Lohaiso

Lohaiso is a city in Thu-Evresar.

Appears in
The Goblin Emperor

The Witness for the Dead

The Grief of Stones

Details
There is a manufactory in Lohaiso, where workers wear their hair "in a braided club". There seems to be airship or airship-related construction work or docking in Lohaiso, as Thara Celehar witnessed very bad airship disasters there, possibly including the Carlinar fire.

Thara seemed to indicate that there were many poor people in Lohaiso. The people of Lohaiso were also "endlessly nosy", and would ask about a prelate's business.

Thara's first prelacy was in Lohaiso, when an outbreak of sessiva overtook the area, and most who caught it died. Thara was one of the few survivors. Thara didn't have a room to himself while he worked there. The othas'ala of Lohaiso barely noticed Thara's presence. Thara spent much of his time there either helping with or observing keeping the registers of the deceased. It's possible Thara was paid more in Lohaiso than he was in Amalo. Thara witnessed for two people in Lohaiso.

The elder Witness for the Dead in Lohaiso when Thara worked there said that anyone, Witness for the Dead or no, could achieve the supposed talkativeness of people to Witnesses for the Dead by simply keeping quiet and letting people talk. A very old prelate in Lohaiso taught Thara "that people often solved their own problems, if you simply listened to them well enough." There are possibly local breathing meditations, or at least Thara learned them there.

The residents sing the ballad of Valmata's Return.

The airship Loyalty of Lohaiso is named for the city.

Residents

 * Thara Celehar (former)

Trivia

 * Mer Bershanar wears his hair in the style of the Lohaiso manufactory workers.