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== | == Overview - "The Silver Chase" == | ||
The quick-growing silver birch woods on the eastern borders of Upwold are the source of a deal of income. Charcoal-burners live there, turning wood into easily transportable fuel for smith and hearth alike. The bark of those trees is used in the tanning industry, to cure the hides of the cattle that graze on the river pastures. It's one of the few areas where anything other than beer is drunk - a drink made of the sap of the birch trees that warms their hearts in the cold winter nights but brings strange dreams. The people who live up here have closer links to the Navarr than many in the Marches, and more need for Beaters than most. | The quick-growing silver birch woods on the eastern borders of Upwold are the source of a deal of income. Charcoal-burners live there, turning wood into easily transportable fuel for smith and hearth alike. The bark of those trees is used in the tanning industry, to cure the hides of the cattle that graze on the river pastures. It's one of the few areas where anything other than beer is drunk - a drink made of the sap of the birch trees that warms their hearts in the cold winter nights but brings strange dreams. The people who live up here have closer links to the Navarr than many in the Marches, and more need for Beaters than most. | ||
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Overview - "The Silver Chase"
The quick-growing silver birch woods on the eastern borders of Upwold are the source of a deal of income. Charcoal-burners live there, turning wood into easily transportable fuel for smith and hearth alike. The bark of those trees is used in the tanning industry, to cure the hides of the cattle that graze on the river pastures. It's one of the few areas where anything other than beer is drunk - a drink made of the sap of the birch trees that warms their hearts in the cold winter nights but brings strange dreams. The people who live up here have closer links to the Navarr than many in the Marches, and more need for Beaters than most.
Through the dark heart of those woods are paths no Marcher treads. From these secret ways come the painted Feni - uncivillised raiders, thieves, and rustlers who raid and steal from isolated settlements. To the north-west, cousins to these forests decay into the marshes that form the southern border of Kallavesa in Wintermark.
Minor Settlements
Ashill
Soot hangs in the air here from the charcoal burning; pure fuel for the cities of the League and the forges of Wintermark. There’s magic here too, the magic of Landskeepers who make the pollarded beeches grow, and the pigs thrive fat.
Stockland
A sprawling town known for its sheep and cattle markets. It’s where you take your stock if you’re a Household from the west of Upwold, and where you stay for an evening’s raucous drinking before heading back to your home. Stockland ale is exported around the Empire -- not because it’s particularly good, but it is recognisable, and can bring a lump to the throat of the homesick Marcher.
King’s Stoke
A pre-Imperial tower stands here, said to be the place where the rebels held back the King of Dawn in the March of secession, though if every family who claims an ancestor fought there is right, it must have been an easy victory...
Places of Interest
The Woldstone
An old dolmen said to be the first planted by Marcher Landskeepers when they claimed Upwold for their own.