GAZETTEER · THE GREATWOOD
The Charm-Cords
The fog-bound Mistways gorge where the Greenwake hang knotted charm-cords across the path so a traveller can feel the way they cannot see — the Greatwood's main door from the Vale.
The gorge is so fog-bound that the Greenwake gave up marking it with stakes and learned to mark it with feeling: cords of braided bark and bone-bead strung at waist height, knotted at every fork in a language of loops the wardens teach and the Gaunt Ledger's surveyors keep trying to buy. It is the Greatwood's door from the Vale and a quiet front line — the Ledger wants the cords down to let timber sledges through; the Greenwake want them up and would like the Ledger to try.
KIND
landmark
CLIMATE
fog-dense, cold, beck-damp
DANGER TIER
Tier II
CONTROLLING FACTION
The Greenwake
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (4)
located_in
- ←Factor Voss of the Ledger — Voss works from the edge of the Charm-Cords crossing — the Ledger's forward position at the wood's eastern gate.
- ←The Mistways Deep — The Mistways Deep is the cave system off the Mistways gorge — downstream from the Charm-Cords crossing.
member_of
- →The Greenwake — The Charm-Cords crossing is Greenwake territory — they hung the cords and they contest the Ledger's survey.
rival_of
- ←The Gaunt Ledger — The Ledger wants the Charm-Cords gorge open for timber sledges; the Greenwake want it shut — a quiet front line.
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