A newly founded fishing-and-trade village built where a clear stream emerges from wooded hills and spills into a protected cove formed by a crescent rock spur, with hastily raised homes, stacked crates, and a single wharf of fresh timber.
Where the hillstream kisses a moon-bent rock and new lives test the tide.
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Head-elder
A weathered man with a slow voice, always smelling faintly of sea-brine and wood smoke.
Master sawyer
Muscular and ink-fingered, with a travel-worn cloak lined with pockets for tools.
Licensed fisher and skipper
Short and quick with nimble fingers, wearing necklaces made of tiny shells.
Miller and storyteller
A stooped man with flour-dusted beard and a laugh that draws children close.
Trader and barge captain
A broad-shouldered seafarer with a patched tricorn and a map tube always at hand.
General provisions and tools
A cluttered shack near the wharf that sells necessities to fishers and woodcutters.
Crafts and curios
A tiny stall run from a lean-to showcasing carvings and seaside charms.
Fishers, timber crews, visiting traders, and council members by night.
A low-ceilinged tavern by the quay known for warm stew and loud sea-songs.
Craftsmen guild
A loose guild of plankwrights and dockhands lobbying the council for tolls and privileges.
Conservationist group
Local families and apprentices who believe the hills hold old wards and ancestral sanctity.
Merchant cartel
A small but influential company of traders who use barges to move lumber and salted fish along the coast.
An arc of black rock jutting from the cove that forms a natural breakwater and hides tide pools with strange shells.
Weathered stone markers upriver half-buried in moss that hint at a long-forgotten sanctuary.
A precarious rope footbridge across the stream where children race for dares and coins.
A lone iron lamp atop a hill that villagers light when fog rolls in to warn returning boats.
An old protective ward once sealed an inland chapel beneath a grove, now partially broken.
Captain Harl carries forged deeds that, if revealed, would invalidate his timber claims.
Some charms sold at Spur's Trinkets hide tiny notes used to pass messages for a smuggling ring.
Wardstone Rising
Storms have exposed chapel stones upriver and strange lights flicker at night, so the village needs outsiders to investigate the old ward and decide whether to restore or dismantle it.
Timber Claims Clash
Captain Harl's bargemen attempt to mark and fell a disputed stand of marked hillwood and the council seeks aid to enforce the law or broker a deal.
The Stolen Offering
An offering vanished from the Shrine of the Tide-Bent before Founding Tide and the village fears ill will unless the item is retrieved and the thief unmasked.
Smuggler's Charms
Small charms conceal messages tied to a smuggling ring and the council wants discreet investigators to follow the trail to a coastal drop-off.
