SPOILER ALERT

 

If you haven't read as far as book 3, the Dragon Reborn, leave now.

 

 

 

 

 

Ok. I'm reading where Perrin, Moiraine, Lan, Loial and Zaine are heading through Illian. They pass through the Bridge of Flowers and the Perfumed Quarter, and go into an inn called Easing the Badger. Both of those names are really familiar, but I can't place them. Were there areas in another town with the same names, were they from a dream, or is it something else? Why do I recognize these names?

Eld have you read these before?

 

 

the Perfumed quater gets mentioned before they quite get to Illian i think but thats about it. The Badger doesnt at all

No I haven't. I remember these names mentioned before though.

 

I was thinking maybe Caemlyn.

Easing the Badger in Illian was the same inn that Bayle Domon stayed at in The Great Hunt (ch 9).

You might have heard something similar in real life.

 

there are many homages in this series.

Easing the Badger in Illian was the same inn that Bayle Domon stayed at in The Great Hunt (ch 9).

Maybe that's it. Thanks.

I enjoyed all of the Easter Eggs he put throughout the books if you were paying attention.  Especially the stories Thom was asked for in Emond's Field by the villagers. 

I recall that Perfumed Quarter actually exist somewhere, or have existed. Possibly as a nickname for French Quarter in New Orleans?