A cluster of slate-roof cottages clinging to a narrow terrace below a jagged ridge, known for goat cheese and winter ropecraft, with smoke curling from many chimneys and prayer flags flapping where avalanches once stopped.
A cliffside village where every rope and prayer keeps the world from sliding away.
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Merchant Liaison
A fast-talking wheeler-dealer who keeps the village fed when seasons turn sour.
Magistrate
An elder with a keen eye for balance and a tired jaw from hard winters.
Militia Captain
A veteran hunter with an icy stare and a soft voice for apprentices.
Head Herdwarden
A blunt matriarch with rope scars and a laugh like stone chimes.
Runescholar
A pale scholar who collects shard-lore in secret and avoids the shrine elders.
Forge and Ropeworks
A cramped forge and ropeworks where climbing spikes are tempered and braids are sold.
General Store
A shelving room filled with tinned goods, curatives, and curious carved trinkets.
Militia, prospectors, traveling merchants, and the occasional scholar.
A smoky room with low beams, a wide hearth, and ropes hung with drying herbs.
Religious order
The Keepers maintain the safety of shrine sites and mediate disputes over grazing.
Economic guild
A small group of women and men who push for more aggressive trade and excavation.
Community watch
Local herders who enforce grazing rotations and resolve boundary quarrels.
A frozen cascade that rings like glass at dawn and hides a narrow ice cave behind it.
A perched stone altar with hundreds of tiny carved offerings and names rubbed smooth.
A collapsed miners' shaft with strange glyphs at the entrance and scorch marks within.
A skybridge of ancient rope and timber that creaks underfoot and offers a view of distant trade columns.
A cache of old siege-charms and powdered iron hidden in Black Mouth Shaft fuels secret weapon-making.
Mara Kest shelters a weak litter of mountain goats on a banned ledge to preserve bloodlines.
Riven Noll removed a glyph shard that can open a distant, locked ritual doorway.
A buried shrine under Glassfall sleeps with a half-forgotten guardian.
Gorin Thal keeps a map that leads to a seam that could make Frostgate wealthy.
The magistrate once accepted a lowland lord's silver and may be beholden to him.
The Humming Crate
A sealed crate hums and leaks faint light; the source could be relic, hazard, or lure.
Pulse in the Stone
A shrine stone pulses in time with the mountain; the Keepers fear an awakening while prospectors see profit.
Tracks to the Cairn
A winter-bound caravan did not return and its tracks end at an overturned cairn of unnatural origin.
Map of the Hidden Vein
A prospector offers shares in a hidden seam if you retrieve his lost map from a collapsed tunnel.
