The Wind-Cut Pass

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• →The Karth Deep — The pass is the foot-road over the Rampart above where the Karth is swallowed.
• ←The Frostmaw Brood — The faction dens and stages out of this place.
• ←The Troll-King — The leader keeps the faction's seat here.
• ←The Last Lamp — The waystation sits just below the Wind-Cut Pass, the one foot-crossing of the Northern Rampart it exists to shelter travelers for.
• ←Dire Troll — The dire troll keeps the high northern crossing of Windcut Pass.
• ←The High Moot — The holds gather at the Wind-Cut Pass — the one foot-crossing of the Rampart — when the snows close the line; the topmost cairn-stone is where the Moot is called and the tolls are set.
• ←Brunda Pass-Keeper — Brunda keeps the Wind-Cut crossing herself — the topmost rimed stone is hers to hold, and she has buried two husbands and a son in the snow below it.
• ←Three-Cairns — Three-Cairns is found on or near the pass, working the cairn-line.
• ←Crowsnow Hollow — Crowsnow Hollow sits below the snowline between the pass and the Deep — the contested bivouac on the long climb.
• ←The Wightcairn — The Wightcairn sits under a snow-shouldered ridge near the pass — found by following the ridgeline away from the cairn-trail.
• ←The Korl Trail-Stones — The Korl Trail-Stones run across the open snowfield on the approach to the Wind-Cut Pass — the Korl's navigation system predating the Imperium road.
• ←The Speaking Stones — The Speaking Stones are on the exposed shoulder below the pass — the wind-organ that names the region's dread.
• ←Three-Cairns' Warning — The warning stone is at the trailhead of the Wind-Cut Pass — the first thing a traveller reads before the climb.

references

• →The Frozen Waystone — The graded road the waystone marks once led travellers to the wind-cut saddle.
• ←The Frozen Waystone — The waystone's frozen distances still count down to the pass that outlived its road.
• →The Rimeward — Windcut Pass is the Korl's old Rampart crossing into the Vale from the Rimeward; the Moot has since drawn back to its true seat there, leaving the pass toll-hold a garrison ruin.
• ←The Windcut House — The Windcut House's letters of passage clear travelers for the Wind-Cut Pass, the one foot-crossing toward the High Moot's true seat at Windcut Hold on the Rimeward.
• ←Windcut Hold — Windcut Hold carried the Windcut name across the water from the abandoned mainland toll-hold.
• ←The Wall-Holder's Maul — Torva Wall-Holder's guard fell at the Wind-Cut Pass holding the withdrawal.
• ←The Northern Rampart — Windcut Pass is the Rampart's own old crossing, kept in name only after the Korl toll-hold beyond it fell to ruin.
• ←The Speaking Wind — The Speaking Wind phenomenon is why the pass closes at dusk — the wind 'speaks' through the saddle geometry.
• ←The Speaking Pines — The hollow snags' dusk-wind sound is a low echo of the speaking note that Windcut Pass carries — the tribes call it the Pass speaking downhill.

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• ←Trollhammaren — Trollhammaren sits frozen into a trophy-pile in the deep den of the Frostmaw Brood under Windcut Pass — too heavy for any troll since the warlord to be bothered to move.
• ←Korl Cairn-Stone — Korl Cairn-Stones are the building material of the pass's cairn-line — taken from or left on the pass.

occurred_at

• ←quest.clear-the-frostmaw-brood (unresolved) — "The Road North" involves windcut pass.
• ←quest.what-windcut-left (unresolved) — The honor-guard's grave-goods lie in the ruined mainland toll-hold.

guards

• ←Three-Cairns — Three-Cairns keeps the cairn-line of the Wind-Cut Pass, re-stacking the stones the wind throws down — the pass's only reliable guide.