Morin
Poor Morin. Nearly eight centuries past it was a sleepy fishing village far from the influence of Human civilization. Located hundreds of leagues from warring tribes of the Island of Eldoria and even further from the far-flung horsemen of the Malpighien Steppes, it had a bare dozen huts of substance fishermen that called their hamlet "Mathe". When the Duke of Drythe, newly annexed by the new Empire decided to expand his holdings, however, he ventured out with a small army to explore the west. Upon stumbling on the small fishing village that sat on such a perfect bay he immediately declared it part of the Empire and commissioned the construction of a walled city on the bay's north shore. Without any better ideas for a name, he coined the new outpost Mathe after the fishing village, stealing the hamlet's name without their consent.
Today Morin has swelled in size, housing a large fishing fleet of its own. Its citizens have cut the trees of the Raiznith Forests back for leagues, filling the surrounding countryside with farms almost all the way to Fort Pangart. While the soil is poor, the rain coming in from the Darsiac Ocean makes perfect weather for rice cultivation and paddies stretch from the town walls for as far as the eye can see. Much of this rice is dried and shipped eastward to help feed the insatiable hunger of the Karradone and Phelandria. Others in the area grow cotton that, while doing little to fill the bellies of locals has proven a valuable cash crop.
The town itself is non-descript. Made mostly of wood from the cleared forests and sprawling well beyond its original walls, does not invoke the cramped feelings that one might have in cities where walls still mark the boundary between safety and potential disaster. While a few townsfolk might joke about their stolen name, most are proud citizens Mathe in the Kingdoms of Prydith, seeing their own King as their rightful lord. They tend to value honesty and hard work, shaking their heads at the complicated ways of the people across the bay.
Type
Large town
Population
8,000
Location under
Owning Organization