Erik's Stead

Duncan clicked his wagon forward, waving to his drivers to follow. He was unfamiliar with this road, as is leads to only one settlement and had Jameson ride up front to keep and eye out for dangers. Duncan looked at the mass of seeds and preserved foods in the back and sighed, counting the coin lost on the few day detour demanded by that damned king. His lot wasn't to decide what was good or bad, but to make coin and learn the roads, neither of which this helped with. coming down the small valley between the hillsides he saw the shoddy walls of Erik's Stead and thought of the carved stone of his homeland, halting at the gates as the guards ask for his papers.

Demographics

Dominated by Fenrikans, has a minority of Elves and half elves (Ironwood) and Halflings (Confederates), has a community of orcs and half orcs (Seawolves).

Government

Run by a local Thegn, it is often overseen by the Huntsmaster from Fenrika and used as a skirmish area to train Karlings and test aspiring companions. Its best farmland is used for tobacco, with the rest being used for food. It has a proud tradition of sending its best and brightest to Doros to become monster hunters, a skill their home requires they develop.

Defences

A well kept wooden wall at 30ft with towers at each corner. A raised townhall in the center of town with 2 towers at 50 ft. the wall is surrounded by a ditch.

Industry & Trade

This settlement lives and dies off its ability to track down and hunt. Most hunters focus on hunting game in the Ironwood, bringing back deer and elk, along with many types of fowl and small games to maintain consistent trading goods for the town. The best of them head into the eastern and western hills and bring down flocks of harpies and the occasional pride of manticores. After a successful hunt the hunter is now known as a ranger and are well respected in the village. they take the hides and valuable bits of the monsters and cure them for regular use, exporting those and their small fields of tobacco to Ragnar's hold to take a caravan somewhere else. they import varieties of food to survive the winter months, often losing harvests to to kobold burrows or other more fiercesome beasts

Infrastructure

Tanneries, Monster Butchers, Fletcher, Smokestack

Assets

Monster Parts, particularly Manticore, Harpy, and Kobold. Tobacco.

Guilds and Factions

The Thegn runs the day to day of the town and chafes under the thumb of the Huntsmaster, causing no small amount of problems between the two. The Huntsmaster maintains that his duties training soldiers and dealing with monsters supersede the decisions of the local Thegn and often delivers orders without advisment from them.

History

Founded by Erik the Red early in his reign, he noted the large amount of game and would come here to hunt with his companions when he wasn't raiding or ruling. After a few years, a settlement sprung up around his hunting area. One day during his hunting trip the king was attacked by a large pride of manticores and would have fallen if not for a local ranger bringing down their pride master. Erik offered the man a boon and he requested that he be allowed to build his village into a town with settlers from Ragnar's Hold. Erik agreed and sent 2500 settlers to begin this settlement, naming the man as Huntsmaster and giving him purview over the town. That man also made an agreement with the Ironwood to allow his hunters to venture into their woods and hunt in exchange for Ironwood settlers being allowed to settle in the town also. When he died his dream had come true and Erik's Stead was a hearty hunting community.

Architecture

Norse

Geography

Nestled into a lower valley with large hills to the east and west and the Ironwood beginning only a days journey south. To the north lies the worn dirt road that keeps the town connected to the rest of the world.

Natural Resources

Furs, Hides, Tobacco, Monster Parts, Large and Small Game.

Type

Town

Population

12000

Inhabitant Demonym

Fenrikans

Owner/Ruler

King Ragnar

Owning Organization

Fenrika