The author establishes the setting. Describe the setting. What words and phrases does the author use to develop the setting?

The setting seems rural and ominous. The setting seems fraught with danger outside of the small village confines.

The north and the west and the south are good hunting ground, but it is forbidden to go east. It is forbidden to go to any of the Dead Places except to search for metal and then he who touches the metal must be a priest or the son of a priest.