Lapvona

The entirety of the novel unfolds in the village of Lapvona over the course of a year and a few months. Lapvona is a small trade village that finds itself in a period of regression after a horrible plague deprived it of its wealth, popularity, and reputation as a particularly fallow location. The townspeople live a parochial and impoverished existence, while the lord resides in a large manor at the top of a hill. The town is deeply religious, to an extreme and puritanical degree, and their culture is an insular one where each individual is under heavy scrutiny.

Jude's Farm

Jude, the local lamb herder, lives on a small and humble farm just below the hill upon which the lord’s manor rests. The proximity of the farm to the manor protects Jude from bandit attacks, and also symbolizes the close-but-so-far-away relationship that Jude has to the...