Karth Bridge

owns

• ←House Vandahl — House Vandahl's last garrisoned post on the northern road.

references

• →The Karth Deep — Both stand on the Karth, the bridge at the ford and the deep at its source.
• →Valenfeld — The bridge road leads toward Valenfeld; Vandahl patrols run it weekly.
• ←Karth Leech — In hard winters they climb the river toward the ford.
• ←Humankind — Most humans came down the Karth out of the Northern Reach, fording at the bridge before the Vale.
• ←The Stoneborn — Stoneborn raised the chain-works and bridge-stones at Karth Bridge — the best stonework north of the river.
• ←The Karth Crossing — Karth Bridge is the physical expression and the point of control that the Karth Crossing concept describes.

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• ←Rime Stalker — It waits the cliffs above the Karth ford.
• ←Frost Shrike — Flocks nest in the cliffs over the ford.
• ←The Stillwater — The monastery stands above the Karth crossing.
• ←The Frostmaw — The ice-throat opens a short climb off the timber ford at Karth Bridge.
• ←The Stonewright Moot — The Moot convenes in the deep galleries under the Rampart and keeps its hall at the great work it maintains — the chain-works and bridge-stones of Karth Bridge, the node the north road crosses on.
• ←Thurig Wrightmaster — Thurig keeps the Karth Bridge chain-works and works out of the deep galleries beneath it — the great work whose upkeep is the Moot's first charge.
• ←Hollow-Pines Camp — Hollow-Pines Camp sits off the NW fork a half-day's walk from Karth Bridge — the natural shelter before the foothills climb.
• ←The Marrow-Hollow — The Marrow-Hollow is cut into a ridge above the Karth gorge, a hard half-day from the ford.
• ←The Throatfall Sink — The Throatfall Sink opens in the gorge wall below the ford, where meltwater drains from the ridge above the road.
• ←The Drowned Chapel of Vael — The Drowned Chapel of Vael sits in a bog-tarn where a ridge dammed the snowmelt south of the ford.
• ←The Cold Ford Stones — The Cold Ford Stones are part of the ford crossing immediately below the timber span at Karth Bridge.
• ←The Speaking Pines — The Speaking Pines stand on a saddle off the main north road between the ford and the foothills trail.
• ←The Drowned Lances — The Drowned Lances stretch lies on the road south of the ford, where the ground goes to frozen bog and the road braids.
• ←Sergeant Veld of the Cold Ford — Sergeant Veld has held the Cold Ford watch-post for two seasons without relief and without abandoning it.
• ←Brother Cael of the Wandering Cups — Brother Cael is currently camped near the ford, teaching the empty hand to travelers who share his fire.
• ←Veld's Letter — The letter lives in Veld's post at Karth Bridge until the player takes it.
• ←The Cold Ford Log — The log is kept at the watch-post and is findable in Veld's quarters at the tower.

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• ←A Held Breath — A rare echo-trinket: a Stillwater monk's perfectly stilled breath, caught by the cold, found here.