Southaven (Sword of Truth)

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Southaven is a fictional location in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

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Southaven is a town in Westland, four or five day's ride south on horseback from Hartland along Hawker's Trail. It is a place of thieves and misfits, little more than a collection of ramshackle buildings and houses fit crookedly in among the oaks and beech, almost as if to turn themselves away from the road, from the queries, from righteous eyes. None of the buildings look like they have ever seen any paint. Some have tin patches that drum in a steady rain. In the center of the town is a supply store, and next to it, a two-story building with a clumsily carved sign declaring it to be an inn, (but not offering any name), both owned by a stout proprietor named Bill. Yellow lamplight coming from the downstairs windows is the only color standing out from the grayness of the building. Heaps of garbage lean drunkenly against the side of the building, and the house next to the Inn tilts in sympathy with the rubbish pile.

The men of the town are a rough collection of trappers and travelers and trouble. Many have unkempt beards. Most are big. Their grins reveal a collection of crooked and missing teeth. Many of them have a fierce dislike of the boundary wardens.

The King's Port was a pass through the boundary to the Midlands about 4 hours ride from Southaven.