Wolford is a small riverfront lumber village clustered around a great temple, where boats are moored at a busy wharf and oxen haul felled trees from the forest edge, while small farms and pens spread up the valley slopes.
Where the river and the forest bargain in prayer and timber.
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Village Elder
The village elder who balances council feuds with a steady hand and secret ledgers.
High Priestess
The High Priestess whose blessings bring calm and whose displeasure can hurt trade.
Head Woodman
A scarred woodsman who knows every logging lane and keeps a hawk for scouting.
River Trader
A lean trader who knows barge schedules and the value of secrets.
Tavernkeeper
A warm host with a sharper ear than most who keeps order with quiet threats.
General store
A cluttered general store and trading post on the lane to the wharf.
Forge
A low-forge where nails, horseshoes, and basic repairs are hammered out.
Craft stall
A narrow stall where seasoned planks, carved beams, and small trinkets are sold.
River hands, woodcutters, traders, and temple visitors.
A longhouse by the quay with a great fire and benches carved from ship timbers.
Pilgrims, councilors, and quiet travelers seeking shelter near the temple.
A modest guesthouse attached to the temple where guests may sleep for a small donation.
Trade guild
The Woodcutters' Guild organizes felling and safety and protects timber rights along the riverbank.
Religious order
The Temple Circle manages rites, arbitration, and healing while shaping moral law through sermons.
Merchant consortium
A loose band of merchants who control passage up-river and price negotiations at the wharf.
A driftwood shrine where villagers tie offerings and whisper secrets into river-borne knots.
A gnarled oak older than the village where lovers carve initials and hunters leave thanks.
A collapsed logging platform that hides a den of scavengers and half-forgotten crates.
A calm eddy under the north bank where fish gather and strange coins sometimes wash up.
Edda Thorn has extended secret loans to bind indebted families to her influence.
High Priestess Maris once ferried a relic upriver for a shadowy patron which may draw outside interest.
Joren Vale quietly sabotaged a rival's hull years ago to secure the River Traders' patronage.
Some say a forest spirit collects tools left at its root as payment.
A distant noble may be buying up timber rights for an unknown project.
The river sometimes returns lost things to the shore with new carvings on them.
The Missing Marks
Timber thefts escalate into violent raids and lead to a hidden encampment upriver.
The Watery Sigil
A drowned boat carries a sealed crate stamped with a foreign sigil that the temple fears.
Bell Under Root
A bell found in the roots of the ancient oak chimed last night, drawing strange lights from the river.
Pigs in the Night
A young apprentice claims to have seen a creature dragging sows at the edge of the pens and asks for help.
