A Geography Of Haarth: Aralorn (Updated)
The A Geography of Haarth post series explores the full range of locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the posts traversed locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now the series returns to gazette the geography of Daughter Of Blood (The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series will include updates of previous entries as well as new listings. Today’s entry is an update.
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Aralorn: a land south of The River, one of the Southern Realms of Haarth.”
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“Aralorn, thought Carick, frowning over his mental map, was to the south and east of Emer, a land of sheep, chestnut woods, and quiet hills.”
~ from The Gathering of the Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 11 — The Wolfpack
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“Farmsteads gave way to shepherd’s cots, and fields to flocks dotted across the otherwise empty hills. A waist-high stone, sitting crookedly on the crest of a pass, marked the border into southern Aralorn. She camped that night beneath a spreading oak and studied the Aralorn sky, with constellations she had never seen before rising above the southern horizon.”
~ from The Gathering of the Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 53 — The Solitary Tower
“If she closed her eyes, Malian knew she would find the memory of the solitary tower in Aralorn, with the Ara-fyr, who had once been the Derai Lost, ranged against her. Despite the tavern’s close-packed warmth, she shivered…”
~ from Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three; Chapter 14 — Crow
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