"tempered Kiriath steel", "Gallows Gap", "for three Empire-minted elementals the half hour", "treatise on skirmish warfare that the Trelayne Military Academy had politely declined", "would be impassable before Padrow's Eve", "talking about an Aldrain winter", "not much bigger than one of Trelayne's estuary slums", "up the hill where the town petered out against outcroppings of mountain granite", (The Steel Remains)