Hissar

Hissar is a port city on the coast of Seven Cities, its people called Hissari, roughly a month's sail from Aren. The Malazan Empire holds it: a Fist governs, the Malazan 7th Army garrisons it, and the imperial compound at the western gate encloses barracks, an administrative building and a training field behind stone walls. Order in the streets is kept with the help of the Hissar Guard, raised from local troops. For all that it is an important harbour and a central landing for the occupation, the city was built with its spiritual back to the sea. From the desert trading camps outside the main west gate the Dryjhna colonnade runs, lined with guldindha trees, through the middle of the city, passing unwalled estate gardens on its way to the palace of the old Holy Falah'd, whose immense walls of mortared mud brick are ringed by ancient buildings and narrow alleys.