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Book 2. (439 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	32	"And add to the golden tarn disks," she had exclaimed, "tarn disks of silver to be formed from the masks of our women, for henceforth in Tharna no woman may wear a mask of either gold or silver, not even though she be Tatrix of Tharna herself!" And as she had spoken, according to the customs of Thar...	10
6	205	"Do not the men of Tharna revere women?" "This is not the soil of Tharna," said the officer, annoyed.	10
8	1	The City of Tharna The streets of Tharna were crowded, yet strangely silent.	10
8	52	After all, how many scarlet-clad warriors appeared from day to day in the drab streets of Tharna? I climbed one of the towers of Tharna, wanting to look out upon the city.	10
9	42	"Man of Tharna," I asked, "where can I find an inn?" "There are no inns in Tharna," said the man, looking at me closely.	10
9	53	"How many hours, Warrior," asked he, "have you been within the walls of Tharna?" "At the sixth hour I came to Tharna," I said.	10
11	54	"Does the law of Tharna not give it the right to speak, Dorna the Proud, Second in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix, whose voice, too, was imperious and cold, yet pleased me more than the tones of she who wore the silver mask.	10
11	257	"I am a woman of Tharna," she screamed, "First in Tharna! First!" Then, beside herself with rage, holding the whip in both hands, she lashed madly at me.	10
12	99	"It means one is made welcome in Tharna," said the girl, "and this means one is sent to the Great Farms to be a Field Slave, to cultivate the soil of Tharna in chains until one dies".	10
13	33	Linna, in the dungeon, had told Andreas and me that a man of Tharna must attend the Amusements of Tharna at least four times a year, and that, failing that, he must take part in them himself.	10
13	160	Had I won my freedom? Was it thus in the Amusements of Tharna? Or had the fierce, proud Tatrix now recognized the cruelty of the Amusements? Had that heart hidden in those cold, glistening robes of unfeeling gold at last relented, shown itself to be susceptible of compassion? Or had the call of just...	10
14	7	Perhaps the Amusements of Tharna were not spoiled at all; perhaps the best was yet to come? Surely my death beneath the beak and talons of a tarn would provide a gratifying spectacle for the insatiable masks of Tharna, adequate compensation for the disappointments of the afternoon, for the disregard...	10
15	252	"A pillar on the borders of Tharna," she said, "where Tharna and her enemies effect the exchange of prisoners.	10
16	33	"All Tharna is yours, Warrior," cried Dorna the Proud, "if you but relinquish our noble Tatrix! The city weeps for her return! I fear there will be no more joy in Tharna until she sits again upon her golden throne!" I laughed.	10
16	36	"A saddle, weapons, money, supplies, such things," I answered, "and the freedom of Linna of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, and those who fought this afternoon in the Amusements of Tharna".	10
18	139	"Show us what a man of Tharna can do!" It was a challenge which had been put to few men of Tharna.	10
19	75	"Think, Kron of Tharna," I cried, "soon tarnsmen will fly from the walls of Tharna and the infantry will move against us".	10
23	169	And had it not been forbidden that he, a man of Tharna should touch her, a woman of Tharna, I think he would have reached his hand toward her.	10
23	228	Thus borne aloft, from street to street, in the midst of joyous shouting, weapons raised on all sides in salute, my ears ringing with the plowing song, once a song of the freeholds of Tharna, long since supplanted by the Great Farms, I found myself brought to that fateful Kal-da shop I remembered so...	10
24	50	Kron of Tharna spoke as might any man of any city of Gor—other than a man of Tharna.	10
24	130	At the head of that splendid, ragged procession five marched; Kron, chief of the rebels; Andreas, a poet; his woman, Linna of Tharna, unveiled; I, a warrior of a city devastated and cursed of the Priest-Kings; and a girl with golden hair, a girl who wore no mask, who had known both the whip and love...	10
26	1	A Letter from Tarl Cabot Inscribed in the City of Tharna, the Twenty-Third Day of En'Kara in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Lara, Tatrix, of Tharna, the Year 10,117 from the Founding of Ar.	10
6	29	There was reputedly one exception to this generally prevalent attitude of hostility toward the stranger, the city of Tharna, which, according to rumor, was willing to engage in what on Gor might be accounted the adventure of hospitality.	10
6	30	There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity.	10
6	36	In the cities of Gor that I knew, with the possible exception of Tharna, women had been most free in Ko-ro-ba, but now Ko-ro-ba was no more.	10
6	37	I wondered if I might be able to secure a tarn in the intriguing city of Tharna.	10
6	167	"The four men who have been following me, men from Tharna," she said.	10
6	168	"Tharna?" I asked, genuinely surprised.	10
6	169	"I thought the men of Tharna revered women, alone perhaps of the men of Gor".	10
6	171	"They are not in Tharna now," she said.	10
6	172	"They could not take you to Tharna as a slave," I said.	10
6	173	"Would the Tatrix not free you?" "They would not take me to Tharna," she responded.	10
6	180	By their shield insignia and blue helmets I knew them to be men of Tharna.	10
6	198	I admired the simple maneuver, executed without command, almost a matter of reflex, and sensed why Tharna, in spite of being ruled by a woman, had survived among the hostile cities of Gor.	10
6	203	"I am Thorn," he said, "a Captain of Tharna".	10
6	207	"Because I am a Captain of Tharna," he said.	10
6	208	"But this is not the soil of Tharna," I reminded him.	10
6	213	"Do not kill him, Thorn of Tharna.	10
7	1	Thorn, Captain of Tharna With one sound three blades sprang from their sheaths, mine, that of the officer and that of the warrior who would first engage me.	10
7	16	"Come, Thorn of Tharna," I said, beckoning to him.	10
7	20	Thorn, Captain of Tharna, looked at me, and I at him.	10
7	24	"Let us talk," said Thorn of Tharna.	10
7	116	"If you take her to Tharna," I said, "the Tatrix will free her".	10
7	117	"I will not take her to Tharna, but to my villa," said Thorn, "which lies outside the city".	10
7	119	"And there," he said, "as a good man of Tharna should, I will revere her to my heart's content".	10
7	124	"I belong to Thorn, Captain of Tharna," she said.	10
8	3	It must be as I had heard, that the streets of Tharna were open to all men who came in peace, whatever their city.	10
8	14	I remembered that in Tharna, ruled by its Tatrix, there would be few, if any, female slaves.	10
8	19	Perhaps I was most startled on the silent streets of Tharna by the free women.	10
8	20	They walked in this city unattended, with an imperious step, the men of Tharna moving to let them pass—in such a way that they never touched.	10
8	25	Wandering in the city, I found myself in Tharna's marketplace.	10
8	48	It was an intelligent precaution for Tharna to take, to keep an eye on the stranger, lest her hospitality be abused.	10
8	56	Tharna, though a city of cylinders, did not seem to my eye as beautiful as many other cities I had seen.	10
8	58	Moreover, in contrast to most cities, the cylinders of Tharna seemed excessively solemn, as if overcome by their own weight.	10
8	60	Even the horizontal plains about Tharna, marked by their occasional outcroppings of weathered boulders, seemed to be gray, rather cold and gloomy, perhaps sad.	10
8	61	Tharna was not a city to lift the heart of a man.	10
8	63	In spite of this conviction, incomprehensibly, I found myself depressed by Tharna, and wondered if it, in its way, were not somehow, subtly, more barbaric, more harsh, less human than its ruder, less noble, more beautiful sisters.	10
8	78	"What is your business in Tharna?" he asked.	10
8	81	I assumed him to be a spy, charged with learning my reasons for visiting Tharna.	10
