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The morning mists swallowed the hillfort of Tableberg as the Teutā fighting men forded the Ēa. That great ford, which the Teutā called the Stelford, was once a bridge ere the great flood laid waste to it. Nought is left but its posts, which line the ford like the ribs of a dead thing. Grim they stand, as watchers, their gaze weighs on all who fare betwixt. Men daren’t tread that way come night fall, lest their doom befall.

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CallumStephenDiggle

I tried to keep the post short and sweet (for a change), but here’s a little further lore for those interested: In the oral history of the Teutā, they took the west of the Bridgelands by kidnapping a princess of the Alves who dwelt there, they did this as a means of winning their legendary war with them. The Alf king surrendered to save his daughter. As part of the terms of surrender, The Teutā were granted the lowlands, while the Alves were left the fair places of the land, where they withdrew behind “hidden veils”. In time, the princess came to love the Teutā king who had taken her, and he took her as his wife. To uphold the peace, the Teutā were bound to give tithe to the hidden Alves at the barrows of their war-dead at each passing of Reigsgate, the only way into the west. The Teutā adopted many customs in emulation of their legendary adversaries, namely the raising of barrows at the edges of their territory to mark their borders, and the sewing of cloth strips to their raiment in likeness of the spell-strips worn by Alven warriors of old (as seen in this picture).