surprised. "Ye don't call for t'magistrates when yer 'ouse is on fire." she said grimly, pulling a heavy wooden shawl around her bony shoulders. "Come on, Jenni

Kaela is the Lady of the Grim Host and awaits the end of all things. Most commonly, Kaela is called the Lady of the Grim Host after the army of undying

symbol for unsleeping Vigilance among the Highborn. In Varushka, eyes or grim faces are often carved into lintels or trees to keep watch over a vale; there

and the stories of the few escaped or liberated Imperial slaves paint a grim picture. Slaves are poorly treated and sometimes worked to death. Some allegedly

The Grim Gardener is an Imperial title commissioned by the Imperial Senate in Spring 381YE. The position of Grim Gardener is a sinecure, requiring minimal

Even for Highborn chapters, these chapters have a reputation for being dour, grim and restrained. "Only the dead live in Necropolis" is a common, if somewhat

along with the aid of wise Varushkan allies, not only freed the lady from a grim curse but also provided her with good advice that helped her to quell the

another family member to take them in, they may end up destitute and face a grim future unless taken in by another family, a Navarr striding, or the Church

further mystery to the Heartwood, there have been repeated sightings of a grim phantom in the forests. Called the Valewoman, the spirit appears to be that

result of Marchers choosing to call a spade a spade). Some yeomen, with a grim gallows humour, prefer to call the hole Downwold in reference to the not

pre-Imperial Navarri vate whose spirit was kept captive in Mourning Hollow by the grim magic of a volodny. The tormented spirit was freed in 379YE when this oath

the Salt Flats of Sanath. It absolutely teems with life - where Ossium was grim and dour, strangled with dark forests, Sarangrave is wide open and fecund

for their black humour, leather or metal scale armour, vicious axes, and grim determination to get the job done - even if it means doing things that other

monsters to threaten those who would settle here. Varushkans are stoic and grim in the face of this adversity, only letting down their guard when they are

of the Grendel armada and been repulsed. They pull back into Necropolis, grimly aware of the dark fate that awaits the crew of any ship left behind. Death

houses in Weirmoor have a reputation for standoffishness, and several have a grim reputation. The eerie Weirwater Vales stand in Wickmoor, between the extensive

The Urizen combine a relentless will with an unquenchable ambition — and an unmatched understanding of magical lore. Urizen is arguably the oldest Imperial

the rough music. On nights where the beer and cider is flowing, there was grim talk of demanding that the Caves be given over to the Marchers if the Mournwold

miners believe they are probably overdue, and this leads to a particularly grim atmosphere in the mine and the surrounding villages. In 384YE, at the same

eyebrows; the forests of Varushka are by no means safe. They are home to the grim horrors the Varushkans call Wolves. They are hungry, instinctual horrors