A Geography Of Haarth: Ijir (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 has returned 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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Ijir: the main river of the lands known as the River
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“A sinuous vein of gold marked the River, the mighty Ijir with its two great tributaries and multitude of prosperous city states, all built on the back of the river trade. Each city was picked out in a minute precision of turrets or minarets or spires, depending on its character, and in whatever heraldic colors had belonged to it when the table was made.”
~ from © The Heir Of Night: The Wall of Night Book One; Chapter 17 — Eye of the Storm
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“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
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“The dawn wind stirred outside, cool as doubt, and she followed it with her farseeing: past the tramp of feet and ring of arms as the watch changed, out beyond the mingled scents of woodsmoke and breakfasts cooking to reach the nearby Telimbras, pouring out of the north to join the Ijir.”
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~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 38 — Dawn Wind