Our story takes place in one of those recently reforested areas, a rugged land where the mountain peaks still rise sharply against the sky, high and uneroded. In reality, the river is an ocean that surrounds the land on two sides. The Place of the Sky is a great geologic uplift, dropping to the ocean in a huge cliff nearly 1000 miles long. The cliff is cut by fjords and river valleys, where the agrarian Wagaibe live. The Dog Warriors roam the mountains.
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The Dog Warriors Those who call themselves the Raven's Children are one small group of a people who call themselves the Dog People or the People. Others call them Dog Warriors. The Dog Warriors live on a world with no horses, nor any other riding beasts capable of surviving in their cold, snowy land, so their dogs make them quite feared by the nearby peoples. They are cut off from neighboring continents by a narrow arm of the sea, which they call The River That Circles The World. Beyond this, the Dog Warriors believe that the land of the dead lies, a place called Dreamtime that touches the real world in places where reality is thin.