{"id":19650,"date":"2013-03-29T06:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T17:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19650"},"modified":"2013-04-01T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:24:25","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-the-barren-hills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/03\/29\/a-geography-of-haarth-the-barren-hills\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography of Haarth: The Barren Hills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3149\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/01\/16\/sir-julius-vogel-award-nominations-best-artwork\/wallofnight_map_small-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3149\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3149\" title=\"wallofnight_map_small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/wallofnight_map_small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/a-geography-of-haarth\/\"><strong>A Geography of Haarth<\/strong><\/a> series features locales and places from <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night<\/a> series\u2019 world of Haarth.<\/p>\n<p>This week we&#8217;re starting on places in the world that begin with the letter &#8220;B.&#8221; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Barren Hills:\u00a0<\/strong> uninhabited hills to the south of the Border Mark.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;Malian&#8217;s dark, slender brows were drawn together, the set of her young mouth thoughtful as she spun the table surface slowly round, so that the Wall and surrounding Gray Lands gave way to the Barren Hills, then to the River and all the countries to the south.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em>The Heir Of Night<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book One; Chapter 17 \u2014 Eye of the Storm<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0&#8220;\u201cJust what we need,\u201d said Garan. \u201cA coterie of Stone priests.\u201d He had led his company out of the Barren Hills just on dusk, intending to camp overnight by the Border Mark, only to find another group of travelers already settled in by the standing stone.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9\u00a0 <\/em>The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 28 \u2014 Border Crossing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A Geography of Haarth series features locales and places from The Wall of Night series\u2019 world of Haarth. This week we&#8217;re starting on places in the world that begin with the letter &#8220;B.&#8221; \ud83d\ude09 &#8212; Barren Hills:\u00a0 uninhabited hills to the south of the Border Mark. . &#8220;Malian&#8217;s dark, slender brows were drawn together, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-geography-of-haarth","category-about-my-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19650"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19848,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19650\/revisions\/19848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}