Barrow-Town

No one knows how it started. A few folks just gathering in the ruins for shelter, probably. But they stayed, and eventually others came too, living amid the skeleton of an enormous structure from the prior worlds. One forward-thinker among them looked up and formed an ambitious plan. Gathering bits of metal, synth, and stone from the wreckage and combining it with wood and other materials, they built their homes suspended from the still-standing synthsteel girders of impossible size. Those original founders had safety in mind when they devised their houses, workshops, and even a market high above the ground.
Some have commented that it looks more like a hornet's nest than a town, but the people of Barrow-Town don't care abnout their jibes. A few live on the ground beneath the town, in cavelike burrows (the "burrows beneath the barrow") dug into piles of stone, metal, and glass. Most of the ground-dwellers work at the mill built alongside a river of flowing sludge from deep within the bowels of the ancient wreckage, or they man the pulley-like elevators that grant access to the community above.
Barrow-Town is the largest community in what was oncethe land of Garamur, but it has existed only a decade or sor. Beyond it, abandoned towns and villages dot the landscape, although at this point, even most of those have disappeared.
The 450 or so people who live in Barrow-Town are mainly a quiet, introverted lot, not interested in interacting with strangers. The leaders of the community are a small group of elders.
No Aeon Priests dwell in Barrow-Town

Founding Date

397

Type

Town

Population

450

Location under

The Steadfast

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