Taro is a compact foothill village clinging to terraces beneath the Duncrag Peaks where terraced fields, stacked stone houses, and sheepfolds cluster around a central cairn and a lichen-streaked herdstone.
Where cairn-stone and sheep-bell keep old promises.
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Headman
Practical headman who negotiates grazing rights and leads the Watch when needed.
Cairn Keeper
An elder priestess who reads weather signs and maintains lineage stones.
Trader
Smooth-speaking trader who wants to expand Riverway contacts and bring coin to Taro.
Herbalist
Warm healer who teaches herbcraft and tends the sick and injured animals.
Captain of the Taro Watch
Retired soldier who drills the Watch and scouts the lower passes.
General Store
A low, smoke-stained hut selling basic tools, wool goods, and trading oddities brought by caravans.
Smithy
A cramped stone workshop where a dwarf smith repairs plows, forges horseshoes, and sometimes makes small blades.
Shepherds, traders, and elderly storytellers seeking strong ale and softer chairs.
A warm, timbered room with benches, a low stage, and a hearth for telling seasonal tales.
Clan
Traditionalists who maintain clan land and ritual practices and resist outside influence.
Merchant Collective
A loose band of seasonal traders pressing for wider market access and new routes over the passes.
Guild
Gatherers of mountain herbs who also tend to sick sheep and trade remedies.
A hollowed granite outcrop where shepherds tie charms for safe births.
A narrow stone stair cut into the slope leading to abandoned shepherd huts and hidden caches.
A small hot spring used to soak sore legs and trade gossip at dawn.
A broken watchtower overlooking the eastern pass, now used as a lookout by the Watch.
Headman Briala once sold a reserved herd to cover a secret debt and altered ledgers to hide it.
Priestess Arah quietly edits lineage records to protect families who aided her in a past famine.
An older stone marker beyond the East Watch points to ruins tied to an ancient mountain cult whose artifacts can alter weather.
A hidden vein of iron runs beneath a nearby outcrop and might revive local smithing.
A stranger in patched green cloaks the mountain fae and bargains for lost lambs.
Kelm's chest contains a map to a forgotten shrine beyond the pass.
The Sealed Cargo
Investigate the trader's locked chest thought to hold contraband or a dangerous relic.
Ridge Lines and Rivalry
Resolve the grazing dispute peacefully or by force before the first snow drives flocks to lower lands.
Blue Light on the Herdstone
Track strange lights and fae traces at the herdstone after its recent glow and stop a herd-luring enchantment.
Road to Riverway
Escort a fragile merchant convoy over the east pass to reestablish trade and fend off bandits.
