At the time of the mission to destroy Thread, a ninth Weyr was proposed to relieve the overcrowding in every one of the older Weyrs. A favored site was examined at the eastern end of the Western Barrier Range. On the western shore of the Caspian Lake, at the confluence between the edge of the wide Rubicon River and the small inner sea, a small body of water full of granite cliffs that once housed Xanadu stakehold. Wide stone steps were cut in the granite leading down to the lake shore. The dwelling itself had been built of the native stone. Its chimney stack still stood into the Ninth Pass. The imperssive vista in the sheltered valley and the broad lake with the interesting chimneylike islets would make a good weyr when Thread no longer fell. Excerpt from Dragonlover's Guide to Pern 2nd Ed. by Jody Lynn Nye.
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