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AESTHRAN,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: GRENSA
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG);
POPULATION: CA. 300-400
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
This village of Aesthran
(meaning lit. in the ancient Glandorian tongue "Riverbank Settlement"),
not to be confused with the even tinier Aesthran Station by the way, lies in
the western rainshadow of the Mithral Mountains.
It has managed to establish itself as not only a fishing community by netting
the mithanjor minnow's irregular
spawning runs on the Olantani and the Nekoma, but represents a regular stop for
travelers going to, or returning from the Crazy
Woman Pass through the Mithral Mountains. The dainty fish bulge the fine-meshed nets almost to breaking several
times a year; some are sold or devoured fresh immediately but the bulk are
dried or smoked for transport elsewhere. The once small hamlet has grown to a
healthy population of roughly 300 to 400 permanent residents who offer the frequent
travelers passing through en route to the
Mithral Mountains, comfortable lodgings at their own inn known as "The
Mithral Minnow".
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COURTFORD,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: MARCHES OF
CLOUDPIERCE (DUCHY OF HUISCEN); POPULATION: CA. 350-400
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN,
CENTORAURIAN)
Courtford sits on the
southwestern bank of the Upper Mashdai River in
Santharia, and is about five days’ sailing upstream from
Marcogg. It is a fairly well-off village, populated
mostly by Avennorian
humans – about four hundred of them – whose
main industry is breeding and training horses,
both in the village and on the nearby Grasslands of Hylach.
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HOLT,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: CAPSTAN
COAST (DUCHY OF HUISCEN); POPULATION: CA. 150
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN,
CALTHARIAN)
Holt is a surly little village
of over three hundred inhabitants in the Santharian
province of Manthria. It sits in a depression below
the steeply sloping foothills of the northernmost part of the
Mithral mountain range, sandwiched between
these peaks and the Adanian coast. Its main sources of income are from the dyes
they produce – the most famous being shades of
sou’cald blue. The people there
are always ill-tempered, due mostly to inclination, but also to the
semi-poverty in which they live and to the stench of the dyeing process which
hangs over the town.
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KOLBRUK,
THE TRADING
CENTER
OF
FIEF: FIEF TYRSAN
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG); POPULATION: CA. 200-400
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
At the mouth of Raven River is
the large trading center of Kolbruk owned by the Altnaus family. It started out
as just a couple of buildings in the early 13th century but the founder had a
vision and it expanded and prospered. It was just the trading post until a
bridge was constructed there. The dwarves
that built it got to calling the bridge "Kolbruk" (Thergerim:
KolBruk),
which means "Kolna’s Bridge" in
Thergerim the dwarven
language. The name caught on and has been called that ever since. The
trading center has anywhere from 200 to 400 people, depending on the time of
season.
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MYRTH,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: GRENSA
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG); POPULATION: CA. 100
TRIBES: HUMANS (DARAN, FEW AVENNORIAN)
Once a small but prosperous
lumber camp, the Manthrian village of Myrth stands
amid a forest of rotting stumps and scraggly brush a mere stone's throw away
from the rushing waters of the Mashdai
River. Having devoured its main source of income in its fanatic zeal for
wealth, the settlement of approximately one hundred now lies underneath a cloud
of poverty and disrepair; its once valued lumber supplies replaced by other
areas of the Kingdom of Santharia. Though the
villagers still manage to sell small quantities of wood to Chrondra and to
Marcogg, the importance of their supplies is not
nearly much as in their heyday.
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NATHEMBLY,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: MARCHES OF
CLOUDPIERCE (DUCHY OF HUISCEN); POPULATION: CA. 400
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
Nathembly is a small village of about 400 souls that can be found within the
Santharian province of
Manthria, Its business is agricultural, and it does that enormously
successfully, with the help of its fertile red soil. The town therefore is a
prosperous one, with trade links that extend throughout the province. The
history of Nathembly has generally been one of peaceful prosperity,
occasionally interrupted by war, acts of the gods, and witch hunts.
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NEPRIS,
THE FISHING
VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: TYRSAN
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG);
POPULATION: CA. 200
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
The village of Nepris is a
small fishing village of about 200 people. The fishermen there
harvest several species
of fish, seaweed and shellfish that they trade or sell to the local
dwarves or
traders from the Mithral Route.
