The Long Road

{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "id": "long-road",
  "name": "The Long Road",
  "aliases": [],
  "summary": "The rough road out of the valley through the Long Road Gate, the way the Kilnrath arrive and the route their wagons will run.",
  "details": [
    "It is a poor road, passable by a determined vehicle but not a good one, and the village keeps it only as far as it needs to.",
    "Tam runs it on foot for the village's occasional outside trade, with a pack or a pulled cart, which is why that trade stays small.",
    "The Kilnrath came in on it with vehicles. Their regular wagon runs on it are the sweetener that makes the extraction arrangement an easy yes.",
    "Where it leads beyond the pass, and what the player sees there first, remain open."
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "supersededByRefs": [],
  "history": [
    {
      "id": "long-road-created",
      "at": "2026-09-13T22:00:00.000Z",
      "summary": "Named the road out of the valley and made it the Kilnrath's route in.",
      "reason": "The village blockout already has a Long Road Gate and asks what lies at the far end. The owner decided the Kilnrath arrive by road with vehicles rather than by rail, and that a trade route on that road is the sweetener, so the road needs its own record.",
      "mentions": [
        "ref:cinderfolk-village",
        "ref:kilnrath",
        "ref:tam",
        "ref:kilnrath-trade-route"
      ],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Kilnrath sweetener and next-levels discussion, 2026-09-13"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "long-road-catalog-art-2026-09-14",
      "at": "2026-09-14T19:35:53.968Z",
      "summary": "Added a dedicated generated illustration for the Atlas catalog and place page.",
      "reason": "The owner requested artwork for entries without images. This depicts the recorded setting instead of reusing the parent location picture. Incidental props and spatial arrangements are illustrative and do not revise the authored level plans or written canon.",
      "confidence": "Generated catalog concept, not a gameplay capture or exact spatial blueprint.",
      "mentions": [],
      "source": {
        "kind": "conversation",
        "label": "Homepage simplification and missing artwork, 2026-09-14"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "location",
  "categories": [
    "route"
  ],
  "image": "assets/locations/wrought-naturalism/long-road.webp",
  "parentRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk-region"
  ],
  "connectsToRefs": [
    "ref:cinderfolk-village"
  ],
  "passesThroughRefs": [],
  "adjacentToRefs": []
}