South Vale Cluster

A network of interconnected farming communities in the Vale's fertile southern lowlands, collectively large enough to be classified as a city. South Vale Cluster feeds most of the region and exports grain and preserved fruit to Bellroot Crossing. The individual communities within the Cluster maintain their own identities fiercely, united only by a shared irrigation system. Within the Bellroot Vale, this site sits in the wider network of villages, ruins, and Pattern-touched places that radiate out from Drelmere and Bellroot Crossing. The Vale's relative stability since the Second Shard was recovered from the Bell Tree is felt here, but the Loosening and the Fray still leave their fingerprints — old paths that no longer match the new ones, names half-remembered, the occasional warm wind out of the wrong season.