Zelkor's Road

Zelkor's road is a 30 mile-long paved road linking Dejune to Zelkor's Ferry. Completed on the 350th day, the road aimed to allow a farming belt to be established between the two towns. The land itself is unimpressive, average soil in a subaverage climate, with Dalish spring barley being the crop of choice, likely mixed with some milling wheat. Animals are rarely farmed within the Valley, as while crops are largely ignored by the various threats (having neither the time or ability to harvest them), animals often fall prey to gnolls, goblins, wolves or worse.
The ceremony to celebrate opening on the road takes place outside Dejune, and sees Adjutant Freydan top a cart, wrapped up against the cold. She carries the Lyre and wears a pair of silk gloves (to protect her hands from both the cold and the lyre's strings), a gift from Hengsha and made from the thread of an Aberdeenian celestial dire silk worm. Her presence is more than just symbolic, after her short speech announcing the official opening of the road, the cart will be pulled toward Zelkor's Ferry at a good clip. Puiles of building materials have been left beside the road and as she travels, Freydan will play the lyre to prepare the ground, construct fences and set up the foundations for buildings. Mastercraftsdwarf Falli Icesmith rides along with her with a carefully annotated set of maps and plans, able to direct Freydan as they go. They're joined by Odo Bristleback (who gave a short speech of his own), Captain Skorma of the Ferry Watch (who would be in charge of patrolling the road, although the troops would largely be sourced from Dejune) and Karina, who just wanted to go for a ride.
Crops wouldn't be sown for another few weeks, until spring had a chance to begin to thaw the ground. The land was offered freely to skilled farmers, and it attracted a lot of offers from farmers who knew Dejune would pay a fair price for everything they could grow. Notable among them were a group of Telephos worshippers who saw this as a divine test from Telephos. No one was particularly moved, Telephos' faithful tend to see everything as a divine test.
Defending the road would prove tricky, and a new group of guards were hastily assembled. "Bofred's Boys" were made up primarily of some rather enthusiastic Thyrites who had moved to Dejune after the construction of the Fallen Sword. To them, Zelkor's Road help a deeper, spiritual significance, it was the road Shades had walked on his first steps down a path that would result in the freeing of Bofred's soul, and the restoration of the Aerim line.