Wyrmhold Reborn

The Wyrmhold controlled part of the Nocthian Caldera. It consists of the area east of the Precipice and north of the regions around Lake Kyol. Borders are approximate.

Towns

• Adron's Folly: The largest civilian town in the Caldera proper. About 4500 people.
• Redcrest: Second largest, an up-and-coming town. Stepping off point for ventures to the south.
• Old Wyrmhold: Not so much the ruins themselves, which are still mostly off limits (although reconstruction has started in the outer fringes). There's a town of about 1200 outside the former walls, mostly a military and scholarly outpost.
• Bedni: The furthest north large-scale settlement. Named such when settlers realized that the land there was, in a word, poor. There are logging camps in the woods to the north and north east.
• Medvyed: A tiny village (~500 people) that has the distinction of being the furthest permanent settlement of Wyrmholders in the Caldera. Known for bees, mead, and being a bit...strange.

Other locations

• The Frostbound Wall: a gigantic fortress spanning the gap leading into the pass out of the Caldera. Finished in 206 AC.
• The Memorial: A garden memorial with walls inscribed with the names of everyone known to have died to the Hungering Frost; a symbol of Wyrmhold's dedication to survival.
• The Bulwark: A wall/fort guarding the more settled Memorial Valley. Passing through the Bulwark is the official entrance into/out of the Caldera on the Wyrmhold side.

Neighbors

• Immediately to the west is the Hornet tribe of barbegazi. Wolf-riders, known to be extremely territorial and stubborn. They do not raid out, generally.
• North of them is the Shrikenest tribe of barbegazi. Smaller, known as cowards and lickspittles. They suck up to the wyrmholders.
• Further west and encroaching are the Red Ice, of whom not much is known other than that the local tribes are afraid of them.
• The Tuath tribe is across the small range of mountains to the south-west of Redcrest. They have few dealings with the people of Wyrmhold.

Ecology

In the main, Wyrmhold Reborn is open plains, with scrubby trees. At the northern extreme, the trees become more dense as they approach the feet of the mountains. The ground is relatively fertile, but hasn't been worked in long enough that it's full of rocks. Decent grazing land, however.

The Precipice is a major landform, a cliff ranging from 50' down to ~15' that divides the highlands from the caldera floor and serves as the unofficial border of the wyrmhold-controlled territory. Two significant rivers span it--the Sweet Honey river to the north and the Xhladna (KHLAD-na) that runs down through the Wall and down to Lake Kyol.

Threats

Beasts

A main constant threat are the mixed warg/wolf packs that live in the forests and mountains and descend to prey on the bison and shaggy wild cattle native to the open lands. And on the smallfolk and their more settled, less dangerous cattle. This is especially bad at the various ends of the area.

Recently (the last couple years), there has been a marked increase in sightings of tunnel worms, large armored centipede-like creatures with digging claws and an acid spit. They burrow underground and come up to take cattle. There is currently a substantial bounty on their acid glands.

Other

The weather is frequently stormy due to a conflux of fire and air-aspected aether in the region. During some storms, lightning elemental creatures leave the Wind Portal (found at the North Sentinel Peak, the high mountain peak north of the Bulwark) and "play catch" with people down below via throwing lightning bolts at them. This is notoriously hazardous for the mortals.

Dotted around the terrain are buried pre-Cataclysm Nocthian vaults and remnants of Hungering Frost fortresses. Most of the ones in the central and southern area have been cleared out (at substantial cost), but they become more frequent as you descend the Precipice into the floor of the Caldera.

Leadership

The area is officially controlled by Clan Anu but much of it is still under de facto military control.

• Memorial Valley
• Adron's Folly
• Redcrest
• Bendi--Rytsar Ivars ka Anu. Hardscrabble local knight, trying to hold things together.
• Old Wyrmhold--Commander Alexandra vo Gal. Young military commander.