Strigos Road

The Strigos Road (Via Strigos), which is to say the "Rawboned Road", is a project that was initiated by Azalin Rex subsequent to his remergence in 755 BC. It will join the East Timori Road at Liara to the Argenteus and Tempe roads just west of Tempe Falls.

This project is largerly the reestablishment of a road that traversed Arak prior to the existence of Nova Vaasa. It connected the Tempe Road to the Old Svalich Road in eastern Barovia. The Scouring of Arak in 588 BC wiped the surface of Arak clean of life, damaging, although not entirely destroying, the original road. The reputation that Arak would acquires in the years that followed the scourging was ample deterence against the use of the road for prospecting or exploring that pushed beyond the Darkonian frontier and into Arak. As for 750 BC, the road affords access to the flanks of Mount Nirka, but only on foot as boulders and rocks slides litter the roadway where it has been partially or completely washed away. Fortunately, there ceases to be fallen trees

it hasand there are many partial or complete washout

and with difficult as the way is littered with rumble, way that remained was choked with rumble and fallen trees

Strigos Roads cuts across the Mountains of Misery and the Forgotten Hills. It will cross the Amnis Lacrimarum ("River of Tears") southwest of Mount Nirka and skirt the western flanks of Mount Nyid. The date of completion, or even the state of progress, is unknown. Several new bridges and tunnels are required however. Trade along the road will confront not only the challenges offered up by the Mountains of Misery, but equally that of Nova Vaasan taxation which is even more punititve than that of Falkovnia.

The Great Upheaval in 740 BC made possible the building of the Strigos Road by relocating the Arak east to the newly opened gash upon the face of the Land of Mists that is the Shadow Rift. Their relocation and the disappearance of the land of Arak as such, permitted the subsumption of the Mountains of Misery into Darkon, moving the Darkonian frontier south to that of Nova Vaasa. Prior to this change, the fool who dared spend the night within Arak would be carried off before the dawn.

References

Gazetteer II, p. 12, 16, 38. Gazetteer V, p. 37, 71.