The Ashen Archive

Day 3 3 Mistmonth, 312 AS

A chronicle of the Reach, beneath the Wound

Map of the Reach

The archive’s map, copied from older maps of disputed accuracy. New places are added as the archivists learn of them.

Painted map of the Reach: northern fjords and forests, a black glass waste near the centre, eastern highlands, a drowned western coast, river country in the middle, harbours in the south and grassland in the south-east The HaskVarrowThe GlassmereThe Pale SeeThe Drowned CoastThe Tidebound LeagueThe Ember SteppeCaldmereCaldmereSaverraSaverraThe Stair of IlmThe Stair of Ilm

The Hask

Northern clanlands of birch, fjord and long winter.

Varrow

The heartland of the Sundered Empire, ruled by a regency for an empty throne.

The Glassmere

A forbidden waste of black glass where the Cathedral of the Hymns fell.

The Pale See

Eastern highlands ruled by the Pale Choir, who worship the Wound.

The Drowned Coast

The western shore where the kingdom of Ilm sank in a single night.

The Tidebound League

Merchant city-states of the southern coast, bound by debt and charter.

The Ember Steppe

South-eastern grassland of the Khaddan horse-clans.