Forge: The Medestul

[Target entity — the current file, to be filled]
{
 "aliases": [],
 "content": {
  "character": "Fordable at perhaps a dozen points in the dry season and at none in the wet. The Zegtuzsos watch-system at Vekh'Zural existed because of it: the river bought them the time to concentrate, and the fords told them where concentration would be needed.",
  "overview": "A broad, slow river running west to east across northeastern Silgolt, forming the border the Empire of Revakgol crossed in 1269 AZN.\n\nREVIEWER NOTE: canon says only that Revakgol 'crossed the Medestul's northern border'. This entity reads the Medestul as a river. It could equally be a province, a march, or a people, in which case this record should be withdrawn and the opening campaign restaged.",
  "role_in_the_war": "Crossed at night in 1269 by advance columns who burned the Vekh'Zural watch-line. Forced properly in 1270 at the shallows below the confluence, at the battle the Zegtuzsos call the Red Shallows."
 },
 "id": "locations.the_medestul",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. Name is canon; river-nature is proposed. Entity type 'location' does not yet exist in the index.",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "The Medestul",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "region": [
   "Eastern Silgolt"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": "river",
 "summary": "The river frontier between Revakgol and the Zegtuzsos clans in the Third Age, and the start line of the Great Wyrm War.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war"
 ],
 "timeline": {},
 "type": "location"
}

[Schema template & register reference — Kaagaat (locations-kaagaat). Match its SHAPE and VOICE; do not mirror its content.]
{
 "aliases": [
  "The Last Clutch"
 ],
 "content": {
  "character": "Effectively unstormable by the standards of the age and effectively unstarvable in the short term, since its water was internal and its stores deep. What it could not do was end. There was nowhere further to withdraw to and nobody left to relieve it.",
  "legacy": "Still inhabited. Garrisoned by the Empire under the terms of the surrender, and administered by a Mulaagjun, which makes it the clearest physical statement of what the settlement of 1305 actually was. In Saarotsos usage the name has drifted into an idiom for an ending everyone survived, which Zegtuzsos speakers find intolerable.",
  "overview": "A highland fastness built into and under a mountain, holding its own springs. The last seat of Zegtuzsos independent authority and the place the surviving Mulaagjuns gathered after Urtkaa.",
  "role_in_the_war": "Invested in the winter of 1303. Kaemisyol declined to assault it and instead built rings of fortified road around the mountain over twenty-six months. The delegation that went to Vusokaar under the white-scorched banner in 1305 came from here."
 },
 "id": "locations.kaagaat",
 "meta": {
  "notes": "PROPOSAL, not canon. 'Kaagaat' is a generate_names candidate (sigtaara).",
  "status": "proposed"
 },
 "name": "Kaagaat",
 "native": null,
 "relations": {
  "region": [
   "Eastern Silgolt"
  ]
 },
 "sources": {},
 "subtype": "mountain fastness",
 "summary": "The final Zegtuzsos mountain bastion of the Great Wyrm War, besieged 1303-1305 AZN and surrendered rather than taken.",
 "tags": [
  "great_wyrm_war"
 ],
 "timeline": {},
 "type": "location"
}

[Related canon (summaries)]
### The Crossing at Sosaaz / Tin'Sosaaz  (military_conflict, canon id: military-conflicts-crossing-at-sosaaz)
Tin'Sosaaz The Red Shallows Sosaaz is the decision point of the entire war. Having lost four Juns in a day, the Zegtuzsos leadership concluded that they could not meet the Grand Army in open ground and withdrew into the fens and the cliff country. Everything that made the next thirty-five years slow follows from a battle that took less than a day. Revakgol crossed on a broad front rather than a narrow one, accepting higher losses in the water in exchange for denying the defenders a point to concentrate against. Kori-duelists went across first and held the far bank while the fording columns …

### The Siege of Kaagaat  (military_conflict, canon id: military-conflicts-siege-of-kaagaat)
The Last Clutch The refusal to assault is the tactical fact underneath the political choice the parent entry already records. Storming Kaagaat would have killed the surviving Mulaagjuns, and Kaemisyol wanted the Paathur system intact and legitimate enough to govern through. A bastion taken by storm has no one left with the standing to surrender it.

The delegation went to Vusokaar in 1305. The Paathur system was preserved beneath the Dovahrein; imperial garrisons were admitted at key sites; the Mulaagjuns kept authority over Zegtuzsos villages. Kaemisyol invested it in the winter of 1303 and …

### Vekh'Zural / Vekh'Zural  (location · warden-march, canon id: locations-vekh-zural)
The posts were built of stone below and timber above, the timber specifically so that a post could be fired by its own wardens as a signal of last resort. In 1269 this worked against them: Revakgol fired the posts themselves, and the pattern of burning that reached the Paathur was indistinguishable from a general alarm with no information in it. The thirty post-names survive in Zegtuzsos clutch songs as a fixed-order list. The order is the order in which they burned. Nothing was rebuilt; the march is ruin and the imperial road runs past it. Not a settlement and not a fortress line. Vekh'Zural …