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- Altaran women have the reputation of being fierce. (VI: 168)
- stab my liver (VI: 602)
- Lean back on your knife and let your tongue go free. (Take your
ease and speak your mind. The only way to insult someone who says that is to lie.)
(VI: 602)
- The Light's blessing on all here. (benison) (VI: 641)
Banner: two golden leopards on a field checked four-by-four in red and blue.
- Illian occasionally considers invading Altara.
(V: 17)
- Altarans give their allegiance to a lord/lady,
then their local town, there is very little patriotism left over for the
nation as a whole. (VI: 168)
- few nobles heed the ruler, or pay their taxes.
(VI: 168)
- Altarans are in the middle in attitude towards
Aes Sedai. (VI: 514)
- most Altaran rulers have Aes Sedai councilors. (VI: 602)
- the Ebou Dari are rumored to gamble on horse
races. Both men and women will fight duels over the other, the prize
willingly going with the winner. During weddings, the groom gives the bride
a knife and asks her to kill him if he ever displeases her. A woman killing
a man is assumed to be justified unless it is proven otherwise. (VI: 591)
- nobles are dressed by their servants. (VI: 597)
- the Altaran ruler realizes that Altara is a lesser power. (VI: 602)
- the Children of the Light are not especially popular in Altara? (VI: 602)
- Altaran and Murandian successions are never sure or secure, as the noble
Houses are always squabbling and taking power for themselves.
Assassination is not uncommon. (VI: 604)
- servants are summoned with small silver gongs. (VI: 604)
- people are very polite in Ebou Dar. (VI: 641)
- few would challenge a lord except another lord, but despite that, Mat gets
challenged three times in as many days. (VI: 641)
- widows who don't wish to remarry are less likely
to be challenged than married women, who are less likely to be challenged
than unmarried women. Aged grandmothers are the least likely to be
challenged, but they might challenge you. (VI: 644)
- intruding in some place where you don't belong is liable to provoke a
duel, as is excessive curiosity and questions. (VI: 644)
- Ebou Dari raise hands with palms facing towards another to indicate they
don't wish to get involved in violence. (VI: 644)
- men fight men and women fight women. (VI: 646)
- world-renowned lacquer work is made in Altara.
(V: 16)
- herb healers are accepted in Altara. (VI: 645)
- Wisdoms are called Wise Women in Altara. (VI: 696)
- Ebou Dari Wise Women know a lot about herbs and healing because of all the
wounds from the constant duels they have to treat. (VI: 244)
- bamboo? (VI: 602)
- boys ride the race horses in Altara. (VI: 641)
- plum brandy (VI: 594)
- mint and cloudberry tea, served cold (VI: 598)
- spicy cake (III: 381)
- Altarans have a medium skin tone. (VI: 645)
- most Altarans are of average height. (VI: 643)
- there are dark eyes in Altara. (III: 488)
- hazel eyes are not native to Ebou Dari. (VI: 596)
- most have dark hair and nearly black eyes. (VI: 600)
Men
Women
- most women wear their hair to their
shoulders, or shorter. (VI: 643)
- all women, and most men, wear large hoop
earrings, and rings set with colored glass. Both genders wear long,
curved knives at their belts. (VI: 592)
- the clothing of commoners is made from wool rather than silk, though
it is still embroidered on the sleeves and around the neck. Commoners
wear as much jewelry, but theirs is from cheaper metals and set with
colored glass rather than gemstones. (VI: 643)
- noblewomen's dresses have falls of lace
at the wrists and above a woven gold collar, though still cut to
have a very low neck. The hem trails a pace or so behind them. (VI:
601-602)
- Women wear pale dresses with very deep and narrow necklines. Their
skirts are gathered up to the knee on one side to expose brightly-colored
petticoats. (VI: 592, 600)
- even the livery of house servants has the deep neckline and hem
sewn up to the knee on one side. (VI: 600)
- women of all classes wear the marriage dagger. (VI: 602)
- desc of the "code" of marriage dagger settings (VI: 603)
- some men wear their beards cut square,
with long moustaches. (VI: 168)
- men dress in long vests of bright colors, often with no shirt
beneath. (VI: 592)
- men's shirts have wide, pleated sleeves. (VI: 601)
- upper class men wear vests of bright silk, which is often
brocaded, over their pale, wide-sleeved shirts. They wear silk coats
slung over their shoulders, with chains of silver or gold strung
between the narrow coat lapels, which are embroidered with flowers
or animals. The coats are too small to wear as coats, they are worn
more like capes. These men often carry long, narrow swords. (VI:
640)
Landscaping: Bitter Coast. Swamps, trees with ropes hanging down, ferns and
other fronds.
- Altaran villages bordering Amadicia: Salidar
in the north, So Eban in the middle, Mosra in the south. (V: 224)
- villages in Altara: Marella, Ionin Spring. (VI: 466)
- desc of Altaran forest (VI: 493)
- desc of Altaran area - low rolling, grassy hills (VI: 562)
- after the hills, a forested area. (VI: 587)
- beyond the forest is a dirt road, with the remains of paving stones.
