Roughly midway between Wickenburg and Valorde, the Valorca Trail East begins between easily-recognizable standing stones and meanders off into hilly country to the northeast. The route is generally deserted, since few people even visit the ruins of Valorca these days.
The trail continues along a high ridge, from which eventually the traveller may glimpse Lake Valorne in the distance to the northwest, with the trees around Valorde behind it on the horizon. The Trail curves to the right shortly after the lake comes into view, and runs uphill due east toward the deserted ruins of the village that once was Valorca.
All that remains of this once-pleasant hamlet are a deserted Smithy, a couple of surviving buildings, and the burnt-out remains of the old Valorca Tavern, which once echoed with song and merriment. South of the hamlet, in the direction of the Wickenburg Escarpment, a great abandoned wheat field still testifies to the vibrant life that once filled the place. But Valorca is not a casualty of the goblins and orcs, or even of the loathesome bandits from Hadren who roam the hills to the southeast; rather Valorca was burned a generation ago by the Hadren Gendarmerie themselves, who fought a pitched battle on this hilltop with a huge mob of evil bandits, killing them all and then burning the hamlet itself because it served at that time as their hide-out and base of operations. The smell of smoke still lingers about the burnt tavern.
At the northern edge of the hamlet, after a bit of careful searching, you will find the Valorca Trail South arriving from the Valorde-Canth Road, which lies out of sight to the north across a wide valley.
