Little Allherra

Little Allherra is a small rural village on the northern border of, and governed by, the Daunka Province. It straddles the Cryal River and is often considered to be a crossroads between the Ossalimarian Empire and The Province.

Description

Little Allherra is known for its status as a crossroads, a point between places. However, despite this most residents seem to have no intense political sway to one side or another. In accordance with the rules of The Empire, one half of the village follows the Empire-approved religious figures. Though in both Southward and the Outlands, there are small temples to several other deities, particularly The Dream Lord and She Who Wanders. Despite there being a strong presence of Empire forces and ideals, the village itself is technically controlled by the Daunka Province.

Districts

Highward

Located in the northern part of the village, Highward is mostly considered to be within the territory of The Empire. However, this does not mean that the land or people align with their attitudes. However, the ward does contain two temples dedicated to specifically Empire-approved deities. Additionally, there is a small barracks that houses the contingent of Crownsguard who oversee the percieved Empire border of the river.

Southward

On the south side of the river lies the Southward, still retaining the original naming convention from the founding of the village. Southward is firmly based within the lands of the Daunka Province and as such is most considered to be the leading side of the village, particularly as it predominantly houses most of the population as well as several prominent locations such as temples to two Daunka approved deities and a single library for the Archani Conclave.

The Outlands

On the outskirts of the Southward is the area known as The Outlands. While many parts of the village are vast and expansive, The Outlands become a more rural community and stretch on for several miles of primarily farmland and different smaller settlements that all feed into the larger village of Little Allherra.

Guard Structure

Little Allherra has a small contingent of both Crownsguard and Consulate Legionnaires in the village, their aim is to keep peace and to keep hold of their own side of the Cryal River. The Highmaster of the Crownsguard is a dwarven woman called Nora Knoll. Meanwhile, the Consulate Legionnaires are overseen by one Prefect Marion de Lovaris, a tiefling who has resided in Little Allherra most of their life. The two continengents technically have jurisdiction on both sides of the river, however they can only arrest someone for crimes that are relevant to both states. Notably murder and theft. This legal agreement is written in the Little Allherra Charter which designates what is fully allowed by each contingent of national guard.

Little Allherra

General Information

Leader	State-appointed Commisary
Current Leaders	Commisary Vara Lane
Guard Unit	Crownsguard Consulate Legionnaires

Location Information

Plane	Material Plane (Nonvyrox)
Continent	Ossalimar
Region	Daunka Shore
Districts	Highward Southward Outlands

Societal Information

Population	2,043 (in 755 AR)
Population	54% Human 21% Half-Elf 10% Gnome 15% Other Ancestries
Affiliation	Daunka Province

Architecture

Much of the architecture in the Highward follows that of the Ossalimarian Empire. Typically they form some element of columns and mass architecture. While much of the Empire use marble or fashioned bricks for their settlements, the Highward attempts to replicate the style with torite, due to it being more readily avaliable.
Torite, unlike many rock-like materials, allows for intricate decorations into different elements of the rock. For the village this has allowed for the creation of a variety of different intricate designs unique to Little Allherra. These designs are often focused around the chosen deity of the home or business owners. In the case of temples and libraries, they are focused on the patron deities of the people inside and usually have some integrated design of the deity as a statue.
The Southward and Outlands incorporate more different materials such as wood and traditional stone into their buildings. The architecture of these regions is much older than that of the Highward. Over the course of three decades, there has been more torite being used for new buildings in the Outlands and as decorative elements in the Southward.

Points of Interest

The Highward

Warrenfort Smith
Based on the outskirts of the village square, this dwarven blacksmithy is premier within the village for their strange arcane forge that seems to create strong and powerful weaponry. Additionally, there are several apprentices who work under Master Dagon Warrenfort, the owner and master blacksmith of Warrenfort.

Quill & Quiver
A small store in the northern part of the village square, the Quill and Quiver is owned by an elderly looking gnome by the name of Geraldine. She claims to craft each of piece within the store herself, with a specialty towards enchanted arrows and quill pens that each prove useful in their own circumstance.

Nature's Call
A store directly south of the village square, owned by a tiefling known as Loras Korlan Révéler. It specialises in elements of a magical nature, particularly strange and unusual magical items that don't seem to fit into the standard remits of the other stores in the village. Nature's Call is also well known for its interior a small house that contains several flowers and flora that seem to follow a person while they're in the store, additionally, when Loras is unavaliable, the plants can act as an additional server for anyone who is looking for something within the store.

