Stone Line Remains

A straight row of carved stone blocks stretching half a mile across open ground, purpose unknown. The stones are evenly spaced and identical in dimension, suggesting deliberate construction, but no road, wall, or structure connects to them. Ridge Line Station's sentries report that snow melts faster along the line than on the surrounding ground. 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.