{"id":27228,"date":"2014-11-07T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=27228"},"modified":"2014-11-02T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T08:46:23","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-winter-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/11\/07\/a-geography-of-haarth-winter-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: Winter Country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Wall of Night Series map; design by Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n

The A Geography of Haarth<\/a> post series has been exploring the full range of locales and places from The Wall of Night<\/a> world of Haarth. In the series, each entry is accompanied by a quote from the books in which the place appears, currently either The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a> or The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>, or both.<\/p>\n

Today, with the Winter Country, we have reached our penultimate stopping place for the great Haarth traverse. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Winter Country:<\/strong>\u00a0 vast steppes in the north of Haarth, inhabited by the Winter People<\/span><\/p>\n

“He still shivered, remembering how the wind had raged, hurling snow and ice across the land and driving his party before it, further and further from the Wall until they came to the boundaries of the Winter Country. Many perished before they got there and the Earl knew that all would have died if the Winter people had not taken them in.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 <\/em><\/em>The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 15 \u2014 The Darkness of the Derai
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“The dream was thinning, Malian thought, the Keep of Winds and the Derai world withdrawing into the whiteness. She could hear the bluster of the wind over the Winter Country and smell the smoky interior of a Winter lodge. Yet still she lingered, unwilling to cross back.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~\u00a0 from \u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Prologue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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