Golden Gates Temple
Based in the eastern side of the Highward, the Golden Gates Temple stands as a monument to the Goldhammer, master of the sun. The central roof of the temple is made of a powerful golden material. It seems to shimmer in the sun and give off a glorious glow that seems to be unmistakably bright. Residents nearby often have strong curtains to avoid the bright shine of the roof. There are at least 10 members of the temple's congregation led by a cleric who has dedicated their name to the Goldhammer, as such they are often called Dawnmaster.

Bladehold
Located in the far north of the village, Bladehold contains a small barracks and houses a selection of Crownsguard, approximately 30 soldiers and 1 archivist. Their primary intention is the protection of the village and the enforcement of the Empire's border from the north.

Northward Generic
The most general of general stores, Northward Generic is a name held over from the time of the two encampments, when the area was known as Northward rather than Highward. For several generations Northward Generic has been run by a family of Grassfolk and their assistants from all around the village and surrounding areas. Located on the main street running through the village, Northward Generic looks like a huge warehouse filled with a vast variety of different goods that would satisfy the needs of many people around the village and beyond. With their slogan "If you can't find it, ya don't need it", Northward Generic stocks most anything anyone might need.

The Puddle and Duck Inn
Located just off the north-eastern edge of the village square, the Puddle and Duck Inn is a fairly large establishment looked after by a Dragon-Touched known as Dartlock. A former adventurer, Dartlock hung up his magical instruments and decided to focus on the life that they wanted to lead, focused on entertaining and providing services to the masses, especially those of drink and food, something Dartlock knows much about. The Inn has been under Dartlock's care for the last four years and has acted as not only a place to learn more of different missions in the village, but also a hub of information for those who can pay the extra coin...

Comissary Manor
Based just west of the main village residence, Commisary Manor is the estate that is granted to the currently assigned Commisary within the village. Currently it is the residence of Commisary Vara Lane who has recently taken up her residence after three decades in the Daunka capital of Ulvrahill. The manor itself stands beside a 5 acre grounds that spreads out to the west of the village and further afield.

The Southward

Marasin Tower
Based in the eastern part of Southward, the Marasin Tower is said to be owned by an aging magic-user. While there is no direct name for the magic user known, they seem to go by the name Meral. Meral seems to be constantly separated from the rest of the village, particularly those who are from the Empire. Those who have gotten close to Meral believe that they are hiding from something in their past, though these are only rumors...

The Oakwell Library
Built in the western part of the Southward, The Oakwell Library is designed to not only hold important documents of the surrounding area, but also several primary archivists who work with the Archani Conclave.

Dream's Rest
This powerful and strange building was built in the heart of the Southward, specifically designed to be a centrepiece to the ward. The building on its outset seems to be designed simply as a normal building made of brick and shingles. It is strange as while it seems simple and small on the outside, the interior is often described as a "labyrinth of rooms and corridors", and some also consider it to be an eternal dreaming nightmare filled with a strange near humming power beneath it.

The Wanderer's Rest
A temple to She Who Wanders, The Wanderer's Rest acts in two fashions, both a temple and an additional tavern within the village. The temple's leader is Wanderer Olvra Mainstreet, who acts as both proprietor for the tavern and the most devout cleric of She Who Wanders. The building itself can be found at the centre of the Southward, just south of Dream's Rest.

The Outlands

Rest of the Raven
Housed a few miles out of the main village centre, the Rest of the Raven is both a small temple to The Misstress of Death and a graveyard for those who have lost their lives within the area within the bounds of Little Allherra. Within the graveyard there are several shrines and mausoleums for different larger families that have passed over the years, but in the core is a set of stairs that descend into a tomb for an ancient figure from the region's past.

Granya's Farm
Located just on the edge of The Outlands, close to the city, is the Granya's Farm, a large crop harvesting farm that focuses on grains and wheat. Owned by the Granya family for several generations, the farm helps to supply the village with the food it requires over the many months. The current owner of the farm is the Granya family matriarch Kara Granya, a faun that seemed to arrive a few decades ago with a great storm and integrated with the family at the time.

