Cave Bears' Den

Winter has been brutal and the village is running out of food, so Rhianna and Caradoc are walking south after bears in a bluff-side cave. The Cave Bears' Den is a local hunting site south of Stonetop — small, specific, and the kind of nearby trip that decides whether Stonetop eats.

It is not a major named site in the way the Great Wood or Gordin's Delve is. It shows how nearby places enter play through need, route-finding, and danger.

Use the den as a model for local expedition sites: close to home, born from a concrete village problem, and dangerous because even a short trip can decide whether Stonetop eats.

• cave in the bluff
• south of town
• cave bears south of town