Editing Terahnee
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Terahnee was a land of rolling fields and open plains. Brilliant white-stone estates dotted the landscape, and were connected with a network of canals. The capital city was described as a "magnificent pile"<ref>''[[Myst Reader]]''. Ebook, ''The Book of D'ni'' "Part five", section 3</ref> of stone buildings that dwarfed all of [[D'ni]]. It was a land of plenty and leisure for the Terahnee, who numbered over 200 million<ref>''[[Myst Reader]]''. Ebook, ''The Book of D'ni'' "Part four", section 11, paragraph 8</ref>. | Terahnee was a land of rolling fields and open plains. Brilliant white-stone estates dotted the landscape, and were connected with a network of canals. The capital city was described as a "magnificent pile"<ref>''[[Myst Reader]]''. Ebook, ''The Book of D'ni'' "Part five", section 3</ref> of stone buildings that dwarfed all of [[D'ni]]. It was a land of plenty and leisure for the Terahnee, who numbered over 200 million<ref>''[[Myst Reader]]''. Ebook, ''The Book of D'ni'' "Part four", section 11, paragraph 8</ref>. | ||
Hidden from view, however, was the slave labor which underpinned the entire Terahnee society. Tunnels for the [[Relyimah ( | Hidden from view, however, was the slave labor which underpinned the entire Terahnee society. Tunnels for the [[Relyimah (Terahnee)|relyimah]] ("the unseen") to carry out their labors were hidden within the walls of every building, beneath every field, and beside every canal. | ||
== Society == | == Society == | ||
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=== Renaming === | === Renaming === | ||
A year after Atrus and his party first set foot in Terahnee, they left it again, this time in the hands of its former slaves. In that time, they took upon themselves the re-shaping of the land for their own needs, using their former masters' palatial houses as local government headquarters. Their leaders renamed the Age ''[[Dictionary: | A year after Atrus and his party first set foot in Terahnee, they left it again, this time in the hands of its former slaves. In that time, they took upon themselves the re-shaping of the land for their own needs, using their former masters' palatial houses as local government headquarters. Their leaders renamed the Age ''[[Dictionary:devokahn|Devokan]]'', the D'ni word for "hope". The link back to D'ni was re-sealed after the D'ni departed, and no further information about the Age or its inhabitants is available. | ||
==References== | ==References== |