The North
The cold clan lands of the Northmen, from Carleon to the High Places.
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The North is the northernmost region of the Northern Continent in the Circle of the World. Its people, the Northmen, are a clan-based warrior society. At the start of The First Law trilogy it is ruled by Bethod, the self-proclaimed King of the Northmen, who leads it into conflict with the Union. Its capital is Carleon.
Quick Facts
- Capital
- Carleon
- People
- Northmen
- Location
- Northern Continent
- Border
- Angland (the Union), along the Whiteflow River
- Rulers
- Skarling Hoodless
- Bethod
- Logen Ninefingers
- Black Dow
- Scale
- Stour Nightfall
Facts from the source article.
Background
The legendary war-leader Skarling Hoodless once united the clans to keep the Union out of the North, and Skarling's Chair is now the throne of the King of the Northmen; until Bethod, no one had led the whole North since. The Northmen have no nobility: birth means nothing to them, only deeds matter.
The North borders the Union's Kingdom of Angland to the south along the Whiteflow River and is bounded on the west by the White Sea. It is a land of pine-covered hills and snow-capped mountains, above all the High Places, with the Crinna river to the east. Besides Carleon, its towns include Uffrith, Osrung, Ollensand and Heonan.
Source
Text adapted from The North on the First Law Wiki (Fandom, CC BY-SA 3.0). Page history: contributors. Codexery summarised the page, and this entry is shared under the same licence.
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