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“Norvostra is dying, and the people know it.” — Aeldric Voss, Explorer of the Lost Lands Norvostra is the kingdom at the center of the Festering Lands. In the second year of the Rotmire Blight, ordinary questions of travel, food, trade, shelter, and local auth...

Faulmoor is a low, wet barony of marsh, floodplain, reclaimed farmland, ports, and old trade routes. In the second year of the Rotmire Blight, failing roads and drainage works are allowing water to reclaim abandoned fields and settlements while the region's no...

“The dead do not rest in Faulmoor.” — Doctor Kyra Sheer The Rotmire Blight is the name used across Norvostra for the catastrophe affecting living bodies, water, soil, vegetation, wildlife, and the dead. It is most visible in Faulmoor, where quarantine walls, a...

“The Black Thorn Strikes Deep.” — House Wilthorne motto House Wilthorne rules Ebonmoor from Ebonmere as a major vassal house of House Valkenmar. Its public image favors patience, diplomacy, and carefully applied pressure over open displays of force. Overview B...

“By Mire and Might.” — House Harrowden motto House Harrowden is the ruling house of Fenmire and a vassal of House Valkenmar. Once politically marginal, the house gained enormous importance after the discovery of rich silver deposits at Thornmere and became ind...

“Steel and Sacrifice.” — House Valkenmar motto House Valkenmar is the ruling house of Faulmoor, seated at Valkenheim. Its authority rests on military power, old political legitimacy, and a tradition of severe public duty that has become increasingly literal du...

“These walls are not built in cruelty, but in necessity.” — Baron Malric Valkenmar Oldfen is a ruined settlement in Faulmoor remembered as one of the most notorious containment failures of the Rotmire Blight. During the first year of the crisis, a perimeter wa...

“To send men to them is not a rescue. It is an invitation to join them.” — Baron Malric Valkenmar Ashenmoor is a ruined settlement in Faulmoor whose unfinished defenses became one of the clearest signs of how quickly a containment plan could fail. The town fel...

“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...