Murdoons Homestead

MURDOON HOMESTEAD The Murdoons are a stubborn, pugnacious clan of freeholders who live in a fortlike palisade several miles north of Thornkeep. They get by with trapping, hunting, gathering nuts and mushrooms, raising pigs, and tending a small garden plot within their crude fortifications. The leader of the clan is Tunk Murdoon (CG male human warrior 4), a thick-waisted, broad-shouldered bulldog of a man who spits in the eye on anyone who tries to tell him what to do or how to live. Four of Tunk’s grown children and their families live here, along with a couple of stray cousins and in-laws who all share the Murdoon determination to make a go of it with no help from anyone else. The Murdoons are at odds with the Wolfmane barbarians, various goblin tribes, ogre bands, and most of Thornkeep’s outlaws. However, they guard a secret that no one else suspects: a hidden trail leading to a forgotten keep. Like Thornkeep, the Murdoons’ castle was founded by an Ustalavic lord seeking to tame the wild frontier east of the Sellen, but this keep was sacked by forest monsters and fell into ruin centuries ago. The Murdoons believe the place is full of gold, but they don’t go there—it’s also haunted by dangerous undead. However, if an adventurer were to find a way to befriend Tunk and his quarrelsome clan, the Murdoons might be willing to show the outsider the ruins of the old castle.

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Hamlet