Dechaine

What was once a major port town currently suffers quarantine. A small fleet of Montaigne ships stays off the coast, well out of the way to intercept and warn any who approach from the seas. News of the quarantine has spread quickly to Vesten and Avalonian merchants, who have changed their routes to cover other major Montaigne port towns along the northern coast of the nation, focusing their sales in Lierie and Crieux.
At the northern tip of Montaigne, the city previously named Dechaine is old and well-established, with grey stone city walls and towers built several centuries ago. The Montaigne army has blocked off inland trade routes and from the outside, and it looks as though the citizens indeed burn the bodies of the diseased.
Alas, the rumors of a thwarted plague are merely propaganda, a gauche ploy by the local Duke, Jean- Richard du Lac, to distract from the real facts. The truth is much simpler and uglier. The people of Dechaine have turned against the oppressive regime, which had starved them of wealth and eventually food. After being hit hard during the War of the Cross, and again in the recent war with Castille, with religious oppression by the privileged noble class and with the foreign trade tariffs driving the prices of mundane items higher and higher, the morale of Dechaine’s citizens had never been lower than a month ago.

Type

Region

Location under

Montaigne

Included Locations

• Petit Paix
• Petit Paix Forest

Ruling/Owning Rank

Duc