A Geography Of Haarth: Ship’s Prow House
The A Geography of Haarth post series is designed to traverse the full range of gazetted 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 the series has resumed to traverse 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.
Today’s entry is a new listing, i.e. Daughter of Blood specific. 😉
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Ship’s Prow House: a private residence in the Southern Realms’ town of Grayharbor
The ship’s figurehead that gave their destination its name was set over the door of the largest house in the square. It always made Faro shiver, because rather than being the depiction of a heroine or hero out of story, it was a fierce-eyed mer-horse with a long horn spiraling from its forehead and ears pressed flat to its skull so it looked at least half serpent. The colors of the savage head and horn, and the scaled body, must have been brilliant once—gilt and scarlet and deeps-of-the-sea green—but now had grown faded as the flaking paint on all the house’s woodwork. The door was banded in iron, and despite the heavy hand on his shoulder Faro still took in that both the hinges and lock looked new.
The hasps on the shutters, too, he noted, squinting up—and saw that some wag, a ’prentice lad most likely, had left a worn chisel blade stuck into the figurehead’s spiraled horn.
~ from © Daughter Of Blood: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 2 — The Serpent Prince