A Geography of Haarth: New Keep (Updated)
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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New Keep: the ‘newer’, inhabited stronghold of the House of Night’s bastion, the Keep of Winds
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“Malian laughed aloud, but sobered as they turned into the golden blaze of the New Keep. Darkness never fell in these corridors and halls where jewel-bright tapestries graced the walls and the floors were patterned with coloured tiles. Pages sped by on their innumerable errands while soldiers marched with measured tread and the vaulted ceilings echoed with all the commotion of a busy keep.”
~ from © The Heir Of Night, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 1 — The Keep Of Winds
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“Garan, looking past her, saw the two young priests toward the rear of the company. They still wore the silver-gray robes of initiates, although with the black trim and winged-horse emblem that denoted those who kept the now five-year-old watch on the portals between the New Keep of Winds and the Old. Vern was studying the Stone priests, his expression serious, but Var smiled slightly when he caught Garan’s eye.”
~ from © The Gathering Of The Lost, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 28 — Border Crossing
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An opener of ways: the epithet became a weight as Garan remembered that Malian of Night’s power was believed to have come from her mother, Lady Nerion. And someone had known how to get into the Old Keep and bring down the New Keep’s defensive wards. Garan gritted his teeth, remembering Night’s tally of dead and injured from the Swarm attack and its aftermath. He wondered, too, if the reason Nhairin was keeping her face so resolutely averted was because one must never meet a demon’s gaze—or the eyes of one who had fallen beneath a demon’s sway.
~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 39 — Traitor