Companion novella · Jorgen the Bear
Gyllenfall, the mountain roads and the western caves of Jorgen's first adventure.
Jorgen's childhood village
A remote woodcutting village in a shallow valley between snow-heavy pine forest and the lower mountain slopes. Gyllenfall trades timber, furniture, furs and hides for grain, salt, iron and cloth. Its square, hall, shrine, well, woodstore, smithy, general store, western gate and family workshops become the centre of Jorgen's childhood, banishment, return and departure.
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Regional landscape
The sea, forests, settlement country and mountain walls surrounding Jorgen's first road.
Regional history
Full novella spoilers
Bjorn, Astrid and Jorgen leave an earlier fishing village. They have lived in Gyllenfall for three years when the story opens.
At ten, Jorgen pulls Ingrid from thawing pond ice. Erik gives him the white bear cloak, and Ingrid keeps the secret of the unnatural heat and strength she felt.
Jorgen becomes a woodcutter, saves men beneath a falling tree and struggles to keep the force inside him under control.
Organised goblins move south-west of their usual routes, bearing a three-slash crooked-crown mark and following an unseen purpose.
After losing control at the festival dance, Jorgen is banished. Calen trains him, then sends him through a shallow pass towards the Blessed temple.
Jorgen finds the temple ruined and races back with a warning. Gyllenfall is struck from the west; Bjorn dies and villagers including Ingrid are taken.
Jorgen and volunteers free the captives. He defeats the Goblin King while choosing to protect the vulnerable rather than pursue revenge.
Gyllenfall mourns and rebuilds. Jorgen leaves with the surviving Blessed to learn the truth about his power and warn the larger temple.
Onward route
The larger temple of the Blessed is Jorgen's next destination after Gyllenfall.
Later life · separate region
The round ranger hut near Bea's estate belongs to Jorgen's later life. It is not his childhood home and does not sit in Norvisca.