{"id":22711,"date":"2013-10-11T06:30:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T17:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=22711"},"modified":"2013-10-07T21:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T08:45:03","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-ijir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/10\/11\/a-geography-of-haarth-ijir\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography of Haarth: Ijir"},"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\/\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a> post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\">The Wall of Night<\/a> world of Haarth. This week we continue with &#8220;I.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Ijir:<\/strong> \u00a0 the main river of the lands known as the River<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #000080;\">&#8220;A sinuous vein of gold marked the River, the mighty Ijir with its two great tributaries and multitude of prosperous city states, all built on the back of the river trade.\u00a0 Each city was picked out in a minute precision of turrets or minarets or spires, depending on its character, and in whatever heraldic colors had belonged to it when the table was made. &#8220;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ <em>from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em><\/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;\">&#8220;At any other season a river passage would have been faster, but the combination of contrary winds and spring floods, fed by snowmelt in the headwaters of the Ijir and the Wildenrush, would keep the merchant galleys in port for at least another month.&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Two; Chapter 1 \u2014 The Road To Ij<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A Geography of Haarth post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. This week we continue with &#8220;I.&#8221; &#8212; Ijir: \u00a0 the main river of the lands known as the River . &#8220;A sinuous vein of gold marked the River, the mighty Ijir [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-geography-of-haarth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711","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=22711"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22719,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22711\/revisions\/22719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}