"Hrrumphh. It is just beyond reason. I can't
imagine the guardians of the Herald's Holdfast
refusing me, me of all people, entrance
to the fortress. Were it not for the good
Lady Alustriel our trip should have been for
nothing."

(A.A. always pauses after saying her
name. Gone gooney, I knew it).

"I am not gooney. I should have let the
dragon eat you when you said that about his
mother. The Moruemes are a principled
clan. What they eat is none of your business.
What was that? That is none of your
business either."

Rare are the civilized folk who do not dwell
in cities, and in the Savage Frontier, those
cities are walled and heavily defended.
Larger towns and cities have thick stone
walls. Smaller towns and villages are surrounded
by wooden palisades. In addition
to their standing militia, most cities in the
north have ballistae and catapults mounted
on their wall towers, which can be trained
on larger foes.

Although they are not shown on the map,
the fortified frontier steadings of large
farms or ranches and more powerful independent
landholders are not shown. A typical
frontier settlement would house 10 to 50
people in a cluster of wood and stone
lodges, longhouses and huts within a high
wooden palisade. Most of these small holdings
are ranches and farms concentrated
along the western banks of the Dessarin
River and fishing communities on the
Sword Coast.