Map · Inside the fog wall

Regions and Thresholds

The fog swallowed the roads around Karaliman. The towns, marshes and hills can be reached only through thresholds woven with old runes. The innkeepers guard the thresholds; they let no one through who isn’t ready.

Region · Main city
Karaliman
Safe
A harbour city ringed by fog. The heart of the game and everyone’s meeting point.
Region · Coast
Silent Shore
Safe
The shore where the Entrusted emerge from the sea. The Innkeepers’ caravanserai stands here.
Region · Inn town
Yolağzı
Safe
An inn town where the roads meet. The Innkeepers’ Oath was signed here.
Region · Town
Demirsur
Safe
The Iron Regiment’s town. Barracks order has never broken here.
Region · Town
Bakırhan
Safe
The Union’s town. Home of the soup kitchens and workshops, where talismans and the Anvil were born.
Region · Valley
Akpınar
Safe
The Covenant’s valley. Where healing was born.
Region · Marsh
Copper Marsh
Dangerous
The marsh where the creatures of tales were first seen. At night a voice is heard calling travellers by name.
Region · Hills
Blind Hills
Dangerous
Old mine shafts and the Cave of the Dead. Not even shepherds go up here alone.
Region · Forest
Bone Forest
Dangerous
The forest of the Pale Ones, who came from the Dark Sky.
Region · Coast
Mist Coast
Dangerous
A dangerous coast where the cracks of the Dark Sky open. What comes out of them resembles no tale.
Region · Plain
Burnt Plain
Red Line
Essence mines and the bloodiest fronts of the Red Lines.

Karaliman

The Quarters of Karaliman

The port city at the heart of the fog. Every quarter has its own trade, and its own dangers.

The HarbourTrade, smuggling, work: Crowded by day, dangerous by night. Rusting ships lie at the quay.
The Old BazaarTradespeople and master crafters: A covered bazaar, inns and workshops. Whoever wants to learn a craft comes here.
Clock Tower SquareMemorial to the disaster: The rubble of the 1999 disaster still lies where it fell.
Barracks HillThe Iron Regiment’s outpost in the city: The old garrison. Barbed wire and watchtowers.
The CisternsUnderground dungeons: Old cisterns and tunnels. Some of those who went down never came back.

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Thresholds

Thresholds are door frames woven with runes. For the traveller who passes through, they turn the fog curtain into a straight corridor for a single moment.

The Innkeepers run the thresholds. After the Clock Tower the thresholds were closed; the factions wove their own, but the watch still belongs to the innkeepers.

Not everyone can pass. A threshold won’t let through anyone who isn’t ready, and neither will an innkeeper.

Innkeepers’ Oath · Article 3

The Red Lines

Since the Innkeepers’ Oath, war between the factions is waged only in designated zones: the Red Lines.

The city and towns are protected by the oath. No blood is spilled in a town, and no hand is raised against an innkeeper. Whoever steps onto a Red Line knows why they are there.

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Cave of the Dead

The mouth of the old mine in the Blind Hills has been sealed for years. The garrison’s ledger of the missing says a company was “lost in the fog curtain” here; no search was made.

Shepherds tell of seeing figures in the hills at night, with patterns glowing like fire on their skin. No one goes near them.