What is "duchies"

Usage examples of "duchies".

We are both well aware of not only what we owe you, but also what the whole Six Duchies owes you.

I think Regal wakened a lust for blood sport in the Six Duchies, with his King's Circle and justice by combat.

It was something everyone in the Six Duchies should always recall, and again I resolved to make an attempt at a history of that time.

I first came to the Six Duchies, and to Shrewd's court all those years ago, to seek a way to fend off a disaster.

He paused before Verity's unfinished map of the Six Duchies on my wall, glanced into the nook that was Hap's sleeping alcove, and then leaned in the door of my bedchamber.

Thus was Verity as Dragon animated, and thus were the Six Duchies saved from the depredations of the Red Ship Raiders of the Out Islands, for Verity as Dragon led the ancient Elderling dragons as they cleansed the Six Duchies of the invaders.

Others, of course, say we should put that war behind us, as Six Duchies and Outislanders have always moved from war to trade.

Thus it was that when war came to the shores of the Six Duchies in the reign of King Shrewd, there were no Skill coteries to aid the Farseer reign in the defense of the kingdom.

The Six Duchies legends always referred to the Elderlings, an ancient and powerful race who dwelt somewhere beyond the Mountain Kingdom and were our allies in times of old.

Despite the enmity of the Red Ship War, and the years of sporadic raiding that preceded it, almost every family in the Coastal Duchies will acknowledge having "a cousin in the Out Islands.

All acknowledge that the folk of the Coastal Duchies are of those mingled bloodlines.

In times past, they were raiders by necessity as well as by inclination, and robbed one another as often as they ventured across the seas to harry the Six Duchies coastline.

Only the devastation of the Six Duchies dragons was sufficient to shatter his merciless hold over his own people.

But if he were shown to his dukes as a beast, all would come undone, and the Six Duchies will never become the Seven Duchies, but will instead be reduced to squabbling city-states and lands between that know no rule.

Better, I would think, to wait another five years, let the trade swell slowly between the countries, let Dutiful take up the reins of the Six Duchies, and then propose an alliance.