Keris Quotes

“In those days, Keris was at its height, an enchanted city of gold and sorcery. They kept not a fleet of ships but rather a fleet of sea-dragons, who went all around the world, and brought back wonders. And they also bred horses, whose sires were gifts of the korriganed, for Queen Malgven to ride. And these horses could run upon the sea as swiftly as destriers run upon the earth.”
― Katherine Arden, The Unicorn Hunters

“Spread before them was a white causeway, paved with oyster shells that glimmered in the last of the moonlight. The water lapped it on either side, and beyond was a walled city, with the sea moving lazy as a loving hand against the base of its walls.
It looked like a heap of stars rising massively toward a crown of gold-tipped towers, lit as though for a festival night. Windows and streets shone, fires flickered in the tiers of the spiraling street, perfect as jewel-work. Even in that fading light, she could make out colors, as though those firelit roofs contained hidden places: gardens, perhaps, or painted chapels.
For a breath she was sure she dreamed.
Then the smell of salt and bladder-wrack and something fishy came to her nose and faintly she saw the masts of ships, a black forest starred with lanterns, in the sea beyond the walls. It was real. It was all piercingly real. This was Keris, the drowned jewel of Brittany. But it was not drowned. It stood shining in the Lost Lands, where no man had seen it for a thousand years. It was larger than Nantes, and more beautiful.
It was the loveliest thing she had ever seen.”
― Katherine Arden, The Unicorn Hunters