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{{Infobox place|name=Rosereach|aka=Rosereach County|kind=County and port city|region=[[Velfald Regency|Velfald]]|ruler=[[Aric Rosemen|Count Aric Rosemen]] ([[House Rosemen]])|faction=[[Magnus Arcanum]] (Arcanum Tower) · [[Legion]] · [[Roseguard]]|status=Destroyed by a modified Cloudkill ritual; the site is now [[Deadreach]]|tier=gm|src=last-winter#862}}
'''Rosereach''' was a port city and county on the coast of the [[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] Regency, ruled by [[House Rosemen]] and known for its rose gardens. {{Src|last-winter#300|last-winter#862}} It was destroyed during the Winter War, when [[Naevys Duskbloom]] cast a modified Cloudkill ritual over it; the site has been called [[Deadreach]] ever since. {{Src|heralds-a#47|heralds-a#48|heralds-a#51}}

This page covers the city as it stood before the catastrophe. What stands on the site today is covered at [[Deadreach]]. {{Src|owner-form-2026-09-17}}

== Overview ==
Rosereach was a county, not a duchy. {{Src|last-winter#862}} No Cardinal resided there, and the imperial presence amounted to a Legion Barracks and a Seer. {{Src|last-winter#862}} The barony of [[Snakecross]] lay inside the county, and the land was known for its rose gardens. {{Src|last-winter#300}} A barony called Snakepass is also placed administratively under the county. {{Src|heralds-b#53}} The city itself stood on a peninsula. {{Src|last-winter#751}}

Rosereach was the only major port in what later became the invaded region. {{Src|last-winter#663}} It sat on the main trade road to the northern and eastern fronts and on the supply line feeding the [[Spring Elves]]' armies. {{Src|last-winter#663}}

== Rule and institutions ==
The county was held by [[House Rosemen]] at count rank, and [[Aric Rosemen|Count Aric Rosemen]] governed from the city. {{Src|last-winter#323|last-winter#375}} The city had its own mage tower affiliated with the [[Magnus Arcanum]], led by its own archmage. {{Src|heralds-b#43}} [[Minor Places#Rosereach Castle|Rosereach Castle]] and the elven [[Minor Places#Palewood Mansion|Palewood Mansion]] both stood in the city, alongside the [[Legion Division of Rosereach]]. {{Src|last-winter#717|last-winter#721|last-winter#725}} The [[Minor Organizations#War Council of Rosereach|War Council of Rosereach]] met here and directed the city's defence. {{Src|last-winter#753|last-winter#755}}

The city was built over a temple of the [[Flower Goddess]]. {{Src|heralds-a#125}}

== Defence in the Winter War ==
Rosereach was defended by the [[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] Regency, whose supply and reinforcement routes ran through it; the regency's war council met in the city. {{Src|heralds-b#5|heralds-b#6}} Walls were built and the city prepared for a possible siege. {{Src|last-winter#663}} South of the city, the Winter Elf-controlled [[Minor Concepts#Batı Cephesi|western front]] began a landing near a village that belonged to the county but lay outside the city's own bounds; the county's knights and the duchy's soldiers moved to stop it. {{Src|last-winter#663}}

The coasts and cliffs were held by Moonward soldiers and the [[Legion]] against Winter Elf attempts to land. {{Src|last-winter#764|last-winter#779}} In those assaults the Winter Forces used no siege engines, monsters, magic or allied warbands — only arrows and soldiers who climbed the cliffs on ropes. {{Src|last-winter#779}} When they used ships at all, it was to land on the shores rather than to strike the cliffs directly. {{Src|last-winter#779}} The Legion was stationed in the city and commanded from here by Legion Lieutenant [[Cassius Dravenhall]]. {{Src|last-winter#800}}

The [[Heralds of the Cycle]] defended the city. {{Src|heralds-b#27}} The enemy did not strike it directly and the war continued around it, leaving the defenders feeling they were not engaged at the front; an assassin team infiltrated through the sewers instead. {{Src|heralds-b#27}} An army once tried to force its way past the city while [[Elnaril]] watched; had the city fallen, more than Rosereach alone would have been lost. {{Src|heralds-a#121}}

== The ship and the catastrophe ==
A ship carrying unknown cargo arrived at Rosereach's harbour, and rats infested with that cargo came ashore with it; [[Naevys Duskbloom]] was running a protective project in the city when the arcane catastrophe struck. {{Src|heralds-a#17}}

During the war, the Count was drawn away by a staged assassination attempt, followed by an evacuation and a massacre of the palace's household staff on suspicion that they were changelings; both the Count and the city's battle-archmage went missing. {{Src|heralds-b#43|heralds-b#46|heralds-b#49}}

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}} That ritual is the origin of both the [[Minor Concepts#Modified Cloudkill Spell|Modified Cloudkill Spell]] and the [[Rules Appendix#Rose Rot|Rose Rot]] that followed it. {{Src|heralds-a#117|heralds-a#119}} The ritual tore bodies apart; thousands died, and many victims did not remain whole. {{Src|heralds-a#74|heralds-a#76}}

{{Spoiler|GM:Rosereach}}

== What happened next ==
Rosereach became a dead but moving city. {{Src|heralds-a#48|heralds-a#51}} The [[Winter Elves]], having lost their army there, withdrew from the plains around it and no longer enter it. {{Src|heralds-a#51}} The ruin has been known as [[Deadreach]] ever since. {{Src|heralds-a#47}} What remains of the city, its dead and its tower is covered at [[Deadreach]]. {{Src|owner-form-2026-09-17}}

== Unresolved questions ==
{{Unresolved|Whether the barony of Snakepass is a second barony of the county or another spelling of [[Snakecross]] was never settled.|heralds-b#53|last-winter#312}}
{{Unresolved|Whether "Inkveil," named alongside the war council in Rosereach, is a separate place or another name for part of the city was never settled.|last-winter#841}}

== Related pages ==
* [[Deadreach]] — what the city became after the ritual
* [[House Rosemen]] — the house that held the county at count rank
* [[Aric Rosemen]] — the Count who governed from the city and went missing during the war
* [[Roseguard]] — the guard order that protected the city
* [[Velfald Regency|Velfald]] — the regency that defended the county and whose war council met here
* [[Snakecross]] — the barony inside the county
* [[Magnus Arcanum]] — the order whose tower stood in the city
* [[Naevys Duskbloom]] — the archmage whose ritual destroyed the city
* [[Legion Division of Rosereach]] — the Legion formation stationed in the city
* [[Flower Goddess]] — the goddess whose temple lay beneath the city

== Unconfirmed ideas ==
''The source conversations contain proposals for Rosereach that the campaign owner never confirmed. They are collected on [[:Idea:Rosereach|Idea:Rosereach]] 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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