Stonehammer Hold - Dungeons & Dragons Fanfiction

Blackbeard Mstislavich is the Lord of Stonehammer Hold, doomed to fight for his position every five years. To lose is to die. He knows if he wants to be remembered he has to do something different. But his time is running out, his people are starving, their babies die in the cold, his surviving children have no hope for the future.

Rasputina of Icemirror, called Snowflake, is a tiefling, the spawn of 'The Deathless', Demon Lord of Icemirror. She fled the castle that was her home, when she was targeted by an uncle, known to kill and eat his nieces. Before she fled, she was a healer, and a teacher, an anonymous drudge in a castle of unholy sorcerers. All she wants is refuge, maybe she can find it in Stonehammer.

Stonehammer Hold is at the Top of the World, for generations any bandit, brigand or traitor could take refuge there, join a war-band and disappear. The war-band go south every summer to raid the soft southlands.
There is no culture, no education,