Honedaxe

Location

60 miles NNW from Cragdale and 60 miles SW of True Hold. Connected to the Sea of Grass via three passes: Hope's End Pass (elevation 300 ft), Brown Bear Pass (elevation 450 ft), and Hope's Pass (elevation 350 ft).

History

Established in 220 AC by Aedron Laav-Gan, who believed that pre-Cataclysm ruins in the area were of a lost dwarven gold mine. The mines were never found and Aedron quickly went broke. The village turned to fishing and farming along the shore of the Sea of Dreams. In recent years, Lord Sumpter, a young count with delusions of mercantile grandeur bought the local patent nobility and has been hard at work converting it into a port town, attempting to break True Hold's grip on cross-Sea trade from Shinevog and Zhapai Karmap.

Map

Honedaxe

Map Locations

1. Shrine. Dedicated to all the gods, but with special care for the Four Seasons. Gunnloda can be found here during the day.
2. Village Hall. Also serves as the inn, with an extra council room and a cell in the cellars. Margaret works and lives here with her husband Ian.
3. Trader's Hall. Quelanna lives and works here.
4. Smithy. William lives and works here.
5. Priest's House. Gunnloda and Aodh live here, but aren't usually home during the day.
6. Mother Laav's House. If she's not here, she's wandering the area south of town.
7. Ida Mayor's House.
8. Warehouse
9. Warehouse
10. Fisherman's warehouse/Tom Boatmender's house.

Demographics

Race	Population
Human	250
Puun ihmisia	25
Half Elf (various)	35
Dwarf	175
Other	15

About 50 individuals were among the original settlers (almost all of them dwarves). The rest arrived much more recently, with the bulk having arrived within the last year after Lord Sumpter took over.

NPCs

Name	Demographics	Profession	Religious Habits	Personality	Description
Margaret Inn-keep	Middle-aged female wall-builder	Inn-keep	Casual	Motherly	A large plump lady, she is the town mom. Knows everyone.
Gunnloda Badmergh-Laav	Middle-aged male hill dwarf	Priest of the Four Seasons	Devout	Presumptuous	His beard neatly braided, he preaches that the curse is due to a lack of devotion to the gods.
William Smith	Young male earth-blood.	Smith	Casual	Willful. Hates being told what to do.	A recent arrival from Rabbiton, William is neat and well-kept. His graceful features and attractiveness make him the despair of all the village mothers (and the object of the young girls' fantasies).
Ida Mayor	Old female human	Headman/Herbwife (common potions)	Devout (Loran Hae)	Harried	Old and bent, Ida is one of the original inhabitants. She scurries about like her hair is on fire, always getting involved in everyone else's business.
Quelanna il Amastacia	young female traveler	Merchant factor	Animist	Abrupt	A blond half elf, her lips are continually pursed tight and her natural expression is harsh. She always wears hats and has a seemingly endless supply.
Larissa Gan-Laav (AKA Mother Laav)	Middle-aged female hill dwarf	Weaver	Casual	Absent	Considered insane, she still weaves. And wanders the streets looking for her husband Adron Laav-Gan, who disappeared after going broke. She refuses to accept that he's likely dead.
Aodh (Oh'd) Laav-Badmergh	Middle-aged female hill dwarf	Militia Head	Hot tempered.	Devout (Korokonolkolm)	Almost always in a gleaming brestplate and carrying her greataxe, Aodh is Gunnloda's wife. Her red hair matches her temper, which is explosive.