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	The '''Frontier''' (''Froeentra'') is everything that is not the six cities. It is not a wilderness so much as the remnant of one: there are roads through it, settlements on those roads, and a few thousand people living in what is between them. None of that makes it safe. What is out there is described under [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]]; this page describes what people have managed to put on top of it.		The '''Frontier''' (''Froeentra'') is everything that is not the six cities. It is not a wilderness so much as the remnant of one: there are roads through it, settlements on those roads, and a few thousand people living in what is between them. None of that makes it safe. What is out there is described under [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]]; this page describes what people have managed to put on top of it.

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	[[File:Frontier_road.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300x300px\|A caravan two nights out from the last Roedhaven.]]		[[File:Frontier_road.jpg\|right\|thumb\|300x300px\|A caravan two nights out from the last Roedhaven.]]
	The '''Frontier''' (''Froeentra'') is everything that is not the six cities. It is not a wilderness so much as the remnant of one: there are roads through it, settlements on those roads, and a few thousand people living in what is between them. None of that makes it safe. What is out there is described under [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]]; this page describes what people have managed to put on top of it.		The '''Frontier''' (''Froeentra'') is everything that is not the six cities. It is not a wilderness so much as the remnant of one: there are roads through it, settlements on those roads, and a few thousand people living in what is between them. None of that makes it safe. What is out there is described under [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]]; this page describes what people have managed to put on top of it.

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{{Bible|section=5.7}}
[[File:Frontier_road.jpg|right|thumb|300x300px|A caravan two nights out from the last Roedhaven.]]
The '''Frontier''' (''Froeentra'') is everything that is not the six cities. It is not a wilderness so much as the remnant of one: there are roads through it, settlements on those roads, and a few thousand people living in what is between them. None of that makes it safe. What is out there is described under [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]]; this page describes what people have managed to put on top of it.

Nothing is farmed beyond a defended perimeter. Anywhere else is too dangerous.

== What it is ==
Three overland roads, four sea lanes, about sixty settlements, a few thousand people who live in places no one else can, and a great deal of dangerous wilderness. Everything else out there is trying to kill you, and most of it was built to.

== The pages ==

* [[The Roads]] — the three roads and four lanes, the Roedhavens along them, the Muyra, who owns them, and the exceptions: Clearhold's garrisoned passes and Eldershore's Spynra posts
* [[Roedskrin]] — the post network that is how the world knows what the Frontier is doing
* [[Waendra]] — those who wander: the people who live between the roads
* [[Fyndrecht]] — the finder's right, and what it means to be a Fyndra
* [[Aesloes]] — the strangers who arrive from nowhere

== The Frontier and the law ==
The Frontier lies beyond every city's gates, and the [[The Pact of Reason|Pact of Reason]] confirms what was always true there: a person found alone in trouble belongs to the finder, and a claiming made there is lawful in every city once the mark is cut. The war that produced the Pact began with a Frontier claiming. What the Pact settled is not whether a person can be taken there but that, once marked, there is no place left where the taken can be free. See [[Fyndrecht]] and [[Slavery]].

The Frontier is also where [[True Mastery]]'s community enforcement fails, which is why it appears in every argument on [[The Contested Ground]].

== Who is out there ==

; The Waendra
: Small groups on a seasonal round, holding an Oathbond like anyone, trading at the Roedhavens and never sleeping inside them.
; The wild people
: Escaped slaves — ''Frizdoeen'', in the cities' word — living in the Frontier bands without an Oathbond though no owner holds them. See [[Those Without an Oathbond]].
; Roedhaven keepers
: Whoever built the walls.
; Garrisons
: Clearhold's soldiers on the Mountain Way, Eldershore's scouts at the Spynra crossings, and the Pass Warden at Ironpass.
; Caravans
: Passing through, and paying for the night they finally sleep.

== See also ==

* [[The Six City-States]] · [[Why Conquest Does Not Happen]]
* [[Dangerous Fauna and Flora]] · [[Moving Goods]]