The Shieldline
The shield has no single border wall. Its edge cuts across mountains, ruins, fields, coastlines, tunnels, rivers, and open sea. In some places it is visible as a distortion of light or magic. In others, people know where it stands because the world on one side is inhabited and the world on the other
FRONTIER
The shield has no single border wall. Its edge cuts across mountains, ruins, fields, coastlines, tunnels, rivers, and open sea. In some places it is visible as a distortion of light or magic. In others, people know where it stands because the world on one side is inhabited and the world on the other side belongs to Xanaras.
Settlements near the Shieldline are heavily fortified and unusually temporary. Buildings are designed to be abandoned. Roads end at gates. Watchtowers study Feeders and changes in the occupied landscape. Smugglers, scholars, soldiers, scavengers, cultists, prospectors, and people looking for lost family members all have reasons to get dangerously close.