What is "posterns"

Usage examples of "posterns".

We know of only two posterns set by Elsenar—the one from Narvok's lair to Lormt, which has been destroyed, and the one from Lormt to Krevonel Castle, which is restricted to those of Elsenar's blood—but might not he and perhaps other mages from Escore, of the Dark as well as of the Light, have set similar postern spells in the past?

At first, I did not recall the details of that… unnatural experience, but now that you discuss the matter of Gates and posterns, I remember certain of Elsenar's thoughts concerning such things.

Surely additional documents of his may yet be discovered—perhaps some which identify the sites of other posterns or Gates.

So much depended upon what further evidence we could provide concerning Elsenar's plans to detect and, we had to hope, also seal or render harmless any Gates or posterns through which the Dark Forces of Escore might attack Estcarp.

Our exhaustive search had disclosed two more tantalizing fragments in Elsenar's hand, but neither contained the details we craved concerning how to detect or block posterns and Gates.

The huge bed, with its images of fools and lords carved into its posterns and the pineapples at its top, had been her mother and father's bed a week ago.