Society

Demographics

Little Allherra has a population of 2,450 as of 755 AR. There is a large gnomish and half-elven community in the region. While the combined power of these ancestries does not make up the majority of the population of Little Allherra, its important to note that there are significant numbers of these people in the village. 54% of the population is comprised of Humans from both the Daunka Province and Ossalimarian Empire. The rest of the population breakdown is as follows: 21% half-elf, 10% gnome, 15% other ancestries.

Notable People

Name	Pronouns	Description
Commisary Vara Lane	She/Her	Commisary of Little Allherra. Halfling woman brought up in Zhora.
Loras Korlan Révéler	He/They	Tiefling owner of Nature's Call.
Highmaster Nora Knoll	She/Her	Highmaster of the Crownsguard. Dwarven woman.
Prefect Marion de Lovaris	They/Them	Prefect Imperialis of the Consulate Legionnaires. Tiefling life-long resident of Little Allherra.
Dartlock	He/Him	Owner of the Puddle and Duck Inn. White Dragon-Touched.
Master Dagon Warrenfort	He/Him	Owner of the Warrenfort Smith. Elderly half-elven male.
Geraldine	She/Her	Owner of the Quiver & Quill. Elderly gnomish woman.
Dawnmaster	They/Them	Powerful Cleric of the Goldhammer. Unkown lineage, but humanoid. They wear a mask that covers their face entirely.
Meral	They/Him	Aging magic-user and owner of the Marasin Tower. Elderly human.
Wanderer Olvra Mainstreet	He/Him	Leader of The Wanderer's Rest. Elderly half-orc.
Kara Granya	She/Her	Matriarch of the Granya family and owner of the Granya farm. Female faun.

History

Founding

Little Allherra as its currently known was the merger of two seperate encampments which were founded on the edge of the Cryal river. Both encampments were created as a result of the conflict between the Daunka people and the Empire's might. In 601 AR, as the treaty to formally succeed from the Empire was being drafted, there started to be disagreements between the two encampments. The story that has been written in documents is as follows:

A resident of each side of the river were fishing for some additional food. When a fish was caught using magic on the Daunka side, the Imperial fisher claimed that they were using magic to starve them and launched a fishing spear at the Daunka resident. While they survived the attack, the Daunka encampment wanted retribution as one of their own was attacked, despite peace talks being ongoing. The two encampments started to prepare for a conflict.

According to written documents, the recorded conflict never occured. Despite this, the story reached the ears of Daunka negotiators, so additional measures were taken to give the land of the region to the Daunka people and to share the land between the two nations. As a result, when the peace treaty and succession was in place, Little Allherra was founded as a village within the Daunka Province with a charter designed to accomodate the shared custody between the Province and the Empire. The center of each of the encampments became the district centers of the Highward and Southward.

A Noble Endeavour

In 621 AR, an Imperial noble family joined the budding community of Little Allherra. While it had expanded greatly in the two decade, the settlment was only as big as a small village. When the nobles arrived immediately there was a boost in the prosperity of the village. Harvests were doubled, the appearence of multiple children in a single birth tripled. This sudden increase in success allowed the village to expand more rapidly than anyone expected. for several decades the prosperity of the village was unrivaled in the region. Some thought that the village would eventually expand into a large city that would then cause difficulties for the limited charter that had been written.
By 654 AR, the noble family had set up their own contingent of magical academia. A school that would foster those with magical potential with the ability to progress to the schools further in the Empire alongside the Veritas Convention, of whom the noble family were linked. Several successful pupils were sent to Grantour and joined the Convention's school system raising their ways through the ranks. However, a large proportion of students found themselves finding the limits of their potential. It was claimed by the school that something in the region produced a significant number of people with magical potential that was pulled from a limited resource within the individual.
However, the growth and success of the village was to come to a halt. In 689 AR, it was discovered that the noble family had been slowly sapping magical potential from the village for their own benefit and an agreement with a powerful creature from another plane of existence. When this was discovered, along with the school's lies about students with limited or minimal magical potential, the noble family's name was scrubbed from the records to no longer grant them power. The location of the family is now unknown, but anyone who was in any form of social standing with the school beyond being a member of its roll were cast out aof any nobility and usually found in destitution.
The de Lovaris family were caught in the crossfire of the noble family's downfall. The parents both were staff in the academy in charge of the upkeep of the manor house that was used as the school. The parents eventually regained some of their standing by being proponents for the complete destruction of the manorhouse in the Outlands. By 701 AR, the family were allowed back into high society, though it seemed to always be at an arms reach.

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