SLARVATHOffice of Off-World Correspondence

Bureau of Returning Persons — area sheet

Thur

Thur: a hillside cut into five level terraces in watercolour, dwellings standing on every terrace, a chasm splitting the hill with a stair descending into fog and a thin waterfall on the left wall.
Cf. FilmThe ground the plate is drawn from.
THUR

built in five levels

Thur is built in five levels. It is not built outward.

You will not need the levels explained. They are cut, not raised; each is entered from the one above it; and the walk down is the walk you remember.

Keeping stands on the third. It holds what a household cannot carry. Nothing has been reclaimed from it in the period covered by this sheet, which is the period covered by every sheet.

The Lowmarket is below the first level, at the foot of the stair. It is audible from the step. It is not visible from the step, and the Bureau has never been supplied with a view of it, so it is listed here and it is not marked.

FrameA tall upright frame with rounded corners. Thur is vertical. ViewpointDrawn from above, as inhabited areas are.
Key
  1. 3 Keeping third level. We hold what you cannot carry
  2. 4 The Lowmarket at Thur not marked
  3. 5 The stair descends between two walls
From here

How far is not recorded. How long is.

Office annotationThe Correspondent gives the descent to the Lowmarket as “a while.” The Office has entered it as not stated. He was asked a second time and supplied the same figure.