GAZETTEER · THE NORTHERN RAMPART

The Warm Cut

A short ice-cave off the Frozen Waystone's reclaimed road where Dûrn Quarrymark stopped digging — because behind the ice the rock is warm, and the meltwater here doesn't freeze.

Every other cave on the Rampart is a cold cave. This one is not. The thaw-fungus that rings the inner wall glows the colour of old honey; the meltwater runs liquid in January. Dûrn drove his cut until the warmth came through the pick-face and he didn't want to know what was making heat on a mountain where nothing should. The Meltwardens insist it be left to melt. Dûrn insists it be sold.

KIND

cave

PARENT PLACE

The Frozen Waystone

CLIMATE

alpine exterior, anomalously warm interior, thaw-fungus lit

DANGER TIER

Tier IV

Connected

Dûrn QuarrymarkCHARACTER · The Warm Cut is Dûrn's unfinished dig — the cut he s…The Frozen WaystonePLACE · The Warm Cut is a short ice-cave off the Frozen Ways…The MeltwardensFACTION · The Meltwardens want the Warm Cut left alone — geoth…

Type Fields

kindcave

parent_placeplace.frozen-waystone

climatealpine exterior, anomalously warm interior, thaw-fungus lit

danger_tier4

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points_of_interestDûrn's unfinished cut-face, the warm-running meltwater channel, the thaw-fungus ring

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map_z-1490

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All Relationships (4)

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←Dûrn Quarrymark — The Warm Cut is Dûrn's unfinished dig — the cut he stopped and hasn't gone back to.
→The Frozen Waystone — The Warm Cut is a short ice-cave off the Frozen Waystone's reclaimed road — close enough to the road that Dûrn found it while working the cut.

references

→The Meltwardens — The Meltwardens want the Warm Cut left alone — geothermal warmth on a cold mountain is exactly the kind of anomaly they believe should melt undisturbed.
←quest.the-warm-cut-quest (unresolved) — The quest is named for and played out entirely in the Warm Cut — Dûrn's unfinished cave.

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