Built around a healing meltwater pool, Aurel's Hold is a layered city of terraces, glassed bathhouses, warm greenhouses, and the high keep where King Ennis and his triplet sons preside, all kept temperate by ingeniously routed thermal channels and carefully tended stoves.
A city of warm stones and colder secrets clinging to a glacier-fed spring.
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Monarch
A seasoned ruler who balances warmth for his people with the cool calculus of mountain politics.
Commander of the Frostspine Rangers
A scarred ranger who rides the outer cliffs and values action over courtly words.
Master of Trade and Infrastructure
A silver-tongued organizer who maps markets and engineers commerce.
Keeper of the Spring
Soft-spoken and intense, Corin is more at home in the baths and temples than the throne room.
Captain of the Holdguard
A veteran leader who values duty above favor and is always on patrol.
Head of the Healing Pools
A revered healer who wears threadbare robes stained with herbs and steam.
Merchant guild shop
A dual workshop where stonecarvers and bottlers share space and profits.
Artisan emporium
A boutique workshop supplying the thermal architecture of the city.
Merchants, artisans, and lower-tier guild members
A roomy steamhouse tavern where locals dine beside communal baths and warm benches.
Nobility, foreign envoys, and secretive patrons
A dim, upscale parlor favored by nobles and visiting dignitaries for private meetings.
Religious order
A devout order that treats the spring as sacred and exerts moral authority in matters of water use.
Economic guild
A pragmatic guild that balances profit-minded innovation with strict internal regulation.
Military order
Elite cliffsmen who know every crevasse and keep the Hold's borders quiet.
A heated walkway of translucent panels offering views of the glacier and valley below.
A public bath terrace where citizens barter stories and small favors over communal soaks.
A series of carved cisterns and channels that route thermal water through the city.
A shadowed alcove in the lower market where secrets are sold in whispered coin.
The spring's warmth is partly sustained by an ancient runic hearth hidden beneath the pool.
Prince Mael siphons a small trade route's profits to fund private militias.
A quiet pact with a mountain spirit binds the king to a debt of silence.
Tainted Waters
Find the source of contaminated bottled spring water before an epidemic spreads and public trust collapses.
The Hidden Hearth
Delve beneath the pool to uncover the runic hearth and decide whether to preserve, harness, or destroy it.
Brothers at Court
Meddle in the triplet princes' rivalries to tilt succession talks toward one claimant or broker a power-sharing accord.
The Avalanche Cavern
Explore the newly revealed cavern from the Pass Opening and contend with claim-jumpers and ancient guardians.
