A Geography Of Haarth: Gray Lands (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 comprises updates of previous entries as well as new listings.
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Gray Lands: the desolate plains that adjoin the Wall of Night
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The wind was blowing again, no longer a full Wall storm but driving in gusts, bringing dust and grit from the jagged peaks that towered above the Gray Lands. It blew under the bivouac where the small band of fugitives lay hidden and shrilled around its perimeter.
~ The Heir Of Night: The Wall of Night Book One; Chapter 25 — The River Of No Return
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She turned away, but another voice spoke out of the heart of the cairn, ominous as distant thunder: “There is always a price … And now Winter’s heart lies buried in these gray lands, Winter’s blood soaked into barren ground.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 32 — Cockcrow
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…[she] feared hunger and cold might prevent sleep, but was just nodding off when the wolf howled.
The sound jerked her upright, her heart pounding wildly for the second time that day. A wolf here, in the Gray Lands, she thought, shocked because Haarth’s larger predators, like their prey, rarely ventured so close to the Wall. She lay awake for a long time, tense with listening, but heard nothing more—although when sleep finally claimed her, a fiery-eyed wolf stalked through her dreams.
~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 12 — The Lonely Grave