8	91	"There is no place in Tharna for an outlaw.	10
8	123	The light drizzle of rain, almost a gray mist matching the miserable solemnity of Tharna, had not abated, and had, by now, soaked through my garments.	10
8	128	"Tatrix of Tharna," he said.	10
9	2	Here even in the noble city of Tharna there was intrigue, political strife, ambition that would not brook confinement.	10
9	3	I had been taken for an assassin, or an outlaw, been assessed as a likely instrument for the furtherance of the foul schemes of one of Tharna's dissatisfied factions.	10
9	7	"I wish no harm to Lara, Tatrix of Tharna," I told him.	10
9	16	"You will never leave the walls of Tharna alive," he said.	10
9	23	"No danger will come to you in Tharna.	10
9	28	"Welcome to Tharna!" he said, and fled across the bridge and into the cylinder.	10
9	35	In Tharna, however, famed for its hospitality, I was confident that inns would be common.	10
9	37	I decided, if worse came to worst, that I could always go to a simple Paga Tavern where, if those of Tharna resembled those of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, one might, curled in a rug behind the low tables, unobtrusively spend the night for the price of a pot of paga, a strong, fermented drink brewed from the ye...	10
9	40	It was customary to find diversions other than paga in the Paga Taverns, as well, but in gray Tharna the cymbals, drums and flutes of the musicians, the clashing of bangles on the ankles of dancing girls would be unfamiliar sounds.	10
9	46	"I am welcome in Tharna," I said.	10
9	48	"Is there no Paga Tavern near," I asked, "where I can find rest?" "There are no Paga Taverns in Tharna," said the man, I thought with a trace of amusement.	10
9	56	"Welcome to Tharna," said the man, and hurried away into the dusk.	10
9	58	I stood before the great gate of Tharna.	10
9	61	"Welcome to Tharna," said a guard, leaning on his spear in the shadows of the gate.	10
9	74	I descended three steps, and found myself in a warm, dimly lit, low-ceilinged room, cluttered with the low tables common on Gor, around which huddled groups of five or six of the gray-robed men of Tharna.	10
9	82	"I am passing through Tharna," I said.	10
9	87	In the light it was difficult to determine their caste, for they all wore the gray robes of Tharna and only a band of color on the shoulder indicated their station in the social fabric.	10
9	111	The men of Tharna who were crowded in that place looked upon me as though I might be mad.	10
9	114	I wondered if men laughed often in Tharna.	10
9	116	"Talk, laugh!" I said to the men of Tharna, who had said not a word since my entrance.	10
9	121	It was, I suppose, the Kal-da, but I like to think, too, it was just impatience with the males of Tharna, the intemperate expression of my exasperation with this gray, dismal place, its glum, solemn, listless inhabitants.	10
9	122	The men of Tharna refused to budge from their silence.	10
9	135	The men of Tharna seemed horrified.	10
9	136	One whispered, "There are no Pleasure Slaves in Tharna".	10
9	137	"Alas!" I cried, "not a bangle in all Tharna!" Two or three of the men laughed.	10
9	146	"I have lived all my life in Tharna," I told them.	10
9	160	"We've been looking for you," said the other voice, which I now saw belonged to a burly guardsman of Tharna.	10
9	175	"In the name of Lara," said the man, "Tatrix of Tharna".	10
10	2	My weapons had been removed while I slept, foolish and trusting in the hospitality of Tharna.	10
10	15	He looked at me, his gray eyes frank in the Y-slot in his somber blue helmet of Tharna.	10
10	23	I respected the quiet, efficient guardsmen of Tharna, and I had already encountered her skilled warriors in a field far from the city.	10
10	25	I knew that if justice were done in Tharna I would be acquitted, yet I was uneasy—for how was I to know if my case would be fairly heard and decided? That I had been in possession of Ost's sack of coins would surely seem good prima-facie evidence of guilt, and this might well sway the decisio...	10
10	26	How would my word, the word of a stranger, weigh against the words of Ost, a citizen of Tharna and perhaps one of significance? Yet, incredibly perhaps, I looked forward to seeing the palace and the Tatrix, to meeting face to face the unusual woman who could rule, and rule well, a city of Gor.	10
10	27	Had I not been arrested I guessed I might, of my own free will, have called upon the Tatrix of Tharna, and, as one citizen had expressed it, spent my night in her palace.	10
10	28	After we had walked for perhaps some twenty minutes through the drab, graveled, twisted streets of Tharna, its gray citizens parting to make way for us and to stare expressionlessly at the scarlet-clad prisoner, we came to a broad winding avenue, steep and paved with black cobblestones, still shiny ...	10
10	33	Only one man could come or go at a time from the palace of Tharna.	10
10	35	I wondered if within this stern, brutal fortress, this palace of the Tatrix of Tharna, justice could be done.	10
10	85	"In Tharna," said he, "a man such as you can be nothing else".	10
10	96	"Here," said the man proudly, "peace is kept in Tharna".	10
10	104	"The Tatrix of Tharna is expecting you," he said.	10
11	1	Lara, Tatrix of Tharna I passed through the opening, and painfully began to climb a small, circular passage, staggering with each step under the weight of the heavy metal yoke.	10
11	19	On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the High Council of Tharna.	10
11	21	About the room, here and there, stood stern warriors of Tharna, grim in their blue helmets, each with a tiny silver mask on the temple—members of the palace guard.	10
11	26	No one need tell me that I stood in the presence of Lara, Tatrix of Tharna.	10
11	28	It was Thorn, Captain of Tharna, whom I had met in the fields far from the city.	10
11	32	"You stand before Lara, Tatrix of Tharna".	10
11	43	I knelt, yoked, before the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
11	45	"Is it thus, Stranger," she asked, her tones cold, "that you expected to carry from the city the wealth of Tharna?" I was puzzled, my body was racked with pain, my vision was blurred with sweat.	10
11	46	"The yoke is of silver," said she, "from the mines of Tharna".	10
11	48	"We of Tharna," said the Tatrix, "think so little of riches that we use them to yoke slaves".	10
11	56	It was almost as if she challenged her Tatrix, and I wondered if Dorna the Proud was content to be Second in Tharna.	10
11	61	I thought that the woman in the silver mask, who had been spoken of as Second in Tharna, seemed to stiffen with apprehension at this revelation.	10
11	66	"Why did you not kneel, Stranger?" asked the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
11	71	"Do you give orders to she who is First in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix.	10
11	79	"Confess that you stole these coins from Ost of Tharna," said the Tatrix.	10
11	114	One or two of the warriors, heedless of the proprieties of Tharna, acknowledged my deed by smiting their shields with the bronze heads of their spears.	10
11	116	"You are strong," said the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
11	120	"Let him be used in the Amusements of Tharna," urged another.	10
11	130	"Of conspiracy against the throne of Tharna," said the Tatrix.	10
11	132	"Ost," said the Tatrix, her voice like ice, "you are guilty of treason against Tharna.	10
11	152	Although the room was cool, I noted that Thorn, Captain of Tharna, was sweating.	10
11	164	"None who wear the silver mask could be disloyal to Tharna!" "Yet it is so," sniveled Ost.	10
11	171	"What think you, Dorna the Proud?" asked Lara of she who was Second in Tharna.	10
11	218	"Sometimes, Stranger," she said, "it is hard to be First in Tharna".	10
11	220	I wondered what sort of woman was the Tatrix of Tharna, what lay concealed behind that mask of gold.	10
11	225	"I came to Tharna to obtain a tarn.	10
11	239	"Golden tarn disks—unlike those of silver—are scarce in Tharna," said the Tatrix.	10
11	265	"Let him be used in the Amusements of Tharna!" she said.	10
