Oar

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A city in northern Forsberg in the Northern Empire; the nearest large city to the Barrowland. The wizard Bomanz is from Oar. Oar is about five hundred miles northwest from Charm, and about a hundred miles southeast of the Barrowland.

Oar was the location of one of the Company's more extravagant events in the North, when it teamed up with Shapeshifter and eventually ambushed Limper and destroyed most of the Rebel presence in the city.

The Limper heavily damages the city on his rampage south chasing Croaker.

After the Dominator is destroyed, the Silver Spike which contained his essence was brought to Oar by a group of bandits. Imperials learn of its prescence there and put the city under martial law. People can enter, but cannot leave. Food runs short, riots erupt, Rebel sentiment is stirred, and the situation threatens to get totally out of hand. It finally resolves itself when the bandits take Exile up on an offer to trade the Spike for one hundred thousand obels. But right then, the Limper returns to Oar, seeking the Spike. The Spike finally ends up in the White Rose's hands, after the death of Gossamer & Spidersilk, Raven, Bomanz, Silent, and the Limper. The siege is subsequently lifted.