Riverwood Keep

Starting point and home base for the Riverwood Frontier campaign

 Riverwood Keep is a frontier fortress, set on the Fangless River, the border between Tovillia and the Lost West. It serves to collect taxes from those looking to head into the Lost West, a resupply hub, and a hospital (in the medieval sense, more than the modern sense). Kymiss is the feathered serpent Visconte of the keep. She controls the keep and the surrounding village with a very strong and strict hand, keeping order and serving her function to Chirgolith the  Great Wyrm of the Prime Verdant.

## People

(By Order of Precedence)

* Kymiss - Feathered Serpent, Visconte of Riverwood Keep and the adjoining lands
* Kaptain Serapis - Sektarri Knight Marshal
* Seneschal Nefthis - Sektarri Oracle of Life
* Chamberlain Amonet - Sektarri Draconic Sorcerer
* Mistress Alessa - Verdanni Head Cook

## Places

### Riverwood Village

The Keep sits on a wooded hill giving it a strong defensive position with a view of the surrounding lands. The palisade at the northern base of the hill runs around to the east to surround the four farmer houses with their small gardens around them. The wall is pierced by a man door with a portcullis on the outside to give extra strength at that point. The door allowing the farmers to get to their fields just the other side of the wall. The two storehouse-barns just south of the farmer houses were only designed to keep grain and root vegetables. The cellars added to them just a few years ago allow the farmers to keep a few animals below in case they have to be brought in during a raid. The crude low cellar doors make it obvious these were after thoughts. The creek that flows into the village south of the barns separates the farmer's area from the rest of the village and also keeps the chickens in this makeshift yard. On the south side of the creek is the smithy and the barracks, two of the few stone buildings in the village (other than the keep proper).

### Outside the Keep

The turret of the main watchtower of Riverwood Keep gives the best view. To the east are the tall majestic snow capped mountains of the Broken Spine Mountains, reaching far into the sky, especially only about 35 miles away. Closer in to the east are a few farms that provide for the village and keep, showing bare spots between the woods of Tovillia. To the southeast is the road to Rosa, only visible to the top of the crotch of the mountains in the break of the Spine, but also mostly hidden by the dense trees. More directly south can be seen the source of the Fangless River including a couple falls in the lower mountains there. Once you look past the source of the Fangless, you're looking into the Lost West with it's fungus canopy. Looking almost directly west you'll see the rising smoke from a still-active volcano that came up during the cataclysm 470 years ago. Closer in is the Fangless River, a relatively fast moving river approximately 120ft across where the bridge spans it here. Watching across the bridge you may spot skittering giant insects in the Lost West or possibly even a few flying around. Thankfully they seem repulsed by the stone of the new bridge and rarely try to cross. Following the Fangless north, its additional tributaries can be seen spilling into out, each fed by the Broken Spine Mountains, with the trees of the Tovillia forest on its eastern shores, and the fungus on the western shores. Looking north, the view is mostly the canopy of the forest with the mountains forming their barrier to the east.