THE LORE · THE VALE

The Vale Harvest

aka the breadbasket, the grain-round, the feeding of the Vale

The farm belt that feeds the lower world — tilled fields, corrals and farmsteads ringing the green-country towns, with Valenfeld's flat river basin as its heart. Everyone eats off it, and everyone knows the Lean Years are eating at it.

Coin comes and goes, silver drowns, relics dry up — but the Vale still has to eat, and what it eats grows in the farm belt: the tilled fields, hen-yards and cattle corrals ringing every green-country town. Valenfeld sits at the heart of it, its flat basin and cold river making it the breadbasket of the whole lower world; Highbridge's terraces eat Valenfeld grain, and even the dry towns pay for it in whatever they still have. That is exactly what makes the belt the front line of the Lean Years: a failed season, a wolf pack in the hen-yards, raiders burning a barn, monsters moving into an abandoned furrow — each one is the collapse arriving somewhere ordinary, and each one fixed is the collapse pushed back a season. Farmers know this without being told. They are the first to hire a blade when something comes out of the tree-line, and the first to starve when no one does.

KIND

custom

DOMAIN

food, farming, and the feeding of the lower world

WHY IT MATTERS

the most ordinary front of the collapse — every fed town is the world's ending pushed back a season, which is exactly the game's ground-level repair work

Connected

ValenfeldPLACE · Valenfeld's flat river basin is the heart of the Val…The Lean YearsCONCEPT · The farm belt is the front line of the Lean Years: f…The Ash FamineEVENT · The Great Famine is the harvest's great failure — th…HighbridgePLACE · Highbridge eats Valenfeld grain: the green country e…

Type Fields

kindcustom

domainfood, farming, and the feeding of the lower world

what_it_looks_liketilled crop fields and corrals outside every green-country town, Valenfeld's basin thick with farmsteads — the breadbasket, grain carted upriver to Highbridge and beyond, farmers out in the rows, scarecrows over the wheat

what_threatens_itlight harvests season after season (the Lean Years), beasts and monsters pressing the field edges as wild ground spreads, raiders off the cold passes taking stores instead of trading, abandoned furrows that never come back under the plough

why_it_mattersthe most ordinary front of the collapse — every fed town is the world's ending pushed back a season, which is exactly the game's ground-level repair work

All Relationships (4)

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→Valenfeld — Valenfeld's flat river basin is the heart of the Vale Harvest — the breadbasket of the whole lower world; its farm belt is the concept made visible.
→Highbridge — Highbridge eats Valenfeld grain: the green country east of the span carries its own smaller farm belt, and the carts cross the bridge with the toll.

references

→The Lean Years — The farm belt is the front line of the Lean Years: failing harvests, beasts in the hen-yards and raiders at the barns are the collapse arriving at the food system first.
→The Ash Famine — The Great Famine is the harvest's great failure — the proof, still in living memory, of what the Vale becomes when the farm belt breaks.

This world ships in Valenfeld. Play the game →