- **Grayhold Bastion:** fortress-city at the edge of the ashlands; first hub
- **Saint's Trench:** mass grave turned battlefield shrine haunted by oathbound dead
- **The Glass Fen:** poisoned wetlands where spirits and alchemists compete
- **Furnace Pass:** mountain route controlled by toll-lords and raiders
- **The Sunken Archive:** buried imperial library holding the crown’s origin
- **Crownbreak Spire:** final ruin beneath the capital where the Hollow Crown is sealed
- **The Pale March:** a nightmare borderland appearing where the curse spreads