12	25	There was a warmth in her I would not have expected to find in Tharna.	10
12	42	I supposed it indicated that she was a state slave of Tharna.	10
12	47	"I thought women were free in Tharna," I said, gesturing with my head toward the gray metal collar she wore.	10
12	48	"I will not be kept in Tharna," she said.	10
12	51	"I betrayed Tharna," she said.	10
12	63	"I am Linna of Tharna," she said.	10
12	90	"Of course not," she said, "but they are outlawed in Tharna".	10
12	101	"For how then would the ranks of Field Slaves be replenished?" "I see," I said, now understanding for the first time something of the motivation behind the hospitality of Tharna.	10
12	103	Yet I was curious, for I had never known a man not from Tharna.	10
12	109	"I had never been in the arms of a man before," she said, "for the men of Tharna may not touch women".	10
12	111	"The Caste of Physicians," she said, "under the direction of the High Council of Tharna, arranges these matters".	10
12	113	"Yet," she said, "though I had worn the silver mask, and counted myself a woman of Tharna, when he took me in his arms, I did not find the sensation unpleasant".	10
12	120	"I am a degraded creature," she said, "shamed, a traitress to all that is highest in Tharna".	10
12	126	"When he was safe," she said, "I did my duty, giving myself up, going before the High Council of Tharna and confessing all.	10
12	133	"Only in Tharna," I said.	10
12	140	"He will go away, and find himself another woman, one more lovely than a girl of Tharna".	10
12	146	"Perhaps even be used in the Amusements of Tharna".	10
13	1	The Amusements of Tharna The sun hurt my eyes.	10
13	9	"Kneel to the Tatrix of Tharna," commanded an imperious voice, speaking through some type of trumpet.	10
13	11	"Strange," said he, "usually the Tatrix does not attend the Amusements of Tharna".	10
13	13	"Kneel to the Tatrix of Tharna," repeated the imperious voice.	10
13	28	It seemed that all the glorious colors of Gor which had been denied the buildings of Tharna were lavished on this place of its amusements.	10
13	29	In the stands, shaded by the awnings, I saw hundreds of silver masks, the lofty women of Tharna, reclining on benches softened with cushions of colored silk—come to view the Amusements.	10
13	31	Several were armed warriors, perhaps stationed there to keep the peace, but many must have been common citizens of Tharna.	10
13	40	Then, to my astonishment, the men of Tharna who were yoked in the arena, kneeling, rejected by their city, condemned, chanted a strange paean.	10
13	41	Andreas and I, not being of Tharna, were alone silent, and I would guess he was as surprised as I.	10
13	42	Though we are abject beasts Fit only to live for your comfort Fit only to die for your pleasure Yet we glorify the Masks of Tharna.	10
13	43	Hail to the Masks of Tharna.	10
13	46	The voice speaking through the trumpet said, "Let the Amusements of Tharna begin".	10
13	54	The race would begin and end before the golden wall behind which, in lofty splendor, sat the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
13	72	"The Battles of Oxen," cried the women of Tharna.	10
13	84	Though yoked, we faced one another, men, each knowing that he had found a friend on the sands of the arena of Tharna.	10
13	85	My opponent was not Andreas, but a squat, powerful man with short-clipped yellow hair, Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers.	10
13	88	"I have survived the Amusements of Tharna three times," he said as he faced me.	10
13	99	"Stranger," said he, "I intend to survive the Amusements of Tharna at least once more".	10
13	151	"Sleen," cried he, "you have spoiled the Amusements of Tharna!" Two warriors hastily unbolted the horns from the yoke and dragged me to the golden wall.	10
14	2	The other prisoners, still yoked, had been whipped from the arena, to the dungeons below, to be used yet again in the Amusements of Tharna, or perhaps sent to the mines.	10
14	8	Hideous though the death might seem to the silver masks of Tharna, they did not know that I was a tarnsman, and knew these birds, their power, their ferocity; that in my way I loved them; and that as a warrior I would not find a death by tarn ignoble.	10
14	15	That I might run, that I might scream and grovel, that I might try to cover myself in the sand would surely delight the silver masks of Tharna.	10
14	23	"As something by which to remember the Tatrix of Tharna," said the voice behind the golden mask, amused.	10
14	30	There were cries of awe and wonder, of pleasure, from the thrilled silver masks of Tharna.	10
14	33	It, too, in Tharna, wore its yoke.	10
14	87	I wondered what thoughts passed behind the golden mask of Lara, Tatrix of the city of Tharna.	10
14	114	I knew that the warriors of Tharna would have to kill two of us, for the tarn would defend me to the death.	10
14	133	The silver masks of Tharna were not simply cheated of a spectacle, but dumbfounded, confused.	10
14	138	Soon the spearmen of Tharna would be upon us.	10
14	152	"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ...	10
14	157	There were cries of rage that drifted up from below as the silver masks of Tharna began to understand that they had been cheated of their prey, that the Amusements had turned out badly.	10
14	175	I saw the towers of Tharna, and the glittering oval of its arena, that cruel amphitheater, dropping away beneath the wings of the tarn.	10
14	177	Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning.	10
14	179	But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra...	10
14	180	There was Andreas of Tor, of the Caste of Singers, young, valiant, irrepressible, his hair wild like the mane of a black larl, who would rather die than try to kill me, condemned to the Amusements or the mines of Tharna.	10
14	181	And there were how many more, yoked and unyoked, bound and free, in the mines, on the Great Farms, in the city itself who suffered the misery of Tharna and her laws, who were subject to the crushing weight of her traditions, and knew at best nothing better in life than a bowl of cheap Kal-da at the ...	10
14	192	Its wicked eyes gleamed, scanning the ground, its head and beak thrust forward, its wings still, gliding silently in great sweeps, lower and lower, over the gray towers of Tharna.	10
14	193	Now we passed over the arena of Tharna, still boiling with its throbbing, angry multitudes.	10
14	194	The awnings had been struck, but the stands were still filled, as the thousands of silver masks of Tharna waited for the golden Tatrix herself to be the first to leave that scene of the macabre amusements of the gray city.	10
14	205	On every hand, robes and regalia flying, the silver masks of Tharna which had so insolently screamed but moments before for blood fled now for their lives in panic-stricken rout, trampling one another, scratching and tearing at one another, scrambling over the benches, thrusting one another even ove...	10
14	216	With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons.	10
15	17	I watched the pasangs flow by below, and saw Tharna disappear in the distance.	10
15	36	How frightful for her must have been those minutes of flight, grasped in the talons, hundreds of feet above the plains of Tharna, not knowing if she might be dropped at any instant, or carried to some ledge to be ripped to pieces by that monstrous beak, those hideous steel-shod talons.	10
15	39	Tharna did not maintain large cavalries of tarns, but it would surely be able to launch at least some squadrons of tarnsmen to rescue and avenge its Tatrix.	10
15	40	The man of Tharna, taught from birth to regard himself as an unworthy, ignoble and inferior creature, at best a dull-witted beast of burden, did not, on the whole, make a good tarnsman.	10
15	41	Yet I knew there would be tarnsmen in Tharna, and good ones, for her name was respected among the martial, hostile cities of Gor.	10
15	42	Her tarnsmen might be mercenaries, or perhaps men like Thorn, Captain of Tharna, who in spite of their city thought well of themselves and maintained at least the shreds of caste pride.	10
