Fort Foothold

The Reclamation's first landing site on Orathos — a fortified river-mouth settlement (docks at Southport) on a protected coastal peninsula in southern Rivalon, and the anchor of the Palisade safe zone. A military stronghold through and through: barracks, training grounds, marching battalions and supply caravans, with only a couple of civilian farmsteads and a strip of dark-roofed housing by the beach. From here the Reclamation pushed out 40–45 miles in its first 6–9 months; new arrivals normally train here for 3–9 months before deployment. Local color: it smells like feet (cheese, near the boatery); the air carries Orathos's distinctive mid-ocean sea salt; bingo is always on this week.

Known features: the landmaster Erdl Bonebreaker the Third's three-doored rental office; Gizbump's boatery; a Varian embassy (road-tax receipts, Reclamation Signets, light espionage); face-remembering gatekeepers on the two gates (left: coastal walk to Ankley; right: the coastal road north to Gwyndinas); soldiers' leisure halls and a House Mayfore corsair bar; weekly-ish royal speeches whenever a ship lands.

Session 8

• The party landed here off the 25-day crossing, heard Queen Ysolde's arrival speech, and spent the day on errands — earning a pip for engaging with the place at all (the Red Group lasted 43 seconds).
• Tilda settled here permanently with Lash's two rental folders and 45 gold.
• The party bought The Land Boat at the boatery and departed ~3 PM on the 27th of mid-spring 1396, on the road to Ankley.

Session 11

• Quick return visit (midday, 29th of mid-spring): the party handed in Devlin to sergeant Sir Dahorn, filed the Payton bounty (in Tegrak's name), returned seven signets, and sold two rowboats at the boatery. Tegrak enlisted at the Training Center.
• Thalia made a delivery to Vernon's grandmother, who lives in a house just past the graveyard outside the east wall.
• Ashlyn had spent her off-hours here solo, collecting a 25-gold direwolf bounty from Sir Dahorn before the group arrived.