Raraku

Location from Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson

The Holy Desert — a sea of sand concealing the memory of an ancient ocean, sacred to Seven Cities, birthplace of the Whirlwind Goddess, and a place where time itself behaves like water.

Also known as: Raraku, the Holy Desert, Holy Desert Raraku, the Holy Desert Raraku

What They Know

• Once an inland sea — the White Face Sea — whose memory still bleeds through
• The Whirlwind Goddess was born here from a fragment of an Elder Warren
• The Book of Dryjhna — the apocalyptic prophecy — was written in Raraku's depths
• Sha'ik Reborn emerged from the desert carrying the goddess's power
• The desert transforms everyone who enters — stripping away what is false
• Time behaves strangely here — the desert remembers its own past as present

Connections

• child_of — seven_cities
• birthplace_of — whirlwind_goddess
• transformed — felisin_paran

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