The Stone Road

This great highway forms the border with Urnst. The road itself is not made of stone. The name refers to the dry stone walls, some 4 feet high, which line the highway along its full length of over a hundred miles. The agricultural lands on both sides of the border are somewhat stony and livestock farming, especially of sheep and goats, is of major importance. Grazing fields are often demarcated by the same dry stone walls.

The border is entirely patrolled by soldiery from the Duchy of Urnst, save for a handful of small watch-posts on the Nyrond side, as far north as Starkwall where the road ends. Nyrond's border continues on to the Nutherwood along the eastern banks of the Artonsamay, and here some 1,600 king's troops patrol the river border with the old Bandit Kingdoms', now occupied by Iuz. These lands are not wholly controlled by Iuz, and there are still bandits roaming within them which have to be controlled. Hobgoblin soldiers, marauding bandits, and a rare fiend cross into Nyrond upon occasion. These are merely random attacks and at this time Nyrond does not appear to face an organized source of aggression. However, the at tacks still cause important loss of life and have driven many farmers away from the fertile valleys and dates of the Artonsamay basin.

Both bandits and hobgoblins come in search of booty and the hobgoblins have a nasty reputation for taking captured humans back to Iuz's lands as slaves. Iuz the Evil contains extra details and information.