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Anango,
like Asperiche, is an exchange, or free, island in Thassa, administered by
members of the caste of merchants. It is, however, unlike Asperiche, very far
away. It is far south of the equator, so far south as to almost beyond the ken
of most Goreans, except as a place both remote and exotic. The jungles of the
Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to do
with strange races, mysterious plants and fabulous animals. The "magicians
of Anango," for what it is worth, seem to be well known everywhere on Gor
except in Anango. In Anango itself it seems folks have never heard of them.
---Players of Gor, 130
Kasbah of the Salt Ubar
.I had heard of the Salt Ubar, or the Guard of the Dunes. The location of his kasbah is
secret. Probably, other than his own men, only some few hundred know of it, primarily
merchants high in the salt trade, and few of them would know its exact location....
---Tribesmen of Gor, pp 207-208
Kasra
West of Tor, on the Lower Fayeen, a sluggish, meandering tributary, like the Upper Fayeen, to the Cartius, lay the river Port of Kasra, known for its export of salt. Tribesmen of Gor, 32-33
The red salt of Kasra, so called from its port of embarcation, was famed on Gor.
the standard of the Kataii is a yellow bow, bound across a black lance; their brand is also that of a bow, facing
to the left ;--Nomads of Gor, page 106
The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves;--Nomads of Gor,page 106
Klima
The day at Klima,' he said, 'begins at dawn, and only ends at darkness. Food may be fried
on the stones at Klima. The crusts are white. The glare from them can blind men. There are
no kaiila at Klima. The desert, waterless, surrounds Klima, for more than a thousand
pasangs on all sides. Never has a slave escaped from Klima. Among the less pleasant
aspects of Klima is that you will not see females. You will note that, following your
sentencing, the sight of such flesh has been denied you....
---Tribesmen of Gor, p 125
“The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from the gleaming Thassa
and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that
reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet. On the north they claimed
lands even to the rush-grown banks of the Cartius, a broad, swift flowing tributary
feeding into the incomparable Vosk. The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had
once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar
of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the
Cartius.”
---Nomads of Gor, page 2
His father had, many years ago, fled from an inland village, that of Nyuki, noted for its honey, on the northern shore of lake Ushindi.
Explorers of Gor, 219
He was facile with languages, and had connections with the villages of Nyuki on the northern shore of Ushindi.
We stood
in the clearing of Nyundo, the central village of the Ukungu region.
---Explorers of Gor, 451
Oasis of Farad
She
was bought for two tarsks, from a caravan master named Zad of the Oasis of
Farad," he said.
---Tribesmen of Gor,55
Oasis of the Four Palms
The march
of Hassan had as its object not Red Rock, northwest of Klima, but Four Palms, a
Kavar outpost known to him, which lay far to the south of Red Rock.
Unfortunately Four Palms was farther from Klima than Red Rock. On the other
hand, his decision seemed to me a sound one. Red Rock was a Tashid oasis under
the hegemony of the Aretai, enemies of the Kavars. Furthermore, between Klima
and Red Rock lay the regions patrolled by the men of Abdul, the Salt Ubar, who
had been known to me as Ibn Saran....
---Tribesmen of Gor,270-271
Oasis of Lame Kailla
On foot,
on the trail, they would have only enough water to reach the tiny oasis of Lame
Kaiila, where there would be for them doubtless sympathy, but little aid in the
form of armed men. Indeed, it lay in a direction away from Nine Wells, which was
the largest, nearest oasis where soldiers might be found. By the time word of
the raid reached Nine Wells the raiders might be thousands of pasangs away.
---Tribesmen of Gor, 136
Oasis of Nine Wells
possibly south of Tor
Oasis of Red Rock
This was
irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the
Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than
two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded
dune country; there are oases in the dune country but they are small and
infrequent, and often lie more than two hundred pasangs apart; in the sands they
are not always easy to find; among the dunes one can, unknowingly, pass within
ten pasangs of an oasis, missing it entirely....
---Tribesmen of Gor, 179
It was dominated by the kasbah of its pasha, Turem a'Din, commander of the local Tashid clans, on its rim to the northeast. There were five palm groves. At the east of the oasis lay pomegranate orchards. Toward its lower parts, in its center, were the gardens. Between two of the groves of date palms there was a large pool. The kasbah contained a single gate. On the summits of its four towers flew petitions, those of the Tashid and Aretai. Red Rock is a Tashid oasis under the hegemony of the Aretai, enemies of the Kavars.
