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Badlands, holds & distant horizons

Locations

Places arranged from the campaign’s active heartland to the wider world beyond Belkzen.

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Belkzen

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Campaign heartland

Nation · rugged badlands

Belkzen

Belkzen
A land of independent orc holds, seasonal floods, hard-won identity, and the gathering threat of the undead.Open location
Known through the cast

City · capital of Belkzen

Urgir

UrgirBelkzen
The former dwarven sky citadel of Koldukar, now Belkzen’s trading capital and the seat of Ardax’s power.Open location
Current location

Seasonal encampment

Torrentmoot

TorrentmootBelkzen
A great Flood Truce gathering where orc holds and foreign envoys test the possibility of alliance.Open location
Travelled

Landmark · seasonal road and riverbed

Flood Road

Flood RoadBelkzen
A dusty road transformed by mountain snowmelt into the river that begins the Flood Truce and the aurochs migration.Open location
Not yet visited

City · mountain fortress

Wyvernsting

WyvernstingBelkzen
A strategic fortress city near the Kodars, famed for its blacksmiths and trained megafauna.Open location
Not yet visited

District

Hagtooth Hill

Hagtooth HillWyvernstingBelkzen
The Wyvernsting hill where most members of the ruling Unbroken Horn Hold live and train.Open location
Not yet visited

Fortress

Fort Paskis

Fort PaskisWyvernstingBelkzen
A stone keep crowning one of Wyvernsting’s two hills and housing the city’s ruler and closest allies.Open location
Not yet visited

District

The Market

The MarketWyvernstingBelkzen
Wyvernsting’s bustling central trade quarter, selling arms, armour, and the city’s famed megafauna.Open location
Not yet visited

District

Downside

DownsideWyvernstingBelkzen
A district of small, comfortable steep-roofed homes for most of Wyvernsting’s orc residents outside the ruling hold.Open location
Not yet visited

District

Backhill

BackhillWyvernstingBelkzen
A sprawling northern neighbourhood where tightly packed wooden buildings leave poorer residents vulnerable to fire.Open location
Not yet visited

District

Stockside

StocksideWyvernstingBelkzen
A district of stables, hostlers, and leather-workers serving Wyvernsting’s renowned megafauna trade.Open location
Not yet visited

Town · former pit mine

Blisterwell

BlisterwellBelkzen
Vertical settlements built into an abandoned dwarven mine and divided between two rival orc holds.Open location
Not yet visited

Stronghold

Splitskull Keep

Splitskull KeepBelkzen
A fortified Cleft Head stronghold near Belkzen’s border with Ustalav.Open location
Known through Gurnak

Orc hold

Burning Sun Hold

Burning Sun HoldBelkzen
Gurnak’s birth hold, devoted to Sarenrae and committed to challenging some of Belkzen’s crueler traditions.Open location
Seen from Torrentmoot

Mountain range

Tusk Mountains

Tusk MountainsBelkzen
The range that gives Belkzen its name and feeds the annual flood of the Flood Road.Open location
Not yet visited

Mountain range

Kodar Mountains

Kodar MountainsBelkzen
Belkzen’s northeastern mountain range, containing Wyvernsting and the Algid Wastes.Open location
Background geography

Mountain range

Mindspin Mountains

Mindspin MountainsBelkzen
A long mountain frontier marking part of Belkzen’s rugged borderlands.Open location
Background geography

Quicksand region

Dirt Sea

Dirt SeaBelkzen
A vast, treacherous expanse of quicksand navigated by the Drowning Sand Hold.Open location
Not yet visited

Frozen expanse

Algid Wastes

Algid WastesBelkzen
A frozen region near the Kodars, home to valuable and dangerous megafauna.Open location
Background geography

Darklands access point

Deepgate

DeepgateBelkzen
A western gateway into the Darklands from which the Gutspear Hold was displaced.Open location
Background geography

Mountain pass

Whisperfall Pass

Whisperfall PassBelkzen
A mountain pass whose foothills form the primary range of the nomadic Storm-Screamers of Rull.Open location
Not yet visited

Canyon

Cleftbone Canyon

Cleftbone CanyonBelkzen
A canyon on the mountain approach to Wyvernsting in the northeastern Kodars.Open location
Not yet visited

Lake

Darkwater Lake

Darkwater LakeBelkzen
A remote lake far beneath the cliffs near Wyvernsting.Open location

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Beyond Belkzen

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Strategic threat

Blighted borderland

The Gravelands

The GravelandsBelkzen
A war-scarred borderland with Lastwall, bound to the undead threat and the Whispering Tyrant.Open location
Known through Gurnak

City · top level

Absalom

Absalom
The city at the centre of the world, where Gurnak grew up, studied, and received lifesaving care.Open location
Background geography

Region · top level

Sarkoris Scar

Sarkoris Scar
A war-scarred region east of Belkzen.Open location
Bordering realm

Nation · top level

Ustalav

Ustalav
A gothic nation south of Belkzen with a long and complicated history with the orc holds.Open location
Bordering realm

Nation · top level

Nirmathas

Nirmathas
A young southern nation historically wary of Belkzen and crossed by Golden Wheel trade routes.Open location
Bordering realm

Nation · top level

Realm of the Mammoth Lords

Realm of the Mammoth Lords
A frozen northern realm bordering Belkzen and home to numerous Kellid followings.Open location
Background geography

Region · top level

Varisia

Varisia
A sprawling western region known for the Shoanti and the ruins of ancient Thassilon.Open location
Background geography

Region · top level

New Thassilon

New Thassilon
A region founded atop ancient Thassilon, parts of whose buried legacy extend beneath Belkzen.Open location

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Minor Locations

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Cleared

Ruin · tomb dungeon

Secret Tomb

Secret TombBelkzen
A five-thousand-year-old orc tomb hidden beyond a cave-in, where the party rescued Kar, Xan, and Ilo.Open location