Ardeleth

Culturally similar to Halta but with more people of Linowan or other foreign descent. Fallen Lapis and all the towns were destroyed, by one side or the other, in the recent war between the Realm and the Bull of the North's Icewalker coalition. The remaining populace are doing their best to survive long enough to consider rebuilding.

As Blood on the Snow has been focusing primarily on providing food for winter (and is considering letting the towns wither away anyway), other problems have been growing faster than they can be solved. The current understanding of those in Gavirat is:

Fallen Lapis: Almost empty once-capital. Depopulated in the war, in a single morning by some dreadful magic. Small shadowland in the city, the palace is being used as his headquarters by Yaotl, High Lord of Talinin and Regent of Ardeleth. Whoever he is.

Blank Ford: We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

Davala: Have sent a messenger bird that people are falling sick and supplies are running low. Snow wants to quarantine after sending in supplies & medical help - so no-one is leaving until the problem is solved.

Deir Balah: Stored food is going off unnaturally quickly.

Eternal Tree: centre of Caltia's worship in the kingdom, but more and more rites and offerings have been missed and the local gods are getting angry.

Kfar Safit: Almost no contact with the outside world, they are not responding to messenger birds.

Kukalaki: There's something in the woods, hunting those who get too far out of town.

Kunin: Cut off, messenger birds getting through but not people, the town doesn't know what's going on, probably the same problem as at Talurat.

Illalim: Conflicting reports about exactly what has stalled the reconstruction of the town but something has, some Icewalkers settled there after the war.

Jerim: A few too many lethal "accidents", especially amongst new residents.

Netud: Have never been able to grow crops on the ground, which is becoming more of a problem.

Talurat: Cut off, messenger birds getting through but not people, the town doesn't know what's going on, probably the same problem as at Kunin.

Tanhine: The ward-tower seems to be haunted (weird noises, cold spots, hallucinations), might not be safe to use, people might refuse to use it even if it is.

Travel

The local rivers are mostly navigable for river-boats (though few remain) and canoes, since paddling allows distances of 50 miles (or 25 upriver) per day the common routes incorporate as much river travel as possible, taking to the ground or the trees only when necessary. Historically Ardeleth had cleared and maintained a network of branch-paths between its towns, to about the same standard as the secondary branch-paths in Halta allowing experienced travellers to make about 15 miles a day; the paths have not been maintained since the war so now they exist as known, surveyed, routes that can be followed along the ground at a rough average of 8½ daily miles instead.

Routes

From:	To:	Days	Return
Fakilias	Gavirat	8 days	N/A
Gavirat	Serene Monastery	6 days	N/A
Gavirat	Kukalaki	7 days	9 days
Kukalaki	Davala	14 days	N/A
Davala	Illalim	14 days	N/A
Illalim	Fallen Lapis	3 days	6 days
Gavirat	Deir Balah	12 days	N/A
Deir Balah	Netud	11 days	N/A
Deir Balah	Eternal Tree	12 days	N/A
Eternal Tree	Talurat	13 days	N/A
Talurat	Kunin	11 days	N/A
Kunin	Davala	14 days	N/A
Talurat	Jerim	11 days	N/A
Jerim	Kfar Safit	4 days	7 days
Kfar Safit	Fallen Lapis	3 days	6 days
Davala	Tanhine	5 days	7 days
Tanhine	Illalim (dangerous)	3 days	4 days
Tanhine	Illalim (safe)	4 days	6 days
Davala	Illalim (dangerous)	3 days	6 days
Davala	Blank Ford	10 days	N/A
Blank Ford	Illalim	14 days	N/A

Links with a figure in the Return column require river travel, so the return (upstream) trip is longer, and canoes or boats will be required
The dangerous links from Tanhine to Illalim (and Davala to Illalim) are down the Arrodas River, the safe link uses the Rovegyes River instead

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Region

Included Locations

• Davala

Related Reports (Secondary)

• Session 20230518 Jackdaw's Camp
• Session 20230525 Solars?
• Session 20230601 Solars!
• Session 20230608 Illalim
• Session 20230615 Mufasa
• Session 20230622 Cloud Over Winter's Moon
• Session 20230629 Blank Ford
• Session 20230727 Triple Conclave
• Session 20230803 Dream Loom and Manse
• Session 20230810 To the Serene Monastery
• Session 20230817 Training Montage!

Shattered Floes Kingdoms

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The border kingdoms between Linowan and Halta, damaged to one extenr or another in the late war.