Keep Khurleigh
The three-story keep that now sits behind half-curtain walls looking over the conflux of roads that can send travelers north and northeast to beyond the very borders of civilization. KEEP KHURLEIGH has lost some doughty reputation as KEEP DYRAMAR has remained in Auredani hands for more than a year but it is still the most important travel hub for cross-border trade and travel. The small makeshift market and village that has sprung up around it does not have the explicit permission of the HIGH LORD but is tolerated for the services and trade points.
KEEP KHURLEIGH is the Seat of the HIGH LORD OF NORTHWEYR and is well-garrisoned compared to other fortifications. Even so, the breadth of land to cover and control along with the dangers of the wilderlands to the north do much to diminish the efficacy of the oversized garrison. Especially with regular patrols ensuring that only a few, and as little as none, patrol forces will be at the Keep at any given moment.
Khur Village is the ad hoc settlement that has sprung up near the crossroads and the keep.
Purpose / Function
The keep is now the Seat of the HIGH LORD HONERA and his family. But its original and continuing purpose is to be a bulwark from which to assail and extend the boundaries of Mankind and Auredain. It was once the most northern Keep in the Kingdom and, while it no longer holds that distinction, it is one of the strongpoints for any invasions of Auredain from the north and a key supply point for those pioneering souls who seek to stake a claim north of the kingdom borders.
It acts as a key rally and resupply point for the patrols deployed regularly from NORTHWEYR forces. These patrols primarily range north, northeast and northwest with local vassal lords handling more patrolling in the far east of NORTHWEYR. The border and the wilderlands of the Approach are the primary focus of the fortification and those that rule it and man its walls.
Founding Date
68
Alternative Names
Castle Khur
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