Places from Hugh Cook's Oceans of Light.
Refer to these unofficial Maps to orient yourself with the stories.
Featured Geography
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Alkaline Bill - An important road running east - west in central Lexis. The east-west road is the Alkaline Bill, which runs between Eastport and Westport. It is intersected by a north-south road, the northerly part...
Alma Chorda - A music school run by the Lady Belinda Del Dorn. 'Won't I?' said Gorkindachina. 'What about the second floor?' 'Oh no, that got taken last month. The lady Del Dorn, she's got it now. She runs a music...
Aloominum Tropis - A city in Heaven or Hell. For the benefit of the landlocked inhabitants of Aloominum Tropis and Barth Banchup Bakchakris, we had better explain that 'rocking the boat' is one of those sea-sourced...
Barth Banchup Bakchakris - The City of Burning Blood, the Capital of Hell. Atlanta was quite right. It had been in the year of the Slug, in Belta 2359, that Yulius had made his trip to Barth Banchup Bakchakris, the City of...
Blue Feathers - See: Glorious Blue Feathers Cockfighting Den
Bluttocky Batter - Negative Gan slang name for the Qin Sistock Maruka road. The east-west road is the Alkaline Bill, which runs between Eastport and Westport. It is intersected by a north-south road, the northerly part...
Bolbok Tower - University building on the quadrangle. Heineman saw it all right. The souvenir shop stood in one corner of the quadrangle, and to get there they would have to run past Bolbok Tower. A pirate flag was...
Central Territory - A name sometimes given to Chalakanesia by people from Heaven or Hell. 'For some considerable time,' said Teladex, who had been on Chalakanesian territory for so long that he had given up keeping...
Chadlin Jo - The street housing the Ul Den Ul, which is Atlanta's office building. So Gorkindachina made his way to the Ul Den Ul, the building on the Chadlin Jo which housed Atlanta's law office. He got there in...
Chadlin Limbus - A road running East-West. Om had gone round the block, heading north along Palching Lindus, then making a left turn into Chadlin Limbus, then another left into Chadlin Jo. This methodical quartering...
Chadlin Steps - An area of Lexis, presumably at the base of the mountain. Once Atlanta had taken Oberon's fingerprints, Heineman managed to persuade her to quit La Lantis. Teladex, in turn, surrendered the assassin...
Chalakanesia - See map of Chalakanesia. The nation upon which the Oceans of Light series is centered. It is a federation of seven different islands/archipelagos. It lies along the metapsychic faultline which causes...
Chanifer Island - An Island off the west coast of the Mexicus Hojo Peninsular. On first arriving in Lexis from the Fifth Pearl, the island of Jaz Diva, ex-president Wolfganga Zenseneth Belch had found it impossible to...
Chan Molest - A city in Heaven or Hell. As shadows, silent in his confidence, Gorkindachina attended to something on his dressing table, and the low, rhythmic whine of the trance music of Chan Molest filled the...
Chasms - Another name for Hell. The Chasms of Hell. 'Then,' said Nodo, switching into play-acting mode, and assuming the role of a hard-nosed interrogator from the Gulf and the Chasms, 'do you realize that...
Chelming Road - The road where the College of Gardeners is located. Heineman was so intent on his mental manoeuvering that he paid no attention to the noise which grew and grew as he drew near the College of...
Chem Giblis Baktaria - Chem Giblis Baktaria, the nunnery to the north of Flanjegus Mo. Judge Metatron had died; the Eloquent Smirkus had sunk in Eastport; one of the remaining Spliars had been shattered; two boats had been...
Cherwin Skam - An island of the federation of Chalakanesia. Heaven and Hell had initially wanted the voters of all seven states to vote in one simultaneous election, but this would have threatened Chalakanesia's...
Chinmik - A graveyard perhaps? Plowed up to make room for a road. On the fourth and topmost floor of the Ul Den Ul there was an empty room, locked and sealed, which was said to be permanently tenanted by a...
City Of Burning Blood - Barth Banchup Bakchakris, the City of Burning Blood, the capital of Hell. Atlanta was quite right. It had been in the year of the Slug, in Belta 2359, that Yulius had made his trip to Barth Banchup...