Hillsted
After the great purge, a figure known as Leylan rose to prominence. Through her structuring of a new government, the rebuilding of farmland, and socialistic ideals where everyone shared the riches of the old, the city was rebuilt. She gained the nickname The Beggar King. Though the city still lies in ruin the community has become a spiritual and communistic ideal that is growing slowly but steadily. Leylans work with the marshland outside the city has become a vibrant grassland.
Government
Theological communism: The city is run by a spiritual leader that has seized the means of production for the workers. With a focus on simple tasks and work the once poor miners and drunken gamblers have turned their lives around in the name of community and Chauntea. Leylan distributes work to all who wants, not under a hierarchy, but as equals with the rest of the workers, everyone gets their fair share.
Infrastructure
The city now thrives off of farmland and small fishing camps along the lake.
History
Hillsted began as a mining town when early settlers found gold in the hills. This early influx of riches made Hillsted an immediate success and immigration continued steadily for many years. The city flooded with migrants selling their former land, tracking across the marshland to find their luck in Hillsteds gold. Little to their knowledge, the gold trickled to a small stream and the gold veins were empty within years of mining. A city of gold built atop a hill of mud. The cities growth stagnated, but the hierarchy grew larger with a large Populus of homeless and unemployed. Once miners that no longer had anything to mine. The City became a grimed gamblers den where people either became rich or dirt poor. The capitalist Able Verridian rose to prominence after a few smart purchases of land and some good old fashioned subterfuge. Under his rule, the city withered with corrupt soldier activity becoming prominent. In this town money was everything.
In the year of 1576 After the arcanum revolt, the city went into flames in an event now called the great purge. From beneath, the city crumbled and fire erupted, the city becoming a ruin in mere minutes. After the great purge, all forms of government fell apart and the walls splitting the rich from the poor fell. The slums revolted and started killing and looting taking their riches for themselves. Chaos ensued.
RUINED SETTLEMENT
1576 after the Arcanum revolt
Founding Date
1189 after the Arcanum revolt
Alternative Name(s)
Hornhill
Type
Town
Population
2300
Owner/Ruler
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