Southern continent

The southern continent of the homeworld was the setting for most of the Books of the South, as well as some of the events of The Silver Spike and many of the events of the Books of Glittering Stone. Its northern boundary is the Sea of Torments, above which lies the northern continent.

The Dandha Presh mountain range

Natural features

Major natural features – starting south of Beryl and continuing southward – include:

• the shaggy hills
• the savannah of K'Hlata, a 14-day ride on horseback
• the massive jungle of D'loc Aloc
• the sluggish great river and its First, Second, and Third Cataracts
• the surging Main river and its 4 fords: Theri, Numa, Ghoja, and Vehdna-Bota
• the shunned Grove of Doom
• the icy, indigo Lake Tanji
• the sprawling Dandha Presh mountain range and its single pass, the Plain of Charandaprash
• the barren Shindai Kus desert which borders up against the western ocean

Other natural features – starting east of Beryl, continuing eastward, and mentioned exclusively in The Silver Spike – include:

• the River Bigotes
• the Hyclades
• the Rani Poor, longitudinally at least "seventy silvery miles of lifeless, mirror-flat salt desert"
• the Canyons of the Undead
• the Plain of Dano-Patha
• the Mountains of Sinjian, known for their "savage defiles"
• the Straits of Angine, a location in the Sea of Torments where the southern continent comes closest to the northern continent

Cities and civilizations

Starting in the north and heading south, significant cities and settlements of the southern continent include:

• Beryl, the oldest of the Jewel Cities, on the far northern coast of the continent; a key harbor city along the Sea of Torments
• Rebosa, the birthplace of Company veterans Otto and Hagop, as well as Hagop's nephew Smiley
• Padora, the birthplace of Croaker the Annalist
• the Temple of Travellers' Repose
• Gea-Xle, home of the Nar
• Thresh
• Cho'n Delor, an ancient haunted ruin
• the Triplet Cities
• Idon
• Taglios, possibly the largest city in the homeworld, located north of the Grove of Doom

Continuing south, the cities below were all once part of the Shadowlands:

• Dejagore, also called "Jaicur" by the locals and "Stormgard" by the Shadowmasters, a major city south of the Grove
• Tragevec, also called "Shadowlight" when it was part of the Shadowlands, another major city near the most populous and prosperous region of the Shadowlands
• New Dhar, had been simply "Dar" before being leveled and rebuilt by the Shadowmasters, a noteworthy city somewhere south of Dejagore and north of Kiaulune
• Fred, a noteworthy city somewhere south of Dejagore and north of Kiaulune
• Six, a noteworthy city somewhere south of Dejagore and north of Kiaulune
• Pityus, the very first place to be conquered by the Shadowmasters
• Kiaulune, a massive, ancient city, called "Shadowcatch" when it was part of the Shadowlands, deep in the southernmost region
• the prehistoric and mysterious structure called the shadowgate

Other cities and settlements – starting east of Beryl, continuing eastward, and mentioned exclusively in The Silver Spike – include:

• Barbara, a place of "countless burial mounds"
• Laba Larada, a place featuring "forgotten highways"
• Khun, a "haunted ruins"
• the ruins of the temple city of Marsha the Devastator
• the pyramids of Katch
• Karsus, a populated province of the Lady's Empire