{"id":24125,"date":"2014-01-24T06:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24125"},"modified":"2014-01-18T17:45:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T04:45:15","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-minstrels-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/24\/a-geography-of-haarth-minstrels-island\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: Minstrels&#8217; Island"},"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.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, we&#8217;re in &#8220;M.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Minstrels&#8217; Island:<\/strong>\u00a0 one of the central islands forming the city if Ij; home to the College of Minstrels<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;it was mid-afternoon before they turned toward Minstrel&#8217;s Island and the Inn of the Golden Lute.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>The inn was located close to the great, golden dome of the College and was a substantial, three-storey affair, with the upper levels built around three sides of a large courtyard. Timber balconies overlooked the central area and the heralds&#8217; boots thudded on the stairs as a servant led them to the topmost gallery. The afternoon air was heady with the scent of jasmine growing along the balustrade and a College bell rang out the hour.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 2 \u2014 A Libation For Seruth<\/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. Right now, we&#8217;re in &#8220;M.&#8221; &#8212; Minstrels&#8217; Island:\u00a0 one of the central islands forming the city if Ij; home to the College of Minstrels . &#8220;&#8230;it was mid-afternoon before they turned [&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-24125","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\/24125","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=24125"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24136,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24125\/revisions\/24136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}