GAZETTEER · THE VALE
Hewngate Keep
A House Vandahl toll-keep on the vale road that the Broken Lances were hired to garrison and simply kept — its gate now a chain across the road and its cells full of the people who used to pay it.
Hewngate was never a great fortress, only a square grey keep and a gatehouse where the vale road pinches between two hills, built to take a Vandahl toll and shelter caravans for the night. House Vandahl, short of coin as ever, hired the Marrow Lances to man it. The wing that came was the Broken kind. They took the first month's pay, took the toll, and then took the keep — and when the next caravan arrived they took that too. Bron Coldhand sits in the toll-hall now and runs it like a business: travellers are inventory, the gate is a chain you buy through or hang from, and the ransom-roll is kept in a fair clerk's hand. The Old Lances know one of their own is in the undercroft, and they are the kind to come for him.
KIND
dungeon
PARENT PLACE
Valenfeld
CLIMATE
windy hill-gap, woodsmoke and horse
DANGER TIER
Tier II
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (8)
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-chain-across-the-road (unresolved) — Past the chained gatehouse and toll-hall to the ransom undercroft.
hidden_in
- ←The Bought Oath-Horn — Hung on the toll-hall wall like a receipt for the company's bought word.
- ←Edda Vossk — Edda is held in Hewngate's ransom undercroft.
owns
- ←The Broken Lances — The Broken Lances were hired to garrison Hewngate and kept it — the keep is theirs by seizure, run as a toll-and-ransom holding.
located_in
- →Valenfeld — Hewngate sits on the vale road in a hill-gap, tolling the way into Valenfeld's basin.
references
- →House Vandahl — Hewngate was House Vandahl's toll-keep; coin-short Vandahl hired the Lances to man it, and lost it.
- ←The Hewngate Ransom-Roll — The ransom-roll is Hewngate's ledger of who is bought, held, or hung at the chain.
guards
- ←Bron Coldhand — Bron sits the toll-hall and commands the keep's garrison.
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