Dearg Ballachan
Dearg Ballachan is the main settlement in Forested Hills it is a thriving frontier town with many trade caravans making the dangerous journey for the region’s high quality timber & pelts, but mostly for the ore raised to the surface by the dwarves of Stoutwall to the crown/dawnward. With the incoming trade caravans it is better supplied than most towns of its size and it’s people well fed on the game from the forest and fish from the river & deep lake a short distance north. Inns and trading stations abound to service the caravans and their guards and passengers.
Demographics
Its citizens are mostly human but with a sizeable dwarvish and orc presence with a smattering of elves, halflings and gnomes.
Government
A Mayor rules over a town council. elections are held every five years for council members and the mayor. The current incumbent Beltain Casteele has been mayor for over 15 years and is highly thought of. He was once a successful merchant who has risen to the position of mayor through the council; he dabbled in adventuring as a youngster and is a low-level illusionist.
Defences
The town supports a small militia for ensuring the inns and visiting adventurers are not too rowdy and to secure the town’s defences; the militia’s size is a draw for adventurers with contracts being offered by the town and merchants for more extracurricular activities which cannot be undertaken by the town militia.
The current militia Leader is Sergeant at Arms Veltiche a battle-scarred female ex-solider. She is an exceptional fighter with a fierce demeanor, however, she is good humoured and is quick to laugh.
Industry & Trade
- Book Seller stall main square. Run by Cyril and older human man, tall but stooped with a long wispy beard.
- Pet stall main square. Run mostly by Sara a very young human girl (father actually runs the stall but is drinking most of the time).
- Fruit Seller stall main square. Reeve an older human woman sells all manner of fruit and also has a sideline in exceptional jams.
- Gredner’s Extraordinary Artifacts; the shop is a single storey stone-walled building, with a reinforced wooden door and a tiled mosaic floor. The air is filled with floating motes of light. The shopkeeper is a short male human named Greder Rete. He blames the gods for every misfortune. Alchemist shop.
- Tailor’s Shop ‘ Ronelis’s Couture’
- Bakers stall - Ossaire and Telvak (married Halfing couple) make all manner of baked good, from bread, pies, quiche, and sweet pastries. Telvak handles most of the baking and Ossaire's natural bon-viveur makes her an exceptional seller.
- The Saviours’ Rest: The inn is a sprawling single storey wooden building, with a single salvaged stone wall and unusually low ceilings. Accommodations consist of several wooden cots in the cellar. The inn was once a blacksmith's shop and still smells of coal smoke. The innkeeper is a willowy male halfling named Garumbr (call me Gar).
- The Greedy Minstrel: The inn is a large single storey timber framed building, with a heather-thatched roof and a large cellar. A small dragon's skull hangs over the hearth. Accommodations consist of several small rooms with wooden cots and several hammocks in the common room. The innkeeper is a young male human named Fastin.
- The Forge: Home and business of Hamish ‘The Hammer’. Colossal in size, huge bunched muscles very friendly and gregarious; he is also the husband of Sergeant at Arms Veltiche. They have a permanent house guest in the form of the renowned poet and storyteller the half-ogre bard, Korga the Kind.
Guilds and Factions
Small but influential merchant guild that has the sole contract to sell the minerals and ores of Stoutwall.
Architecture
- Square of the Red Walls: in the center of town, used for all sorts of civic purposes, proclamations, festivities, punishments, town meetings. Street entertainers, craftsmen and hawkers of fast food set up here when nothing else is planned.
- Council Building: where the administration of the town happens, as well as the more intricate & private council meetings.
- Barracks: quarters for unmarried members of the militia, quartermaster and armoury. Derrath Axefall is the militia's Quartermaster.
- Merchants Guild: trade deals are made here and there are a few luxurious rooms for important guests (acts as a quality inn for merchants & dignitaries)
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