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The Kingdom of Kestral

The Kingdom of Kestral is the baked-in setting for the Six-Hack RPG by James Hargrove.

I drew this map based on the description of the Kingdom in the game, making sure to include all the locations mentioned in the “Lay of the Land” portion of the book (pages 13 through 15). There’s obviously more to the setting, but large swathes of the map are left basically free for the game master to do with as they will.

Like many fantasy kingdoms, Kestral is bound by geography more than politics. The kingdom is bracketed by the cold Snowy Mountains (with they great peak of Mount Perilous) to the north; the massively overgrown Tanglewood containing many old elven ruins to the west; The extensive bogs of the Grey Marches (infested with plague rats) and the Spookwood (tainted by dead souls and the blood of gods) to the south; and the Wall of Perdain (a massive defensive wall of limestone that has been allowed to fall into ruin, with several of the old towers repurposed into refuges for travellers) to the east.

The Snake River is the heart of Kestral’s civilization – with the major cities built along its winding banks along with a large number of smaller farming communities that aren’t big enough to be noted on the map proper.

At the heart of Kestral, on the banks of the Snake River, is the city of Falcon, capital city of the kingdom and home to King Despereaux VII’s summer palace (the winter palace is at the heart of the city of Izer to the southwest).

**https://dysonlogos.blog/2025/02/19/the-kingdom-of-kestral/**