Here, within the borders of the Kingswood, trees grow poorly on the chalky soil. This allows humans to cling to a precarious existence in the elven kingdom.
Dug into the hills are a series of pits roofed in leather (venturing outside of which in day is a sure way of getting an elven arrow lodged in your chest) in which the local men of the Lands of the Night Cattle hold monthly markets in which they trade with caravans that come up The Welt Road.
Each market pit is lit by a single large candle made out of human finger bones dipped in the wax of giant bees (10.10) and by this flickering light the night men sell their famed albino cows, silverware from the Titan’s Skull (33.00) and elven woodcraft for all of the products of the outside world. Good coin can be made here for those who are willing to risk the journey. Although these markets are held monthly, the pits truly come alive during The Long Night, a midwinter festival in which the night men emerge from their windowless keeps and gather at the pits for a riot of feasting, revelry and running naked through snowdrifts while the world lies black and sunless for an entire week.
Connections
- The nearest inn is the Sundial Inn (25.04).
Hook
- -What is the point of the candles? Why only giant bee wax? Where do the human finger bones come from?
