it, and the one passage that names it looks down on it from a long way above.[1]
The crossing to Morgaedion
Piercio led Barnaby Britto and the rest of their party out of the core of Alakyer and onto a ledge at the summit overlooking the water at Cape Heladria, with Morgaedion waiting far on the other side.[1] Barnaby, who had never left the confines of a bookshop before this journey and had never thought himself afraid of heights, looked over the edge and found the top height of the floating city of Galecrest minuscule beside the drop. The climb down would have been long, and he reckoned that nobody who took that route would come out of it alive: the craggy drop, he thought, might as well have been "a staircase leading to an open grave".[1]
They went by air instead. The young dragon Egras ignored every command Barnaby could think of, then opened her wings without warning and leapt, dropping like a thrown stone before she caught the air and carried them out over the water and wide around the northern face of the island.[1]
Behind the scenes
The pronunciation guides at the back of both novels list Cape Heladria among the places and give it as Hel-aa-dree-uh.[3][4]
The two sources do not quite agree on what the name covers. The map letters it along a forested headland, while the prose sets it down as a label on a stretch of water seen from the summit of Alakyer and never describes the land itself. Book 1 carries both the map and the guide entry, but its prose never uses the name.[2][1]