Gar Marches

The Gar Marches are moorland, the rolling hills and low-growing vegetation on acidic soils. Throughout the region there are granite outcrops either along or on top of the rolling hills. The northern marches are underlain by sedimentary rocks while the southern marches are granite.
Along the shores of the Gar estuary and the west coast there is treed parkland but it is all wild. The population is centered around each of the three hillforts commanded by each of the Wardens of the Marches. Close to each hillfort are the copper and tin mines. Each day the inhabitants of each hillfort travel to their farmland or the mines and return before dusk. To stay out in the wilderness a night is a risky thing to do if you don’t have to.
Getting to the Marches requires using a boat or ferry. Regular ferries travel the two miles across the Gar estuary daily between Garabas and Caer Carninisby. Weather is always a factor and interferes more often than not; either with a rough passage (not able to take horses) or not being able to make the trip at all.
From Caer Carninisby the March Way continues to both Caer Boromax and Caer Jaileen which is the final Urtind outpost on the way to Selmerron in the Darken. Regular merchant travel consists of a caravan once or twice a week. The caravan forms over a couple of days and uses numerous guards.
There is also a ferry at Caer Pontypridd that joins the road for both Fundolant and Banswulfburh. There are two or three trips a day depending on the number of people looking for passage. In addition there are regular boats traveling up and down the Gar river between Garabas, Pontypridd and Banswulfburh. These boats tend to be carrying iron and usually only have room on the return trip to Banswulfburh for large groups seeking passage (there is always room for a single well paying customer either above or below decks as the need be). The southern march is notorious for its fabled Black dog or dogs. Some claim it is simply goblin raiders while others believe them to be exaggerated stories of wolves. And some lay claim to them being the warhounds that accompanied High Chief Teague when he was killed on the granite hilltop that 2nd day of the 2nd Galent of Chefror. And others claim that High Chief Teagues’ warhounds became possessed and were and remain Black dogs. Be it a tale or reality it is yet another reason to be cautious when traveling the wilderness of the Gar Marches.