Y'Ghatan
A city on the Seven Cities subcontinent. Rumoured to be the oldest city, it has been the site of many Malazan failures.
Y'Ghatan: an ancient city of the Seven City region
NoK, UK mmpb, Glossary
"Y'Ghatan. The First Holy City. Where Dassem Ultor, curse his name, died in betrayal. Y'Ghatan, the oldest city in the world. Built atop the forge of a blacksmith of the Abyss, built on his very bones. Seven Y'Ghatans, seven great cities to mark the ages we have seen, the one we see now crouched on the bones of the other six. City of the Olive Groves. city of the sweet oils..."
- Corabb
BH, UK Tpb. p.104
"He gave life to Y'Ghatan's claim to be the eighth Holy City, hidden, but the eldest."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.253
"Y'Ghatan. He could almost smell the desert's faint cinnamon scent, feel the punishing heat."
-Temper
NoK, UK mmpb, p.112
"Through the dust rose the dun walls of the first escarpment to the four levels of the ancient ruins. The fortifications looked to Temper like nothing more solid than simple rammed earth. Beyond, the jagged incisor-like ridges of the Thalas Mountains darkened the horizon."
Nok, UK mmpb, p.247
"Across the lines mixed Gral, Debrahl and Tregyn of the Y'Ghatan guard rode back and forth, shouting insults hoarse and unintelligible from this distance, clashing their swords against round bronze-faced shields."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.248
"Why had the surviving rag-ends of insurrectionist armies and a last newly anointed Falah'd converged here? Prisoners boasted of its extraordinary antiquity and named it the hidden progenitor of all the Holy Cities themselves."
NoK, UK mmpb, p.251
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