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Mock's Hold

Page history last edited by PBworks 15 years, 7 months ago

Mock's Hold

 

Mock's Hold is a castle that dominates the NNE corner of Malaz City. It is from here that the Malazan military authority governs the city. It has several areas of note:

 


 

Mock's Hold: an old fort overlooking Malaz City

 

NoK, UK mmpb, Glossary

Mock's Hold A Keep overlooking Malaz City where the Emperor and Dancer were assassinated

 

GotM, Glossary

"...the ragged walls of Mock’s Hold...once capital of the Empire but now, since the mainland had been conquered, relegated once more to a Fist’s holding...the courtyard with its heaved cobblestones, the Old Keep – now a stable, its upper floor home to pigeons and swallows and bats – and the citadel...it was in the citadel that the Fist had his residence, and in the inner chambers that such affairs of the Empire as concerned this island were conducted...Mock’s Hold stood atop a cliff...the Hold’s battered wall

 

'the stains of rust seemed to map blood seas on the black, pocked surface of Mock's Vane. A century old, it squatted on the point of an old pike that had been bolted to the outer top of the Hold's wall. Monstrous and misshapen, it had been cold-hammered into the form of a winged demon, teeth bared in a leering grin, and was tugged and buffeted in squealing protest with every gust of wind.... The Vane's silence announced the sudden falling-off of the sea breeze that came clambering over the ragged walls of Mock's Hold, then it creaked back into life as the hot, spark-scattered and smoke-filled breath of the Mouse Quarter reached across the city to sweep the promontory's heights.'

 

'the ancient fortification overlooking the city was too familiar to be of interest. This visit was his third in as many years; he'd long ago explored the courtyard with its heaved cobblestones, the Old Keep - now a stable, its upper floor home to pigeons and swallows and bats - and the citadel where even now his father negotiated the island export tithe with the harbour officials. In the last instance, of course, a goodly portion was out of bounds, even for a son of a noble house; for it was in the citadel that the Fist had his residence, and in the inner chambers that such affairs of the Empire as concerned this island were conducted.'

 

'Mock's Hold stood atop a cliff. The higher land of the Pinnacle was reached by a switchback staircase carved into the limestone of the cliff wall. The drop to the city below was eighty armspans or more, with the Hold's battered wall adding still another six. The Mouse was at the city's inland edge, an uneven spreading of hovels and overgrown tiers cut in half by the silt-heavy river that crawled towards the harbour.'

 

GotM, UK Trade, p.2-3

"...looked at the mottled seaward wall of Mock's Hold rearing above the harbour."

 

-Kiska

NoK, UK mmpb, p.56

"Temper started down Rampart Way's steep slope. A staircase cut from the very stone of the cliff, it switched back four times as it descended the promontory's side. Every foot of it lay within range of the Hold's townward springalds and catapults."

 

NoK, UK mmpb, p.64

 

 

 

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