15	45	By now every tarnsman in Tharna should be flying.	10
15	70	With the Tatrix in hand, I might be in a position to bargain with Tharna.	10
15	106	Lara, Tatrix of Tharna, was at my feet, a supplicant.	10
15	151	"Because," she said, drawing herself to her full height, gathering the golden tattered robes about her, "I am Tatrix of Tharna".	10
15	179	Surely she would be more harmless in the Pleasure Gardens of a tarnsman than on the throne of Tharna.	10
15	199	"Can you change the laws of Tharna?" I demanded.	10
15	208	"Free all those used in the Amusements of Tharna!" The Tatrix seemed taken aback.	10
15	213	"Yes," she said, not meeting my gaze, "you have the word of the Tatrix of Tharna".	10
15	216	"My friends," I said, "are Linna of Tharna and Andreas of Tor".	10
15	220	"She is a Degraded Woman," said the Tatrix, "and he a member of a caste outlawed in Tharna".	10
15	248	"What does a woman of Tharna know of talenders?" I taunted her.	10
15	254	She added, "You will be met there by men of Tharna, who are waiting for you".	10
15	257	"Who would be fool enough to carry away the Tatrix of Tharna when she might be ransomed for the gold of a dozen Ubars?" I looked at her.	10
15	260	"No," I laughed, "it is back to Tharna with you!" I still wore the golden scarf about my neck, from the arena, that scarf which had initiated the games, and which I had picked up from the sand to wipe away the sand and sweat.	10
16	8	On the pillar itself there were three tarns, and as many warriors, and one woman, who wore the silver mask of Tharna.	10
16	10	I saw that it was Thorn, Captain of Tharna.	10
16	16	"Because I am Tatrix of Tharna," she said proudly.	10
16	58	I set her on her feet, on the top of that windy pillar on the borders of Tharna, and bent to remove the golden scarf which restrained her.	10
16	59	As soon as her wrists were free she was once again every inch the royal Tatrix of Tharna.	10
16	78	"Shackle him," she said, "and send him to the mines of Tharna".	10
16	107	The Tatrix had apparently lost interest in me, for she turned to Dorna the Proud and Thorn, Captain of Tharna.	10
16	114	Neither Dorna the Proud, nor Thorn, Captain of Tharna, answered her.	10
16	116	She pointed across the plains, toward Tharna.	10
16	117	"Warrior," said she, "if you were to remain long enough on this pillar you would see processions come to welcome me back to Tharna".	10
16	122	"Because," said Dorna the Proud, and I could tell that behind that silver mask, she smiled, "you are not going back to Tharna".	10
16	126	Painfully I was wrenched into the air and, cruelly hanging by my shackled wrists, I saw the white column dropping away beneath me, and the figures upon it, two warriors, a woman in a silver mask, and the golden Tatrix of Tharna.	10
17	1	The Mines of Tharna The room was long, low, narrow, perhaps four feet by four feet, and a hundred feet long.	10
17	3	How many such rooms lay beneath the earth of Tharna, in her many mines, I did not know.	10
17	14	I wondered how many times, under the soil of Tharna, such a chamber had been flooded, how many chained wretches had been drowned in such dismal, sewerlike traps.	10
17	15	I was no longer puzzled that the discipline in the mines of Tharna was as good as it was.	10
17	34	Why was it that we chose to live? Perhaps the question is foolish, but it did not seem so in the mines of Tharna.	10
17	37	It was Ost of Tharna, who, like Andreas and myself, had been condemned to the mines.	10
17	50	"You will inform against no one," said a voice, which I recognized as that of the bull-like Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, he whose life I had spared in the arena during the Battles of Oxen.	10
17	70	Their secret would be kept, and I would die, sooner or later, whipped and starved, in the kennels that were the mines of Tharna.	10
17	71	Tharna has perhaps a hundred or more mines, each maintained by its own chain of slaves.	10
17	90	The Whip Slave, another of the slaves of Tharna, but one in charge of the chain, was pleased with his task.	10
18	3	Each of the many mines of Tharna, perhaps a hundred or more, at one level or another, opened on this shaft.	10
18	6	It is through the central shaft that the mines of Tharna are supplied.	10
18	12	There was a new Tatrix in Tharna.	10
18	25	"He is the outlaw," said the man, "who survived the Amusements of Tharna".	10
18	31	"The tarn carried her off like a tabuk!" His laughter, which spread to the other slaves in the room, those chained to me, was uproarious, and I understood better than I had understood before the affection with which the Tatrix of Tharna was held in the mines.	10
18	34	"Was the Tatrix not returned at the Pillar, and freed?" "Everyone thought she would be," said the slave, "but the tarnsman apparently wanted her more than the riches of Tharna".	10
18	39	"Two of those who are highest in Tharna, Dorna the Proud, and Thorn, a Captain, went to the Pillar of Exchanges, but the Tatrix was never returned.	10
18	41	Only her tattered robes and the mask of gold were found, by Dorna the Proud and Thorn, Captain of Tharna".	10
18	50	"Can you imagine!" he laughed, "Lara, the Tatrix of Tharna, in pleasure silk!" The chain of slaves laughed, all except myself, and Andreas of Tor, who regarded me questioningly.	10
18	59	We were no longer dark, anonymous shapes to one another, huddling in the dampness of the mines of Tharna.	10
18	68	Yet from their faces I knew that the contagion of self-respect, of nobility, flamed in the mines beneath Tharna.	10
18	69	Here, underground, in the mines, home of that which was lowest and most degraded in Tharna, men came to look upon one another, and themselves, with satisfaction.	10
18	73	"And I," growled Kron of Tharna.	10
18	91	"You should have killed him," said Kron of Tharna.	10
18	93	The bull-like man of Tharna looked at me questioningly and shrugged.	10
18	138	"You are of Tharna," I said.	10
18	172	"I am of Tharna," he said proudly.	10
19	6	But the bull-like Kron of Tharna's hand was on the neck of the conspirator.	10
19	7	"This is a matter for the men of Tharna," said he.	10
19	28	"You will have a better chance than you gave us," said the bull-like man from Tharna.	10
19	36	* * * * It was a night like no other in the mines of Tharna.	10
19	40	We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles.	10
19	48	The man who had boasted that he had drunk Kal-da three times in the mines of Tharna wept as he gazed upward and caught sight of one of the three hurtling moons of Gor.	10
19	57	This was done as if by plan and yet I knew that it was the spontaneous action of men who had come to respect themselves, the men of the mines of Tharna.	10
19	65	I saw the great valve which I knew would flood the mines of Tharna, and saw that it remained closed.	10
19	72	"Men of Tharna," I cried, "and of the Cities of Gor, you are free!" There was a great cheer.	10
19	74	"Let her tremble!" cried Kron of Tharna in a terrible voice.	10
19	78	"We do not have the weapons or the training or the beasts we would need to stand against the soldiers of Tharna," I said.	10
19	83	We will be sought by all the soldiers and guardsmen Tharna can set upon our trail.	10
19	90	"In this cause," I said, "whether you are of the Caste of Peasants, or Poets, or Metal Workers, or Saddle-Makers, you must be warriors!" "We shall," said Kron of Tharna, his fist holding the great hammer with which he had struck off our shackles.	10
19	96	And it seemed strange to me that this rebellion, this willingness to pursue the right as they saw it, independently of the will of the Priest-Kings, had come not first from the proud Warriors of Gor, nor the Scribes, nor the Builders nor Physicians, nor any of the high castes of the many cities of G...	10
19	107	"I wish you well, Kron of Tharna," I said.	10
19	113	"Well," said he, "I have tried the Mines of Tharna, and now I think I shall try the Great Farms".	10
19	115	I fervently hoped that he would find the auburn-haired girl in the camisk, gentle Linna of Tharna.	10
20	6	I knew that I didn't have a great deal of time, for the avenging tarnsmen of Tharna would soon be visible against the three moons.	10
