"House Garess owns a number of valleys and gorges in the Golushkin mountains. The landscape makes these places

"House Garess owns a number of valleys and gorges in the Golushkin mountains. The landscape makes these places easily defensible, and they're rich in ores and everything else the depths of the earth have to offer. It is a place of rare beauty," Kesten sighs. "When I moved to Restov, I couldn't get used to it for a long time — there was nothing but sky between the rooves. No mountain peaks anywhere in sight."