The Frostmaw

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• →Karth Bridge — The ice-throat opens a short climb off the timber ford at Karth Bridge.
• ←The Rime-Skinners — The Skinners den deeper than the rime-stalkers, in the warm dark past the ice-throat.
• ←Korsa Frost-Ear — She rules the warm deep of the Frostmaw, past the rime-stalkers' den.
• ←Hessa's Reek — Hessa's Reek is a smoke-stained fissure directly above the Frostmaw's mouth — the Rime-Skinners' surface processing site for the cave's yield.
• ←Old Hessa Rime-Skin — Hessa knows the Frostmaw deeper than anyone alive — including the gallery the shard sits in and why you don't go there.
• ←Rime Stalker — Rime stalkers den in the Frostmaw's blue-ice throat, which gives the cave its danger tier and its name.

guards

• ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The tribes know the rime-stalker den and leave it be, ceding it to the cold rather than emptying it.

references

• ←Veller Soran — The gate-guard grumbles that the watch on the ford is really a watch on the cold thing denning above it.
• →The Karth Deep — A shallow rime-den off the ford, a thin echo of the true ice-swallow further up the Karth pass.
• ←quest.toward-the-ringing (unresolved) — The quest sends the player down the ice-throat to Brevin's dig.
• ←The Korl — Frost is home to the Korl; the Frostmaw is theirs and never bites them.
• ←A Coward's Field-Guide to the Vale's Barrows — Entry: an honest, cold hole — keep shallow and never dig toward the ringing in the ice.
• ←quest.the-unrelieved-post (unresolved) — The Frostmaw is the Unrelieved Post's active site — thinning the stalkers here is the combat branch of the quest.
• ←quest.the-skinners-toll (unresolved) — The reward for doing Hessa's job is passage into the Frostmaw deep — access to the shard gallery the Skinners hold sealed.

foreshadows

• →The Ash-Sealed Barrow — A beast-den a careful hunter can clear, foretelling the harder dead the same country buries deeper in the ash.

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• ←The Frostmaw Shard — A raw shard of temple-bronze locked in the blue ice at the cave's bottom.