The Gorge

A deep, dry gorge outside Drelmere where the true base of the Bell Tree's roots originates. Appears empty at first, but thrown objects produce bell-like chimes. Contains a hidden cave entrance with iron bars and carved reliefs, leading to a vast cavern with spiraling symbols on black roots that serve as a map to ring the Bell Tree's bells. Within the Bellroot Vale, this site sits in the wider network of villages, ruins, and Pattern-touched places that radiate out from Drelmere and Bellroot Crossing. The Vale's relative stability since the Second Shard was recovered from the Bell Tree is felt here, but the Loosening and the Fray still leave their fingerprints — old paths that no longer match the new ones, names half-remembered, the occasional warm wind out of the wrong season.