THE LEDGER · THE NORTHERN RAMPART
Skerrow Neck
aka the drowned line
The headland where the Northern Rampart's strike-line runs out of mainland and dives under the sea: the last dry stone before the skerry-chain crossing west to the Farshield.
A Stoneborn will walk you to the Neck's edge, put your hand flat on the last exposed course of Rampart granite, and tell you to feel where it keeps going under the water. It does: the same strike and dip continues out past sight, and nobody who has cut stone for a living needs the far shore in view to know the Farshield is the same rock risen again. The skerry-chain starts here: a scatter of stepping isles the Stonewright Moot has marked and re-marked for two generations, each one a night's anchorage or less between the Neck and Gallowgate Quay. Fishing camps and a weigh-station cluster where the road gives out, and every cairn along the chain has been rebuilt at least once, because the sea takes a marker as readily as it takes a ship.
KIND
landmark
CLIMATE
wind-raked headland, cold sea-spray
DANGER TIER
Tier IV
CONTROLLING FACTION
The Stonewright Moot
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
references
- →The Farshield — Skerrow Neck is the mainland point where the Rampart's strike-line drowns and resurfaces as the Farshield.
- →Gallowgate Quay — The skerry-chain crossing runs from Skerrow Neck to Gallowgate Quay on the Farshield's isthmus waist.
owns
- ←The Stonewright Moot — The Stonewright Moot marks and maintains the skerry-chain's cairn line and weigh-station.
occurred_at
- ←quest.the-sundered-stone (unresolved) — Thurig Wrightmaster meets the player at Skerrow Neck to cross with the evidence.
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