20	35	I had sought equipment, but I had found only a scabbard and a damaged helmet, and soon the tarnsmen of Tharna would arrive.	10
20	37	I had only reached the shelter of a line of trees when I saw, some thousand yards behind me, descending on the Compound of the Mines, like clouds of wasps, the tarnsmen of Tharna.	10
20	44	As we passed over the Pillar of Exchanges, I remembered that it was there I had been betrayed by she who was once Tatrix of Tharna.	10
20	133	I had called him that when I had recognized him in the arena of Tharna, when we had been aloft as one creature in the sky.	10
21	281	"Do you not recognize me? I was Tatrix of Tharna".	10
22	20	"I who was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, her eyes downcast, "did not wish to live as a slave".	10
22	29	"Surely you wish to exact your vengeance? Have you forgotten it was I who put you in a yoke, who whipped you, who condemned you to the Amusements, who would have given you to the tarn? That it was I who betrayed you and sent you to the Mines of Tharna?" "No," I said, my eyes hard.	10
22	45	"You did not then know I was Tatrix of Tharna," she sneered.	10
22	55	I put my arms around her slender shoulders and to my amazement she who had worn the golden mask of Tharna, she who had been Tatrix of that gray city, put her head upon my chest and wept.	10
22	59	Remember once you said it was hard to be first in Tharna.	10
22	62	"Why did you return me to Tharna?" she asked.	10
22	64	"And not for the silver and jewels of Tharna?" she asked.	10
22	73	"Why would you not keep me for your own?" It was a bold question, strange to come from this girl, once Tatrix of Tharna.	10
22	89	"You returned me to Tharna," she said, almost as if making an accusation.	10
22	101	When I was Tatrix of Tharna I hated you.	10
22	111	He scattered my council and defeated my armies and took me and stripped me and bound me naked across the saddle of his bird and then, with a great cry, he carried me to his city, and there I, once proud Tatrix of Tharna, wore his brand and collar".	10
22	121	"In his arms I learned what Tharna could not teach.	10
22	125	"I would not," she said, "have given up his collar for all the gold and silver in Tharna, not for all the stones of her gray walls".	10
22	127	"Was I free in Tharna?" she asked.	10
22	129	"Of course," she said, "as one who wore the mask of Tharna I put this dream from me.	10
22	140	"Though I was Tatrix of Tharna," she said, "I wanted to lie at your feet on the scarlet rug, I wanted to be bound with yellow cords".	10
22	141	I recalled that she had said something of a rug and cords in the council chamber of Tharna, when she had seemed consumed with rage, when it seemed she wanted to lash the flesh from my bones.	10
22	143	"In ancient days, in Tharna," said Lara, "things were different than they are today".	10
22	144	And then, in the slaver's tent, Lara, who had been Tatrix of Tharna, told me something of the strange history of her city.	10
22	145	In the beginning Tharna had been much as other cities of Gor, in which women were too little regarded and enjoyed too few rights.	10
22	146	In those days it had been a portion of the Rites of Submission, as practiced in Tharna, to strip and bind the captive with yellow cords and place her on a scarlet rug, the yellow of the cord being symbolic of talenders, a flower often associated with feminine love and beauty, the scarlet of the rug ...	10
22	158	Thus by the laws of Tharna do I claim you.	10
22	164	Over a period of time this cruel practice fell into disuse and the women of Tharna came to be more reasonably and humanely regarded.	10
22	169	Accordingly, gradually exploiting, perhaps unconsciously, the opportunities afforded by the training of children and the affections of their men, the women of Tharna improved their position considerably over the generations, also adding to their social power the economic largesse of various funds an...	10
22	171	And just as in our own world it is possible to condition entire populations to believe what is, from the standpoint of another population, incomprehensible and absurd, so in Tharna both the men and the women came eventually to believe the myths or the distortions advantageous to female dominance.	10
22	172	Thus it was, gradually and unnoticed, that the gynocracy of Tharna came to be established, and honored with the full weight of tradition and custom, those invisible bonds heavier than chains because they are not understood to exist.	10
22	175	In a city such as Tharna the men, taught to regard themselves as beasts, as inferior beings, seldom develop the full respect for themselves essential to true manhood.	10
22	176	But even more strangely, the women of Tharna do not seem content under the gynocracy.	10
22	180	I have wondered how long nature's laws, if laws they are, can be subverted in Tharna.	10
22	181	I have sensed how a man in Tharna longs to take the mask from a woman, and I have suspected how much a woman longs for her mask to be taken.	10
22	182	Should there ever be a revolution in the ways of Tharna I would pity her women—at least at first—for they would be the object of the pent-up frustrations of generations.	10
22	183	If the pendulum should swing in Tharna, it would swing far.	10
22	200	"I noted by the blue helmet," he said, "that you were of Tharna".	10
22	201	"No," I said, "I am not of Tharna".	10
22	228	"I am not of Tharna," I said.	10
22	235	And so it was that I took the cords from her hand, and in the same night Lara who had once been the proud Tatrix of Tharna became according to the ancient rites of her city my slave girl—and a free woman.	10
23	1	Return to Tharna Outside the camp of Targo, Lara and I climbed a small hill and stood on its crest.	10
23	22	Yet though I could not repress my admiration of this girl and the transformation which had been wrought in her from the cold Tatrix of Tharna to the humiliated slave to the glorious creature who now stood beside me my thoughts were mostly in the Sardar, for I knew that I had not yet kept my appointm...	10
23	46	"Return you to the throne of Tharna," I said.	10
23	57	"Must you return me to Tharna?" she asked.	10
23	58	"I hate Tharna".	10
23	60	"And I believe you can make Tharna such that you will hate it no longer".	10
23	67	"No tears," I said, "for you are Tatrix of Tharna".	10
23	69	"Of course, Warrior," she said, "there must be no tears—for I am Tatrix of Tharna and a Tatrix does not cry".	10
23	73	"It is hard to be first in Tharna," I said, and led her down the hillock, away from the Sardar Mountains.	10
23	74	* * * * The fires which had begun to burn in the Mines of Tharna had not been quenched.	10
23	77	Angry men, armed with whatever tools of destruction they might find, prowled the land, evading the sorties of Tharna's soldiers, hunting for granaries to rob, for buildings to burn, for slaves to free.	10
23	98	The army of Tharna had struck here and there, at reported hiding places of slaves, but almost invariably they had found nothing.	10
23	102	In time it became dangerous for the small cavalries of Tharna to assault them, to brave the storm of missile weapons which would seem to rise almost from the very ground itself.	10
23	103	Often indeed ambushes were laid wherein a small band of slaves would allow itself to be trailed into the rocky passes of the ridge country about Tharna, where their pursuers would be assailed by hidden cohorts; sometimes tarnsmen would descend to capture a slave only to meet the arrows of a hundred ...	10
23	104	Perhaps in time, however, the undisciplined but courageous bands of slaves would have been scattered and destroyed by the units of Tharna, save that the very revolution which had begun in the mines and spread to the Great Farms now flamed in the city itself.	10
23	109	The silver masks of Tharna, when they were able, had escaped to the portions of the city still in the command of the soldiers.	10
23	112	It was late in the afternoon of the fifth day that we saw in the distance the gray walls of Tharna.	10
