Chapter 7 - Where Was Castle Black in Orca?

Orca takes place about 4 years after Jhereg, so Castle Black might have moved up to 40 miles since then.

The reference to Castle Black here is very weak. Vlad tells Kiera that some of the terrain around Northport reminds him of the prairie around Castle Black and to the west of Dzur Mountain.

Reega lived on a hill ... called Winteroak, which was on the northern edge of Northport, overlooking the Kanefthali River Valley. It was quite a hike [from Endra's place] ... This is a funny part of the world ... The landscape, I mean. Maybe it's because we're so far north of the equator, or because the Kanefthali Mountains start only a few hundred miles away ... you can walk from the east side of Northport to the west, or from hills overlooking the docks straight north, and you'll have four completely different landscapes. I mean, along the coast, it might as well be Adrilankha--you've got the same kind of ugly red cliffs ... just a little ways to the east you have these prairies that look like the area around Castle Black and west of Dzur Mountain ... and the country around Endra's is all rocky and hard and pretty in the same way the southern tip of Suntra is pretty--unforgiving but attractive, anyway. So you head north, along the river to where Reega lives, and it's like the big forests to the east of Dzur Mountain, almost jungle. (Orca, Chapter 6)

One way to read this is that there is a prairie surrounding Castle Black, and Dzur Mountain is to the east of that prairie, which lines up with the other text above.

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