GAZETTEER · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS
The Leaning Columns
aka the toppled hall, the warm stones
A field of toppled Vallen Imperium bronze pillars sunk in the pine duff, still faintly warm to the touch in a north wind.
Where the boreal forest thins below Caer Vallen, a processional of fluted bronze pillars lies where the Sundering threw them — some still upright and leaning hard, most face-down and moss-furred in the duff. On a cold north wind the metal holds warmth no dead thing should, the way the old Imperium's bronze always does. Relic-runners work the field for fallen workings the College's diggers haven't claimed; the warmth makes them careless, and the cold makes them quick.
KIND
ruin
PARENT PLACE
Caer Vallen
CLIMATE
cold boreal pinewood
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
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- →Caer Vallen — The toppled pillars are Caer Vallen's processional, thrown down the slope by the Sundering.
- ←Pine Elk — Pine elk avoid the column-fields but sometimes graze the outer terrace margins where the hum is faint.
references
- ←Pinewatch Camp — The relic-runners of Pinewatch work the Leaning Columns for fallen resonators.
- →Pinewatch Camp — The humming pillars draw the runners who keep the cold camp upslope.
guards
- ←Hessa One-Ear — Hessa knows the column-field better than anyone living and informally controls who the Finders send into the deep fields — she is the gate before the gate.
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