A Geography Of Haarth: Old Empire
The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Each locale is accompanied by a quote from either The Heir Of Night, The Gathering Of The Lost, or both.
This week we enter the marvelous realms of “O.”
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Old Empire: the empire said to have existed prior to the Derai arrival on Haarth and to have stretched from the hills of Jaransor in the north to the desert borders of Ishnapur in the south.
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“The Guild emerged out of the ruins of the Old Empire, when its last vestiges were swept away in fire and fear. But there were still some who sought to hold to their posts, to wrest some form of sanity out of the chaos of those times, which we now call the Anarchy…”
~ from © The Heir Of Night, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 7 — The Tower of the Rose
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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, in part because of foundations dug too deep into rock to be undermined”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 35 — Caer Argent