{"id":36496,"date":"2019-03-28T06:25:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=36496"},"modified":"2019-03-20T21:37:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T08:37:30","slug":"a-geography-of-haarth-southern-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2019\/03\/28\/a-geography-of-haarth-southern-deserts\/","title":{"rendered":"A Geography Of Haarth: Southern Deserts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in\u00a0The Heir Of Night<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Gathering\u00a0<\/em><\/a>Of The Lost<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Now the series has resumed to traverse the geography of\u00a0Daughter Of Blood<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(The Wall Of Night Book Three.)<\/p>\n

The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new listings.<\/p>\n

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Southern Deserts:\u00a0<\/strong> a vast desert region lying to the south of the empire of Ishnapur, itself the southernmost of the Southern Realms of Haarth
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“And after that? Malian wondered. But she said nothing, just slipped off the bed and walked over to look at the map, turning the tabletop beneath her hand.\u00a0 She murmured the names under her breath: Ij, Terebanth, the Winter Country; Emer, Jhaine, and Ishnapur.\u00a0 “After Ishnapur, what?” she asked Haimyr.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

“The great southern deserts,” he replied, in his lazy way, “the sea of sands, perhaps even the very end of the world.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Heir Of Night<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book One: Chapter 23 \u2014 Throw Of The Dice<\/p>\n

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\u201cOn the River,\u201d she said, \u201cpoison is widely used by assassins sworn to the Ijiri School. So detecting their use is taught as well, and was part of my study\u2014and the wine in the cup was heavily spiced, a favorite disguise of River poisoners.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIs that who you suspect here?\u201d Lady Bonamark asked. \u201cRiver assassins?\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Malian shook her head. \u201cIt\u2019s not a River poison. It was only the heavy spice that alerted me. From my brief study of the cup I would<\/em><\/span>
\nguess Ishnapuri\u2014or possibly something originating from the great southern deserts. But I will have to test it to be sure.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from \u00a9 The Gathering Of The Lost<\/em>, The Wall of Night Book Two: Chapter 31 \u2014 Tenneward Lodge
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\u201cEmuun must have shown them a way of extending their reach, because until now both the djinn and their lesser servants have been bound to the southern deserts.\u201d <\/em><\/span>Raven paused. \u201cHis immunity comes from his Fire mother, the facestealing from his Sun father, but he knows the runes as well as Arcolin or Thanir, and is adept at using them to <\/em><\/span>glean others\u2019 magic for his own ends.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

~ from\u00a0\u00a9 Daughter Of Blood<\/em>: The Wall of Night Book Three, Chapter 37 \u2014 High Stakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From January 25, 2013 to November 25, 2014, the series explored locations encountered in\u00a0The Heir Of Night\u00a0and\u00a0The Gathering\u00a0Of The Lost. Now the series has resumed to traverse the geography of\u00a0Daughter Of Blood\u00a0(The Wall Of Night Book Three.) The new series comprises updates of previous entries as well as new listings. — Southern Deserts:\u00a0 a vast […]<\/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-36496","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\/36496","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=36496"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36511,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36496\/revisions\/36511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}