Silverton
Silverton is a mining town founded some time in the ~4000s, I think. Obviously, they focused primarily on silver. The settlement started after a contest between some locals about the management of a previous mine. There was a "fine, I'll go find my own silver vein with blackjack and hookers" kind of fight between two dwarven brothers who had both been left the same vein to chase and no longer wanted to work together. (One believed in slave labor, the other didn't. Silverton was founded by the brother that didn't.)
A collapse roughly fifty years after its founding was rumored to be sabotage on behalf of slaver brother but this never crops up any evidence (and in fact is not true.), and was, instead, a mere accident. The cave in was massive and closed off access to more than half the mine. A good portion lost their lives and many of the ones saved suffered injuries, including at least one lost leg that I wrote.
The management, after the cave-in, made a few policy changes (amongst which, the dwarf brother that had retired at the time came back to the job to fix things and cuss new management), and this resulted in the town losing rather a lot of money and business, but the business still there is thriving. (Several of the local monsters needing silvered weapons helps, though there are acceptable and unacceptable monsters around these parts, you'll usually catch a few warnings before you get caught chasing the Werekin pack up north.
The settlement is mostly Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, and hybrids (in the process of naming). A single tavern stands alongside four smithies, and a smattering of houses are spread around the town square that isn't so much a square as it is part of expanded road that has been trampled by traffic into a much bigger circle. The starburst village is considered quaint by visitors.
It sits on the east side of the Blackhall Mountain range, in the north of Elsee in the country of Khrogaz. It rarely has more than a thousand people in it, even passing through, and its proximity to the end of the river makes it a good place to stop from upriver but that's about it.
Shipments of silver are sent downriver during the highwater season in spring, and the town will see the flush of income, but most of the miners spend it to go elsewhere until winter where the working conditions of the mine are as good as anywhere else.
A collapse roughly fifty years after its founding was rumored to be sabotage on behalf of slaver brother but this never crops up any evidence (and in fact is not true.), and was, instead, a mere accident. The cave in was massive and closed off access to more than half the mine. A good portion lost their lives and many of the ones saved suffered injuries, including at least one lost leg that I wrote.
The management, after the cave-in, made a few policy changes (amongst which, the dwarf brother that had retired at the time came back to the job to fix things and cuss new management), and this resulted in the town losing rather a lot of money and business, but the business still there is thriving. (Several of the local monsters needing silvered weapons helps, though there are acceptable and unacceptable monsters around these parts, you'll usually catch a few warnings before you get caught chasing the Werekin pack up north.
The settlement is mostly Humans, Dwarves, Orcs, and hybrids (in the process of naming). A single tavern stands alongside four smithies, and a smattering of houses are spread around the town square that isn't so much a square as it is part of expanded road that has been trampled by traffic into a much bigger circle. The starburst village is considered quaint by visitors.
It sits on the east side of the Blackhall Mountain range, in the north of Elsee in the country of Khrogaz. It rarely has more than a thousand people in it, even passing through, and its proximity to the end of the river makes it a good place to stop from upriver but that's about it.
Shipments of silver are sent downriver during the highwater season in spring, and the town will see the flush of income, but most of the miners spend it to go elsewhere until winter where the working conditions of the mine are as good as anywhere else.
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Village
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