Chapter 11 - The Southern Coast

descended upon them as one of the "thunder waves" of Southpoint crashes onto the shore of that tropical village

a small parcel of land from the estate of Baron Halfwing, which ... was situated in the lowlands some eighty leagues west of [Adrilankha] and along the coast.

[Kana's army] moved only small units until they reached somewhere near Hartre, and then marched just inland from the coast, following it ... Have you a map of Adrilankha ... I should cover these three roads, each with a division stationed a quarter mile outside of the city, so that, in case the line is broken, we can retreat into the city, and there defend it ... a fifth division will guard the harbor, in case they attempt to land boats.

The three roads that Sethra considered the most likely to face attack were the Old West Road (also called the Hartre Pike), Lower Kieron Road, and the Northgate Ferry Way ... the Fortress Inn on the Old West Road

Some five miles west of the city on Lower Kieron Road, there is a place called Barlen’s Pavilion, where the road was widened to permit carriages to turn around and where, moreover, there is a park, with, as the name implies, a pavilion over a portion of it.

walking through the Generous Wood near the ruins of Barlen's Pavilion on the west side of the city

the forests northwest of Adrilankha.

It is well known among those who live to the north of the city of Adrilankha that as the great river makes its penultimate southward turn it creates pools, bars, eddies, and shoals. [Vlad] was seen first by a Teckla who was driving an oxcart toward Favintoe Market. [From there] About two miles farther along, the road split, one side going directly to the market, the other leading toward the town of Junglebrook. This latter road, some distance before reaching the village we have just had the honor to mention, passed before a small travelers' rest where, more often than not, could be found whichever pair of Phoenix Guards was, on this day, responsible for this region [who retrieve Vlad and take him back to headquarters which is] on Old Quarry Road, not far from the market that had been Dyfon’s original destination, was the North Central Guard Station, a two-story building of baked brick painted a particularly hideous shade of orange. It was to this station that our Dragonlords referred when they spoke of headquarters, and it was, therefore, to this station that the Easterner was accordingly brought ... less than half an hour later [the messenger] reached the Offices of the Captain of the Phoenix Guard in the Dragon Wing of the Palace.

Khaavren [mounted and rode] northward. After an hour of riding, he found the place where the Easterner had washed up ... He decided ... it was more likely that the Easterner had entered the river on this, the west bank (which was, in point of fact, south), than that he had survived crossing the entire river. This was fortunate, as it would have been an hour's ride to the nearest bridge, and there was neither horse nor man ever born who could cross the river this close to its mouth.

[Vlad, describing how he came to be found by the Teckla] I was walking north along the riverbank ... some nine or ten miles north of Profimyn ... that puts you nearly twenty miles from where you were found [presumably south, the direction the river flows] ...