Grissenwald Hamlet

The small, unnamed hamlet in the dead of the Grissenwald forest sits next to a lively river. The town is mostly located on a small floodplains, and has been abandoned for some time until the group came along. A ruined watermill sits on the bank of the river, and freshly constructed homes litter the site haphazardly, clearly newly erected and sticking out like sharp hills on a plain.
The hamlet is marked oddly by two expensive looking homes, one with a red cross marking that of a doctor, and another with a seemingly endless multicolored plume of smoke from its chimney, no doubt an engineers cottage of sorts. A number of smaller, less impressive houses dot the landscape around the river, with a large brewery making up the majority of the western bank.
The river bubbles and swishes quickly down the stream, and every now and then counterfeit coins wash up on the surface, more discarded misses from previous efforts. The water is a very clear crystalline blue, and fish swim within it, jumping occasionally over the small waterfalls from the rocky riverbed.
A longhouse marks the furthest north home, an odd building for such a southern area of the empire, but not entirely uncommon. There is no heraldry, signage, and a singular home/guardpost, mystifying visitors and making thievery all too easy.
The dark forest, tall and unforgiving, looks down upon this hamlet, and the small mountain to the north looms as an everpresent landmark and reminder that this town is not the largest thing in the forest.
Little animals come to this place, and what deer do happen upon the locale are quickly scared away by the distant explosions in the engineers workshop, or the knightly grunts as the local hedge knight practices with his squire to make him as worthy of the armor as he is.

Founding Date

2500

Type

Hamlet