Terpan

Almost 100% firbolg, although a small community of Builder Gnomes does persist.

Elder Council made up of the heads of the main Guilds.

Terpan trades heavily through the Aergrafter Union where it ships many tons of fruit and nuts annually. Its primary imports are textiles and mechanical tools.

Orchards and the tools needed to harvest form the backbone of Terpan society. Great rolling bins and baskets are constantly seen rolling up and down rows and rows of heavily laden trees, collecting whatever happens to be ripe for picking or collecting that day. Processing facilities such as presses, mills, etc process the fruit and nuts into various end products for consumption and trade.

All members of each of the crop-based guilds live together in their own communities. Each has a distinctive set of norms and customs that set them apart from each other, although all firbolgs of Terpan consider themselves part of the larger community first.

Several different guild exist, based on a number of product types

1. Aurim Alliance
2. Apple Guild
3. Citrus League
4. Large Nut Growers Association (LNGA)
5. Small Nut Growers Association (SNGA)
6. The Pernicious Guild (peaches, pears, plums)
7. Plantae Guild (Bananas)

And numerous, smaller, more specialized guilds. There is great rivalry between all the guilds, although it is mostly in the spirit of friendly competition and one-upsmanship. Annual competitions pit the guilds against each other in a variety of harvest contests, and due to the varied growing seasons of all their crops, several different harvest festivals are celebrated year round.

The Auribella The Aurim Alliance is the guild whose primary crop is the aurim fruit. All aurim trees were all originally cuttings from one single tree, a massive, Elder Tree known as The Auribella. For most firbolgs and outsiders, the Auribella may have once existed in the distant past, but is most likely a myth.   However, the Auribella exists to this day. The tree itself sits in a secluded grove in Terpan, only accessible to those who know the pathway to it, and is bare except for millions of flowering blossoms and one single seasonal spectacular aurim fruit. Cuttings from its branches are the only way to plant and grow standard new aurim trees. The Auribella has existed for centuries, longer than anyone remembers (especially because of The Great Forgetting). Rumors abound that it has some kind of intelligence or presence, and other special powers. A few trusted members of the Aurim Alliance care for the tree and have devoted a large part of their life to its upkeep.   There is even more to the Auribella than as a single tree - itself is a gateway of sorts to the Feywild, and is a physical manifestation of the Feywild god Aura.

Occasionally citizens from other settlements throughout the Union will visit and tour the groves and orchards, but for the most part their treasure is a well-deserved secret. Generally tourists are wealthy and their visits often serve a business purpose as well as pleasure.

Wine is occasionally made but cider and juice is more highly valued. Some residents have created a concoction combining hard apple cider and Champig Bae to produce a potent, sweet brew that is more alcoholic and less medicinal, and difficult to get just right, but worth the trouble. Over the years, brewers have attempted to combine Champig Bae with various citrus and other juices, but the results were never satisfactory. Still, tourists enjoy a pint of a local potable  from time to time.

Because trees are so highly valued in the firbolg society, their houses, public structures and manufacturing mills are generally made of stone and dirt from the earth. The firbolg have developed a kind of adobe more typically seen in more arid climates, but adapted from specialty mud mixed with water that flows down from the Deezundeer Mountains that, when dried, creates a very strong but pliable brick.

The bricks are often used to build curved, domed houses not unlike igloos of the colder climates.  They are typically larger and more elaborate, and often painted with exotic greens, blues and deep reds and oranges to hide the dirty brown/tan of the mud.

While there are numerous wooded areas in the vicinity that provide respite, solace and a barrier between Terpan and other nearby settlements, the most obvious geographic features are the acres and acres of apple orchards, orange groves and all other manner of fruit and nut trees planted and cultivated in precise fashion. The ground is fertile and the landscape of the gentle Deezundeer Mountains to the north provide an idyllic backdrop to a very fertile region.

The trees are considered a sacred natural resource, providing both their livelihood but their life as well as being an enduring symbol of their commitment to and relationship with the land and its bounty.