Sauerton

Sauerton is a settlement in northeastern Andoran in the Carpenden Plains region, located between the banks of the Andoshen River and the Verduran Forest. Home to roughly 2,700, the population is approximately two-thirds human, with halflings making up most of the remainder, many of whom are refugees or emancipated slaves from Cheliax. The ground on the northern Carpenden Plains where Sauerton is located is dry and rocky, and grapes are one of the few crops that thrive successfully. The town is surrounded by nearly 10,000 acres of vineyards, largely owned by the city's mayor, Consul Tercio Andares. The city's most famous export is Sauerton Red, a cheap, rough-tasting wine with a high alcohol content known throughout the lands of the Inner Sea. Large barrels of it are filled and floated down the Andoshen to Almas, and the wine has become such a byword for poor quality, that the expression "must be down from Sauerton" is applied to everything from poor artistic performances to badly-made wagon wheels. These jokes tend not to bother local Sauerton residents, who see Sauerton Red as the drink of the common people of Andoran, untouched by the elitist pretensions of the aristocracy. Most of Sauerton's residents work in the vineyards, which due to their size, attract a large number of traveling laborers from outside the city. Arcane magic holds little influence in Sauerton, as many of its residents are suspicious of its use, having either heard tales of (or suffered at the hands of) foreign slaveholders, Chelaxian devil-binders, and other nefarious wielders of the arcane. For better or worse, there is no open trading of magical items in the town, except for the occasional curative potion from the Temple of Erastil. While the locals shun the open use of the arcane powers, they appear to be relatively at-ease with most divine and natural magics (and magically enhanced farming implements), provided they are harmless and used to the benefit of all.

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