{"id":19817,"date":"2013-04-12T06:30:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=19817"},"modified":"2013-04-01T15:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T02:08:47","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-black-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/04\/12\/a-geography-of-haarth-black-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography of Haarth: Black Tower"},"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> world of Haarth.<\/p>\n<p>This week the series continues with places that begin with the letter \u201cB.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Black Tower:<\/strong> fortress and original ducal palace in Caer Argent, said to date back to the Old Empire; located in the Southern Realms of Haarth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>\u2018\u201c<\/em>\u2018The\u00a0 island of Emer,\u2019<em>\u201d Malian murmured, knowing that this foothold in the Argent had <\/em>been<em> the dukedom once, during the troubled centuries that followed the Cataclysm, when war had surged back and forward across what was now Emer. Control of the island with its command over the river and surrounding countryside had been one of the great prizes, but the Black Tower was an Old Empire structure and had never fallen&#8230; \u2019<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from <em>\u00a9 The Gathering of the Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 35\u00a0 \u2014 Caer Argent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A Geography of Haarth series features locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. This week the series continues with places that begin with the letter \u201cB.\u201d \u2014 Black Tower: fortress and original ducal palace in Caer Argent, said to date back to the Old Empire; located in the Southern Realms [&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-19817","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\/19817","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=19817"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19835,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19817\/revisions\/19835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}