There is one region, modeled after colorado. There are four major settlements in the region one modeled after denver, one modeled after boulder, and one modeled after colorado springs, and one modeled after vail. The region is the same size as colorado.
Ledgerford
“Ledgerford sits where the mountain road crosses a cold, fast river on its way between the low country and the high passes. The town exists because the bridge is the safest crossing for miles and the water powers a good mill. Grain, timber, mule teams, and toll money keep it alive. The catch is that the bridge charter, mill rights, and most private loans are tied together in one old ledger, so politics here is really accounting with knives.”
Explore RecordRedbrook Ford
Redbrook Ford is a hard-bitten settlement built where a mountain spring feeds a long irrigation ditch and an old wagon road crosses the creek. The town survives because that water reaches hay fields, orchards, and a small mill before the channel freezes. Everyone says the ford and the ditch made the place possible. The truth is harsher: the town was founded where the water could be controlled, counted, and threatened.
Red Fork
Red Fork is a narrow settlement built where a cold spring breaks out of red sandstone above a protected valley road. It exists because the spring is reliable, the road is the cleanest way across the lower passes, and the old quarry nearby provides stone for cisterns and mills. The town’s real foundation is water control, not trade. Every family, shop, and office depends on the same springhouse and the same ledgers.
Brackenford
This settlement exists because the creek here can be choked, measured, and released through a narrow natural cut in the rock. That makes it one of the few places in the region where mills, gardens, and ore washes can all survive the dry season. The town grew around water control first, mining second, and law third. Every family knows the town only prospers when the gates are kept honest.
The High Basin
Switchback Colossus
A living mountain guardian built from stone, old timber, and winter wind, meant to defend alpine passes and punish those who carve too greedily into the High Basin.
Switchback Warden
An alpine guardian-beast that haunts the High Basin's switchbacks, born from old mountain oath, storm, and stone. It is as much a living weather front as an animal, and it punishes those who take more from the region than they leave behind.