A Geography of Haarth: (The) Little Pass
The A Geography of Haarth post series traverses the full range of locales and places from The Wall Of Night world of Haarth.
From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in The Heir Of Night and The Gathering Of The Lost.
Now it’s 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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Little Pass: a secondary pass into the southern realm of Emer, crossing from the trading town of Aeris, to the north.
“The Lost are another reason behind my journey here,” she told Kalan. “At the end of last summer, the Band received a report of strange doings in Aeris. Lightning and thunder out of a clear sky one day; on the next a stone barn caught fire and couldn’t be put out. I investigated and the Lost weren’t there—but they had been.” She watched his eyes widen.
“The Little Pass from Aeris to Emer,” he said. “They must be using that. It’s hardly more than a goat track, but passable in summer. And once in the wilds of Northern Emer they could go anywhere if they had the right guides.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 27— Rumor and Doubt
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The dust motes swirled, the day’s dirt and sweat and fading warmth mingling with the scent of the pines. Malian adjusted her head-wrapping against both breeze and grit, then stretched, feeling every mile of the day’s painstaking journey out of the Little Pass’s rough terrain. Turning away from the parapet, she looked down onto the Aeris caravan hostelry, which occupied a whole town block facing the wall.
~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 14 — Crow