Longboat Mountain: Silver Vale (Patreon)

Today we explore the first point of interest at the base of Longboat Mountain. Silver Vale is location A on the Longboat Mountain overview and is a small valley at the base of a waterfall. It was also once home to a silver mine (still known as silver cave) and people continue coming here seeking their fortunes.

This wooded nook is the first stop along the trail up the mountain. The trail goes along the edge of the river and around the small silvery lake at the base of the waterfall. On the opposite side of Silver Lake is a small prospector camp of two large tents and associated goods. They haven’t gone looking for the old silver mine, and instead have been panning the lake and river and looking for likely spots to start a new mine. Unfortunately they’ve been having issues with the very sneaky humanoids that creep out of Silver Cave under the dark of night to steal their goods, and with a very large avian that is nesting above the edge of the path near the waterfall and who occasionally tries to chase them off during the day.

The path leads up through a small defile into the mountains above and splits after climbing up a while – the path doubles back on itself and goes to the top of the waterfall (Location C – The Drop Falls) and also continues along the edge of the mountain for some distance (and up some rough-cut stairs) until arriving at a small fortification (Location B – Red Eagle Tower). There are two entrances into Silver Cave here, the “obvious” one in the woods with a path leading to it, and a more concealed opening that looks over the path as it ascends (you can see the debris north and slightly east of the cave entrance that indicates this entry – it is used to monitor travel up and down Longboat Mountain.)

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 10,200 x 13,200 pixels (34 x 44 squares). To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for the recommended 10‘ squares that make sense with the design) – so resizing the image to 2,380 x 3,080 pixels or 4,760 x 6,160 pixels, respectively.

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