Keramina

Home of the Defiant Hand

Keramina is a small town founded about twenty years ago on the northeastern frontier of Selene. At the edge of the lowlands, Keramina has become a home, like many other small villages, for refugees looking to escape the press and thrum of the city.
Settled just south of the Icecrest Falls on the Anaellas river, Keramina has been growing tradetown for regional laborers and homesteaders. The town is the largest waystop between rural farms and Ederissa, and has seen a small growing transient population, as new settlers head north, and merchants come from the south and east.
Keramina is a Selenesse parish of the Church of the Inheritor. Its official ruler is the high priest (currently Priestess Ayla). Keramina also boasts a council of village elders, who serve to advise the High priest on most local matters and operations. Keramina is mostly autonomous, and the High Priest do little to dictate the daily affairs of the town. Instead, Church law primarily handles a small portion of taxation from the parish church's of tithes, and responds to larger external threats, provided the town maintains a 'good standing' with the church.
The town is built around the ancient ruins of an Imperial Watchtower, built around the 19th century. A five story tower settled on a small mott hill is surrounded by unfinished bailey. Converted into a church shrine, the remainder of the town is built out from this location. Consisting of two primary cobbled crossroads, the town center contain one and two-story thatch or wooden buildings, housing local artisans or successful residents. Only about a third of the town live in the city center, while the remaining couple thousand or so live in farm homes or lodges surrounding the local area around the town.
Keramina subsists on several different resources, but mainly from a healthy mix of agriculture, lumber, and trading. Root vegetables are a common staple, as is barley and cold-weather wheat. Local forests have a mix of woods useful for construction as well as fuel, and the northern prairies are suited for grazing of sheep, goats, and cattle.

Prominent & Influential Persons

Town Council

Ayla Eobheann

Keramina Priest

Damcho Tashi

Artificer

Armin Sendler

Blacksmith

Esker Lariot

Homesteader

Jheb Kronbecker

Carpenter

Johann Ebner

Former High Priest

Vicola Agate

Doctor

Notable Residents

Markos Iniri

Tavern Owner/Operator

Leandra Inirii

Local Hermit

Helena Ein

Local Trapper / Hunter

Koho

Refugee / Trapper

Zanthe Bikri

Keramina Shrine Brother*

Visitors & Former Residents

Althea Zanni

Traveling Bard

Issac Kisariot

Former High Priest

Eckard Meisnar

Former Town Merchant

Sebastian

Former Town Elder

Tobias Mendel

Auspicious Orphan

Kireyev Maximov

Workshop Manager

Type

Town

Population

2,740

Location under

Kreata

Owning Organization

Selene

Demographics

Dominant

Humans

Minorities

None

Enclaves

Draum

Groups

Eldari

Individuals

Assorted

Commerce & Industry

Major Exports

Lumber, Cereal Crops, Dairy, Wool

Major Imports

Tools, Textiles, Spices, Chemicals

Notable Locations

• Keramina Shrine
• Crescent Inn
• Tashi's Workshop
• Armin's Smithy
• North Burrow