{"id":26376,"date":"2014-08-08T06:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=26376"},"modified":"2014-07-15T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T03:56:12","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-the-leas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/08\/08\/a-geography-of-haarth-the-leas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: The Leas"},"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\/\" target=\"_blank\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a> post series is exploring the full range of locales and places from <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall of Night<\/a> world of Haarth. Each entry is accompanied by a quote from the books in which the place appears, currently either <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>, or both.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we\u2019re still deep in the terrain of \u201cT.\u201d \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>The Leas:<\/strong>\u00a0 a meadow area on Emer\u2019s nothern march and the site of a former village<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>&#8220;The skylark was singing again when they left The Leas. Or perhaps, thought Carick, it was another bird pouring its song into the morning, unperturbed by battle and death. Mist still feathered the meadow and it was hard to believe that barely an hour had passed since the sun rose. And harder still to accept that young men who had been alive and eager in the gray predawn&#8230;were now corpses trussed across a horse&#8217;s back. They were leaving horses behind as well, some slain in the battle and others put down afterward.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~\u00a0 from <em><em>\u00a9 <\/em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 21 \u2014 The Old Road<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The A Geography of Haarth post series is exploring the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night world of Haarth. Each entry is accompanied by a quote from the books in which the place appears, currently either The Heir Of Night or The Gathering Of The Lost, or both. This week, [&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-26376","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\/26376","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=26376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26383,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26376\/revisions\/26383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}