Hissar
A town in Seven Cities that contains an Imperial harbour. Home to the Hissar Guard.
Hissar: a city on the east coast
DG, Glossary
"...that he could have gained a sense of the hand that had made its mark her, on the outer wall of the old Falah'd Palace in the heart of Hissar."
DG, UK mmpb, p.65
"Water ran in ankle-deep torrents down the cobbled slopes beneath the palace walls, gushing down into the gutters bisecting each alley and causeway in the city. Opposite the palace wall, awning sagged precariously above closet-sized shops. In the chill shadows of the holes that passed for stone-fronts, dour-faced merchants watched
Duiker as he passed by.
Apart from the miserable donkeys and the occaisional sway-backed horse, the streets were mostly empty of traffic. Even with the rare wayward current from the Sahar Sea, Hissar was a city born of inland drylands and deserts. Though a port and now a central landing for the Empire, the city and its people lived with a spiritual back to the sea.
Duiker left behind the close ring of ancient buildings and narrow alleys surrounding the palace wall, coming to the Dryjhna Colonnade that ran straight as a spear through Hissar's heart. The guldindha trees lining the colonnade's carriage track swam with blurred motion as the rain pelted down on their ochre leaves. Estate gardens, most of them unwalled and open to public admiration, stretched green on either side.
The historian ducked as a gusting wind pressed his cloak tight against his right side. The water on his lips tasted of salt, the only indication of the angry sea a thousand paces to his right. Where the street named after the Storm of the Apocalypse narrowed suddenly, the carriage path became a muddy track of broken cobbles and shattered pottery, the tall, once royal nut trees giving way to desert scrub. The change was so abrupt that Duiker found himself up to his shins in dung-stained water before he realized he'd come to the city's edge. Squinting against the rain, he looked up.
Off to his left, hazy behind the sheets of water, ran the stone wall of the Imperial Compound. Smoke struggled upward from beyond the wall's fortified height. On his right and much closer was a chaotic knot of hide tents, horses and camels and carts - a trader camp, newly arrived from the Sialk Odhan."
DG, UK mmpb, p.66-7
"People filled Hissar's fountains until midday, crowded shoulder to shoulder in the tepid, murky waters, before retiring to the cooler shade of their homes."
DG, UK mmpb, p.177
Harbour
"The scene at the quayside of Hissar's Imperial Harbour was chaotic, a mess of unruly tribesmen and women..."
DG, UK mmpb, p.48
"The T-shaped quay was now a maelstrom of belligerent
Wickans."
DG, UK mmpb, p.50
"To the right of the beach stretched in a gentle curve southward, to distant Hissar...a city in flames."
DG, UK mmpb, p.235
History
"..then ritually touched his forehead in a now outlawed gesture of gratitude to a Falah'd whose bones were rotting in the silty mud of Hissar Bay."
DG, UK mmpb, p.69
Hissar in the Seven Cities Uprising
"On his right, as shadows appeared with the rising sun, the city of Hissar burned. Support beams were giving way, mudbrick walls tumbling, cut stone shattering explosively in the blistering heat. Smoke covered the scene with its deathly, bitter shawl.
...
He reached the trampled earth where the trader encampment had once been...The camp had been hastily abandoned, possibly only hours earlier.
...
Opposite the grounds, and on the other side of the Faladhan road, rose the fortified wall of the Malazan compound...Streaks of black scarred the few sections of bleached stone remaining upright. The sorcery that had assailed the wall had breached it in four places that he could see, each one a sundering of stone wide enough to rush a phalanx through.
...
The compound's training field was empty. Bulwarks had been raised here and there...He stepped down from the ridge of shattered stone. The Malazan headquarters and the barracks had been torched."
DG, UK mmpb, p.244-5
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