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NOLAN'S
FARM,
THE SVAQ
BREWERY
FIEF: CIOSA (DUCHY
OF CAEYTHARIA); POPULATION: CA. 70
TRIBES: GNOMES (DARAN),
VERY FEW HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
Nolan’s Farm or, as in
gnomish, "Dara’saq’turik" (which
means "Daran Drinks Brewery") is very
famous for its svaq producing
purpose. Located in the northwest of the Santharian
port town Ciosa it has large control over trading in
that section of Manthria, not only with
Svaq but with other useful
products as well and has become a common meeting place for all kinds of people.
Administrated by Nolan the XVI. the farm grants him a large income in trade and
commendation.
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PARTHANUL,
THE FISHING
VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: PARTHANUL
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG); POPULATION: CA. 350
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
Parthanul is a small village
that gets its name by corruption from the
Thergerim
"Pratheron" (Pratheron,
reunion/meeting) and "Anul"
(Anul,
water), literally meaning
"meeting of waters", doubtless
referring to the Mashdai River that meets the Adanian Seacost, where the village
is located. With barely one hundred inhabitants (of
Avennorian origin)
the village has strong
dwarven influence (hence the name) due to the active trade with
dwarves
in a nearby settlement to the north. Living mainly
on the sea catch and trading everything else the people
need for a living, Parthanul is a typical
Manthrian fishing
village.
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ROULK,
THE HAMLET
OF
FIEF: GRASSEN
STEADING (DUCHY OF HUISCEN); POPULATION: CA. 30-35
TRIBES: HUMANS (EYELIAN,
ERPHERONIAN)
There is apparently no reason
for Roulk to exist. Sitting along the Elverground
Road in the middle of the Huiscen Plains, without a river, stream, or visible
well, it is unclear how the hundred villagers manage to survive - particularly
since they appear to have no industry and absolutely no means of income.
Passersby report that the fires are always
smoking listlessly, the few farm animals loiter about untended, and the
inhabitants seem to spend most of their days on the front stoop of their
bedraggled huts, watching the sporadic traffic go by. "As lax as the folk of
Roulk", goes the old saying... so perhaps what we see are merely the shadows of
souls that once lived? Pass Roulk by and see for yourself...
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SHNEERIN,
THE HAMLET
OF
FIEF: MARGULF
(DUCHY OF MARGULF); POPULATION: CA. 50
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN)
If you’d try to describe
Shneerin in one word, it would be "tradition". The little hamlet east of
Ravenport is very fond of its own history, dating back to the first
human nomads arriving at the Southern
Sarvonian Continent. Their old heritage results in a
traditional view on life. One of their obvious customs is farming the lands
north of their village, the Fields of Aurium. They are the main source of
golden rain, a grain used to make a
richly flavoured and therefore more expensive bread. But the hamlet practices a
lot more queer customs, their sayings spoken with their lisping accent being
but one example.
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SIMSY,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: GRASSEN
STEADING (DUCHY OF HUISCEN);
POPULATION: CA. 600
TRIBES: HUMANS (AVENNORIAN,
SOPHRONIAN, DARIAN)
Simsy is a
prosperous village of some 600 people, found well inland within the
Manthrian province of South
Sarvonia. Seated at the base of the twin Sentinels, two giant spires of
granite, and at a crossroads of trade, Simsy is well known for its
cattle,
beef and stone goods, most of which make their way south to Chrondra, and
further still, to the Manthrian capital of
Marcogg. So far from the sea, and situated so, its
people are a complex blend of many races who historically lived, fought,
conquered and negotiated the ownership of the land. Bloodlines from the
Avennorian,
Sophronian, native Darian, and
Glandorion races have all been traced within the village.
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SUNTH,
THE VILLAGE
OF
FIEF: PARTHANUL
(DUCHY OF MARCOGG);
POPULATION: CA. 600
TRIBES: HUMANS (DARAN, AVENNORIAN)
Sunth is a fair sized village
of about 600 people on average, although it varies considerably as ships come
and go, set on the eastern shores of Manthria province
in Santharia. In its prime it enjoyed the profits
of a rich fyrite mining trade as well as a bustling community of
whalers and other crafts. However some
years ago the ore dried up and, as such, recent times have seen a sharp decline
in prosperity. Crime has become much more prevalent, with a large variety of
thugs and thieves preying on drunk sailors and other vulnerable people. The
remaining local villagers have been left clinging to the few vestiges of honest
trade that still remain around the busy docks.
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