Korgroff

Iyanus had its population boom during this time and the northern ranges were settled with farming villages and towns the largest of which is Korgroff. There a large milling and brewing industry rose as well as a textile industry which supplied fine cloth to the entire continent. For the next several decades this industry grew and changed, and a new class of country baron rose with them as rich landholders and settlers claimed their nobility with profit. The blueblood nobility called these lords the ‘cabbage counts’ or ‘beer barons’ and to this day many of the oldest families consider them to be nothing more than peasants in gilded clothes. Many old prejudices died up in the northern ranges with half orcs and half elves gaining more respectability as labor needs and necessity forced many to see the foolishness of such barriers to success in the wilderness.        With the aid of new stone-cutting guilds from the northern ranges which harvested from quarries on the edge of the Ulark Fissure and the northern run of the Kwell. These quarry towns boosted trade significantly in Korgroff which later allowed stone brick houses to become common in the older and more civilized areas of the northern ranges.