The Shrouded Fens

Archives: Places

  • Astravayne

    Less than a day’s ride from Lindral Citadel, the citadel of Astravayne crowns the eastern rise like a shard of captured sky — all crystalline towers and latticed bridges, suspended between discipline and dreaming. Though smaller than the capital, its silhouette gleams by day and glows by night, visible even from Lindral’s highest balconies. Some…

  • Grimbles How

    Grimbles How is a limestone ridge forming the central landmark of a small region to which it lends its name. To south and west lie fertile clay lowlands and drained fens. To the north and east, wet woodlands create a sparsely inhabited wilderness, giving way to Bardney Fen (part of The Shrouded Fens), and past…

  • Crumble Top

    Crumble Top is a charming, fairly large village perched atop the green limestone plateau that shares its name. The village is vibrant and lush, with gently rolling greenery softening the rocky landscape. At its heart lies Kiln Green, a communal space bordered by low, irregular stone walls. Nearby stands an old lime kiln, half-built into…

  • The Grimblethorpe Villages

    The Grimblethorpes are three closely linked settlements nestled along the slopes and base of Grimbles How, each with a distinct role that supports the community’s economy and way of life. Grimblethorpe, perched at the upper edge between two streams (East and West Grimble Beck), is the largest and most active village. It boasts a pond…

  • Ruddle Holme

    Ruddle Holme, at the base of Grimbles How, is a fertile area of drained fen farmland characterised by its rich clay soils and scattered small farms. The landscape is dotted with neatly fenced fields, drainage dykes, and winding waterways that manage the wet ground. Among its farms, Crampin and Beaner’s stand out as local greengrocers,…

  • Brimshaw and Elm Cotes

    Brimshaw is a small, quiet settlement nestled within a coppice wood near the base of Grimbles How, where the residents engage in light coppicing and foraging to sustain their needs. Nearby lies a modest pottery and an orchard shared between three households. Running along the base of the ridge from Brimshaw is the Brimshaw Twitchel,…

  • Isle of Farra

    Farra, windiest of the Outer Winds, breeds passionate, sharp-witted folk. Fierce in love and quarrel, they weave storm-dyed cloth with silver threads, honour rituals of wind and memory, and live by care and loyalty.

  • Ferwell

    A quiet village along the wide-bellied Vel, just upriver from Kellack Wheal. Ferwell is known for its good iron and its quiet men — just enough water to turn a wheel, just enough stone to shape a home. Not a place of fairs or flourishes, but you’d find a smith on every third doorstep and…

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  • Gilden Reach

    Gilden Reach is the first threshold of House of Craft — a town shaped by learning, edged in metal filings and wooddust. It sits just beyond the low hills east of Glimmerhold, close enough to feel its pull, far enough not to be seen from its towers. The streets are clean but not polished. Stone-set…