{"id":36457,"date":"2019-02-21T06:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36457"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T02:28:13","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-ships-prow-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/02\/21\/a-geography-of-haarth-ships-prow-house\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: Ship&#8217;s Prow House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1777\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1777\" class=\"wp-image-1777 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/wallofnight_map_small-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Heir Of Night&#8221; map: artist, Peter Fitzpatrick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/category\/a-geography-of-haarth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Geography of Haarth<\/a>\u00a0post series is designed to traverse the full range of gazetted locales and places from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/wallofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Of Night<\/a>\u00a0world of Haarth.<\/p>\n<p>From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/heirofnight.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/gatheringofthelost.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now the series has resumed to traverse the geography of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(The Wall Of Night Book Three.)\u00a0 The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new listings.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s entry is a new listing, i.e. <em>Daughter of Blood<\/em> specific. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29736\" style=\"width: 161px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\" wp-image-29736\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"daughter-of-blood-by-helen-lowe\" width=\"151\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover-93x150.jpg 93w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Daughter-of-Blood_Front-Cover.jpg 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">USA<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Ship&#8217;s Prow House:<\/strong> a private residence in the Southern Realms&#8217; town of Grayharbor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>The ship\u2019s figurehead that gave their destination its name was set over the door of the largest house in the square. It always made Faro shiver, because rather than being the depiction of a heroine or hero out of story, it was a fierce-eyed mer-horse with a long horn spiraling from its forehead and ears pressed flat to its skull so it looked at least half serpent. The colors of the savage head and horn, and the scaled body, must have been brilliant once\u2014gilt and scarlet and deeps-of-the-sea green\u2014but now had grown faded as the flaking paint on all the house\u2019s woodwork. The door was banded in iron, and despite the heavy hand on his shoulder Faro still took in that both the hinges and lock looked new.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29607\" style=\"width: 162px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\" wp-image-29607\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-190x300.png 190w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-95x150.png 95w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe-650x1024.png 650w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Daughter-of-Blood-by-Helen-Lowe.png 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29607\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UK\/AU\/NZ<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><em>The hasps on the shutters, too, he noted, squinting up\u2014and saw that some wag, a \u2019prentice lad most likely, had left a worn chisel blade stuck into the figurehead\u2019s spiraled horn.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>~ from\u00a0<em>\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 2 \u2014 The Serpent Prince<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0A Geography of Haarth\u00a0post series is designed to traverse the full range of gazetted locales and places from\u00a0The Wall Of Night\u00a0world of Haarth. From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in\u00a0The Heir Of Night\u00a0and\u00a0The Gathering Of The Lost. 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