Driftguard

History:

On a good year, Driftguard is accessible 4 months out of the year. Surrounded on all sides by impassable mountains the village can only be reached by boat, that is if the snow drifts haven't risen so high they shut off the town completely. During the months of Aborrun, Lumice, Shenzen, Ambrosine when the snow drifts have melted ships carrying food, goods, and supplies descend on the town. The last boat out is always the goblin cargo vessel that delivers over a year's supply of food to the village.
While the town is open, it is wildly profitable, the source of this profit exists in the mountains that surround it. Alta flowers grow in droves in the mountains during the fall but their locations and growth patterns are kept strictly internal. Many adventurers have gotten lost and died in the mountains surrounding the town if caught there in winter. However, the expert harvesters in the town spend the entire winter gathering and preserving the flowers for transport.

Locations:

The only inn in town Snow Maiden Inn which is notorious for its wintertime scam. Patrons unfamiliar with Driftguard's weather patterns are lured to the inn with free travel and a low two-week rate. Of course, this happens at the end of fall, right when the snow drift starts to accumulate making travel from the village impossible. Now stuck in the small village, the two-week rate expires and the debt begins to accumulate.
Winter's Reach Silos and Docks go from seeing maybe one ship a month bold enough to brave the frigid waters in the off-season to a port that sees more business than Sharkbait Cove in the summer. Traveling to and from this dock during summer is known to be very expensive.
The mountains that encircle the village are littered with medicinal components. Taking advantage of this is Doki's Medical Components they maximized the harvesting of Alta Flowers by stationing outposts in the mountains, to being harvest the day the first flower blooms.
The Pillars of Contemplation are an art installment by Yneas the Wise and are considered a work of precision by engineers, architects, stone masons, and mathematicians.  The work is located in the mountains that overlook the village and on the right day when standing in the center of town at dusk, the peak of each pillar touched each of Espen's 3 moons and brackets the sun in the west.  Yet the most remarkable thing about the installation is the fact that Yneas completed the entire work by himself in secrecy.

Founding Date

819

Type

Village