GAZETTEER · THE SERED SPUR
The Sered Spur
The grass-shouldered crag west of the Vale where House Vandahl has clung since the Imperium fell — a half-ruined dynastic upland that guards its castle, its keep, and the dead it can no longer afford to keep quiet.
A long limestone crag thrown up where the Vale's meadow climbs west toward the Greatwood ridges: rolling green benches and sheep-cropped commons over grey bedrock that breaks the surface as ribs, scarps, and crag-noses. The hollows between the ribs are warmer, greener, hidden from the wind — you do not see one until you are over its lip. The Sered Cleave gorge cuts the crag north-to-south; the cart-road bends along it and dies at the castle crag as a footpath. The danger rule is simple: the higher and the older the Vandahl ground, the worse it rings.
KIND
region
CLIMATE
upland grassland, wind-scoured on the crown, sheltered in the hollows
DANGER TIER
Tier II
CONTROLLING FACTION
House Vandahl
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (23)
located_in
- ←The Grimtusk Clan — The faction dens and stages out of this place.
- ←Grimtusk the Tyrant — The leader keeps the faction's seat here.
- ←Orc — The orc war-bands hold the Sered Spur's stone warrens.
- →Valenfeld — The Sered Spur lies northwest of Valenfeld, accessible by cart-road climbing out of the Vale basin.
- ←Castle Sered — Castle Sered crowns the bare crag at the highest point of the Sured Spur.
- ←Vandahl Keep — Vandahl Keep sits at the road-fork on the Spur below the castle crag, the working garrison.
- ←Hollowfold — Hollowfold sits in the largest sheltered hollow below Vandahl Keep, the only living settlement on the Spur.
- ←Marrowfold Cairn — Marrowfold Cairn lies behind the second ridge of the Spur, on ground House Vandahl's masons cut into without ever reaching its bottom.
- ←The Weeping Cleave — The Weeping Cleave opens off the Sered Cleave gorge wall, a cave system threading back into the crag.
- ←Stocktarn Drown — Stocktarn Drown lies beneath the upland tarn in the largest hollow of the Spur.
- ←The Foldfast Steading — The Foldfast Steading is a ruined hill-steading on the Spur above the Hollowfold hollow, visible from the road.
- ←The Wall of Names — The Wall of Names runs along the footpath to Castle Sered on the Spur.
- ←The Last Banner Stone — The Last Banner Stone stands on the highest grass bench of the Spur.
- ←The Crookbridge — The Crookbridge crosses the Sered Cleave near Vandahl Keep, the road's only easy ford.
- ←Marrek's Roost — Marrek's Roost is wedged into a crag-nose above Hollowfold on the Spur.
- ←Stocktarn Shore — Stocktarn Shore is the reed-ringed upland tarn in the largest hollow of the Spur.
- ←The Sheepwright Cairns — The Sheepwright Cairns are scattered on the open commons above Hollowfold.
- ←quest.a-wall-worth-mending (unresolved) — A Wall Worth Mending ranges across the Spur's hollow-connecting walls — no single location but the whole upland.
- ←Nali Gravesinger — Nali Gravesinger comes up to the Spur from the Ashen camp to stand at the catacomb stair — she can hear the Vandahl heir still counting from outside the stone.
- ←Hollowfold Tallow Candle — Hollowfold tallow candles are the everyday light of the Sured Spur — in every steading still standing.
occurred_at
- ←quest.clear-the-grimtusk-clan (unresolved) — "The Tyrant of the Spur" involves the sered spur.
owns
- ←House Vandahl — House Vandahl controls the Sered Spur by ancestral claim, garrison, and silver rights — though the control is thinning as the silver runs out.
references
- ←The Bonesung-of-the-Vale — The Bonesung-of-the-Vale send their gravesinger Nali Gravesinger to the catacomb stair on the Spur — they have no camp here but they listen to its dead.
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