GAZETTEER · THE VALE

Valenfeld

aka The Vale, Vandahl's Folly, Vallenfield, the breadbasket

A silt-grey frontier town in a flat basin, clinging to silver rights and the barrow's long shadow — and, quietly, the breadbasket that feeds the whole lower world.

Valenfeld is a minor settlement on the edge of a dead empire, three powers grinding over its silver, its souls, and the relic the eastern barrow keeps. House Vandahl flies its banners here, barely. Outlanders are tolerated the way a wound tolerates a splinter. What actually keeps the town alive — and the rest of the Vale with it — is not the silver but the flat: the basin's farm belt of tilled fields, hen-yards and cattle corrals is the densest in the lower world, and when Valenfeld's grain comes in light, everyone downriver goes hungry (concept.the-vale-harvest).

KIND

city

CLIMATE

ashen, wind-scoured

DANGER TIER

Tier I

Music

Connected

Dreva VelthysCHARACTER · Dreva keeps a shack at the ash-blown edge of town, n…House VandahlFACTION · Vandahl claims the town and its silver rights.The Ashen TempleFACTION · The chapterhouse stands in town.Veller SoranCHARACTER · He keeps the town gate.Veller SoranCHARACTER · His watch is the town itself.Galdra PyreCHARACTER · She teaches from a rented room in town.

Appears In

Type Fields

kindcity

parent_place—

climateashen, wind-scoured

danger_tier1

points_of_interestthe silver-scale market, the Ashen Temple chapterhouse, Dreva's shack, the farm belt outside the walls

procgen_seed1337

nicknames{"by_race":{"korl":"the College town","vyr":"the listening-seat"},"common":"Valenfeld"}

All Relationships (59)

located_in

←Dreva Velthys — Dreva keeps a shack at the ash-blown edge of town, neither welcome nor gone.
←The Ashen Temple — The chapterhouse stands in town.
←Veller Soran — He keeps the town gate.
←Galdra Pyre — She teaches from a rented room in town.
←Sister Vethi — She mends in the chapterhouse.
←Hrolf — He drills in the town square.
←Marn the Breaker — He trains by the square.
←Curate Andil — He keeps the Temple in town.
←Ahnassi — She keeps the only warm room in town.
←Keth Saltrunner — He runs the fish-stall at the silver-scale market.
←Varra Sorn — She works from the chapterhouse.
←Belethys — She has not left Valenfeld in eight years.
←The Binding of Vallen — Kept in the chapterhouse's reading room.
←Letter from Varra to the Almsmaster — Written in the chapterhouse and intercepted before dispatch.
←Hedge-Imp — Loose imps skulk the ruins and middens at the town's edge.
←Silver Rat — They breed in the flooded shafts and cisterns under the town.
←The Sealed Choir — The Choir keeps a chapter in town to watch the relic trade.
←The Sealed Reliquary — A whitewashed chapter-house on a town square, vault below.
←The Hollow Writ — Its seal-house and garrison sit in the town it taxes.
←The Wrights' Heirs — Their humming reading-hall — the Listening College — opens onto the town square.
←The Far College — Their reading-hall opens onto the town square.
←The Assay Staff — Kept at the reading-hall.
←The Sunken Cut — The cut is a short walk west of town, on the riverbank — close enough to be the first deep an outlander dares.
←A Smith's Primer — Harvald's working notes, left open on the anvil-bench of the Valenfeld forge for any apprentice fool enough to read them.
←The Redhook Crew — The faction dens and stages out of this place.
←Vera Redhook — The leader keeps the faction's seat here.
←The Marrow Lances — The Marrow Lances keeps a seat/branch at Valenfeld.
←The Sealed Choir — The Sealed Choir keeps a seat/branch at Valenfeld.
←Corb Toller — Corb works Valenfeld as a cart-hand.
←Hask Orn — Hask is Valenfeld's smith.
←Nessa Oakhollow — Nessa lives inside Valenfeld's wall.
←Tobb Fallwick — Tobb keeps Valenfeld's general store.
←Ahnassi's Taproom — The taproom is Valenfeld's evening hall.
←The Emberlow Farmstead — Emberlow is a half-day north of Valenfeld, tied to the town.
←Tallow and Nail — Tallow and Nail is Valenfeld's general store.
←The Weeping Adit — The Weeping Adit is House Vandahl's gallery a half-day south of the town.
←Hewngate Keep — Hewngate sits on the vale road in a hill-gap, tolling the way into Valenfeld's basin.
←The Cantor's Daughter (a taproom song) — A Vallenfield taproom standard.
←Bersi the Bold — Holds court in Ahnassi's Taproom, Vallenfield — the warmest welcome a new road-walker gets.
←The Ashen Moot — The Moot keeps its bench and its rolls in Valenfeld, where the settled Asheni Houses cluster.
←Grudge-Elder Serys Dren — Serys Dren sits the Moot's bench in Valenfeld and is rarely seen beyond its walls.
←The Zeppelin Lines — Every loop calls at Valenfeld — the lines' common hub, the master's booth by the dock.
←The Sered Spur — The Sered Spur lies northwest of Valenfeld, accessible by cart-road climbing out of the Vale basin.

owns

←House Vandahl — Vandahl claims the town and its silver rights.

guards

←Veller Soran — His watch is the town itself.
←The Vale Rim — The rim is the Vale's outer wall; Valenfeld sits sheltered at its heart, a day's walk inside any pass.

references

←Highbridge — The north road from the town crosses the Vellen at Highbridge.
←Karth Bridge — The bridge road leads toward Valenfeld; Vandahl patrols run it weekly.
←Humankind — The latecomers settle thickest in Valenfeld, chasing the dead Imperium's silver.
←The Asheni — The settled Asheni hold the Vale — its temples, forges, and Houses are theirs.
←The Reshi — Reshi take settled names and warm rooms easily; Ahnassi keeps the only warm room in Valenfeld.
←The Farglass Shoulder — Turn west from the Shoulder and the Vale opens flat to Valenfeld's smoke.
←Tanwick's Croft — The Croft sits at the edge of Valenfeld's belt.
←quest.vf-what-denned-at-emberlow (unresolved) — Nessa gives the quest from inside Valenfeld's wall.
←quest.vf-corbs-bond (unresolved) — Corb's bond comes due in Valenfeld.

occurred_at

←The Ash Famine — The famine broke the town's grain stores first.
←The Stilling of the First Working — Proven in the Listening College's reading-hall on the town square.

expressed_in

←The Vale Harvest — Valenfeld's flat river basin is the heart of the Vale Harvest — the breadbasket of the whole lower world; its farm belt is the concept made visible.

expressed_through

←Vallen, the Wright — The town carries the Wright's name; its priests still administer oaths and funerals for a god who cannot answer.

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