The Virge

The Virge is a massive island located in the northwestern corner of the Dominion. It's located to the west of Genith and northwest of Dirthe. A strong current of waters separate the island from the other continents called the Shatter Line, and it borders the Smoking Sea.

Though it is roughly similar to Genith and Sepperlin in size, the Virge is officially considered an island. Otherwise, very little information about the Virge is known, beyond the fact that no one who ever ventures there ever returns. As a result, Genith and the Foundry have routinely used the Virge as a soft death sentence for prisoners, shipping them off to the island knowing full well it may end in their death. When the lords outlawed the masquerade, for example, a large number were sent to the Virge over time.

In Killerjoy
The Virge is only mentioned a handful of times in Killerjoy. During a conversation with Illum Nairo, Attle notes that the Virge is "hellish" when thinking about how the masques had been sent there for not giving up their secret identities to the Foundry. Nairo eventually reveals, however, that he had a hand in rescuing many of these masques by intercepting the ships carting them off to the Virge and bringing them to Dirthe.

During the summit in Xander, Epoch asks Gentina Mildren if they should send some of their captured masques to the Virge once the lords are done with them on Everess, implying the Foundry has to approve these operations through Genith. But Mildren, noting that the island must be at "full capacity by now," requests the masques be sent to her, instead.

Later in the story, when Master Wing confronts Exa and Mildren, he claims he had planned to send Exa to the Virge for her supposed crimes, but then decides to just kill her outright. After Exa escapes from the Whirle, she wonders if the Virge would make a suitable hiding place, but only if she's "desperate."