Ringing Vale

Ringing Vale is a mountain valley renowned for the many small streams that spill down from glaciers above, producing a musical sound likened to the ringing of chimes. It is also the site of a math founded there in A.R. 17. The avout of this community have long specialized in study and development of martial disciplines and related topics commonly grouped, in New Orth, as Vale-Lore.

First Appearance and Context

• Described in a reference entry as a glaciated mountain valley “also known as the Rill Vale,” and (poetically) the “Vale of a Thousand Rills,” noting that a math was founded there in A.R. 17.
• The same source associates the community’s traditional focus with Vale-Lore (martial arts, military history, strategy, and tactics).

Names and Usage

• Also called “Rill Vale”; the article-led form “The Rill Vale” is used in speech.
• A poetic variant “Vale of a Thousand Rills” emphasizes the multitude of streams.
• “Ringing Vale” may be used metonymically to refer to the math established in the valley; this page covers the place itself.

Roles and Affiliations

• Home to a Math whose Avout are strongly associated with Vale-Lore, an umbrella that includes armed and unarmed practice as well as the study of military history, strategy, and tactics.
• Within the Mathic World, the valley’s name is a byword for that specialty.

Description

• Geography: a high valley with rocky walls and overhanging glaciers. Numerous rills and cascades descend into the vale, producing the characteristic chiming, or “ringing,” that gives the place its name.

Current Status

• Recognized within the mathic world as both a notable landscape and the seat of a long-standing community devoted to Vale-Lore. Specific coordinates and broader surroundings have not been detailed.