Soulearth

Notable Locations

The Cairn-Vales

Rolling heather and ring-mounds; each stone bears a name and a story-glyph.  

The Barrow-Deep

Polished halls and muraled crypts; soft echoes answer when a true name is spoken.  

The Hound’s Crossing

A basalt arch over a still pool where black hounds once met the newly dead; now they appear only at full rites.  

The Masked Fields

Rows of serene terra-cotta death-masks on plinths; pilgrims leave bread, wine, and small carvings.  

The Silent Basin

Natural amphitheater for Earthrising ceremonies beneath the full moon.  

Stone-Lantern Quays

Rope-ferries on a calm braid of Okyanus; lanterns burn with cold, smokeless light.  

Travel and Access

Approved psychopomps and lawful good earth-powers may transit by compact; hostile necromancy is repelled at the threshold. Oceanus Bone-Ferry: Rope-ferries ply a placid braid to Eronia’s main flow; ferrymen ask a name and a memory as fare.  

Earthrising Gate

During the full-moon rite, a mossed arch opens briefly onto the halfling afterlands of Greenfields.  

Name-Tunnels

Whisper a lineage at a cairn-door to reveal a short way to kin-crypts in the Barrow-Deep.  

Courtesy of Stone

With a granite tithe and a keeper’s leave, a crystal seam opens toward Dumathoin’s servants for interfaith funerary aid.  

Inhabitants

Halfling Petitioners

Peaceful souls living simply among kin, choosing when to pass on.  

Grimwardens

Urogalan’s former clergy, now eternal caretakers in stone-gray; warders against grave-theft and malign rites.  

Black Hounds

Rare, paired manifestations that sniff out lies and guide the lost during Earthrising.  

Permitted Guests

Yondallan emissaries, Dumathoin’s keepers, and allied good petitioners who upheld halfling burial-law in life.

Echo of the Barrow

Cruel words spoken in tombs return warped, blighting the speaker’s reputation until atonement.  

Shifting Cairns

Paths favor vow-keepers; oath-breakers wander “reasonable” detours.  

Dust of Forgetting

Desecrators find names and directions slipping away until they repair the harm.  

Storm-Cracks

Eronian gusts sometimes open fissures; they close gently after processions pass.  

Ancestor’s Grace

Kin-and-lineage divinations reveal kinder, truer context.  

Earth’s Shelter

Protective wards and consecrations anchored to stone persist beyond their norm.  

Stone’s Warning

Guardians gain small, timely intuitions against necromancers and tomb-robbers.  

Rest Assured

Rites that lay the dead to rest take easy, enduring hold; memorial offerings often sprout white blossoms by dawn.