A Geography Of Haarth: Wall Of Night
The A Geography of Haarth post series is exploring the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Each entry is accompanied by a quote from the books in which the place appears, currently either The Heir Of Night or The Gathering Of The Lost, or both.
Not only are we entering the final stage of our Haarth traverse today, by crossing onto the great plains of “W”—but the initial entry is the Wall of Night itself: how cool is that? (Very cool indeed, I think you’ll find.) 😉
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Wall of Night: the vast mountain range that protects the world of Haarth from the Swarm of Dark. Garrisoned by the Derai Alliance, the Wall is said to have been created by the House of Night and is also called the Shield-wall of Night.
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“The Derai are warlike and fierce,” one storyteller had said solemnly, while another recounted an even older story that claimed the Derai were not from Haarth at all, but had come from the stars long ago. They had, the teller said in hushed tones, built their great strongholds in a night and a day while the world still reeled from their coming. The plains had been riven with earthquake and fire, every river and lake had boiled—and when the cataclysm was over the vast and terrible Wall of Night marched along the northern boundary of the world.
~ from © The Heir Of Night, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 16 — Woman of Winter
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“The Darkswarm warrior, Jehane Mor reflected as they crept toward the skylight, had to be a danger given the powers she had seen his kind use on the Wall of Night, five years before. No obvious aura surrounded the one in the courtyard, but the ability to detect others’ powers often depended on familiarity with their weaves. And that could work either for or against her now, depending on how much the Swarm knew about Haarth magic.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 5 — The Guild House
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