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{{Infobox place|name=Deadreach|aka=Rosereach (former name) · Frozen Quarantine Wound|kind=Dead city and ruined county|region=[[Velfald Regency|Velfald]]|ruler=None; its undead are directed by [[Naevys Duskbloom]]|faction=[[Magnus Arcanum]] ([[Arcanum Tower of Deadreach|Arcanum Tower]])|status=Hollow Desecrated zone; the [[Reminder]] slain, the ruin now the Frozen Quarantine Wound|tier=gm|src=heralds-a#3}}
'''Deadreach''' is the dead but moving city that stands where the port county of [[Rosereach]] stood. {{Src|heralds-a#47|heralds-a#48}} The name is a replacement for the old one: Rosereach kept its name until [[Naevys Duskbloom]] cast a modified Cloudkill ritual against the invading [[Winter Elves]] and [[Bella Worthmore]]'s forces, and the ruin left behind has been called Deadreach ever since. {{Src|heralds-a#47|heralds-a#51|heralds-a#117}}

The city as it was before the ritual — its port, its county, its houses and its defence — is covered at [[Rosereach]]. This page covers what the site is today. {{Src|owner-form-2026-09-17}}

{{Map link|Deadreach|province}}

== The fall ==
As the [[Winter Elves]] and [[Bella Worthmore]]'s forces threatened the region, Naevys cast a modified Cloudkill ritual to stop their combined advance — in her own words, "I sacrificed a city to save a region." {{Src|heralds-a#117|heralds-a#119}} The ritual tore bodies apart in Rosereach; thousands died and many victims did not remain whole. {{Src|heralds-a#74|heralds-a#76}} Rosereach became a dead but moving city, and the Winter Elves, having lost their army there, withdrew from the plains around it and no longer enter it. {{Src|heralds-a#48|heralds-a#51}}

== The dead city ==
The region became a fully Hollow Desecrated zone; its undead and its restless spirits are directed by [[Naevys Duskbloom]], the Arcanum official responsible for the war here. {{Src|heralds-a#3|heralds-a#5|heralds-a#6}} She has begun sending Deadreach's undead forces against [[Snakecross]]. {{Src|heralds-a#5}}

[[Lesser Smoker|Lesser Smokers]] roam its streets, born from the catastrophic Cloudkill ritual that destroyed Rosereach. {{Src|heralds-a#93}} The dead that the torn bodies left behind are the creatures now called [[Remains]]. {{Src|heralds-a#74|heralds-a#76}} Experienced survivors in Deadreach avoid killing a Remain at close range unless desperate. {{Src|heralds-a#66|heralds-a#73|heralds-a#75}} Spotting one Remain usually means several more are hiding nearby. {{Src|heralds-a#74}}

Deadreach's undead cannot speak. {{Src|heralds-a#132}} Unless a character is charmed, their intentions can only be read through action and behaviour — movement, position, bearing — and not through dialogue. {{Src|heralds-a#132}}

{{Spoiler|GM:Deadreach}}

== Beneath the ruin ==
Deadreach was built over a temple of the [[Flower Goddess]]; when the city fell, the temple collapsed along with it, and the [[Reminder]] came to hold sway over the resulting ruin. {{Src|heralds-a#125}}

== The tower ==
The city's mage tower, affiliated with the [[Magnus Arcanum]], still stands as the [[Arcanum Tower of Deadreach|Arcanum Tower]], and it became the centre of the fight against the Remains infection inside the city. {{Src|heralds-b#43|heralds-a#114}}

== Politics around the ruin ==
[[Bella Worthmore]] secretly wants independence from Rosereach's influence, as Naevys grows in power there. {{Src|heralds-b#105|heralds-b#109}}

== The Heralds in Deadreach ==
The party arrived at the gates of Deadreach. {{Src|heralds-a#103}} They entered the city through the harbour, where there were almost no undead. {{Src|heralds-a#107}} As soon as they set foot on Rosereach's soil, an ancient protective ward affected them, charming two party members. {{Src|heralds-a#107}} They reached the [[Flower Goddess]] temple beneath the city. {{Src|heralds-a#149}}

== Aftermath ==
After the [[Reminder]] was killed and [[Elnaril]]'s cold cloud settled over the ruin, it became known as the Frozen Quarantine Wound. {{Src|heralds-a#147|heralds-a#149}} Deadreach's people were evacuated by ship, and the party planned to settle the survivors near [[Minor Places#Heartpoint|Heartpoint]]. {{Src|heralds-a#144}} The party did not cleanse Deadreach or save the world, but they got the people out. {{Src|heralds-a#149}}

== Related pages ==
* [[Rosereach]] — the living city whose name and history Deadreach replaced
* [[Naevys Duskbloom]] — cast the ritual that killed the city and now holds its tower and part of its dead
* [[Reminder]] — the entity that came to hold sway beneath the ruin until the party killed it
* [[Smoker]] — one of the two undead types that walk Deadreach's streets
* [[Remains]] — born from the victims the ritual left in pieces
* [[Snakecross]] — the barony inside the county, and the target Naevys sends her undead against
* [[Arcanum Tower of Deadreach|Arcanum Tower]] — the tower that still stands inside the ruin
* [[Bella Worthmore]] — wants independence from Rosereach's influence as Naevys grows stronger there

== Unconfirmed ideas ==
''The source conversations contain proposals for Deadreach that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on [[:Idea:Deadreach|Idea:Deadreach]] so they cannot be mistaken for canon.''

[[Category:Places]]
[[Category:Rosereach County]]
[[Category:Heralds of the Cycle]]
[[Category:Aenarch: Last Winter]]

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