Crows Perch
Crows Perch is a tactically advantageous city; its nestled deep into the hungering mountain pass, along the solstice road, and holds about a half mile length of the ancient Tharsis wall that separates the sword coast with the Heartlands. The fortified town is flanked on the western side by the Weeping wood, and on the other side lays the flooded Gardener Lake.
Crows Perch is the ancestral seat of house Blackmyre, and Crows Perch Keep is currently home to the mysterious One Eyed Crow, as well as his three eccentric daughters: Cynthia, Lucy, and Phoebe.
Defences
Crows perch was built to be impenetrable. although the tharsis wall is now no more than a several mile ruin, the city walls remain in stunning repair. the mountain pass ensures that any army marching to meet the city is marching to their own doom. the dense wood and lake that flank the city ensure the impossibility of siege engine approach.
Guilds and Factions
- Brynden Blackmyre
- Cynthia is the eldest: melancholy, pensive, occasionally dramatic.
- Lucy, the middle sister, is sunny, restless, prone to giggles.
- Phoebe, the youngest sister, is soft-voiced, watchful, unpredictable.
History
Crows perch was established in 1295, when the Tharsis wall was already a ruin. Vobron Blackmyre was sent to the hungering mountain pass to restablish its defenses; what he found was a destroyed officers house on the edge of a swamp. Vobron and his builders built it into what is now Crows Perch keep, adding walls and completely rebuilding the manor. with this way station came people, setting up inns and general stores for travelers going east. over the last 300 years however, a series of disasters has spawned rumors of dark rituals going on inside the keep. the keep has burned down twice, a house was lost to the lake, and monsters have always stalked the weeping woods, taking children and hunters alike.
Natural Resources
although crows perch is mainly a fortified way station on the way to the dalelands, it was built with self sustainability in mind. the Weeping woods provide a high risk high reward source of game, leathers and timber. Gardener lake, on the other side of the city, provides some small amount of fish and fresh water to the city. the Blackmyres also own a few iron and silver mines in sword mountains, which provide the nearby city with ore for smithing and trade.
"Cynthia grasped my arm and whispered to me. Her eyes were wide and blue: her hair was wild and tangled. Bats might nest in it. It seemed to me that i was sitting on a hillside, above a wide blue lake, listening to a story of a murder. An axe. A net. Blood on scented water"
- Compiled from IAG report on Crows Perch
Type
Large town
Owner/Ruler
