GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN RAMPART
The Karth Deep
A meltwater cave in the high northern pass that swallows the Karth's source — older than the wights, connecting under the Rampart.
High in the Karth pass the river vanishes into the dark under the mountain. The tribes leave it alone; the few who followed the water in came out changed, or did not. Something older than the wights keeps the cold here, and the cold keeps it.
KIND
dungeon
CLIMATE
glacial, lightless, meltwater-cold
DANGER TIER
Tier IV
CONTROLLING FACTION
The Bonesung-of-the-Vale
Music
Connected
Karth BridgePLACE · Both stand on the Karth, the bridge at the ford and …The Bonesung-of-the-ValeFACTION · The tribes know the Karth Deep and leave it well alo…The SunderingEVENT · Something older than the wights of the Sundering kee…Caer VallenPLACE · Its galleries run under the Rampart toward the ruin …Karth LeechCREATURE · It clings to the walls of the meltwater galleries.The FrostmawPLACE · A shallow rime-den off the ford, a thin echo of the …
Appears In
Type Fields
kinddungeon
parent_place—
climateglacial, lightless, meltwater-cold
danger_tier4
controlling_factionfaction.ashari-vale
points_of_interestthe swallowing pool, the ice-throat, the unmapped dark
Relations (1)
Resolves to parts
All Relationships (20)
references
- ←Karth Bridge — Both stand on the Karth, the bridge at the ford and the deep at its source.
- ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The tribes know the Karth Deep and leave it well alone.
- →The Sundering — Something older than the wights of the Sundering keeps the cold here.
- →Caer Vallen — Its galleries run under the Rampart toward the ruin no surface map records.
- ←The Frostmaw — A shallow rime-den off the ford, a thin echo of the true ice-swallow further up the Karth pass.
- ←The Stoneborn — The Stoneborn cut their galleries under the Northern Rampart along the deep stone the Karth swallowed.
- ←The Korl — The Korl come down off the Northern Rampart above the Karth Deep, giants by lowland reckoning.
located_in
- ←Karth Leech — It clings to the walls of the meltwater galleries.
- ←The Wind-Cut Pass — The pass is the foot-road over the Rampart above where the Karth is swallowed.
- ←The Frozen Waystone — The iced milestone stands on the Rampart's flank above the Karth Deep.
- ←The Meltwardens — Ward the meltwater source against all comers.
- ←The Wardenhold — The Wardenhold sits at the lee of the Karth Deep's ice-throat — the only inhabited node on the Rampart, and the guard-camp for the thing below.
- ←The Ice-Throat Sump — The Ice-Throat Sump is a sub-gallery off the Karth Deep's meltwater system — a flooded bypass to the lower Deep.
- ←The Swallowing Pool's Eye — The Swallowing Pool's Eye is the surface bowl directly above where the Karth vanishes underground — the above-ground marker of the Deep.
hidden_in
- ←The First Fork — Lost in the Karth Deep when Vallen fell, down where the Sundering hums closest.
- ←The Last Hold — A rare echo-trinket: a climber's final desperate grip on the Karth's rock, found here.
guards
- ←Karth Leech — Karth-leeches infest the swallowing-pool, guarding the meltwater source the Meltwardens ward.
- ←Frost-Mother Vael — Vael wards the Karth Deep's ice-throat against all comers — the Meltwardens' primary mission expressed in a single person.
- ←The Cold Keeper — The Cold Keeper inhabits the unmapped dark of the Karth Deep — the reason the Meltwardens guard the throat and the Listening College's tuners never came back.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-lost-note (unresolved) — The recovery plays out in the Karth Deep, where Vallen fell and the Sundering hums closest.
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