The Shadow-Bridge of Montalbán
📍 Montalbán, Teruel
The Shadow-Bridge of Montalbán: Chronicle of the Last Stand In the Age of Falling Stars, when the boundaries between the mortal realm and the shadow-places grew thin as morning mist, there stood a gorge in the rugged highlands near Montalbán where darkness itself seemed to pool and gather. Here, where the river Martín carved its ancient path through limestone cliffs that rose like the broken teeth of some primordial titan, the fabric of reality wore threadbare. Through these weak places in the world's weave, entities of pure shadow and malice seeped into the lands of light—creatures that fed not on flesh but on fear itself, on despair and anguish and the slow corruption of hope. The elven folk who walked those hills in those distant days were not the woodland dancers of children's tales,…