THE LORE · THE RAMPART FOOTHILLS
The Cairn Road
aka the northern track, the column road
The single cart-track climbing from the Vale's northern margin to Pinewatch, crossing the Marrowgorge at the Spanstone — the only maintained way into the Rampart Foothills, beyond which only cairns and footpaths guide the traveller.
The Cairn Road was laid over an Imperium roadbed already old when the Vallen Imperium built on it; the cart-track is modern, the graded shelf beneath it is not. It was called the Cairn Road by the relic-runners who stacked the stone markers when the Imperium signs fell. The road dies at Pinewatch. Past there it is the Hum-Stone and a traveller's own judgment.
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Connected
Tarrow the LanternCHARACTER · Of all the roads that claim him, the Cairn Road clai…The SpanstonePLACE · The Cairn Road crosses the Marrowgorge at the Spanst…Pinewatch CampPLACE · Pinewatch Camp is the road's northern terminus — pas…Caer VallenPLACE · The seat is visible from the road for a day before y…
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All Relationships (4)
references
- ←Tarrow the Lantern — Of all the roads that claim him, the Cairn Road claims loudest — the ledger-clerk strand and the light-ahead strand are both set on its cairn line past Pinewatch.
- →The Spanstone — The Cairn Road crosses the Marrowgorge at the Spanstone — the bridge is the road's only continuous crossing.
- →Pinewatch Camp — Pinewatch Camp is the road's northern terminus — past it, only cairns and footpaths guide the traveller.
foreshadows
- →Caer Vallen — The seat is visible from the road for a day before you reach it — the road foreshadows the destination without easing the approach.
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