Claw Peaks

Three hooked peaks on the great Spine of the World Place The Spine of the World The continent-long mountain crown that splits Tarkdaara down its centre, a chain of stone and ice where the peaks tear at the clouds and the valleys drown in mist. in eastern Tarkdaara Place Northland The northern continent of Elshore, called Northland in common speech, on which every chapter of the story so far unfolds., rising above the bedrock shelf that holds the old capital of Udhafa Place Udhafa The capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Peaks.... Seen from the river plain they curve together like a talon closing, and every people that ever ruled beneath them has kept some version of the same name.