A Geography of Haarth: Black Tower
The A Geography of Haarth series features locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth.
This week the series continues with places that begin with the letter “B.”
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Black Tower: fortress and original ducal palace in Caer Argent, said to date back to the Old Empire; located in the Southern Realms of Haarth.
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‘“‘The island of Emer,’” Malian murmured, knowing that this foothold in the Argent had been the dukedom once, during the troubled centuries that followed the Cataclysm, when war had surged back and forward across what was now Emer. Control of the island with its command over the river and surrounding countryside had been one of the great prizes, but the Black Tower was an Old Empire structure and had never fallen… ’
~ from © The Gathering of the Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 35 — Caer Argent