Keraford

The small riverside settlement just inside the Palisade Gate — the only official way to leave the Reclamation's safe zone — and so the staging ground of the whole small-scale war. Every adventuring party in Rivalon resupplies, washes, and regroups here before going out (or after coming back, not always with everyone they left with). The result is a town of 5,000–10,000 transient adventurers crammed into every spare shed, attic and garden ("adventurer Airbnb"), where the town-hall bounty board stands permanently empty — a hundred idle, armed veterans descend on any poster the instant it appears. It sits sandwiched between the Palisade Gate, the wall itself, and the source of the river that flows down to Gwyndinas. Hirelings of every kind can be found here in minutes.

(Rendered "Keraford," "Cara'fud," "Keraford," "Keraford," etc. across one session — spelling unconfirmed.)

Session 21

• The party reaches Keraford pulling their own land boat (to the locals' amusement) and stages here for two nights before crossing the wall.
• Witnessed the empty bounty board's feeding frenzy — a salt-and-pepper halfling parkouring over rivals to claim a 12-year-old's single (missing-rabbit) poster.
• Thalia earns 6 gold for three days' mail work and recruits a hireling at the tavern; Magra keeps lookout.
• Lash buys and tames the salamander Squishy from beast-tamer Dervin in the old quarter; the caravan's navigator Durahan is hired here too (two different men).
• Eldrich the Elder's caravan arrives to collect Durahan and cross the wall together.