THE LEDGER
The Northern Reach
The boreal country north of the Vale Rim, reached through the North Stair — the first ring outward, and the first zone where the tier climb off the Vale's safety becomes real.
Timber and cold stone under a boreal sky, thin-settled and thinly held: no house or moot has planted a lasting seat here, so the wandering order of the Vigil keeps what watch it can along the road north. What passes for law is House Vandahl's lonely garrison at Karth Bridge, holding the one crossing of the cold Karth river; what preys on the road around it is the Rime Skinners, frostbitten outcasts who den in Frostmaw Cave and rob whoever crosses the ford weaker than they are, and the Deepclan Reavers, exiled Stoneborn clans who quarry the old Imperium's barrows here for bronze and kill any who'd stop them. The North Stair behind you is the last warm door for a long walk.
KIND
zone-region
LAYER
surface
TIER
Tier II
DANGER REASON
First ring past the Vale: colder, thinner-held country where the Vale's writ runs out and no single power has replaced it — the Rime Skinners and Deepclan Reavers fill the vacuum.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (5)
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- ←The Vigil — The Vigil's wandering oath-knights keep a lonely watch along the northern road, the nearest thing this ring has to a keeper.
- ←The Rime-Skinners — The Rime Skinners den in Frostmaw Cave and rob whoever crosses the Karth ford weaker than they are — half the reason House Vandahl keeps a garrison at Karth Bridge at all.
- ←The Deepclan Reavers — Exiled Stoneborn clans quarry the old Imperium's barrows here for bronze and kill any who would stop them.
bounded_by
- ←The Vale — The North Stair pass connects the Vale to the Reach — the zone graph's first edge north.
references
- →The Northern Rampart — The Reach's cold deepens into the Northern Rampart further on, the same climate carried to its alpine extreme.
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