GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN REACH
The Cold Ford Stones
A cairn-line marking the safe shallows beside the Karth Bridge timber span — read them right and you cross; read them wrong and the river takes you.
The stones are old and local knowledge; the topmost ones rim with ice by late autumn and have to be re-read by touch when the mist comes off the gorge. The tribal track leaves the road just upstream of them, where the bank gives a foothold the stones do not mark. First-time crossers who go by sight rather than sequence rarely make the far bank in winter.
KIND
landmark
PARENT PLACE
Karth Bridge
CLIMATE
fast water, ice-rimmed stones, gorge mist
DANGER TIER
Tier I
Connected
Type Fields
kindlandmark
parent_placeplace.karth-bridge
climatefast water, ice-rimmed stones, gorge mist
danger_tier1
points_of_interestthe cairn-line, the tribal track fork
map_x-510
map_z-205
procgen_seed7406
All Relationships (3)
located_in
- →Karth Bridge — The Cold Ford Stones are part of the ford crossing immediately below the timber span at Karth Bridge.
references
- →The Karth Crossing — The ford stones are the physical expression of the crossing's lore: read them right and you cross, read them wrong and the Karth takes you.
- →The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The tribal track leaves the north road just upstream of the ford stones, where the Bonesung know a bankside foothold the stones do not mark — their route past the ford without using the bridge.
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