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Post by Seek on Apr 3, 2015 3:50:40 GMT 10
Series: A Pale View of Hills Title: Fiction Rating: G Event: 100 Word Sprint Competition: Decathlon Words: 100 words Summary: The hill country is a convenient fiction.
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The hill country is a fiction; a convenient lie of geography for the Tortallan cartographers and their maps. Hurdik has words for the land but not for the country—there is no nation, no country, they are one people only because whatever they are, they are not Tortallan.
Asif is the first person who doesn’t ask about his countrymen, of the men of far-flung clans who surreptiously enter Corus to trade, the dust of the hills fresh on their boots, worked-leather signs to ward off evil braided into their belts.
They speak, instead, of distant desert and hills; of home.
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housewife
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Post by housewife on Apr 3, 2015 22:08:20 GMT 10
I'm really enjoying this series so far, partially because I've just reread Terrier and Bloodhound and am thus super keen for more Mattes (and mostly really because your writing is awesome). But I am also loving your world-building on hill country. I love that PD alludes to the pre-Tortall-expansion countries like Barzun and others, but I wish they were built on a little more.
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Post by max on Apr 6, 2015 11:50:42 GMT 10
That second sentence stole my heart.
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Griff
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Post by Griff on Apr 7, 2015 6:39:56 GMT 10
This perspective is particularly interesting since the description more or less stays true all the way through to Alanna's time.
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Post by Seek on Apr 7, 2015 21:29:11 GMT 10
Thanks guys! Worldbuilding is fun, I find. All the untapped potential!
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