Riegel Canyon

The Riegel Canyons are a location in the Central Countries. It is where Eisen’s apprentice Stark Used to reside before joining Frieren’s party.

Riegel Canyons
An location in the Central Countries with rugged forest terrain. It has many dangerous creatures such as dragons.

The Town
A modest town located in the Riegel Canyons. Like most towns it has inns, shops, restaurants etc. The village has been attacked by dragons, but the warrior Stark was able to repel them. Stark lived in the village after repelling the dragon for some time, before joining Frieren’s party.

Inhabited by

 * Stark (Before joining Frieren’s party.)

Visited by

 * Frieren
 * Fern

Chapter 10
28 years after Himmel’s passing, Frieren and Fern have traveled to the Riegel Canyons.

While traveling through the Riegel Canyons, they encounter a Dragon in its nest. This is the first time Fern has seen one. Frieren notices a grimoire which she plans to take by killing the Dragon. They try and kill the dragon with magic, which seems to be ineffective. The Dragon is now angered, so they run away successfully.

They think getting a vanguard might help in killing it, which so happens to be what they were traveling to the Riegel Canyons for. More specifically they were searching for Stark, an apprentice of Eisen.

They arrive in the village and a old lady approaches them, with a message from Stark. He wished to speak with them. While being lead to Stark by the old lady, she tells them of what he has done for the village like defending them from a dragon attack. After the dragon attack Stark has stayed in the village.

They meet him at a cliff side with a few children. He asks them if they were the ones that agitated the dragon, telling them to not do that since it could bring harm to the village. He also adds that you should not mess with dragons, showing a scar he got while combatting a Darkness Dragon.

He assumes that they were sent by his master, Frieren then introduced herself. He thinks that his master is furious with him, due to him ditching his master and coming to this village in secret. Frieren then asks why he has not killed the dragon yet, he does not answer and instead asks them to tell something about themselves. Frieren then tells that the reason they are here is to ask him to be their vanguard so they can get a Grimoire from the Dragon’s nest. Stark asks why and she responds with “no particular reason”.

Frieren asks how much experience he has, Stark has none and begs Frieren to help him. He believes he was spared on a whim by the Dragon, and guilty to how well the villagers have treated him. They give him a day to think it over.

After dinner in the town, they hear a sound from the direction they met Stark in. They guess that it is him and Frieren asks Fern to check. She finds him training, and discovers that the small ridge of the cliff is made by him.

Chapter 11
Fern and Stark have a short talk on protecting the village and Eisen (Stark’s Master). Fern recalls her first time facing a monster, relating to Stark.

The night passes and Frieren and Fern are waiting for Stark so they can face the dragon. Stark arrives a bit late so Frieren attempts to fight he dragon, but is delayed enough by Fern hugging a tree because she does not want to fight for Stark to arrive.

Stark fights the dragon, hitting it with a deadly blow with his axe, killing it in one hit. Before he realizes this he gets angry at Frieren and calls her a stinking hag. After he does realize he feels proud and Frieren congratulates him.

Frieren takes her desired treasures from the nest.

The day after, Frieren, Fern, and now Stark depart for their adventure.