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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Reynard" data-source="post: 4026158" data-attributes="member: 467">GeographyGEOGRAPHYKingsbarrow is located in a shallow valley between ridges of wooded mountains.  The valley is about 20 miles wide on average and about 60 miles long (at least as far as the campaign “area of interest” is concerned).  Elevation rises to to the northeast and falls to the southwest, generally speaking, but the land of the valley is rolling with a few high hills and law depressions.  Long ago, when the world was still civilized, the vast majority of the valley was clear cut for farming (except the Witchwyrd Wood and the Blackmoor Swamp) but forest has reclaimed most of these farmlands.  Throughout this wooded terrain ancient standing stones and burial mounds, as well as more recent, but still ruined, manor houses and keeps can be found.  The Slow River runs the course of the valley, roughly following the Low Road, and there are many streams and ponds throughout the valley that feed it.At the northeast end of the valley there is a mountain lake called Gotterdrown and the mountains suddenly spike upward beyond the lake.  The High Road was once fed by the spring overflow of the lake (due to rains and snow melt) but the last mile or so of the High Road has completely collapsed.  Now, when the spring comes, the Slow River floods.  This is a boon, actually, as most of the farms that feed Kingsbarrow are located along the river and the floods replenish the soil.  Though none in living memory have explored the Gotterdrown, tales speak of an ancient, enormous keep on its far shore and something mighty and immense living in its waters.The slopes of the mountains that form the valley are mostly forested and largely untouched.  One clan of dwarves, numbering a little less than 100, has established a quarry about 30 miles from Kigsbarrow, however.  Theirs is a difficult, dangerous life, as monsters prowl the mountain slopes and often come to the quarry settlement to feed.  There are other mines on the mountain slopes, all long abandoned and inviting prospectors to investigate.In the southwest, some 30 miles along the Low/High roads from Kingsbarrow, the slope of the land becomes steeper and the Slow River becomes a raging whitewater.  Travelers rarely visit and the Low road is overgrown and narrow, but occasionally peddlers and pilgrims, refugees and raiders, and others will appear from the lowlands.  At  the precipice of this slope sits Kingsbane Keep, an ancient watchtower where a treacherous warlord allowed an invading army to cross into the valley at the end of the era of light for the kings of Kingsbarrow.  Kingsbarrow staffs one tower of the Keep with watchmen, but the vast majority of the Keep is unexplored and believed haunted.CLIMATE:Winters are long and snow is heavy, but the temperatures are relatively mild (20s).Springs are very wet.Summers are humid, though not particularly hot, and often dry, so much so that the Slow River often stops running.Autumn is also wet, but generally pleasant.</blockquote>

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