Posted on December 23, 2025
Many adventurers from this area that stay in the north take the Undead Hunter Background of the Steel Realms.
Posted on October 27, 2015 in Steel-Realms
Inhabitants of the Freelands of the North tend to follow the Freelander Way. The area is comprised of the old blood – immigrants from the north, and outcast wildling and pine tribesmen. It is said that some half breeds make their home here as well, those that can prove their worth. No good population totals exist, but the total population is likely between 10 and 25 thousand scattered, with no more than a dozen major centers of population.
The Altain Corridor: Kroith Passage was once the gateway between North Pines and the Grand Duchy of Rhyl and the Altair Pass to the west that granted access to the western Freelands of the North of the Northern Heartlands.
A few of the Walking Pinelings still stand vigil.
Driven by an unseen hand, the Plague of Hags from Rhyl prowls these lands more than those.