At the eastern edge of the Windrise Hills, the rivers South and North Aber unite to become the River Aber proper which finally flows into the Gulf of Ptral. It was here that the peoples of Ironhope released into Klane’s care, the independent Riders of the Thranish tribe that pledged allegiance to him at the Great Burning, and the clans of the southern moors of Ulumol, joined together with Klane and his queen and lover, Lucalle. Here, at last, they stopped riding and they began to build. The great settlement they constructed in this place, in the many years that followed, would eventually occupy the banks of both tributaries and the tongue of land between. They called it Aberstone. You have heard of it perhaps? Of course! For Aberstone was more than a town, it became the first of the Foundation Cities and it would not suffer its streets to be burnt as Ironhope had been burnt.