Ashward
Location: The northwestern-most part of Frae, it extends into field of ancient ruins outside of the city proper.
Tone: Quiet, decrepit, decaying, ancient
Description: Ash-covered tenements and pyre-towers mark this haunted district. Beneath it lies the Saltbone Tunnels, ancient and half-lost.
Inhabitants:
- Poor laborers, gravediggers, and unlicensed priests
- Halflings hidden among “lost registries”
- Cultists, Blessed Wanderers, and death mystics
Prominent NPCs:
- Mother Ashia – Matron of the Blessed Wanderers, neither dead nor alive.
- Old Ren Sull – Catacomb guide who speaks to ghosts and owes them favors.
- Lumen – A halfling girl who cannot speak, but causes lights to flicker when she cries.
Points of interest
- The Whisper Gate – Portal to the catacombs, sealed with bone-salt wards
- Shrine of Vaksyrna – Cold, candlelit, where the dead are never named aloud.
- Dusthall – Unassuming archive where scholars track magical decay.
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