A raucous road block built around a crooked tollhouse at a three-way crossroad, populated largely by goblins who tax and protect passing caravans, with a string of stalls, a wary tavern, and carved totems that mark claimed lanes.
Where every coin buys a path and every path buys a secret.
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Tollmaster and warlord
A grizzled chieftain who runs the toll and negotiates deals while counting notches.
Merchant and guild organizer
A quick-witted Human dealer who runs a row of stalls and wheels favors through the lines.
Mercenary captain
A scarred veteran who sells protection and keeps an uneasy truce with the goblin force.
Tinker and trapwright
An ingenious goblin artisan who crafts traps and fixes wagons for a fee.
Royal Road Warden
A principled sheriff dispatched to investigate the convoy attack and reassert royal law.
General goods
A clustered row of stalls selling trade basics, forged toll passes, and oddities.
Tinker and armor patching
A cluttered bench of an armorer who patches armor and sells crude blades.
Travellers, goblin guards, mercenaries, and the occasional desperate noble.
A low-ceilinged tavern with roaring smoke, raucous games, and a bar made from an old cart.
Militia
Local militia that enforces tolls and protects the road block.
Merchant Guild
A loose ring of merchants who split costs and bribes to keep caravans moving for profit.
Cult
A secretive circle of goblin shamans and hag-worshippers who press old pacts tied to the road.
A shallow muddy well guarded by a single chained goat and a grumpy keeper.
A narrow lane of carved totems that locals touch for safe passage.
A slick sidetrack used by smugglers that leads into the marsh.
A forgotten milestone half-buried with a rune that flares when wagons bearing royal sigils pass.
A hidden culvert beneath the tollhouse leads to smugglers' stashes used by Marla and Tink.
Chieftain Grissk maintains a blood pact with a hag who dwells in the nearby marsh for protection and ill luck.
A buried rune is part of an ancient road network that can reveal hidden highroads to distant capitals.
The well tastes of iron when a moon is full.
A royal spy once slept in the tollhouse attic.
Some toll tokens double as tiny charm seals.
The Burned Manifest
Find the missing convoy manifest and prove whether the Forkband or a rival gang ambushed the royal wagons.
A Ledger and a Locket
Steal back a family heirloom that passed through the fork with a merchant who refuses to admit the loss.
The Pact Under the Stones
Break the pact between Grissk and the swamp hag or secure it to gain powerful allies.
Tokens and Talons
Escort a fragile caravan through the fork when the Lookout's hawk keeps bringing back strange tokens.
