A grim stone fortress built into a rocky rise at the edge of the Silverwood, serving as both fortress and watchpost. It emphasizes narrow towers, elevated walkways, and hidden sally ports for ambush, rapid deployment, and siege endurance, rather than grand halls. The Ancestral home of House Clairvaux.
Rivermouth Watch is a hardened but lively border town positioned where the Pact River spills into the Western Colldrian Ocean. Serving as both a river-port and coastal harbor, it acts as Valcarré’s northeastern trade gateway, receiving goods, travelers, and rumors from the realms beyond the kingdom’s borders. Though modest in size, the town is constantly in motion—river barges unload timber, grain, and furs while salt-stained fishing vessels crowd the docks at dawn and dusk.
The town lies roughly 10 kilometers north of Bastion Clairvaux and exists firmly under the protection—and quiet oversight—of House Clairvaux. While banners are rarely displayed openly, the presence of Clairvaux wardens, scouts, and skirmishers is felt everywhere.
Imports include finished goods, luxury items, and foreign coin, while exports consist of fish, river pearls, timber, grain, and Clairvaux-approved trade consignments.
Rivermouth Watch serves as Valcarré’s first line of observation against northeastern threats and intrigue whilst also being the arrival point for any traders from The Arethian Empire, Hearthbound Concord, High Kingdom of Kharduun and Ashur-Rem. It is a place where spies arrive disguised as merchants, where rumors are weighed as carefully as cargo, and where House Clairvaux ensures that no foreign power crosses Valcarréan borders unnoticed.
The Silverwood is a vast, ancient forest located in the north-eastern reaches of the Kingdom of Valcarré, nestled against the northern slopes of Solice Mountain. Its dense canopy is predominantly composed of towering sycamore trees, whose leaves shimmer with a unique silvery hue.
The forest is watched over by House Clairvaux and its rangers and home to Wik-it's Clan, a small clan of kobolds on friendly terms with House Clairvaux.
Whilst the kobolds of Wik-it's clan are friendly, the forest is home to many dangers with Goblins, Bugbears and bandits using the forest as a home and route into and out of The Kingdom of Valcarré.