The Imperial Warren

"Paran turned to see a curtain in the air open on the road, spilling dull yellow light...

...Within he could see a greyish pathway, humped on either sided by low mounded walls and vaulted overhead by impenetrable ochre-hued mist. The air swept past into the portal like a drawn breath, revealing the pathway to be of ash as invisible currents stirred and raised spinning dust-devils."

(GotM, UK mmpb p.39)

"The world they had entered was barren, deathly. The banked mounds lining the trail proved to be more ash. The air was gritty, tasting of metal.

'Welcome to the Imperial Warren,' Topper said, with a hint of mockery.

'Pleasant.'

'Carved by force out of...what was here before. Has such an effort ever been achieved before? Only the gods can say.'

They began walking.

'I take it then,' said Paran, 'that no god claims this Warren. By this, you cheat the tolls, the gatekeepers, the guardians on unseen bridges, and all the others said to dwell in the warrens in service to their immortal masters.'

Topper grunted. 'You imagine the warrens as crowded as that. Well, the beliefs of the ignorant are ever entertaining.'"

 (GotM, UK trade p.30, UK mmpb p.40)

"'...the Adjunct is now in Unta. We will use this Warren to cross the distance - three hundred leagues in only a few short hours.'"

- Topper to Paran (GotM, UK mmpb p.40)

"No shifting of light marked the passage of hours. A number of times they came upon places where the ash embankments had been disturbed, as if by the passage of somthing large, shambling; and wide, slithery trails led off into the gloom. In one such place they found a dark encrusted stain and the scatter of chain links like coins in the dust...

Hardly the secure road he'd have me believe. There're strangers here, and they're not friendly."

- thoughts of Paran (GotM, UK mmpb p.41)

'...knee-deep ash. Ash that was filled with charred bones...grey dust rose like smoke...Sky merged with land in a formless, colourless haze.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.472)

'(Kalam) had heard rumours that such a warren had been created...but the tales he'd picked up on Genabackis suggested that it was barely nascent, extending no more than a few hundred leagues -if leagues mean much here - in a ring around Unta. Instead, it reaches all the way into Seven Cities. And Genabackis? Why not?...'(DG, UK MMPB, p.472)

Features/Landmarks

'...a broad. raised disc of grey basalt.'(DG, UK MMPB, p.472)

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