The Moors

The Moors is a Logical, Wicked world that is the main setting in Down Among the Sticks and Bones. It briefly features in Every Heart a Doorway.

Description
The door to the Moors opens up in different places, but the one featured in the books is a Chest in the Wolcott House, which opens into a descending staircase. At the bottom is a door, made of pines, wtih a sign hanging above it that only says "Be Sure." The Moors get many travelers to populate itself, as children are rarely born there.

Outside the door is a field that runs up the edge of a slate-gray ocean, against a rocky shore. The ground has shrubs and bright flowers in blue, orange and purple, as well as bone-white and bile-yellow. The moon is huge and ruby-red, surrounded by many stars. Nothing red grows on the Moors.

The Moors exist in eternal twilight. The Moor is divided into villages and moors and protectorates, with a master/mistress ruling over each one. In the mountains is a world of snow, full of werewolves and unforgiving Lords of Eternal Winter. In the sea, there is a world in the moment of drowning, full of sirens, half-sunken buildings, and ghost lords.

Around the Master's house is a wall, sharpened with stakes and bound with iron and ropes. Inside the wall is a medieval courtyard, with a fountain and a bronze-and-steel statue of The Master. After that is the silent town, and then the Master's House, behind an iron door and gray stone wall.

One of the laws of the Moor is that visitors were to be granted three days of hospitality and safety; once that is up, they are exposed to the laws of the land. Should the visitors reject the hospitality, they are subject to the laws of the land before the three days are up. There is also a law as old as the Moors itself, that if a foundling finds their doorway to another world, they must be allowed to go, with nobody stopping them. Around the Moors, everything comes down to blood some way or another.

The Master's Castle
The Master's House is kept behind a gray stone wall, with an iron door. On the other side is a normal castle hall, with stone walls, a faded red-and-black carpet, and spider-webbed chandeliers. Following that is the staircase to the dining room, with a long mahogany table. The food is prepared by a kitchen-witch.

There are no mirrors in the house, and doors to other rooms appear when needed.

When Jack and Jill stay with the Master, they sleep in a round tower room, which had two teardrop-shaped beds and barred windows for protection. At the bottom of the tower is the bones of many children who had climbed out the window and fallen to their deaths.

The Bathroom has glittering blue and silver tiles, pointing to the domed roof, with little nooks in the walls filled with candles. The floor is a narrow lip, no bigger than two feet, with the rest of it a large basin of water with delightful smells.

The Master's Village
Once arriving at the Village Gate, residents speak first to announce themselves, to give them the opportunity to scream for help if need be. There is an inn in the village- The Sign of the Hind and Hare- and several storestalls.

The Village apparently trades vodka with the Sea Creatures for chocolate, rum, tea, and the occasional cursed idol.

Dr. Bleak's Windmill
Dr. Bleak's house is outside the Wall, in a large windmill on the top of a steep hill, surrounded by green plants. Inside the Windmill is a large room that is twenty feet high, covered with stuffed animals, while the walls are covered with racks and shelves, and three fireplaces. The smallest of the fireplaces is behind a large oak table, while in the center of the room is a surgical table and a spiral staircase going down into the basement and up into the second floor.

Place on the Compass
The Moors is described as a High Logic, High Wicked world. It is unknown where it falls on the Rhyme, Linearity or Vitus/Mortis sections.

Known Members

 * The Master
 * Doctor Ghast (deceased)
 * Doctor Bleak
 * Bela (deceased)
 * Mary
 * Ivan
 * Alexis Chopper
 * Ms. Chopper
 * Mr. Chopper
 * Jack Wolcott
 * Jill Wolcott (deceased)
 * Fire-Haired Boy (formerly)

Trivia

 * Seanan McGuire has said that if she were to go through a portal, she would like to end up in The Moors.
 * Seanan has compared The Moors to being like a Vincent Price movie.