These ruins are old enough that no one even has a name for them anymore. On several very old maps there are markings that translate to “fort” or “fortification” at this location, but nothing more. If it were any further south it would be completely overrun with trees and growth by now, but on the cold plains of the north, it sits on a wind-swept hill, lonely and slowly collapsing.

The crumbling remains of the main tower is the occasional home for a hill giant that doesn’t fit in with his kin. A clever creature, it is a sort of nomadic sage that has lived several normal hill giant lifetimes and is occasionally sought out by hill giants, ogres, and even adventurers for its knowledge of the region and of giant lore. They usually travel through here in the fall and spring en route to and from wherever it is that they hide during the coldest months of the northern winters.

Others can be found here on occasion – ogres and human nomads seeking cover or a base of operations during their hunts.

The 1200 dpi versions of the map were drawn at a scale of 300 pixels per square and are 12,000 pixels (40 squares) wide. To use this with a VTT you would need to resize the squares to either 70 pixels (for 5′ squares) or 140 pixels (for 10′ squares) – so resizing the image to either 2,800 pixels wide or 5,600 pixels wide, respectively.

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