Furnace Post

A hardened bunker-outpost built where a lava tube surfaces near the eastern trade road. Furnace Post monitors the unstable geology of the region and provides emergency shelter when eruptions cut off Blackridge Camp from the rest of the Spine. Within the Ashen Spine, this site is part of the long chain of forge-towns, quarries, and iron-vein settlements that work the world's oldest forges from Ironmark down to Old Varr. The smoke is the climate. The Fray here is physical — cracks open in the rock, tunnels appear that were not there the day before — and the Cleaved is the regional consequence. Forge guilds keep their own records, and they keep them close.