THE LEDGER
The Vale
The sheltered basin around Vallenfeld and the Eastern Hills, walled by the Vale Rim and pierced by three named passes (the Vellen Gorge, the North Stair, the Ashen Gap) — the world's first zone and its safest surface ground.
Green farmland and wind-scoured ridge inside a near-unbroken mountain rim, held loosely between House Vandahl's silver rights at Vallenfeld and the older claims of the Ashari tribe in the hills. Every road out of the Vale runs through a named pass, and every pass is a promise: the world gets harder past this line.
KIND
zone-region
LAYER
surface
TIER
Tier I
DANGER REASON
The pilot zone: rim-walled, garrisoned by proximity to Vallenfeld and House Vandahl's writ; danger rises only past the Eastern Hills toward the rim.
Connected
Type Fields
All Relationships (23)
owns
- ←House Vandahl — House Vandahl holds nominal silver rights over Vallenfeld and the Vale basin, though its power has pulled back toward Castle Sered and Vandahl Keep.
hidden_in
- ←The Skritch Warren — The Skritch Warren's goblins skulk the Eastern Hills within the Vale zone, small and vicious and quick to break.
- ←The Folded Horizon — A bent example survived behind rubble in a shallow Vale ruin.
- ←The Outgoing Plumb — It was sealed in a reused cist beneath a Vale barrow.
- ←The Mason's Star — Rain and cairn stone kept it on a Vale ridge.
- ←The Rain-Cup of Nine Marks — A rootbound hollow preserved it in the Vale.
- ←The Quiet Hinge Pattern — A fallen flue concealed the scorched plate in the Vale.
- ←The Lantern-Maker's Third Hand — A small Vale lockbox kept the sooted clamp dry.
- ←The Little House Gnomon — Old roots held it beside a vanished Vale dwelling.
- ←The Unspent Line — Rubble walled it into a shallow Vale work niche.
- ←The Cup-Caliper — Reused dwelling stones carried it into a Vale cist.
- ←The Southward Reading Leaf — It survived near an old Vale survey line.
- ←The Keeper's Trivet — A collapsed Vale hearth flue hid the sooted ring.
- ←The Aelvyrenn Door-Seal — A cracked Vale stone nodule enclosed the severed seal.
references
- →The Vale Rim — The zone's borders ARE the Vale Rim: the Vellen Gorge, the North Stair, and the Ashen Gap are its three graph edges out.
- ←quest.the-full-measure (unresolved) — A blank filled on the Society's Vale maps.
bounded_by
- →The Northern Reach — The North Stair pass connects the Vale to the Reach — the zone graph's first edge north.
- →The Greatwood — The Vellen Gorge carries the river down out of the Vale and into the Greatwood — the zone graph's south-west edge.
- →Highbridge — The road down the Vellen from Vallenfeld to Highbridge is the graph's best-worn edge, the spine of the main-quest chain.
- →The Ashen Wastes — The Ashen Gap is the Vale's eastern door onto the wastes and the barrow road.
- →The Sunkroot Warrens — A shaft edge hangs the Warrens under the Vale — the same layer transition Vel-Sathra itself uses.
- →Vel-Sathra — Vel-Sathra is hung under the-vale by the same uw_pilot_valenfeld network shaft the Sunkroot Warrens use.
- →Vel-Sathra — Vel-Sathra is hung under the-vale by the same uw_pilot_valenfeld network shaft the Sunkroot Warrens use.
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