Oasis of the Sand Sleen
location not specified
Oasis of Stones of Silver
"Merchants
will not care to risk their goods. It is their intention that Suleiman not
receive these goods. It is their intention to divert them, or most of them, to
the Oasis of the Stones of Silver." This was an oasis of the Char, also a
vassal tribe of the Kavars. Its name had been given to it centuries before, when
thirsty men, who had moved at night on the desert, had come upon it, discovering
it. Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the
dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver....
---Tribesmen of Gor, 93-94
Oasis of Two Scimitars
The oasis
of Two Scimitars is an out-of-the-way oasis, under the hegemony of the Bakahs,
which, for more than two hundred years, following their defeat in the Silk War
of 8,110 C.A., has been a vassal tribe of the Kavars The Silk War was a war for the control of certain caravan routes,
for the rights to levy raider tribute on journeying merchants.
---Tribesmen of Gor, 10:151
the Paravaci standard is a large banner of jewels beaded on golden wires, forming the head and horns of a
bosk its value is incalculable; the Paravaci brand is a symbolic representation of a bosk head, a semicircle
resting on an inverted isoceles triangle.--Nomads of Gor, page 106
A free port in South of Gor
The rain
forests closed the Cartius proper for most civilized persons from the
south," I said, "and what trading took place tended to be confined to
the ubarates of the southern shore of Lake Ushindi...."
---Explorers of Gor, 1:17
Here and
there, emerging from the lake, were great stone figures, the torsos and heads of
men, shields upon their arms, spears grasped in their hands. These great figures
were weathered, and covered with the patinas of age, greenish and red. Lichens
and mosses grew in patches on the stone; vines clambered about them. Birds
perched on the heads and shoulders of the great figures. On ridgework near the
water turtles and tharlarion sunned themselves.
"How ancient are these things?" asked Janice.
"I do not know," I said.
I looked at the huge figures. They towered thirty and forty feet out of the
water. Our canoe seemed small, moving among them. I studied the faces.
"These men were of your race, or of some race akin to yours, Kisu," I
said.
"Perhaps," said Kisu. "There are many black peoples."
"Where have the builders of these things gone?" asked Ayari.
"I do not know," I said.
---Explorers of Gor, 417-418
Mighty seaport/riverport on the edge of subequatorial rainforests and jungle. Free city, governed under merchant law. Primary city of black tribesmen of Schendi, home of the League of Black Slavers. At mouth of southern Cartius river, is major trade center for various spices, raw materials and trade goods of the jungle regions. Similar to ancient capital of Ethiopia.
Many
goods pass in and out of Schendi, as would be the case in any major port, such
as precious metals, jewels, tapestries, rugs, silks, horn and horn products,
medicines, sugars and salts, scrolls, papers, inks, lumber, stone, cloth,
ointments, perfumes, dried fruit, some dried fish, many root vegetables, chains,
craft tools, agricultural implements, such as hoe heads and metal flail blades,
wines and pagas, colorful birds and slaves. Schendi's most significant exports
are doubtless spice and hides, with kailiauk horn and horn products also being
of great importance. One of her most delicious exports is palm wine. One of her
most famous and precious exports are the small carved sapphires of Schendi.
These are generally a deep blue, but some are purple and others, interestingly,
white or yellow. They are usually carved in the shape of tiny panthers, but
sometimes other animals are found as well, usually small animals or birds.
Sometimes however the stone is carved to resemble a tiny kailiauk or kailiauk
head. Slaves, interestingly, do not count as one of the major products in
Schendi, in spite of the fact that the port is the headquarters of the League of
Black Slavers. The black slavers usually sell their catches nearer the markets,
both to the north and south. One of the major markets, to which they generally
arrange for the shipment of girls overland, is the Sardar Fairs, in particular
that of En'Kara, which is the most extensive and finest. This is not to say of
course that Schendi does not have excellent slave markets. It is a major Gorean
port. The population of Schendi is probably about a million people. The great
majority of these are black. Individuals of all races, however, Schendi being a
cosmopolitan port, frequent the city.
