Port Hugo
"Port Hugo used to be independent, but once the Long Wall was built that was pretty much that. They're a Sacquene district, now."
~Kessler Shieldreaper, mayor of Alcedene
Demographics
1235 humans, 492 halflings, 60 dwarves, 3 elves.
Government
Port Hugo has been entirely wrapped into the political structure of Sacqueline, and no longer has any autonomy other than that granted by the Stonecutters Society.
Defences
Industry & Trade
Port Hugo ships goods from the Sacquene silver mines to the outside world, and vice versa.
Infrastructure
Port Hugo sports an outsized shipping dock and a small warehouse for food. They have a single well and a watermill that flows somewhat slower than would be expected, due to an interruption in the river's flow from the Long Wall.
There are plans by the Stonecutters Society to build a canal between the East and West Forks of the Grasping River
Assets
Port Hugo is home to a number of shipping boats. It has one general store named, originally enough, 'Hugo General Store.'
Hugo General Store
Owner: Trighton Lightstone
The Hugo General Store is a ramshackle shantyshop tucked underneath the wall. It sells day-to-day needs for the locals, as well as the occasional trinkets bargained off the sailors and mechantmen.
Specials:
Black Pearl: 2,800 GP
Oil: 3 GP/flask
Tar: 30 GP/Barrel
Hugon Murlynder Outpost
Guilds and Factions
Port Hugo is oppressed, and the smooth running of the place is the Stonecutters Society's main interest of the area. Therefore, factionalism is low.
Militia Council: Midja Bürkli, Theodore Well, Nackemore Croft, 1d12/2d8/1d6
Murlynd Charitable Society: Torfi Thorstar, 1d8/1d4/1d6
Unified Guard Force of Sacqueline and Hugo: Midja Bürkli, Oskar Bürkli, 1d10/4d6/1d10
Undertown: Gorvin Lightfoot, 1d8/2d8/1d20
Knights of Scarroh: Oskar Bürkli, 1d6/2d8+1/1d4
Twin Wolves of Wrath: Bertulf Bloodmaw, Mylixe Foxhollow, 1d6/2d6+5/1d6
History
Port Hugo started as a small fishing settlement, one of the oldest in the area. When it started, Tilane was still thriving. The owner, Hugo Permalion, was a notorious hermit that took his extended family into seclusion.
They rode out the Rape of Tilane and the Scalepurge in relative peace, as they have most other wars. Simply put, until Sacqueline began taking over, Port Hugo was simply not worth the effort of raiding it.
Once it became the primary trade waypoint for the Stonecutters Society's Sacquene branch, its days as an independent entity were numbered. By 850, the officers of the mayor and magistrate were both disbanded in Port Hugo.
Architecture
Port Hugo started out as a small fishing village with wooden homes and little else. More than a century of total dependence on Sacqueline have turned it into a battered shantytown with rotting wooden planks supplemented by poorly hewn driftwood. Most houses in Port Hugo look as though they're one stiff wind away from collapsing. The rest look as though that wind has already blown through.
Geography
Port Hugo sits inside the floodplain of the Grasping River, though a series of bleed-dykes keep the river from swallowing the place with flooding.
Natural Resources
Port Hugo has a subsistence industry plying the river for fish and prawns. They also pull up pearls from the river, but all of these as well as the occasional gemstone are claimed by the Stonecutters Society and by local ordinance are illegal to sell by anyone outside of the guild.
Type
Hamlet
Population
1790
Inhabitant Demonym
Hugon
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