23	116	The main gate of Tharna hung open on its hinges, and small isolated figures scurried in and out.	10
23	122	There was no tarn cot at hand in which to enclose him, and, moreover, even if there had been, I would not have trusted him to the tarn-keepers of Tharna.	10
23	124	Perhaps mostly I wanted the bird to be free in case my hopes met with disaster, in case the Tatrix and I were to perish in some back street of Tharna.	10
23	156	"Here," I said, gesturing to the beautiful girl at my side, "is Lara, the true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
23	168	"Forgive me, true Tatrix of Tharna," he begged.	10
23	191	* * * * We began to work our torturous way through the grim, bloodstained streets of Tharna.	10
23	196	Largely, the streets were deserted, save that here and there lay a body, sometimes that of a warrior of Tharna, more often one of its gray-clad citizens.	10
23	199	I suspected there was not a door in Tharna but was not barred that day.	10
23	206	There were wolves in the streets of Tharna.	10
23	229	It had become a headquarters of the revolution, perhaps because men of Tharna recalled that it was there they had learned to sing.	10
23	234	Behind Andreas, in the dress of a free woman, unveiled, her throat no longer encircled by the collar of a state slave, I saw the breathless, radiant Linna of Tharna.	10
23	237	"Welcome to Tharna!" said he.	10
23	238	"Welcome to Tharna!" "Yes," said Kron, only a step behind him, seizing my arm.	10
23	239	"Welcome to Tharna!".	10
24	8	It might have been a Paga Tavern of Ko-ro-ba or Ar, not a simple Kal-da shop of Tharna.	10
24	16	I wondered at this, for the Caste of Musicians had been, like the Caste of Poets, exiled from Tharna.	10
24	17	Theirs, like the Caste of Poets, had been a caste regarded by the sober masks of Tharna as not belonging in a city of serious and dedicated folk, for music, like paga and song, can set men's hearts aflame, and when men's hearts are aflame it is not easy to know where the flame may spread.	10
24	20	It had been so determined at the Mines of Tharna.	10
24	22	I wondered what impression the Kal-da shop would have on the true Tatrix of Tharna.	10
24	26	She had not known the men of Tharna could be like this.	10
24	39	"Where in Tharna," I asked, "did you find Pleasure Slaves?" I had noted that the throats of the girls were encircled by silver collars.	10
24	43	"Are these truly silver masks of Tharna?" I asked Kron, skeptically.	10
24	61	"That," I said to Kron, pointing out Lara, "is the Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	69	"I am going to the Sardar," I said, "but I first have business in Tharna".	10
24	72	"I have come to place Lara once more on the throne of Tharna," I said.	10
24	75	"I do not know how she has bewitched you, but we will have no Tatrix in Tharna!" "She is everything that we fight against," protested Andreas.	10
24	77	Tharna would once more be the same".	10
24	78	"Tharna," I said, "will never again be the same".	10
24	93	"You are men of Tharna," I said.	10
24	94	"But the men you fight are also of Tharna".	10
24	97	"Is it right that the men of Tharna lift their weapons against one another, men within the same walls?" "It is a sad thing," said Kron.	10
24	100	"The soldiers and guardsmen of Tharna are pledged to the Tatrix, but the Tatrix they defend is a traitress.	10
24	101	The true Tatrix of Tharna, Lara herself, is within this room".	10
24	110	"The soldiers of Tharna and her guardsmen will forsake the false Tatrix and serve the true Tatrix," I said.	10
24	113	"She will bring a new day to Tharna.	10
24	115	She has learned how cruel and miserable are the ways of Tharna.	10
24	116	Look at her!" And the men watched the girl quietly pouring the Kal-da, willingly sharing the labors of the other women of Tharna.	10
24	120	"No," I said, "you fought against the cruel ways of Tharna.	10
24	122	"We fought against the golden mask of Tharna," shouted Kron, pounding his fist on the table.	10
24	147	Trained infantry, incidentally, might move rapidly through the streets of a city with shields locked over their heads, much in the fashion of the Roman testudo, but this formation requires discipline and precision, martial virtues not to be expected in high degree of the rebels of Tharna.	10
24	150	Though he wore the blue helmet of Tharna I knew that it was Thorn.	10
24	155	When at last I stood unslain on the black cobblestones at the foot of the double rampart I knew that though Dorna the Proud might rule in Tharna, though it might be she who sat upon the golden throne of the city, that it was the word of a warrior that ruled on those ramparts above me.	10
24	164	"I come on behalf of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna.	10
24	167	I ask this in the name of Lara, and of the city of Tharna and its people.	10
24	171	Dorna is Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	178	"The Tatrix of Tharna," sneered Thorn, looking on the unconcealed features of Lara, "wears a golden mask".	10
24	179	"The Tatrix of Tharna," said Lara, "no longer chooses to wear a mask of gold".	10
24	187	Then treacherously I was set upon and sent to the Mines of Tharna, and Dorna the Proud and Thorn, this Captain, seized Lara, your Tatrix, and sold her into slavery—sold her to the slaver Targo, whose camp is now at the Fair of En'Kara, sold her for the sum of fifty silver tarn disks!" "What h...	10
24	191	"You heard him," I cried, "say to me that he should have killed me on the Pillar of Exchanges! You know that it was I who stole your Tatrix at the Amusements of Tharna.	10
24	192	Why would I have gone to the Pillar of Exchanges if not to surrender her to the envoys of Tharna?" A voice cried out from behind the barricade.	10
24	193	"Why did you not take more men with you to the Pillar of Exchanges, Thorn of Tharna?" Thorn turned angrily in the direction of the voice.	10
24	199	I saw that it was the young warrior whose wound Lara and I had tended on the wall of Tharna.	10
24	202	"Back to your post!" Other warriors in the blue helmets and gray tunics of Tharna had climbed to the top of the barricade, to see more clearly what befell.	10
24	205	"Your swords are pledged to your city, to its walls, to your people and your Tatrix! Serve her!" "I shall serve the true Tatrix of Tharna!" cried the young warrior.	10
24	207	"Take up your sword," she said, "in the name of Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	210	"I take up my sword," he said, "in the name of Lara, who is true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
24	212	"Who is true Tatrix of Tharna!" he cried.	10
24	218	"You are Stam," she said, "first guardsman of the north gate and can cast your spear farther than any man of Tharna.	10
24	221	"You are Tai," said she, "a tarnsman, wounded in the war with Thentis in the year before I ascended the throne of Tharna".	10
24	225	"You could not," said the man, "for I am a mercenary of Ar who took service in Tharna only within the time of the revolt".	10
24	235	The men of Tharna seized one another in their arms and clasped their hands in concord.	10
24	261	On the throne there sat a woman clad in the golden robes and mask of the Tatrix of Tharna.	10
25	1	The Roof of the Palace The war cries of Tharna and Ko-ro-ba mingled as Thorn hurled himself down the stairs toward me and I raced toward him.	10
25	11	Seemingly almost impassive, the golden-robed figure on the throne watched the two warriors moving backward and forward before her, one clad in the blue helmet and gray tunic of Tharna, the other in the universal scarlet of the Gorean Caste of Warriors.	10
25	43	Once again her head fell to the stained chest of the Captain of Tharna and her body shook with sobs.	10
25	63	There were three men on the roof, two guardsmen and the man with the wrist straps, who had served as the master of the dungeons of Tharna.	10
25	67	Inside the basket was a woman whose carriage and figure I knew to be that of Dorna the Proud, though she now wore only a simple silver mask of Tharna.	10
25	72	The squeal must have carried to the walls of Tharna.	10
