GAZETTEER · THE EASTERN CRAGS
The Eastern Crags
A wind-scoured highland of mesas and dead-end gorges at the far east of the Vale, threaded by the old barrow road that climbs to two things the rest of the Vale would rather forget.
Cold-nights high-desert steppe of flat-topped mesartone mesas, dry washes, and the dull ochre of bone-grey stone bleaching under an indifferent sky. The barrow road is the only honest line through — you cannot climb the rims with a pack, and the gorges force you onto the wash-floors where the sand-lurkers wait. What the Crags are best known for is what the Crags contain: a sealed Imperial vault whose door weeps warm metal-tasting water, and a gravesinger's tower whose risen dead are still waiting for you to take your place among them.
KIND
region
PARENT PLACE
The Eastern Hills
CLIMATE
cold-nights high-desert, wind-constant
DANGER TIER
Tier III
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (21)
located_in
- ←A Korl War-Band — Korl Warband range out of here.
- ←The Korl War-Band — The faction dens and stages out of this place.
- ←Hall Giant-Reckoner — The leader keeps the faction's seat here.
- ←Kobold — Kobolds trap and den the broken tunnels of the eastern crags.
- ←Dustmere Hollow — Dustmere Hollow sits in a sheltered fold of the Eastern Crags, the one liveable hollow on the barrow road.
- ←The Tollwright's Camp — The Tollwright's Camp sits on the barrow road's chokepoint wash, inside the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Hollow Cut — The Hollow Cut cave system runs under a mesa within the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Saltless Barrow — The Saltless Barrow sits among the unmarked dead of the Eastern Crags, off the barrow road.
- ←The Drinking Sink — The Drinking Sink cistern-ruin lies within the Eastern Crags, east of the Tollwright's Camp.
- ←The Imperial Reach — The Imperial Reach waystation stands astride the barrow road in the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Weeping Stones — The Weeping Stones ring sits on the mesa shoulder above the Weeping Vault within the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Unmade Cairns — The Unmade Cairns road-mile lies along the barrow road within the Eastern Crags.
- ←Dabbeth's Roost — Dabbeth's Roost wash-cave lies at the foot of the Unhushed Tower in the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Drovers' Spring — The Drovers' Spring seep lies beside the road near Dustmere Hollow within the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Legion's Mile — The Legion's Mile paved stretch lies below the Imperial Reach within the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Glass Wash — The Glass Wash dry wash runs through the Eastern Crags to the Hollow Cut mouth.
- ←The Weeping Vault — The Weeping Vault is sealed into the living stone of the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Unhushed Tower — The Unhushed Tower rises from the mesa at the barrow road's far eastern end within the Eastern Crags.
- ←The Dusk-Singing Wind — The dusk-singing wind is a feature of the Eastern Crags — it is produced by the mesa geometry at the specific topographic conditions here.
occurred_at
- ←quest.clear-the-korl-warband (unresolved) — "The Reckoner's Toll" involves the eastern crags.
parent_of
- →The Eastern Hills — The Eastern Crags is the far high-desert extension of the Eastern Hills — a harder, drier country east of the mid-country ridges.
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