Location from The Black Company by Glen Cook
Supernatural badlands — a stretch of territory so weird that even the Taken avoid it, populated by living rocks, talking menhirs, and things that don't have names because naming them would make them real.
The Plain of Fear is a region of supernatural phenomena that predates human settlement and operates on rules that don't match the rest of the world. It's populated by creatures — windwhales, talking menhirs, walking trees — that are neither good nor evil but are definitely not interested in human concerns. Darling bases her Rebel operations in the Plain of Fear because the supernatural entities there are hostile to the Taken's sorcery. The Plain is one of the few places in the world where the Lady can't see and the Taken can't effectively operate, making it the ultimate guerrilla hideout. The Plain's residents tolerate Darling because her null field doesn't affect them (they're not sorcerous, they're something else). This alliance of convenience between a mute prophet and a plain full of talking rocks is one of Cook's better absurdist touches.
A desolate plain that shouldn't exist by natural standards. The landscape is alive in ways that aren't plant or animal: standing stones that move when you're not looking, wind that carries words, shadows that don't match their objects. The sky does things. Croaker describes it with the combination of wonder and irritation of a man who wants the world to make sense and is being denied.
Also known as: The Plain of Fear, Plain of Fear