Silbern

Silbern
Kanji	銀架城 (ジルバーン)
English	German for "Silver" Japanese for "Silver-Wrought Castle"
Location Statistics
Type	Palace Building
Located In	Wandenreich City/Royal Realm (formerly)
Controlled By	Yhwach (formerly)
Primary Function	Base of operations for the Wandenreich (formerly)
First Appearance
Manga	Chapter 484
Anime	Episode 367

Silbern (銀架城 (ジルバーン), Jirubān; German for "Silver", Japanese for "Silver-Wrought Castle"; Viz "Silver Cross Fortress") was a large, ice-encrusted palace that served as the base of the Lichtreich and later the Wandenreich during the Quincy Blood War.

Overview

The Sternritter and their subordinates reside in Silbern with their emperor, Yhwach. It is surrounded by a massive, similarly iced-up city comprised of seemingly abandoned buildings, which is approximately as large as the Seireitei.

Silbern itself is a wide, two-tiered building. The bottom tier is supported by six thick columns, while the upper tier is roughly half as wide and long, instead being held up by pillars; it also features windows consisting of two thin slats in the wall on either side. The ground below it has a set of stairs leading up to the lower tier, and the entire complex is surrounded by an angular barrier with octagonal joints. Silbern is framed by two gutted, curving, tusk-like structures arching toward each other in front of it, and is dwarfed by a large, rectangular tower with a cross on each side rising up behind it; during the war with the Gotei 13, Yhwach uses this tower as a platform to enter the Soul King Palace. The entire area is covered in varying amounts of ice, giving every surface a jagged look with dozens of stalagmites.

The rooms within Silbern vary drastically in size and purpose, ranging from spacious assembly halls to a medium-sized throne room where Yhwach operates as the emperor of the Wandenreich to personal and private rooms for the Sternritter themselves. A hall with a long, silver table that the Sternritter convene in is called Wörtlich Hall (聖章騎士 (ヴェルトリッヒ)公会堂, Verutorihhi Kōkaidō; German for "Literal Hall", Japanese for "Sacred Knight Order's Public Hall"). Sternritter Grandmaster Jugram Haschwalth's private quarters are located in the tower behind Silbern, while Yhwach resides within the lower tier of Silbern in a small room lit by torches and decorated with filigree, featuring only a small throne on a platform. There is a separate room in midair where Tier Harribel, the former ruler of Hueco Mundo, is imprisoned. During the second invasion of Soul Society, Yhwach oversaw the war from a large, open-air, torch-lit Throne Room (王座の間, Ouza no Kan) featuring the same throne, and slept in a barren, open-air room on a more ornate throne. These rooms are connected by wide hallways that are comprised of the pillars supporting the upper tier of Silbern on one side, allowing inhabitants to easily move between levels. Housed within Silbern are multiple ornate metal plates known as Gates of the Sun (太陽の門, Taiyō no Mon) that can be quickly moved between using Keys of the Sun (太陽の鍵, Taiyō no Kagi); one of these gates was used to invade Soul Society.

Silbern and the city surrounding it reside in a dimension within the Seireitei known as the Schatten Bereich (影の領域 (シャッテン・ベライヒ), Shatten Beraihi; German for "Shadow Realm", Japanese for "Shadow Area"; Viz "Shadow Area"), which the Quincy created after fleeing to Soul Society from the war with the Shinigami 1,000 years ago. This dimension cannot normally be seen or detected by the Shinigami, which is why the Quincy called their new army the "Invisible Empire." When leaving the Schatten Bereich, the Wandenreich does not need a method of bypassing the walls surrounding the Seireitei because they have always been inside the Seireitei; furthermore, the Wandenreich can decompose the Reishi particles that make up the Seireitei to reveal Silbern and its city. However, Yhwach cannot leave this area for more than a certain period of time before having to retreat.

Wahrwelt, the new palace Yhwach forms in the Royal Realm, featuring the Silbern building at the top.

During the second major battle of the Quincy Blood War, Yhwach replaced the Seireitei with Silbern and the Wandenreich city in order to bypass the time constraint that ended the previous conflict and negate any traps that the Shinigami had prepared. After absorbing the Soul King, Yhwach brought Silbern and entire Wandenreich city to the Soul King Palace and drastically altered its appearance. Yhwach named this new stronghold Wahrwelt (真世界城 (ヴァールヴェルト), Vāruveruto; German for "True World", Japanese for "True World Castle"; Viz "Castle of True World") because it would be the cornerstone of his new world. Having made a new, larger throne room within the relocated Silbern, Yhwach created large stone guardians lining the hallways to stop intruders. During Ichigo Kurosaki's decisive battle with Yhwach, Silbern was largely destroyed by Ichigo unleashing the Reiatsu of his Merged Hollow Form.

Silbern Locations

Illustrated Guide to Silbern
Tower behind Silbern	The Wandenreich City	Silbern as part of Wahrwelt	The Wandenreich City transformed into Wahrwelt
Silbern and the city surrounding it in their various forms.
The stairs leading to Harribel's prison	Harribel's prison	Silbern's assembly hall	One of the spacious hallways within Silbern
Yhwach's open-air Throne Room	The Wörtlich Hall	A Gate of the Sun	The guardian statues within Silbern
The interior of Silbern.
Yhwach's throne room	Yhwach's Throne	The entrance to Yhwach's throne room	Yhwach's revamped throne room
Yhwach's throne and throne rooms.
Bambietta's private quarters	Haschwalth's private quarters	Yhwach's private quarters	Yhwach's open-air quarters
The private quarters of the Wandenreich members.