A Geography Of Haarth: River
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, the series continues its focus on locales beginning with “R.”
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River: the lands along the Ijir river system, mainly comprising city states such as Ij, Terebanth, and Ar. Also known as the River lands.
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” He, at least, seemed prepared for trouble, with the multiple braids of his hair clubbed into a knot and a pair of short, curved swords strapped to his back. Asantir’s brows had risen again when she saw them, for swallow-tail swords were a weapon of Ishnapur. “And Jhaine,” Tarathan had answered, when she said as much, “but they are popular now in the cities of the River.”
~ from © The Heir Of Night, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 10 — In The Old Keep
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“Spring came to the River in a flurry of blustering winds and driving rain that turned the local roads into quagmires and hurled the first fragile blossoms to the ground. Two heralds were blown out of the city of Terebanth with the weather and turned east toward Ij, following the great Main Road that had endured since the days of the Old Empire. At any other season a river passage would have been faster, but the combination of contrary winds and spring floods, fed by snowmelt in the headwaters of the Ijir and the Wildenrush, would keep the merchant galleys in port for at least another month.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 1 — The Road To Ij