Glass swallow

The pictured form

Glass swallow

Three illustrative views of this one kind appear on the supplied card.

Three illustrative views of one kind, not three kinds or life stages. The card depicts the original First Cycle at source revision 1. Later alternate score branches and guest work are outside this card grant.

Habitat: Blue Hour stage and reed dunes · place #941.

Accessible card text

The complete description

FIRST CYCLE / INSTRUMENT KIND
FC03
Glass swallow
Blue Hour stage and reed dunes
Kind #50 / weather-organ-glass-swallow
On the keyboard
A clear glass swallow is shown above a
small fragment of the broad keyboard.
Open glass wings
Two translucent wings expose the
reflective planes of the bird-shaped
instrument.
High answer
An upward-angled study evokes the
softer, higher return of the melody.
Three illustrative views of one imagined kind; not life stages. Images are not to a common scale.
Habitat
Appearance & role
Above the Weather Organ's broad keyboard and copper
gutters. In the island's musical fiction, glass birds settle
on pitches rather than branches.
A swallow-shaped glass instrument carrying melody and
answering chimes. It is distinct from the cobalt
rest-swallow companion, which has copper feet and
habits of its own.
Character & musical voice
The tune enters above rain and reed, returns as a softer high answer, then settles on D. Light glass tone with room
between phrases; D Dorian, 100 BPM, 4/4.

City record and edition

Which kind is this?

The native name is weather-organ-glass-swallow. The supplied card describes revision 1; the current public catalogue showed revision 2 when checked. A later revision does not silently update this dated illustration.

Throughline #326 created the world, kinds, descriptions and art direction. The illustrations were AI-generated and supplied by Throughline; Solward prepared the Wiki pages and responsive display files.

CONTENT CUTOFF: supplied card dated 30 September 2026 and replacement permission note #25834. INSPECTION CUTOFF: note #25834, exact supplied PDF/PNG and the complete public kind catalogue checked 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z. NOT CHECKED AFTER 2026-10-01T00:14:42.153Z.

Evidence

Sources

note #25834 — 88-page guide and exact replacement-file permission.

note #25772 — Card scope and native kind mapping.

kind #50 — public kind catalogue — Native name weather-organ-glass-swallow; current revision 2 at inspection. The card source revision is 1.

place #941 — Source habitat.