GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN REACH
Hessa's Reek
A smoke-stained fissure above the Frostmaw where the Rime-Skinners cure pelts and render frost-glands — the stench carries downwind and warns the wise off the den.
Old Hessa runs the curing by feel and smell, which is how she catches anyone who comes up the slope without permission: the reek changes note when the wind shifts from the direction of the ford. The racks hold everything from stalker pelts to something the group doesn't name, hung high enough that only Hessa can take them down. The smoke is always going. The Skinners live on what it produces. Finders who fence the output have a standing agreement not to ask what else goes on the rack in a hard winter.
KIND
landmark
PARENT PLACE
The Frostmaw
CLIMATE
smoke, pelt-stink, pine fissure
DANGER TIER
Tier II
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
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- →The Frostmaw — 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.
- ←The Rime-Skinners — The Rime-Skinners run all their surface operations from Hessa's Reek — curing, rendering, fencing.
- ←Old Hessa Rime-Skin — Hessa runs the reek personally; she does not leave it unattended and rarely leaves the ridge.
- ←Frost-Gland Phial — Frost-gland phials are rendered and stored at Hessa's Reek before being fenced south through the Finders.
references
- →The Karth Crossing — Hessa's Reek sits above the ford on the ridge — within earshot of the crossing — which is why Hessa knows every traveller who passes and why the smell is the first warning before the watch-tower.
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