Farseer Trilogy · Location
Place of the Dragons
Also known as Stone Garden, Verity's Quarry, Verity's Dragon Quarry
- outdoor
- ancient sculpture garden
Expansive ancient quarry carved from black stone mountainside with forested rim, lush vines, misty glade, stream, stagnant pool; colossal unfinished dragon statues on daises amid scattered massive black blocks, stone ramps, black pillar Skill-road nexus, tusked boar, antlered dragon, Realder's overgrown moss-covered dragon; centerpiece towering bronze-toned anguished slender girl astride black stone dragon with folded flightless wings on high massive quarry block pedestal dais, girl with bent head, frozen stone tears, sleeveless jerkin, leggings, sandals, silver Skill-fingerprint with scarlet outline, green scales emerging; open campfire pit with layered meat drying, stone seats; transformations chronologically: Verity carving with Skill and sword (ch93-95), Fool's Skill-touch on girl statue (ch95), Regal guards occupy pillar (ch96-97), chiseling hind feet (ch96), dragons awaken via blood/Wit including Realder's and Girl-on-Dragon flying with Fool (ch99).
- Type
- outdoor
- Style
- ancient sculpture garden
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 90
- Books
- 1
History
BOOK 1The Complete Farseer Trilogy: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest
Expansive ancient quarry carved from black stone mountainside with forested rim, lush vines, misty glade, stream, stagnant pool; colossal unfinished dragon statues on daises amid scattered massive black blocks, stone ramps, black pillar Skill-road nexus, tusked boar, antlered dragon, Realder's overgrown moss-covered dragon; centerpiece towering bronze-toned anguished slender girl astride black stone dragon with folded flightless wings on high massive quarry block pedestal dais, girl with bent head, frozen stone tears, sleeveless jerkin, leggings, sandals, silver Skill-fingerprint with scarlet outline, green scales emerging; open campfire pit with layered meat drying, stone seats; transformations chronologically: Verity carving with Skill and sword (ch93-95), Fool's Skill-touch on girl statue (ch95), Regal guards occupy pillar (ch96-97), chiseling hind feet (ch96), dragons awaken via blood/Wit including Realder's and Girl-on-Dragon flying with Fool (ch99).
Key events
- Book 1
Ch. 94The Reunion at the Stone QuarryFitz's quest party finally reaches Verity in an ancient quarry, where they find him emaciated and silver-handed, obsessively carving a massive stone dragon to use as a weapon against the Red Ships. - Book 1
Ch. 100The Awakening of the DragonsIn a desperate battle against Regal's forces, Fitz and Nighteyes use their blood and the Wit to awaken an army of ancient stone dragons. Girl-on-a-Dragon, quickened by Burl's blood, carries the Fool into the sky.
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