Kingdom of Valebrook

Emberwatch Keep • 3 counties

Crownmarch controls Valebrook's manor roads, levy granaries, and the most heavily taxed western market routes.

Merewatch Hall • 2 counties

Hallowmere balances river tolls, marsh patrols, and frontier chapel law along Valebrook's southern edge.

Emberwake Manor • Farmland and road hedges

Emberwake anchors Valebrook's west-road grain traffic and houses the watchtowers that screen caravan movement.

Briarstead Hall • Hedgerows and barley fields

Briarstead is known for hedged fields, bow-trained militias, and manor courts that move quickly on theft and poaching cases.

Hartfen Gate • Fen edge and wagon roads

Hartfen covers the last stable ground before Valebrook's marsh country and keeps the duchy's eastern baggage routes moving.

Crossmere Court • Marsh lanes and reed flats

Merecross manages reed ferries, wetland shrines, and the patrol roads that keep Hallowmere from becoming outlaw country.

Candlebrook Priory • Canals and orchard banks

Candlebrook links chapel estates to the river road and acts as Hallowmere's most orderly market county.

Road toll enforcement, levy duty, and manor contract discipline

Grain caravans, orchard surplus, iron tools, and road-market taxation

Temperate

Dense broadleaf forests running along the western launch corridor. Governed by manor road law and well-patrolled duchy routes.

Trade corridor

A heavily patrolled road junction where manor law, levy patrols, and westbound grain caravans converge.

Western road spine • county border marker