Baumhold

Lying to the south west of The Great Forest, the village of Baumhold was once doing well on the timber trade, with plentiful lumber and idyllic surroundings, the people of Baumhold worked hard but enjoyed a decent living. 
Since the calamity, the fertile borders of the Great Forest have been shirking inwards rapidly, every year, acres of land that was once lush forest becomes dried out, the trees hollow husks. 
The few who remained after the end of the War were gripped by despair, no longer was the timber trade viable, their land dying under their feet and nothing they tried would helped. 
Most of the remaining villagers are now firmly in the grip of Calamity Sickness, no longer able to even care about the wretched circumstances

Government

The decisions for the village were once made by the village council, now only Heft Wurshal shows up to the council meetings and tries to keep things running.

Industry & Trade

Once, the land of the Great Forest and the plentiful trees had the axes of the village and the saws of the lumber mill working every day. The forest in the surrounding area died off years ago and has retreated far, the trees left are gnarled and decaying.

History

There has been a village were Baumhold sits for hundreds of years, since before the Human Kingdoms were established. Humans have long tended and harvest the lumber from this part of the Great Forest, carefully managing it to ensure that the forest and its spirits and Elven inhabitants were not disrespected. 
When the Last War came along, demand for lumber rocketed, the people of Baumhold made the decision to meet that demand, the careful management techniques of the generations past abandoned to concentrate of meeting the volume of timber required by their warring Kingdom, thus did the people of Baumhold do very well out of the Last War. 
When the calamity hit, Baumhold was as affected as any other village, many were struck and killed by the forces that were let loose that day. Fissures cracked forth in the Great Forest, leading to its centre, the cracks in the ground seemed to leak a shadowy energy and leach the colour from the ground. While the fissures would seal, the forest was damaged on some fundamental level. Every year since, acres of land that was once the perimeter of the huge forest is reduced to dusty wasteland where nothing will grow, the trees seemingly retreated into the centre of the Forest at an alarming rate. 
At the trailing edge of this decay, you can watch as the life seems to drain from the ground, as before your eyes inches of what was once fertile, mossy is leeched of its life, plants shrivelling and dying.

Natural Resources

Once it was wood from the Forest, now there is nothing.

Type

Village

Population

32

Inhabitant Demonym

Baumholders

Location under

Allatar (continent)

Owner/Ruler

Heft Wurshal