Ladro Landing

Type

port

Style

coastal landing with keep

First appears

Book 2 · Ch. 5

Books

1

Ladro Landing first appears in Deadhouse Gates as a modest coastal landing with an associated keep, serving as a minor waypoint along the Seven Cities coastline. Across the series, it remains a peripheral location whose strategic value is overshadowed by the larger conflicts of the Whirlwind rebellion and the Chain of Dogs, yet its presence underscores the vast, interconnected geography of the Malazan world. The keep and landing never become central to any major plotline, but they symbolize the scattered, often overlooked outposts that dot the empire’s fringes.