Chapter 29 - Miscellaneous Locations

the village of Nacine, on the Hightower Brook

Lord Drien was known to have favored extravagant plans of all sorts, and was better than usual in carrying them out. In this case, his idea was for a series of towers, anchored in [Nacine] to serve as a center of communication between the coast to the south, the Shallow Sea to the east, the Adrilankha River to the west, and Dzur Mountain to the north ... The Vallista, however, had barely begun their work when Dzur Mountain, some seventy or eighty miles north, had unexpectedly erupted, either because of the arcane activities of the Enchantress or in spite of them. The eruption had resulted in a remarkable flow of lava, which, in turn, resulted in the [Hightower Brook] becoming blocked to such an extent that it was no longer suitable for navigation

The distance from [the future home of Castle Black] to Dzur Mountain was not long--only some forty or forty-five miles ... the battlefield was some forty or forty-five miles south of [Dzur Mountain], fought in the most part along a small stream called Lostoar Brook, which ran generally east to west near to the southern border of the Southmoor County ... the stream was creeping generally southward [into the county of Iadim]

[Tsira] lives not far from a village called Six Horses, on the northern slopes of South Mountain.

take the road to the west [from Six Horses], in half a league, you will come to an elbow. Continue there as if there were no bend, and you will find a small path. When you reach a stream, follow it to the left for two leagues, and you will come to a cottage built into the side of the mountain [Tsira's home] ... they mounted their horses and, following the directions... found themselves, two hours later, looking at a small cottage next to a brook and surrounded by siju trees.

we turn our attention to Northport, and then still further north, into the area known as the Fingers ... Among the Fingers, roughly halfway between Tree-By-The-Sea and the Narrows, is a principality with the fanciful name Mermaid Cove, the traditional home of the Tiassa Heir. It is a region protected from the worst of the storms by tall, grass-covered hills full of goats and squirrels, an area with thick forests, orchards of fruit trees ... Fresh water is found in abundance, both from springs and from the various streams flowing down from the Knuckle Mountains further north, and even from two respectable lakes, one called Rice Lake, named for that oddest of grains known as northrice that grows naturally around it (in addition to various sorts of mushroom), and further inland, Duckling Lake, which was near soybean and scorchroot fields. The chief town was known as Icolev, and was one of the larger cities ... in the sparsely settled north, boasting some six thousand residents, and also something of a trading center.