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Monday, October 17, 2011

Ishak Pasa Palace

image via agt.si.edu
The east is calling me.

First Gobeklitepe, then Zeugma, and now Ishak Pasa Palace. This place looks liked it dropped right out of a fantasy novel. No?

Ishak Pasa Palace (circa 1685) seems a pretty nice pied-à-terre for Sybil (my MC), especially since the palace is gorgeous and waaaaay out in Doğubeyazıt. Few tourists find there way out there these days, but once upon a time, the palace was strategically situated on an important trade route. What do you know? Djinn love that abandoned palace thing.


image via wikipedia
I know Sybil would enjoy exploring the compound - because that's what the palace really is - a bunch of buildings connected with halls. There's a mosque in the middle and a harem. Plenty of little nooks and carved out niches to discover or hide in...

Outside there are jagged mountains, bare plains, a town: all the stuff I need for an interesting setting.

BUT I still have work to do on the first ms and a second ms I'm planning for NaNoWriMo is set up in the forests of Trabzon. Guess I'll just have to let this idea roll around and gather some cobwebs in my head. Maybe the next time I think of the palace, I'll know exactly how to use it.
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10 comments:

  1. Jessica BellOctober 17, 2011 at 6:11 AM

    WOW! This looks amazing. I want to visit!

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  2. SarahOctober 17, 2011 at 7:12 AM

    Beautiful--and definitely a great setting for a story!

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  3. Old KittyOctober 17, 2011 at 9:01 AM

    I want to live there now and change my name to Sybil! :-). Thank you! Take care
    x

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  4. Matthew MacNishOctober 17, 2011 at 9:46 AM

    In that top photo it looks like it's looking across the valley at Minas Tirith.

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  5. Carolyn VOctober 17, 2011 at 10:28 AM

    Wow. It's gorgeous.

    Good luck with the ms. =)

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  6. LTMOctober 17, 2011 at 10:45 AM

    wow. That DOES look straight out of a fantasy novel. Is that top picture real? Use it! Use it! :D

    can't wait~

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  7. Hart JohnsonOctober 17, 2011 at 12:00 PM

    Oh, what fabulous ideas that inspires! I always think of palaces having town built up around them, but that abandoned thing has romance to it.

    Glad you're doing NaNoWriMo! We need to be sure to connect there!

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  8. KatOwens: Insect CollectorOctober 17, 2011 at 2:02 PM

    Gorgeous photos- it looks absolutely magical.

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  9. Golden EagleOctober 17, 2011 at 3:53 PM

    It looks beautiful! I especially like the first picture--imagine the view from the palace itself.

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  10. SouthpawOctober 17, 2011 at 7:25 PM

    I would love to explore that palace. It does look magical and right out of a fantasy novel.

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