---Explorers of Gor, 115
To the
west of Lake Ushindi," I said, "there are floodlands, marshes and
bogs, through which a considerable amount of water drains into the lake. With
considerable hardship, limiting himself to forty men, and temporarily abandoning
all but two boats, which were half dragged and thrust through the marshes
eastward, after two months, Shaba reached the western shore of what we now know
as Lake Ngao."
---Explorers of Gor, 1:18
before what, I asked myself, would even the black larl flee;
and I asked myself how far it had been driven; perhaps even from the mountains
of Ta-Thassa, that loomed in this hemisphere, Gor's southern, at the shore of
Thassa, the sea, said to be in the myths without a farther shore.
---Nomads of Gor, 1:2
Tahari
Desert region variously known as the 'Tahari Wastes' lies east of Tor. It is hundreds of pasangs deep and thousands in length, punctuated by various oasis springs and deep wells. In some areas, it has been centuries between rains. Diurnal air temperatures in the shade are in the range of 120 degree's Fahrenheit. Klima, located far to the east in 'The Wastes' is the location of the infamous salt mines. The major tribes are the Kavars and the Aretai, and their vassal tribes, such as the Char, the Kashani, the Ta'Kara, the Raviri, the Tashid, the Luraz, and the Bakahs. Book 10: Tribesmen of Gor, page 33 and 47
It simple means the Sea
Tor
Largest and most populous of the desert city-states. In far south, at the edge of the vast s Tahari wasteland. Major trade center and focal point of hundreds of desert caravan routes. Also cultural center for the tribesmen of the Tahari. Similar in many respects to ancient Earth Baghdad.
Tuchuk standard; the brand of the four bosk horns, set in such a manner as to somewhat resemble the letter "H."--Nomads of Gor, page 62
Tuchuk society is organized very simply, far more simply than in the large cities of Gor. At the head of the tribe
there sits a chief, known as the Ubar. His Wagon, known as the First Wagon, is the largest in the encampment, and
is located on the highest ground. The wagon is so large that it must be pulled by a hundred bosk, and these bosk
are decked with jewelled gold nose-rings and necklaces of precious stones, attesting to the wealth of the
Ubar. Before the wagon is planted the war-standard of the Tuchuks, with its four bosk horns. Outside the Wagon, the
Ubar holds court on a large dais, covered with treasures and slaves. He is seated on an old grey bosk-skin, the
throne of the Ubars. The Tuchuks do not have a system of formal castes. Instead, they have hereditary clans who perform certain
tasks, over and above their primary duties as Tuchuks: war, hunting, and tending the bosk. There are clans of
healers, salt-hunters, leatherworkers and torturers. There are also other functionaries of society, such as
Haruspexes, Camp Singers and Year Keepers, who perform important tasks, but who are still expected to be, first
and foremost, "of the wagons." All are warriors, all are hunters, all are protectors of the bosk.
Turia
Often referred to as "the Ar of the south," largest of the southern Gorean cities. A walled city of the southern coastal plains, where Kamchak of the Wagon People finds his slave. A place where games are held and feasts held often. Opulant trade center similar in many ways to Constantinople, Turian females are considered good slaves, very beautiful and obediant
Have
you heard of Bila Huruma?" asked Samos.
"A little," I said.
"He is a black Ubar," said Samos, "bloody and brilliant, a man of
vision and power, who has united the six ubarates of the southern shores of
Ushindi, united them by the knife and the stabbing spear, and has extended his
hegemony to the northern shores, where he exacts tribute, kailiauk tusks and
women, from the confederacy of, the hundred villages. Shaba's nine boats had
fixed at their masts the tufted shields of the officialdom of Bila Huruma."
---Explorers of Gor, 1:17
Ukungu
Ukungu,"
said Kisu, "lies to the northeast, on the coast." Ukungu was a country
of coast villages, speaking the same or similar dialects. It was now claimed as
a part of the expanding empire of Bila Huruma.
---Explorers of Gor,277-278
Upper Fayeen River
on the Lower Fayeen, a sluggish, meandering tributary, like the Upper Fayeen
Ven Highlands
The actual source of
the tributary to the Vosk, now called the Thassa Cartius, as you know, was found
five years later by the explorer, Ramus of Tabor, who, with a small expedition,
over a period of nine months, fought and bartered his way through the river
tribes, beyond the six cataracts, to the Ven highlands. The Thassa Cartius, with
its own tributaries, drains the highlands and the descending plains."
---Explorers of Gor, 1:16