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Authority Figures: Kassantra Mufdan, LN female human
Ari6 (head of the village council).
Important Characters: Sheriff Trag Finstek, N male
human War9 (the only full-time law enforcer in town); Cassilla
Fen, NG female human Exp7 (owner of the town stable);
Abrihando Strick, LE male human Com6 (proprietor of the
only store).
Militia: War6, War5, War4 (2), War3 (2); Other Characters:
Clr4; Drd4; Ftr4, Ftr3, Ftr2 (2), Ftr1 (3); Rgr9, Rgr4,
Rgr3, Rgr1 (3); Rog5; Wiz7; Adp5, Adp2; Ari4, Ari3,
Ari1 (2); Exp7, Exp5, Exp3 (3), Exp2 (2), Exp1 (3); War2
(2), War1 (7); Com6, Com5, Com4, Com3 (3), Com2 (7),
Com1 (62).
Denderdale (RUINED)
In the northern cut of the Rawlinswood, a little north and
west of Bezentil, lie the ruins of the small community of Denderdale.
Its Dalesfolk formerly traded with those Nar tribes
inclined to deal with outsiders and maintained a wary truce
with the rest. But two months ago, on a cold night in early
Marpenoth, a trio of powerful blightlords led a company of
blightspawned volodni warriors out of the surrounding
forests and razed the village. Of the settlement’s four hundred
people, only a few dozen escaped with their lives. It’s whispered
that many of the slain have been reanimated as undead
troops in the Rotting Man’s army.
Evrelthed’s Hill
About four days’ travel east of Uthmere and half a day’s walk
from the Great Road stands the farmstead of Evrelthed
Northol (LG male human Ftr2/Exp3). Evrelthed, his wife,
their four sons, his brother, and his brother’s family live here,
a tiny settlement of eleven people huddled in a sheltered dell
miles from their nearest neighbors. Such farmsteads are scattered
like a half-handful of seed corn across the broad expanse
of the Dale. Unlike more settled areas, where most parcels of
arable ground belong to somebody, the Great Dale has wide
stretches of unclaimed land that anyone can claim, as long as
they’re willing to put up with bitter weather, dangerous monsters,
and a lot of loneliness.
Evrelthed is a thin, sour man of about forty who has
steadily refined the art of complaining about his land and his
fortunes for decades. He and his family are willing to put up
travelers who don’t mind sleeping in a fieldstone cellar cut
into the side of a hill a hundred yards from the farmsteaders’
home. The accommodations may be humble, but Evrelthed’s
wife Kalina (LG female human Com3) serves the heartiest
supper for a hundred miles.
Kront (HAMLET)
Kront is a tiny outpost where the Great Road meets the Cold
Road and the road to Tammar. This is the most well-traveled
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crossroads in the region, and most of the Dalesfolk disavow
it for that reason, claiming the place more properly belongs
to Thesk. Thesk, Rashemen, and Narfell all refuse to lay claim
to the place, though, so it’s part of the Great Dale by default.
Kront is a neutral trading ground for the surrounding
lands. The merchants who regularly pass through here appreciate
the lack of politics, especially since this translates
into no direct taxes or tolls. The people of Kront make their
living trading goods and services with travelers. Kront concentrates
on providing services to traders, but it’s also a key
point for folk from hundreds of miles around to purchase
tools and other items they cannot fashion on their own.
Many merchants who start out thinking of Kront as a rest
stop on their way to other points have decided this is a fine
place to trade as well. In particular, fisherfolk come here
every day to hawk their catches from Lake Ashane, providing
fresh fish for those staying in Kront and smoked meat for
them to take on their way.
cKront (Hamlet): Conventional; AL N; 100 gp limit; Assets
1,335 gp; Population 267; Isolated (human 96%, half-elf 3%,
elf 1%)
Authority Figures: Lord Chinilvur, N male human Ari8
(descendant of an Impilturan noble who obtained a title over
the nearby land and the richest man in Kront).
Important Characters: Durtentan Palander, NG male
human Rgr11 (leader of the local rangers); Xander Capstal,
NG male human War5 (captain of the militia).
Town Guard: War4, War2 (3), War1 (7); Militia: War6,
War5 (2), War4 (7), War3 (3); Other Characters: Bbn3; Brd2;
Clr5, Clr2; Drd9, Drd6, Drd3; Ftr3, Ftr1; Rgr7, Rgr5, Rgr4,
Rgr3, Rgr2, Rgr1 (2); Rog5, Rog1; Sor3; Wiz4; Ari6, Ari2 (2),
Ari1 (2); Exp7, Exp6, Exp5, Exp4 (4), Exp3 (6), Exp2 (9),
Exp1 (16); War3 (2), War2 (5), War1 (11); Com6 (2), Com5
(2), Com4 (3), Com3 (8), Com2 (22), Com1 (133).
Mavalgard (THORP)
Home to Clan Maval, a sturdy family of hardscrabble farmers
and herders, Mavalgard is typical of the dozen or so isolated
clanholds in the central and eastern reaches of the Great
Dale. Fiercely independent and stubbornly self-reliant, the
Mavals came to this land from Impiltur almost two hundred
years ago, determined to carve out a life of their own from
the barren wilderness. Today, the hold is home to an extended
family of perhaps fifty souls under the rule of Angheder
Maval (CG male human Ftr4/Ari3), a short-tempered old curmudgeon
who is far wiser than he lets on.
Mavalgard is a rough motte-and-bailey keep with a fieldstone
tower and a ramshackle wooden palisade. It is surrounded
by several rude homes of fieldstone and thatch
burrowed snugly into the steep hillsides to avoid the worst of
the winter winds. The Mavals maintain friendly relations with
several other clanholds within a day’s journey or so, and the
folk of these holds gather three or four times a year to drink,
trade, decide matters of justice, and arrange marriages.