Byroden

Byroden

(Small Town - Population: 850)  (46% Human, 21% Half-Elf, 15% Halfling, 10% Gnome, 8% Other)
The northernmost, and second-largest community in the Mornset Countryside, Byroden borders the Gladepools and marks the first stop for any traveler endeavoring to traverse the Rifenmist. Most who live here spend their days farming, fishing the pools, or manning the small chasm on the outskirts of the township to recover minerals and ore from the exposed earth.
  While comparably pleasant and welcoming on the outside, this lifestyle is protected by a fierce and intense drive to defend their way of life at the first sign of threat or danger. Most citizens are armed at all times, and trained to rise as a communal militia at a moment’s notice from the town’s War Ringer, a designated sentinel charged with the town’s protection.
  Much of this behavior stems from a event nearly two decades ago, when Byroden was brought to its knees by Thordak the Cinder King in an attack that reduced half of the town to ash and rubble, and condemned a third of the population to burn in the wyrm’s hellish flames. While most of the town has been rebuilt since the incursion, this tragedy has instilled the people of Byroden with an ever-present, underlying paranoia of another such attack… and rumors of the Iron Authority looking northward hasn’t helped quell this anxiety.

Type

Town