A Geography Of Haarth: Haarth

The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick

The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Today sees the first entry for “H”—which turns out to be Haarth itself! 😉

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Haarth: The Derai name for the world in which The Wall Of Night series takes place.

“…another recounted an even older story that claimed the Derai were not from Haarth at all, but had come from the stars long ago. They had, the teller said in hushed tones, built their great strongholds in a night and a day while the world still reeled from their coming. The plains had been riven with earthquake and fire, every river and lake had boiled—and when the cataclysm was over the vast and terrible Wall of Night marched along the northern boundary of the world. “

~ The Heir Of Night: The Wall of Night Book One; Chapter 16 — Woman Of Winter

“As her fingers worked the pattern, her mind recalled every detail of the entity that had tried to lure her to her death during the dark of the moon, on a mountain ridge between the Rindle and The Leas. That night had been dedicated to Kan, but she had walked in the Shadow Band’s temple and knew that the entity she had encountered was not the god. Yet it was a power nonetheless, part of the ancient, forgotten legacy of Haarth.”