25	102	"You no longer rule in Tharna," said the other warrior simply.	10
25	126	"Stay to face the justice of Tharna," I said.	10
25	135	"You were never worthy to be Tatrix of Tharna.	10
25	136	I alone was worthy to be true Tatrix of Tharna".	10
25	137	"The Tharna of which you speak," said Lara, "no longer exists".	10
25	138	Then as if with one voice soldiers, guardsmen and rebels lifted their weapons and saluted Lara as true Tatrix of Tharna.	10
25	139	"Hail Lara, true Tatrix of Tharna!" they cried, and as was the custom of the city, five times were those weapons brandished and five times did that glad shout ring out.	10
25	148	Then the bird was only a speck in the blue sky over the free city of Tharna.	10
25	157	I wondered, if this happened, if she would bitterly recall the Amusements of Tharna.	10
26	2	Tal to the men of Earth— In these past days in Tharna I have taken the time to write this story.	10
26	9	They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.	10
26	13	But let me now speak of Tharna.	10
26	14	Tharna is now a different city than it has ever been within the memory of living man.	10
26	16	If she were not loved as she is by the men of Tharna her task would have been impossible.	10
26	18	From this amnesty only the silver masks of Tharna were excepted.	10
26	19	Blood was high in the streets of Tharna after the revolt and angry men, both rebels and defenders, joined in the brutal hunt for silver masks.	10
26	23	Soon the animal cages beneath the arena of the Amusements of Tharna had to be pressed into service, and then the arena itself.	10
26	26	Most of the silver masks however, when it was understood their battle had been lost and the laws of Tharna were irrevocably shattered, came of their own free will into the streets and submitted themselves in the traditional fashion of the captive Gorean female, kneeling, lowering the head, and lifti...	10
26	27	The pendulum in Tharna had swung.	10
26	29	No more would that cold serene visage survey the throne room of Tharna.	10
26	30	The men of Tharna watched almost in disbelief as the great mask loosened, bolt by bolt, from the wall, leaned forward and at last, dragged down by its own weight, broke loose and plunged clattering down the steps of the throne, breaking into a hundred pieces.	10
26	31	"Let it be melted," Lara had said, "and cast into the golden tarn disks of Tharna and let these be distributed to those who have suffered in our day of troubles".	10
26	33	In the streets of Tharna shortly after the end of the revolt the caste colors of Gor began to appear openly in the garments of the citizens.	10
26	38	The sound of caravan bells is no longer strange in Tharna and strings of traders have found their way to her gates, to exploit this most surprising of all markets.	10
26	42	It is perhaps a small thing to see on the belt of an artisan a silver buckle of the style worn in mountainous Thentis or to note the delicacy of dried eels from Port Kar in the marketplace, but these things, small though they are, speak to me of a new Tharna.	10
26	46	One change that I find of interest, though I cannot heartily approve, is that the rails have been removed from the high bridges of Tharna.	10
26	48	One might also mention that the men of Tharna have formed the custom of wearing in the belt of their tunic two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches in length.	10
26	49	By this sign alone men of other cities can now recognize a man of Tharna.	10
26	50	On the twentieth day following peace in Tharna the fate of the silver masks was determined.	10
26	51	They were herded, roped throat to throat, unveiled, wrists bound behind their backs, in long lines to the arena of the Amusements of Tharna.	10
26	53	They knelt before her—once proud silver masks, now terrified and helpless captives—on the same sparkling sand that had so often been stained with the blood of the men of Tharna.	10
26	57	I recognized that it was not possible to restore the old order of Tharna, nor was it desirable.	10
26	58	Too I recognized that there was no longer any adequate provision—given the destruction of Tharna's institutions—for the indefinite shelter of large numbers of free women within her walls.	10
26	59	The family, for example, had not existed in Tharna for generations, having been replaced by the division of the sexes and the segregated public nurseries.	10
26	60	And too it must be remembered that the men of Tharna who had tasted her women in the revolt now demanded them as their right.	10
26	65	But within that six months she is expected to find a man of Tharna to whom she will propose herself as a Free Companion.	10
26	66	If he does not accept her as a Free Companion—and few men of Tharna will be in a mood to extend the privileges of Free Companionship to a silver mask—he may then, without further ado, simply collar her as his slave, or if he wishes he may reject her completely.	10
26	67	If she is rejected she may propose herself similarly to yet another of the men of Tharna, and perhaps yet another and another.	10
26	70	In effect, considering the temper of the men of Tharna, Lara's judgment gives the silver masks the opportunity, for a time, to choose a master, or after that time to be themselves chosen as a slave girl.	10
26	73	It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love.	10
26	77	Kron remains in Tharna, where he stands high in the Council of the Tatrix Lara.	10
26	80	The girl Vera of Ko-ro-ba, at least for the time, will reside in Tharna, where she will live as a free woman.	10
26	84	And, too, in Tharna would be found the memory of Thorn, a captain.	10
26	99	"And if the time should come, Warrior, when you should desire a slave girl, some girl to wear your silk and your collar, your brand if you wish—remember Lara, who is Tatrix of Tharna".	10
26	103	She will rule in Tharna and rule well, and I will begin the journey to the Sardar.	10
26	126	I have found it at the tables of sword companions and in the clash of the metals of war, in the touch of a girl's lips and hair, in the blood of a sleen, in the sands and chains of Tharna, in the scent of talenders and the hiss of the whip.	10
26	130	It is toward evening now, and the lamps of love are lit in many of the windows of the cylinders of Tharna.	10
26	131	The beacon fires are set upon her walls, and I can hear the cry of distant guardsmen that all is well in Tharna.	10

Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	14	I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events ...	10
2	2	It took not much time to purchase a small bundle of supplies to take into the Sardar, nor was it difficult to find a scribe to whom I might entrust the history of the events at Tharna.	10
6	18	I had tasted some only once before, having been introduced to them at a feast given in my honor by Lara, who was Tatrix of the city of Tharna.	10
7	43	It is the common property of the Administrator of Ar, a herdsman beside the Vosk, a peasant from Tor, a scribe from Thentis, a metal worker from Tharna, a physician from Cos, a pirate from Port Kar, a warrior from Ko-ro-ba.	10
7	47	It occurred to me that Vika, in some ways, resembled Lara, who was Tatrix of Tharna, for whom I had cared.	10
8	142	If the issue was grain, of course, there would be little point in going to Thentis, for she imports her own, but her primary wealth, her tarn flocks, is not negligible, and she also possesses silver, though her mines are not as rich as those of Tharna.	10
33	42	There were men in that crowd from Ar, from Thentis, from Tharna, recognized by the two yellow cords in their belt; from Port Kar; from Tor, Cos, Tyros; perhaps from Treve, Vika's home city; perhaps even from fallen, vanished Ko-ro-ba; and the men in that crowd were of all castes, and even of castes ...	10
34	198	I remained some days beside the Sardar, in the camp of some men from Tharna, whom I had known several months before.	10
34	199	I regret that among them was not the dour, magnificent, yellow-haired Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, who had been my friend.	10
