Maels gazed out of the recently wiped window of his carriage, which rattled every time one of the vehicle's wheels encountered a bounce or bump along the uneven surface beneath them. The Winding Road was centuries old and ran on for hundreds of leagues, so it came as no surprise that many stretches of its vast length were in various states of disrepair, especially so far out into the wilderness where the mountainous topography made it quite difficult for people to service them.