Archives: Places

Lothlain

Lothlain is the long edge of things. It curves away to the north and south like the inside of a crescent moon, thin and far-flung, a region that has always resisted easy account of itself. Much of Lothlain is forest, gripping the rugged landscape in tendrils; deep, unyielding, not appearing to be habitable or indeed…
Penvellyn

Green fells, working rivers, and a people who have never seen much reason to raise their voices.
Penvella

Penvella sat in one of the gentler bends of the River Vel, where the water slowed and widened before gathering itself again for the long run south. The river was always present here; always audible, always just below the window. It was a bell town, and had been long before the Evergild arrived. When they…
Gotts Keep

Gotts Keep is a formidable river city, inventive and self-reliant, where new metalwork and bold design rise over older stone. Traders prize its craft; neighbours watch its growing influence.
Broda’s Wayside

Sitting firm on the shore of Loch Broda is the well-used inn, Broda’s Wayside. Once a croft, it grew by degrees: an extra room for travellers, a lean-to for beasts, a still behind the kitchen. The walls are thick with smoke and stories, patched in places with driftwood from the loch. The keeper, Marra Broda,…
The Camorren Steeps

The northern edge of Camorren rises in abrupt stone and weather, a harsh flank where ridges run steep into cloud. Known to outsiders as the Camorren Steeps, this band of upland marks the line between fertile fells below and the impassable granite above. Locals sometimes call them the Shoulders of Camorren. Few have reason to…
Asmerel

Asmerel (lit. “by the Merel”): the jewel-town founded on the shore of Loch Merel, from which its name derives.
Valmorren

Setting & Location Valmorren lies in the north-east of Gildraen, the bright heart of the northeastern uplands. Though “upland” to southerners, Valmorren is the gentlest edge of the chain — a basin of turquoise lochs and pale cliffs before the land grows harsher. Asmerel, the Evergild town, stands on its threshold. Landscape & Sacred Resonance…
Everglade Annex

A wetland cultivation site of the House of Beasts
Mellwain

Tucked into the gentle folds of central Gildraen, on the eastern side of Lindral Citadel, where the hills begin to lean and scatter — lies the Evergild village of Mellwain. Its slate-roofed buildings cluster beside a shallow river, crossed by a long stone bridge arched with age. A clear-banked stream wends its way through Mellwain’s…