A land of rolling hills and terraced farms with small villages sitting behind white stucco walls (I: 192)
Norvoshi wear upswept, long dyed mustaches (I: 494)
Norvos has magisters (III: 272)
Norvos gives lavishly to passing khals (III: 272)
There are bearded priests in Norvos who train men to the use and keeping of the longaxe (IV: 32)
Unwanted boys can sold by Norvoshi families to the bearded priests (IV: 35)
Those trained by the bearded priests "wed their axes" around the age of sixteen, swearing vows which are said to be simple for the simple men who swear them: "Serve. Obey. Protect." They brand the men on the chest with a brand shaped like an axe, and remind them to keep their longaxes sharp (IV: 36-37)
Norvos has two distinct quarters, the high city on the hill and the low city by the river (IV: 36)
There are three great bells in the city which have names. Noom has a deep peal, Narrah has a proud and strong peal, and Nyel's peal is said to sound like laughter (IV: 36, 597)
A yearly festival features the eating of wintercake (made of ginger, pine nuts, and bits of cherry) and the drinking of nahsa, a drink of fermented goat's milk laced with honey. During the festival, bears dance down the Sinner's Steps (IV: 36-37, 597)
Men trained by the bearded priests might wear heavy horsehair capes and studded leather tunics, along with iron halfhelms crested by iron spikes (IV: 37)
Norvos is sometimes called Great Norvos, at least by Norvoshi (IV: 40)
Norvos is far larger than the shadow city of Sunspear (IV: 40)