North Watch

A wooden palisade fort on the northern edge of the Frontier, watching the approaches from the Deyune Steps. North Watch is staffed by volunteers from Varnhalt and Drellin Post who rotate on three-month shifts. Its signal fires can be seen from Talon Ridge Camp on clear nights. On the Varnhalt Frontier, this site sits inside the patchwork of crossroad towns, mesa camps, and trade-protected routes that radiate from Old Varnhalt. The Loosening is constant here — mile markers contradict, paths loop — so settlements rely on local pacing and on the small island of stability around the Black Stone Tower in the eastern hills. The Frontier has no central authority; this place answers to whoever its trade depends on this season.