It curves through increasingly forested hills, some of which are even
small mountains. (VI: 590)
- farmhouses and barns of pale stone cling to the hills. (VI: 590)
- on the third day of the trip, they pass through a village with
white-plastered buildings, that have flat roofs of pale reddish tile.
(VI: 590)
- inn in Altaran village: The Marriage Knife (VI: 591)
- the fourth day of the trip, they pass through So Tehar. (VI: 593)
- five days out, they reach Ebou Dar. (VI: 594)
- 200 miles north of Salidar is still Altaran territory? (VI: 647)
Doors to inns are blue. Other colors have significance.
- plum brandy (VI: 594)
- mint and cloudberry tea, served cold (VI: 598)
- spicy cake (III: 381)
- town south of Sehar. (V: 683)
- has a ferry across river to Amadicia. (V: 683)
- desc of Ebou Dar (VI: 241, 243)
- desc of Ebou Dar (VI: 594)
- desc of storeroom in Ebou Dar (VI: 240, 242)
- there are villages and farms surrounding Ebou Dar for a distance of
100 miles. (VI: 560)
- Ebou Dar is the only city other than Illian to have so many canals as
part of the city structure itself. (VI: 243)
- Ebou Dar has quite a rough and tough reputation. (V: 179, 341)
- rumors of Ebou Dar: strangers can be killed for a wrong glance, duels
can be fought over a word, and even women might fight each other in the
street with knives. (VI: 510)
- the ruler reigns from the Tarasin Palace. At this time, the Queen
controls maybe 100 miles around Ebou Dar. (VI: 595)
- desc of palace rooms - it is typical to have a number of bed chambers
surrounding a shared sitting room (VI: 597)
- desc of Palace interior (VI: 601)
- Mol Hara Square lies in front of the Tarasin Palace. (VI: 597)
- Ebou Dari inn: The Wandering Woman (VI: 596)
- desc of the Rahad Quarter (VI: 643)
- inns in the Rahad are marked only by blue doors. (VI: 644)
- the Rahad quarter lies across the river from the Palace. Even the
Civil Guard steps lightly there, as you can have a knife in your back
before you know it. (VI: 604)
- thieves in the Rahad Quarter use thin blades to kill you if your
clothes are fine, so the clothes aren't damaged. (VI: 604)
- no one in the Rahad Quarter would willingly speak with an Aes Sedai.
(VI: 644)
- people in the Rahad stop to watch any duels that break out, those who
don't stop appear odd and suspicious. (VI: 645)
- fishing is a common occupation in the city. (VI: 641)
POD pg 86.
Surrounded by farms, pastures, olive groves, many small forests, rolling
hills up to 100 feet high. Hills are strange, knobby shapes, as though squeezed
together by huge, hands. Flocks of brilliantly hued birds, many humming birds.
Thick vines like ropes hang from trees. Trees with bundles of narrow fronds at
the top for foliage. Things like green feather dusters as tall as a man.
Old statues and ruins found on the road to the Farm, overgrown with foliage.
this road goes south from the Moldine Gate to the lighthouse at
the western mouth of the bay. (ACoS,Ch39)
the southern gate to the city of Ebou Dar. The Bay Road leads
south to the Westpoint lighthouse. (ACoS,Ch14)
the western gate to the city of Ebou Dar (ACoS,Ch17)
the northern gate to the city of Ebou Dar. The Great North Road
leads north from here. (WH,Ch30)
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Mol Hara Square
a large plaza in the center of Ebou Dar
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Rahad
the slum area of Ebou Dar on the east side of the Eldar River
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Tarasin Palace
residence of Queen Tylin, it sits on Mol Hara Square
a dim hole in the Rahad with a blue door (ACoS,Ch14,
ACoS,Ch38)
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Golden Ducks
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Golden Swans of Heaven
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Oarsman's Pride
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Old Sheep
grimiest tavern in Ebou Dar (ACoS,Ch14)
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Stranded Goose
an average inn
WOT Encyclopedia Link - The Wandering Woman
an average inn on Mol Hara Square across from the Tarasin Palace
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Chelsaine Palace
a private palace
a deserted building holding a store of *angreal
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Circuit of Heaven
a recetrack north of the city
WOT Encyclopedia Link - Silver Circuit
- a racetrack south of the city
- the town is located on the Manetherendrelle.
(III: 376)
- the people of Remen recognize Ogier by sight. (III: 379)
- oared ferries carry people across the river, which is a half-mile wide
at Remen. (III: 379)
- there is no bridge, but at least six ferries in frequent use. (III:
379)
- the ferries and merchants' ships moor at long stone docks, which are
separated from the main town by bulky grey stone warehouses. (III: 379)
- most of the houses of the town are made of stone, and roofed in tiles
with colors ranging from yellow to red to purple. (III: 379)
- the town is built around a central square, with haphazardly laid-out
streets. (III: 379)
- the town square is paved with big stone blocks. (III: 380)
- inn: The Wayman's Forge - purple tile roof, three stories of grey
stone, with large windows and scroll-carved doors. (III: 379)
- town north of Cormaed (V: 683)
- inn in So Tehar: The Southern Hoop. (VI: 593)
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