Location from The Witcher by Andrzej Sapkowski
A harsh mountainous northern kingdom of proud warriors and deep winters — home to Kaer Morhen's ruins and the Blue Mountains that shelter witchers and secrets alike.
Kaedwen is a kingdom shaped by its mountains. The Blue Mountains form a spine of stone that dictates everything — trade routes, military strategy, the stubbornness of the people who endure winters that kill the unprepared. The cold here has weight and teeth, settling into joints and judgment alike. Mining drives the economy: iron, silver, and rare ores hauled from shafts where dwarven engineers once worked alongside human laborers before the pogroms soured that cooperation. The people match their landscape: tough, suspicious of outsiders, proud of their independence to the point of belligerence. Kaer Morhen sits hidden in these peaks, and the mountains keep its secrets the way they keep everything — silently, permanently. The kingdom's remote reaches harbor things that civilized lands have forgotten, and the forests between settlements grow dark enough to justify every fireside story.
Jagged mountain peaks draped in snow give way to dark pine forests and river valleys scarred by mining operations. Kaedweni towns are built of heavy stone with steep roofs against winter.
Also known as: Kaedwen, the Kaedweni Kingdom