Plains of Turia
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On the southern hemisphere of Gor, south of the Jungles of Schendi, in the midst of a vast expanse of grassy treeless southern plains of Gor, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, lies the Plains of Turia. The Plains of Turia extend from the coast of the Thassa, the Ta- Thassa mountains toward the Voltai Range on the east and is spread for some two thousand five hundred pasangs reaching as far as the northern banks of the sub-equatorial Cartius river.
There is little cover in the prairie. Lush green areas are found east of the river. South of the Cartius River and approximately a thousand pasangs from the Thassa sea, is the nine gated fine City of Turia.
Between the Cartius and further north from the city of Turia lies the wintering grounds of the Wagon Peoples. From the wintering grounds toward the west and north of Turia are the low rolling hills of the Omen Valley. Hundreds of pasangs way from the city, toward the east lies the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. Access to the city of Turia is by barge crossing downriver drawn by Tharlarions along the subequatorial Cartius river or by tarnback.
Turia derives its name from the large trunked red tree, Tur.
| PLACES | Plains of Turia / Southern plains and the Land of Wagon Peoples |
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TURIA |
“Long
ago, I had heard, a Tur tree was found on the prairie, near a spring,
planted perhaps long before by someone who passed by; it was from that
Tur tree that the city of Turia took its name.” (Norman, Nomads of Gor) |
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PLAINS OF A THOUSAND STAKES
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"On
long lines of tharlarion I could see warriors of Turia approaching in
procession the Plains of a Thousand Stakes. The morning sun flashed from
their helmets, their long tharlarion lances, the metal embossments on
their oval shields, unlike the rounded shields of most Gorean
cities.” (Norman, Nomads of Gor) |
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OMEN VALLEY
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"...a Tuchuk warrior I had not even seen before rode with me to the Omen Valley. Coming over a low, rolling hill…” (Norman, Nomads of Gor) “The afternoon among the wagons was a busy one, for they were preparing to move. Already the herds had been eased westward, away from Turia toward Thassa, the distant sea. There was much grooming of wagon bask, checking of harness and wagons, cutting of meat to be dried hanging from the sides of the moving wagons in the sun and wind. In the morning the wagons, in their long lines, would follow the slowly moving herds away from Turia. Meanwhile the Omen I Taking, even with the participation of the Tuchuk haruspexes, continued for the haruspexes of the people would remain behind until even the final readings had been completed.” (Norman, Nomads of Gor) |
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WINTERING GROUNDS
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“…the Omen Year, or season, lasts several
months, and consists of three phases, called the Passing of Turia, which takes
place in the fall; the
Wintering, which takes place north of
Turia and commonly south of the Cartius, the equator of course lying to
the north in this hemisphere; and the Return to Turia, in the spring, or, as
the Wagon Peoples say, in the Season of Little Grass.”
(Norman, Nomads of Gor) “At last, seventeen days after the first snows, the edges of the herds began to reach their winter pastures far north of Turia, approaching the equator from the south. Here the snow was little more than a frost that melted in the afternoon sun, and the grass was live and nourishing. Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung.” (Norman, Nomads of Gor) |
