Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 4 | The caste is sometimes spoken of, when men dare to speak of it, as the black caste, or the sable caste. |
| 26 | 5 | In many Gorean cities it is unwelcome, even outlawed. |
| 26 | 6 | For example, it is outlawed in Ar and in Market of Semris. |
| 26 | 7 | Its outlawry in Ar, I gather, followed an unsuccessful attempt by an army led by Pa-kur, a high Assassin, to seize that great city, the largest, richest, and most populous in Gor's northern hemisphere. |
| 26 | 8 | The city, it seems, was in disarray, and its Ubar challenged, following the temporary loss of its Home Stone, purloined by an unidentified tarnsman during the revels of the Planting Feast. |
| 26 | 9 | Supposedly instrumental in the defeat of Pa-kur and the restoration of the Ubar of the city to power was a figure known in the songs as Tarl of Bristol, which figure, as many such figures recounted in such songs, is presumably legendary. |
| 26 | 10 | The hostile army, in some of the scrolls, is spoken of as the Horde of Pa-kur, which disparaging epithet occurs in common parlance, doubtless reflecting the truism that history is likely to reflect the views of the victors. |
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The caste is sometimes spoken of, when men dare to speak of it, as the black caste, or the sable caste.
In many Gorean cities it is unwelcome, even outlawed.
For example, it is outlawed in Ar and in Market of Semris.
Its outlawry in Ar, I gather, followed an unsuccessful attempt by an army led by Pa-kur, a high Assassin, to seize that great city, the largest, richest, and most populous in Gor's northern hemisphere.
The city, it seems, was in disarray, and its Ubar challenged, following the temporary loss of its Home Stone, purloined by an unidentified tarnsman during the revels of the Planting Feast.
Supposedly instrumental in the defeat of Pa-kur and the restoration of the Ubar of the city to power was a figure known in the songs as Tarl of Bristol, which figure, as many such figures recounted in such songs, is presumably legendary.
The hostile army, in some of the scrolls, is spoken of as the Horde of Pa-kur, which disparaging epithet occurs in common parlance, doubtless reflecting the truism that history is likely to reflect the views of the victors.
- (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )