Register of the Southern Holds#

Totals: 48 installations. On Kethra: 48 · In Kethra orbit: 0 · At Kronos (Ymir): 0 · In the Cinderbelt: 0.

Group	Count
Settlements	35
Military	4
Infrastructure	6
Landmarks	3

On Kethra#

Settlements#

Name	Type	Held by	Account	Notes	Atlas
Eldhaven (22.0° S, 8.0° E)	Capital	The Rift Reach	recorded	Largest frontier town and seat of the Holds Compact, on the Eldvang rift. Built low and wide for the ember seasons. Population 1.7 million.	open
Ashby Crossing (23.0° S, 3.5° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Bowl's Edge (27.4° S, 14.2° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Bowl Reach	recorded	Hold on the rim of the Great Bowl.	open
Brandvik (24.0° S, 43.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Highland Reach	recorded	Highland hold at the foot of the eastern highlands.	open
Brask (24.0° S, 33.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Cinderholt (23.0° S, 22.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Emberscrub Reach	recorded	Emberscrub hold; the Wolf-Rider tale is told here as local history.	open
Coppergate (25.5° S, 3.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Craterhold (29.5° S, 19.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Bowl Reach	recorded	Largest hold on the floor of the Great Bowl, where the crater’s sheltered soil makes the best gardenland in western Eldvang.	open
Dray Fair (30.5° S, 36.5° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Emberscrub Reach	recorded	Market hold where drays are bred and sold; the frontier’s great livestock fair.	open
Drevin (13.5° S, 40.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Dunmere (28.0° S, 1.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Ember Crossing (30.5° S, 7.4° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Rift Reach	recorded	Rift hold; the railway's southern depot.	open
Emberlea (29.8° S, 2.5° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Ferrand (12.0° S, 2.5° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Gessen (21.0° S, 42.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Glimmerholt (7.0° S, 25.7° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Northshore Reach	recorded	Grain hold of the north-coast plains. In good years its grain goes north on Rovessa decks.	open
Greenholt (19.0° S, 0.5° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Harrek (9.0° S, 35.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Hartsfall (15.5° S, 8.8° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Rift Reach	recorded	Rift hold of the spring terraces; the Rift Railway’s water stop.	open
Hollow Ash (28.0° S, 28.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Emberscrub Reach	recorded	Free hold in emberscrub country; ember storms every red summer.	open
Kastel (10.0° S, 44.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Kettleby (15.0° S, 20.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Northshore Reach	recorded	Free hold of the eastern plains.	open
Lastlight (39.5° S, 37.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Southmark	recorded	The southernmost large hold of the free Holds.	open
Lowgard (38.5° S, 5.8° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Rift Reach	recorded	Southern rift hold near the rare-earth workings.	open
Northwatch (8.5° S, 2.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Saltmere (6.8° S, 21.5° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Northshore Reach	recorded	Coastal hold; tidehound-proof gates on the shore.	open
Skarth (7.3° S, 35.9° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Northshore Reach	recorded	Free hold near the north coast.	open
Stavholm (10.2° S, 9.8° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Rift Reach	recorded	Rift hold at the northern end of the Rift Railway.	open
Tallow Reach (16.5° S, 5.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of a Crown Charterland; supervised by a Crown Charter-Warden.	open
Tarnhollow (18.0° S, 47.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Highland Reach	recorded	Highland hold of the well-watered east.	open
Tarrow (18.0° S, 37.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Tindra (39.0° S, 22.0° E)	Hold / frontier settlement	The Southmark	recorded	Southern free hold.	open
Ulmen (28.0° S, 38.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Velm (12.5° S, 31.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Imperial Holds	recorded	Seat of an Imperial Holds district, under a Vardane charter.	open
Wendholt (31.2° S, 2.0° W)	Hold / frontier settlement	Crown Charterlands	recorded	Seat of the southernmost Crown Charterland, 31.2° S.	open

Military#

Name	Type	Held by	Account	Notes	Atlas
Compact Muster (22.8° S, 8.7° E)	Army base / garrison	The Rift Reach	recorded	The Holds Compact's militia muster ground.	open
Wolfwatch East (19.0° S, 31.0° E)	Army base / garrison	The Emberscrub Reach	recorded	Hold militia post on the Hedge.	open
Wolfwatch North (13.5° S, 31.0° E)	Army base / garrison	The Northshore Reach	recorded	Hold militia post on the northern Hedge.	open
Wolfwatch South (44.0° S, 15.0° E)	Army base / garrison	The Southmark	recorded	Hold militia post on the southern Hedge.	open

Infrastructure#

Name	Type	Held by	Account	Notes	Atlas
Brandvik thorium strand (23.9° S, 54.3° E)	Mine / works / refinery	The Highland Reach	recorded	Thorium beach sands of eastern Eldvang, worked by free Holds and sold north.	open
Nifl Camps (71.5° S, 18.0° E)	Mine / works / refinery	Southern Holds / Holds Compact	recorded	Frontier summer mining camps on the Southern Ice.	open
Rift rare-earth works (35.0° S, 6.8° E)	Mine / works / refinery	The Rift Reach	recorded	The frontier's wealth: rare earths and copper. Every charter dispute touches them.	open
The Ember Watch (25.0° S, 34.0° E)	Research / observatory	The Emberscrub Reach	recorded	Fire lookout and ember-storm warning post for the lowlands, run by the Compact.	open
The Sharing House, Eldhaven (22.4° S, 7.6° E)	Research / observatory	The Rift Reach	recorded	Keeps Gift cultures from every Gift-line that will lend them, for the Sharing when someone suffers Giftloss.	open
The Compact House, Eldhaven (21.7° S, 8.3° E)	Seat of government / institution	The Rift Reach	recorded	Where the Holds Compact meets twice a year, at the spring and autumn moons. A long low hall built for ember seasons.	open

Landmarks#

Name	Type	Held by	Account	Notes	Atlas
The Ashward Delvings (29.5° S, 45.5° E)	Landmark	The Highland Reach	recorded	Deep shelters and seed hoards of the Ashward communities that withdrew into the highlands.	open
The Great Bowl (30.0° S, 18.0° W)	Landmark	The Bowl Reach	recorded	Impact crater 300 km across, from the bombardment era.	open
The Southern Hedge (43.5° S, 26.0° E)	Landmark	The Southmark	recorded	The long burnt and patrolled strip between the last gardenland and the southern Wild.	open