Deepdelve

The Bone Warden's dead dig beside the living: a mining town of basalt and plank walls with sod and bone roofs, a mine cart on its rails, bone piles, dust in the lamplight; Foreman Gat under his helmet lamp.

The town torch

Every town has a torch on its plaza. Light it with the staff and it becomes Wick's checkpoint: a fall ends here, resting at the lit torch heals, and a lit torch is also a stop for lantern travel. Resting heals Wick, but it wakes the land's creatures again.

People

• Merrit the innkeeper: Serves grit for supper and good sense with it; tells Pip not to wave at the dead.
• Dabb the salt seller: Sells salt, grit and salt again, scraped off the flats.
• Old Wenna: A miner's widow who keeps count of the dead that walk by.
• Foreman Gat: Deepdelve, Bonelands (earth). Lost his son to the Warden's digging; wipes his brow under the helmet lamp.

Quests

• The Drover's Rib-Bell (town story)
• Dabb's Ledger Page (town story)
• Dabb's Salt (delivery)
• Delvemaw's Claw (choice)
• Gat's Old Workings (favour)
• Dabb's Cellar (favour)

Jory the peddler turns up in every town Wick reaches, always one town ahead or one behind, full of news from the last one.