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“In Greymire, you can buy anything: stolen grain, a name that ain't yours, a dagger meant for a friend's back.” Greymire is a coastal city in Faulmoor and one of the region's most active surviving ports. It remains formally subject to House Valkenmar, but the ...

“I came here hoping for safety, but all I found was more death.” — an unnamed refugee Vexenford is a massive fortified harbor-city in Faulmoor controlling the mainland approach to Ebonmoor. Governed under House Valkenmar, it is both an active trade center and ...

“Valkenheim is a golden lantern in the dark.” — Lord Ivor Valkenmar Valkenheim is the capital of Faulmoor and the seat of House Valkenmar. Its maintained streets, gardens, markets, and fortified walls stand in deliberate contrast to much of the surrounding bar...

Silver has changed from ordinary wealth into one of Norvostra's most important survival resources. It is the only material widely known to permanently disrupt fully turned Blighted creatures, making it at once a weapon material, emergency reserve, political as...

Blackholt Fort is the largest major fortress in Faulmoor and a longstanding stronghold of House Valkenmar. It lies immediately south of the Pale and historically guarded important routes linking the mainland with Fenmire, Ebonmoor, and the eastern road network...

“The oldest tunnels do not follow the ore. Miners call them failed workings, but failed workings generally begin by following something worth digging toward.” — Veydrith Serrin, Lucent Endura The Ash Peaks are a rugged mountain range in Faulmoor, rising near V...

“Three expeditions have called Harrowgate a temple. None identified an altar, sanctuary, or arrangement that requires worship as an explanation. We should be more careful with the word sacred.” — Veydrith Serrin, Lucent Endura The Harrowgate Ruins are a partia...

Southvale is a river-and-farm settlement in Faulmoor whose relative fertility and livable terrain made it a refuge for wealth during the Rotmire Blight. What began as a small agricultural community changed rapidly as affluent refugees settled permanently and b...

Fenmire is a marsh region of Faulmoor ruled, where it can be ruled at all, by House Harrowden. Deep bogs, brackish channels, sinking peat, raised settlements, ferries, and pole-boats define a landscape where water has always mattered more than roads. The disco...

“The swamp rises to claim it, the Blight knocks at its gates, but we remain.” — Lord Garric Harrowden Fenwatch is the capital of Fenmire and the principal seat of House Harrowden. Built where several navigable waterways meet, the settlement grew from a rough m...

“The deeper we go, the stranger the earth becomes.” — Foreman Vren Thornmere Mines are the principal silver workings of Fenmire and one of the most strategically important resource sites in Faulmoor. Their discovery transformed House Harrowden from a marginal ...

“The damage in the lower halls does not resemble an ordinary fire. Stone has blackened in places and become glasslike in others, yet nearby surfaces remain untouched. Heat was involved. Beyond that, certainty would be premature.” — Veydrith Serrin, Lucent Endu...

“The bridges had to burn, lest the Blight cross with them.” — Lord Garric Harrowden Gristmere is a ruined marsh settlement in Fenmire, now half-submerged and cut off from the routes it once served. Its fall during the Rotmire Blight disrupted travel toward Mir...

“We are not the lost. We are the ones who endure.” — Captain Dain Harthollow Bogsend is a remote settlement in Fenmire that has developed into an effectively independent refuge beyond the ordinary reach of House Harrowden. Difficult approaches, dependable loca...

“I will not let Mirefield fall.” — Governor Marla Harrowden Mirefield is a fortified settlement in Fenmire governed by Marla Harrowden on behalf of House Harrowden. Once an important waypoint on the region's overland routes, it became increasingly isolated aft...

“The stone beneath Weeping Fen predates the settlement and was cut with a precision its founders did not possess. That the townspeople reused it is unremarkable. That so much of it was already there is not.” — Veydrith Serrin, Lucent Endura Weeping Fen is a fi...

Characters in The Festering Lands exist in a kingdom reshaped by the Rotmire Blight, political fragmentation, quarantine, scarcity, renewed interest in the Old Ways, and the return of relics whose purpose is poorly understood. This guide describes stable setti...

Ebonmoor is the island domain of House Wilthorne, separated from mainland Faulmoor by water and reached by a strategically important crossing controlled through Vexenford and Rimewatch Keep. Its misted moors, forests, river valleys, ports, and defensible appro...