Korrin Hold

A fortified village carved into a basalt ridge overlooking Emberfall Village below. Korrin Hold guards the northern approach to Cinder Vale and watches for lava flow shifts that could threaten the settlements downslope. Its walls are blackened by centuries of eruption debris. Within the Ashen Spine, this site is part of the long chain of forge-towns, quarries, and iron-vein settlements that work the world's oldest forges from Ironmark down to Old Varr. The smoke is the climate. The Fray here is physical — cracks open in the rock, tunnels appear that were not there the day before — and the Cleaved is the regional consequence. Forge guilds keep their own records, and they keep them close.