Irafa Road

The Irafa Road was actually built some 300 years ago by Keoish invaders when Keoland invaded Ket. The harrying attacks by the Ket resistance convinced the Keoish leadership that a faster route was needed for moving troops into northern Ket. (At the time, troops needed to march around the entire periphery of the Bramblewood.

To this end, the Keoish soldiers, with great loss of life from elves and other predators, hacked a road straight through the narrowest part of the Forest from north to south. Discovering that to stay outside overnight was to die, the army also built seven forts along its length, each a day’s march apart. The Irafa Road actually entered one side of the fort and left through the other side.

When the Ketite fighters finally succeeded in driving the Keoish troops out of Ket, they set about converting the forts of the Irafa Road to their own use. Today, the forts feature all the latest in tactical and magical defenses, including a kill zone around each fort of 750 feet, anti-teleportation magic and other defenses that are listed as state secrets.

The forts of the Irafa Road (from south to north) are Avernand, Daris, Monochehr, Stivang, Mahboud, Maldonius and Nesser. Fort Avernand and Fort Nesser are actually large fortified towns with huge defensive walls and larger garrisons. The remaining forts are smaller keeps with high walls. Patrols of Kaman constantly move up and down the Road, ensuring that it is kept free of obstacles, elves and other monsters.