The Blackwatch Songbook

The Blackwatch Songbook is a developing collection of dark folk ballads from the Ash Marches—a fractured frontier where the crown still claims the land, traders still brave the old roads, and Lastford Border Keep stands alone beyond the reach of ordinary law.

Known as Blackwatch, Lastford is the final governed stronghold in the badlands: a scarred keep of blackened volcanic stone and rebuilt palisades, guarded by soldiers, hunters, mercenaries and survivors. Its songs tell of the people who keep its flame alive—Anya, Brenimir, the riders of Blackwatch, the merchants of Greyhaven, and those who vanish along the road the king forgot.

These are songs of love beneath the threat of death, mercy burdened by necessity, honour without nobility, and ordinary people made formidable by the world around them.

*** Trigger warning: Strong themes ***

Original dark folk music, illustrated ballads and stories from Lastford Border Keep.

Still We Keep.