settlement · mainland
Stonebrook
House Rowan's old stone-and-timber capital, where the river road, bank, depot, guilds, farms, and harbor meet.
- Seat
- King Edric IV
World Overview
Atlas of the Fractured Realm
Ulna curves around a western river bowl: the Rainwall catches cold above Northwatch, the Glasswash dries toward Sunpier, the Greenwater feeds Riverwatch, and the Mourning Run bends every road to Gravewatch. Solid routes are playable now. Faint routes show surveyed mainland ground without pretending those roads are open.
Stonebrook, where five roads remember one another
A town is the promises it keeps.
Saving the realm begins with ordinary things: a ferry rope, a relief crate, a shield repaired before sundown, and the name of whoever did not come home.
01 · North Road
Northwatch
The long freight road ends in a compact recovery loop: ledger, depot, quartermaster, ranger board, and a signed stable route home.Read the field guide
02 · Inspected descent
The Near Rift
A shallow wound beneath ordinary mainland stone teaches separated pulls, survey evidence, and the discipline of keeping the return stair in sight.Read the field guide
03 · South Road
The Mourning Verge
Orchard ground yields by degrees to old walls, hooded warnings, and the first cemetery omens. The blue post still points back toward Stonebrook.Read the field guideContinental Survey
The Western Continent
Solid lines are journeys you can make. Faint dashed lines are surveyed ground, not playable roads. Select a marker for field notes; the chart still stops at the Ashen Seal, and the distant southeast remains unnamed.
- Open now
- Surveyed · not open
Drag map · scroll or use controls to zoom
Browse places on the chart
Anchors on the Road
Five charted refuges. Five ways to endure.
Four settlements and one Warden redoubt hold the known return lines. Each offers its own services, authority, visual language, and route into danger. The hostile road beyond the Ashen Seal remains off the map.
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settlement · desert
Sunpier
A fortified awning city of shaded courts, caravan stores, field ledgers, and desert docks.
- Seat
- Elder Nadia
settlement · jungle
Riverwatch
A raised canopy settlement with a council court, antidote stores, depot tent, docks, and vine-road staging.
- Seat
- Shaman Kaya
settlement · undead
Gravewatch
A lantern-lit necropolis settlement whose chapel, shrine bank, depot, and carriage form a defensible holy boundary.
- Seat
- Priest Maris and the Lantern Synod
redoubt · hell
Ashen Seal
An obsidian warden fortress with bank portal, depot seal, forge services, and the last safe return rift.
- Command
- Ashwarden Kael
Regional Field Notes
Prepare for the road ahead.
Read the danger before you leave: each road names its level band, way in, landmarks, and the kind of retreat it demands.
Starter roads, farms, and forest outskirts.
Mainland and Stonebrook
The road network around Stonebrook, with retreat routes, starter hunts, services, and early gathering paths.
- Travel
- Walk from Stonebrook gates and follow surface road markers; no paid or hidden unlock is required.
- Risk
- Low to moderate. Good for first characters, recovery routes, and learning creature pressure.
- Landmarks
- Stonebrook refuge · Mainland outskirts · East road and farm retreats
Sunpier docks, scarab routes, and ruin approaches.
Desert Islands
A mid-game archipelago built around working docks, ruin exteriors, nomad services, and heat-scarred creature routes.
- Travel
- Take the Stonebrook harbor boat to Sunpier, then local service boats toward ruin docks.
- Risk
- Moderate to high. Venom, scarabs, scorpions, and spoiler-guarded interior paths begin here.
- Landmarks
- Sunpier dock · Southern ruin dock · Nomad camp
River landings, vine roads, and ruin edges.
Jungle Wilds
Dense river-country routes with poison threats, ambush pressure, and guarded ruin approaches for organized parties.
- Travel
- Use the Riverwatch boat from Stonebrook to reach the jungle river landing and return boat.
- Risk
- High. Poison, ambushers, and longer retreat paths punish underprepared travel.
- Landmarks
- River landing · Ruin exterior · Guardian approach
Gravewatch gates, crypt descents, and cursed halls.
Undead Ruins
A late-midgame ruin chain where surface graveyards lead into crypt routes, chill effects, and necromancer pressure.
- Travel
- Use the Gravewatch carriage route from Stonebrook and keep the return carriage marked.
- Risk
- High. Chill, attrition, and underground route branches make retreat planning mandatory.
- Landmarks
- Gravewatch gate · Crypt descent · Cursed altar
Ashen rifts, ember routes, and demon staging.
Hell Gate
The high-level ash front: a defended return court, guarded black-glass crossings, ember hazards, and an Obsidian warning whose road remains uncharted.
- Travel
- Use the Stonebrook ash rift once the route is available, then mark the return rift at the seal.
- Risk
- Extreme. High-level demons, fire pressure, and sealed boss paths are not starter content.
- Landmarks
- Ashen Seal · Guarded black-glass thresholds · Return rift
Living Atlas
The chart changes with the realm.
Solid markers point to places you can reach in the game. Open roads follow firm ground and recovery stops; sea lines begin at staffed docks; guarded routes end at their threshold. Faint markers preserve the shape of surveyed forests, mountain shelves, marsh, and coast, but every one says plainly that it is not open. Every open seat keeps a known way back to Stonebrook.