Silver Lake

Silver Lake was a Nathii settlement on a glacial lakeThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 1, US HC p.31 by the same name east of the Laederon Plateau (home of the Teblor tribes) in northwestern Genabackis. Its northern shore was a tumble of boreal forest crisscrossed by by a succession of ravines and ridges running east-west below the southern edge of the Godswalk Mountains.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.49 The woods were the winter home of tens of thousands of caribou from the Toblai Tundra to the north, who were prized by the settlement's hunters. To the south of the lake was pastureland and vast swathes where forest once had been.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.49-50 Fishermen plied the waters for eels, sturgeon, and other fish.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.55/59
The settlement had been captured as part of the Malazan conquest and the residents lived uneasily with a Malazan garrison.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.117/135
A raised, cobbled imperial road connected Silver Lake to Culvern. Starting from the town's New Gate, it led west along the lake's southern shore and over a bridge spanning Foul Creek.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.55 Eventually it angled southwest across an ancient floodplain that had been deforested to make room for small peasant farms before it paralleled the Culvern River heading south.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 7, US HC p.129 The road was said to have been built by the Bridgeburners during the Genabackis Campaign.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 5, US HC p.84
Somewhere in the vicinity was the settlement of Orbs.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.109
==Known residents==
*Arko, fisherman
*Astabb, slaver
*Borrug, slaver
*Capor, fisherman
*Balantis, merchant
*Damisk, hunter, slave tracker, and guide
*Dog-Boy, injured young man
*Drunk Menger, owner of the Three-Legged Dog
*Rant, half-Teblor boy
*Sarlis, Rant's mother
*Silgar, slave master
*Silgar Younger, mayor
*Storp, owner of the Black Eel
*Vihune, fisherman
==Notable locations==
*Black Eel, tavern
*Buyer's FieldThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 11, US HC p.177
*Factor's house
*Malazan Garrison
*New Gate
*Three-Legged Dog, tavern
*Waiting House, slave penThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 18, US HC p.312
==Streets and Roads==
*Centre StreetThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.55
*Front StreetThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 21, US HC p.397
*Inland Road
*Shore RoadThe God is Not Willing, Chapter 3, US HC p.50
==In House of Chains==
At the time of Pahlk Orlong's famous raid, it had consisted of a lone farm with a few families.House of Chains, Chapter 1 When Karsa Orlong returned, four centuries later,House of Chains, Chapter 1, US SFBC p.32 it had grown into a full-sized, walled town with hundreds of inhabitants.House of Chains, Chapter 2
The current settlement was home to slavers such as Master Silgar, who raided the eastern edges of the Teblor lands to supply the town's fishing industry with workers. The slavers were so successful that they essentially depopulated the Sunyd tribal lands and had designs on the others. Some believed no more free Teblor would live on the plateau within a century.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.109-110/123
At the time of Karsa's arrival, a Malazan company, part of the Ashok Regiment, was readying to leave for Bettrys.House of Chains, Chapter 2, UK MMPB p.132 They had been summoned home to Seven Cities based on rumours of rebellion there.House of Chains, Chapter 2, US SFBC p.135
==In The God is Not Willing==
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==History==
Long before the Nathii settled the area and before there was even a lake, Silver Lake had been a valley known to the indigenous people as Tarthen'ignial'--meaning The Valley of the Tarthen Stones. It had been a sacred place with tall stones running the length of the valley. At the valley's centre was a mound of Tartheno and Imass skulls. The Korhivi believed the Imass skulls remained alive, looking upon their flooded world and waiting for boaters and fisherman to drown and join them. The Saemdhi feared the waters.The God is Not Willing, Chapter 4, US HC p.73
==Notes and references==
Category:Genabackis
Category:Lakes
Category:Towns
de:Silbersee
es:Lago de Plata