A compact mountain town built into a sheer bowl of granite with terraces, ropeways, and steam chimneys, balanced between mining, craft, and old rites.
Where stone remembers and miners whisper to the mountain
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Magistrate
A levelheaded magistrate who balances trade, guilds, and tradition.
Stonewright
A blunt dwarf who designs ropeworks and enforces guild surveys.
Freeholder
A charismatic landholder used to getting her way through charm and menace.
Merchant
A roving trader known for rare goods and quiet ledgers.
Militia Captain
A stoic veteran who trains miners for defense and rescue.
Minesmith
A cramped stone shop smelling of oil and warm resin where minesmiths sell tools and charms.
Cartography and Curios
A stall of glass and ink where maps and small trinkets are traded for coins and stories.
Miners, guildsfolk, traveling merchants, and the occasional cleric.
A warm, smoke-stained tavern with stacked seats and a low stage for singers.
Guild
A guild of masons and engineers who keep the town's terraces and ropeworks sound.
Landholders
A council of landholders who claim ancestral terrace plots and charge passage fees.
Religious Order
A devout order tending shrines and performing rites believed to keep the mountain stable.
A rope bridge leading to a collapsed prospect with wind-chimes made from pickaxes.
A steam-powered hoist used to lower ore and people into the deep shafts.
A cluster of rune-marked stones that glow faintly at dawn and repel small avalanches.
A market tier where masons trade carvings and itinerant priests trade blessings.
Maris Dell hides a forged claim that would bankrupt a freeholder and shift council power.
Sister Anven once weakened a sealing ward to rescue a child and sealed the breach with secretstamped mortar.
A rare vein of luminglass lies deep beneath the town and could change trade and war if fully exploited.
A miner claims to have seen glowing runes crawl like insects across the vein walls.
An old map in Ledger Hall shows an extra terrace that no longer exists.
A wandering peddler whispers that the valley lords are buying up mountain grain.
The Blue Seam
A newly opened shaft bleeds a faint blue light and wakes restless stone spirits.
Ledger of Hidden Ore
Smuggled rune-ore is traced to a cache under Ledger Hall and draws the Keepers' ire.
The Missing Child
A child vanished near the ravine during the Midwinter Feast and prayers hint the mountain took them.
Terrace Claims
A freeholder hires muscle to evict squatters, but the squatters claim an ancient seam rights document.
