What land is this
that lies on the shore of a western sea?*

Some of its history and culture come to light in Long Night Dance, Dark Heart, Listening at the Gate, and Roadsouls

A land of mountains and deserts, rivers and creeks, villages and mill-towns. Thanks largely to the work of Nondany of Tanshari, the nearsighted song-collector of Listening at the Gate, we know a little about this territory’s vivid and restless peoples, their beliefs and curiosities and wars and loves. And about the Gate, whose presence is felt throughout their lives and beliefs.

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