Location from The Black Company by Glen Cook
Where the Dominator is buried — a cursed mound in the northern wilderness that everyone agrees should stay sealed and nobody can quite stop messing with.
The Barrowland is the Dominator's prison — the place where the Lady buried her husband after betraying him, sealed with the most powerful wards her sorcery could create. It's also one of the series' most important locations, because the Dominator's attempts to escape from below drive much of the northern books' plot. The Barrowland requires constant maintenance — the seals degrade, agents try to break them, and the Dominator's influence seeps through cracks in the containment. It's the fantasy equivalent of a nuclear waste site: everyone knows it's dangerous, everyone agrees it should stay sealed, and someone always finds a reason to dig.
A desolate area of burial mounds in the northern wilderness. The ground is wrong here — nothing grows right, the air feels heavy, and anyone with magical sensitivity can feel the Dominator pressing against his prison from below. It's a graveyard that isn't finished with its occupant.
Also known as: The Barrowland, Barrowland