Red Larch
Village in The Savage Frontier
Red Larch is a quiet village on the Long Road in the Dessarin valley, the main town of Princes of the Apocalypse, where elemental cults hide behind friendly faces.
Neat cottages line a low ridge above the Dessarin valley, the smell of baking crumblecake drifts from the inns, and the friendly villagers seem a little too quick to change the subject.
Red Larch at a glance
- Type & size
- Village on the Long Road, About 600
- Allegiance & rule
- Allegiance: Independent village
- Ruled by: A town speaker and the leading families
- People & culture
- Mostly humans; quarry workers, farmers and innkeepers serving the Long Road
- Key exports & trade
- Crumblecake, a hearty baked loaf of nuts, mash, roots and fowl
- Supplies for travellers on the Long Road
Overview
Red Larch lies on the Long Road between Waterdeep and Triboar, with the Sumber Hills to the east and the Westwoods to the south-west. It stands on a low ridge at the western edge of the Dessarin valley, seven days' travel north of Waterdeep, where three trails leave the road.
In Princes of the Apocalypse, the village is the base from which adventurers uncover the cults of elemental evil hiding in the Dessarin valley, some of whose members live in Red Larch itself.
At the table
- Travellers on the Long Road near Red Larch have been disappearing, and the locals insist nothing is wrong.
On the map
Regions nearby
- Sumber HillsHills · ~17 mi east
- The WestwoodsForest · ~22 mi south-west
- Kryptgarden ForestForest · ~48 mi north
- Sword MountainsMountains · ~55 mi south-west
Nearby places
- AmphailVillage · ~79 mi
- ThornholdTown · ~117 mi
- GoldenfieldsTown · ~119 mi
- PhandalinVillage · ~126 mi
- TriboarTown · ~131 mi
- WaterdeepCapital · ~144 mi
Distances as the crow flies, measured on our map.