{"id":24180,"date":"2014-01-31T06:30:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=24180"},"modified":"2014-01-26T17:01:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T04:01:34","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-new-keep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/a-geography-of-haarth-new-keep\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: New Keep"},"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. Each locale is accompanied by a quote from either <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\"><em>The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\"><em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The series has now passed the alphabetical halfway point, as it&#8217;s onwards into &#8220;N.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>New Keep:<\/strong>\u00a0 the &#8216;newer&#8217;, inhabited stronghold of the House of Night&#8217;s bastion, the Keep of Winds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;Malian laughed aloud, but sobered as they turned into the golden blaze of the New Keep.\u00a0 Darkness never fell in these corridors and halls where jewel-bright tapestries graced the walls and the floors were patterned with coloured tiles. Pages sped by on their innumerable errands while soldiers marched with measured tread and the vaulted ceilings echoed with all the commotion of a busy keep.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ <em>from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em><\/em>The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 1 \u2014 The Keep Of Winds<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;Garan, looking past her, saw the two young priests toward the rear of the company. They still wore the silver-gray robes of initiates, although with the black trim and winged-horse emblem that denoted those who kept the now five-year-old watch on the portals between the New Keep of Winds and the Old. Vern was studying the Stone priests, his expression serious, but Var smiled slightly when he caught Garan\u2019s eye.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/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 post series is traversing the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Each locale is accompanied by a quote from either The Heir Of Night, The Gathering Of The Lost, or both. 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