34	200	These men of Tharna, mostly small tradesmen in silver, had come for the autumn fair, the Fair of Se'Var, which was just being set up at the time of the gravitational lessening.	10

Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	12	About Kutaituchik there were piled various goods, mostly vessels of precious metal and strings and piles of jewels; there was silk there from Tyros; silver from Thentis and Tharna; tapestries from the mills of Ar; wines from Cos; dates from the city of Tor.	10
8	23	Naturally, as a Koroban, and one with a certain affection for the cities of Gor, particularly those of the north, particularly Ko-ro-ba, Ar, Thentis and Tharna, I was not disappointed at the likelihood that a Ubar San would not be elected.	10
22	67	Some Gorean coins are drilled, incidentally, to allow stringing, the coins of Tharna, for example; Turian coins, and most others, are not.	10

Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	229	I felt the sword in my hand, brought to me by Ho-Tu, the sword I had carried in the siege of Ar, years before, which I had taken to Tharna, which I had carried to the very nest of Priest-Kings, which had been with me on the vast, southern prairies of Gor, and which I had brought once more to the gat...	10

Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	496	I could never again face those I had known, Kron of Tharna, Andreas of Tor, Kamchak of the Tuchuks, Relius and Ho-Sorl of Ar, none of them.	10
11	246	"Yes!" "And," I said, "what of Ar, and Ko-ro-ba, and Treve, and Thentis, and Turia, and Tharna and Tor!" "Yes, yes, yes!" he whimpered.	10
13	520	It was, accordingly, no accident that I, Bosk, from the marshes, in the Fifth Passage Hand of the year 10,120 from the founding of the city of Ar, four months after the unsuccessful coup of Henrius Sevarius in the city of Port Kar, stood admiral on the stern castle of my flagship, the Dorna of Tharn...	10
18	514	At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of Priest-Kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself, when I had seemed to serve ...	10

Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	228	Seldom will one find there Torian rolls of gold wire, interlocking cubes of silver from Tharna, rubies carved into tiny, burning panthers from Schendi, nutmegs and cloves, spikenard and peppers from the lands east of Bazi, the floral brocades, the perfumes of Tyros, the dark wines, the gorgeous, dia...	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	109	Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...	10
22	32	Not in the arena of Tharna! I blocked the heavy yoke locked on Kron, the iron horns tearing at me.	10
22	863	Perhaps she would be sold south to Schendi or Bazi, or north to a jarl of Torvaldsland, Scagnar or Hunjer, or across Thassa to Tabor or Asperiche, or taken up the Vosk in a cage to an inland city, perhaps eventually to find herself in Ko-ro-ba, Thentis or Tharna, or even Ar itself.	10

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	5	No longer was it set with festive yellow and scarlet cloths, woven in distant Tor; no longer did it bear the freight of plates of silver from the mines of Tharna, nor of cunningly wrought goblets of gold from the smithies of luxurious Turia, Ar of the south.	10
1	93	He had restored Lara, Tatrix of Tharna, to her throne.	10
1	342	Yet, to be sure, it was less than she would have brought if expertly displayed on the block in Turia or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Tharna, or Port Kar.	10
2	254	It was fastened at the left shoulder by a large circular brooch of silver, probably from Tharna.	10
5	253	I put a silver tarsk, of Tharna, on the scale.	10
5	257	"Tharna, too," I said, "is apparently tampering with her coinage".	10
10	543	"I had her for a broken coin," he said, "half a silver tarn disk of Tharna.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	15	I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in...	10

Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	28	Are the slaves of Ar, for example, more beautiful than those of, say, Ko-ro-ba, or Tharna? Men, the beasts, heatedly discuss such questions.	10
5	125	Ti lies on the Olni, a tributary of the Vosk, north of Tharna.	10
5	126	Tharna, sometimes called the City of Silver, is well known for the richness of her silver mines.	10
5	128	This seems paradoxical, for in Tharna, of the hundreds of known Gorean cities, the position of women is surely among the lowest.	10
5	129	The sign of a man of Tharna is two yellow cords carried at the belt, suitable for the binding of the hands and feet of a female.	10
5	130	At one time apparently women were dominant in Tharna but this situation, in a revolution of the males, was overturned.	10
5	131	Few women in Tharna, even now, years later, are permitted out of the collar.	10
20	239	I saw by her silk she was from the Cords of Tharna, an establishment competitive with the Chatka and Curla.	10
20	638	"There is a sailor here," said he, "who is drunk, from the Cords of Tharna, who is calling for you".	10
25	240	"Of Ar, and of Port Kar, and of Cos and Tharna, and of a world," said Samos.	10
27	159	"Master," said he, "we have many pagas, those of Ar and Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba, and Helmutsport, and Anango, and Tharna!" "Sul paga!" shouted Thurnus.	10

Book 12. (12 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	708	Once he had been bested by Sabo of Turia, at the Tharna tournaments, and he had wept with joy and embraced the victor, thanking him for letting him participate in such a beautiful game.	10
2	725	"Do you know that Philemon of Teletus will play Stengarius of Ti, and that Hobart of Tharna will match wits with Boris of Turia?" "No," said Samos, ruefully.	10
3	3	He had won her in Girl Catch, in a contest to decide a trade dispute between two small cities, Ven and Rarn, the former a river port on the Vosk, the second noted for its copper mining, lying southeast of Tharna.	10
3	131	"Buy the silver of Tharna," called a man.	10
3	134	At his belt, as did the men of Tharna, he wore two yellow cords, each about eighteen inches long.	10
3	140	I glanced to the kneeling woman in the booth of the man from Tharna.	10
3	143	There are few free women in Tharna.	10
3	144	One of the most harsh and cruel slaveries on Gor, it is said, is that of the slave girls of Tharna.	10
3	145	"Where are odds made on the Kaissa matches," I asked the fellow from Tharna.	10
3	665	I had not had it since Tharna.	10
4	179	Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...	10
15	848	The major exception to these ratios is the city of Tharna, in which almost every woman is a slave".	10

Book 13. (3 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	199	These four taverns, if it is of interest, are the Veminium, the Kailiauk, the Slaves of Ar, and the Silver of Tharna.	10
57	166	If I had to make a choice I would suspect that it might be most difficult for a woman to wear her chains in the city of Tharna.	10
57	168	Tharna is one of the few Gorean cities in which the great majority of its women are enslaved.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	130	This suggested to me that if he had ever been of Tharna he now, at any rate, was no longer of Tharna.	10

Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
26	56	Even to this day women in Tharna are kept almost uniformly as helpless, abject slaves, the men of Tharna having an excellent memory for history.	10

Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
61	543	Some women follow men of Tharna beyond their own city's gates, begging to be taken to Tharna.	10

Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	132	There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...	10
15	169	Tharlarion races in Venna were underway, Centius of Cos, guaranteed safe conduct, had won the kaissa garland in the Argentum competitions; an attempt to elevate and standardize cargo fees on the Vosk had failed; the migration of four-gilled parsit fish had begun; Rencers had raised the shelter price...	10