Not every noble hides behind stone walls or silvered gates.

Not every noble hides behind stone walls or silvered gates.

Centered in the fertile river valleys where the crown now keeps its seat, House Greenwell maintains influence through trust, fairness, and long-standing...

When subtle fails, ogres arrive.

When subtle fails, ogres arrive.

They are not subtle creatures, but mistaking that for helpless stupidity is a short road to becoming floor d’cor. Ogres feel danger before they understand...

Come for trade leave with either coin or consequences.

Come for trade leave with either coin or consequences.

Stonebridge Village hums with the bright, practical confidence of a place that knows exactly what coin can do. Market awnings color the streets, carts...

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The Thawing Hearth
  • Ice Dome Hall
  • Great Stone Hearth
  • Spiced Broth

The Thawing Hearth

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In Frostmaw Village almost everything is made of ice, including the tavern. The Thawing Hearth is a great domed hall of packed snow and glacier blocks, glowing faintly blue from the outside, built around a stone hearth so large that three hunters can sit inside its mouth on a bad night.

The fire has not gone out since the village was founded, and the village takes turns feeding it. Hunters come in to thaw their fingers over spiced broth and trade stories about the high passes, the long dark, and the road north to Timony Keep, which starts at the hall's back door.

Some evenings a young Winterclaw wanders in for broth, all warm smile and frost-white fur, and leaves the whole hall laughing.

The one fire in Frostmaw nobody lets go out.