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| - The hill tribes call them "The Place Where No Man Rules," which translates rather inaccurately as the Anarchies. […] [T]he old priest at Kithorn claimed that they were the "thickest" area in Rathillien—that is, the most truly native, with the greatest natural resistance to Perimal Darkling. They've had a reputation for strangeness as far back as anyone can remember, and only the rathorns move freely there, to mate and to die. […] [T]hose few hunters who do manage to penetrate the Anarchies tend never to come out again. The land itself is said to be treacherous,
- All the clans consider the south bank to be sacred ground. […] [N]ot long before our kind came to Rathillien, someone or something suddenly barred them from the Anarchies. Before that, they believed that their dead crossed the river to a new life, and that the soul of the tribe itself had its roots on the far bank. Their shamen still take turns crossing the Ever-quick to perform secret rites on the far side, which they hope will eventually get them back into the Anarchies.
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