Region 01
Ashwood Marches
A borderland of burned villages, old groves, mass graves, and hunter roads. The Ashwights walk the long ditches at dusk.
The World
A world sick with fear.
The plague does not only kill bodies. It changes laws, prayers, borders, markets, and myths.
Region 02
Saint Veyra's Kingdom
A human kingdom ruled by inquisitors who believe the plague is judgment. Bells toll for the burned more often than for the dead.
Region 03
The Morrowmire
A fog-choked marsh where exiles, witches, plague refugees, and Mirekin survive between human patrols. The water remembers everyone.
Region 04
The Blackbriar Forest
A haunted ancient forest where old covenants still hold power. Step from the path and you are owed to it.
Region 05
The Plague Roads
Trade routes filled with corpse carts, masked physicians, pilgrims, mercenaries, and unseen Rookbound scouts counting every body.
Region 06
The Hollow Crown Ruins
A fallen pre-human fortress, choked with thorn. It may yet become the capital of a sovereign Folk civilization.
“The bells do not ring for the dead anymore. They ring to warn the living that the things in the woods have stopped pretending to be shadows.”— Ashwood Chronicle, Vol. IV