1. Clayface Keep was built from mud bricks. The small fortress is squat, and consists of a collection of buildings backed against the inside of a twenty feet thick mud brick wall that is fifteen feet high. Atop the walls facing out over water are assorted Balista It is a garrison for twenty crossbowmen under the command of Crothar Ironweave, a Dwarf.
2. Midden is a Fishing Village (Pop. 40 fishermen and families) with a dozen small boats and a few workshops dedicated to barrel making, and salt making. The only Church is tended by an old Cleric who doesnt allow alcohol in the village, which is why its sold two miles away at Black Dog Tavern walking an hour, and at Ester's Dock up the River Wyndam where it forks with the River Olyvandr. The locals are normal humans with human prejudices.
3. Black Dog Tavern is a hive of scum and villany where villagers and travellers go for a Red Ale. The structure sits on a raised dias of mud brick and heavy pine timber logs. It loiters atop the hill with a view of the village, fortress, and outlying farms.
The Tavern is run by Black Dog Tobin, a semi-retired Bandit. He can sell PCs adventuring equipment at a high price.
4. Mutton's Mill is a flour mill wheel on the river Mutton. Its owned by the Fortress who tax the grain at the mill. It operational seasonally. When grain is reaped and threshed and bagged, its moved to the mill for turning into flour. The road from the keep heads up the river valley to a farming district is pretty much independant of this region's influence though they trade produce for salt and fish.
5. Esther's dock is located at the fork in the rivers Wyndam and Olyvandr. Its a stone dock extending out into the river allowing small riverboats. There is a shack where the widow Esther dwells, and brews potato alcohol which she sells in small clay jugs. A trail leads up to the old keep on a nearby hill.
6. The old Mine is located in the side of the hill south east of the Village Midden. Its mineworks were abandoned because it was no longer worth mining- the presence of monsters, and the low acailability of minerals. There is a bricked up tunnel that the miners decided not to explore because it accesses caverns where they encountered a giant spider.
7. The caves are an ancient quarry that broke through into a network of narrow crawls, tunnels, and chimneys that travel all the way to the dungeons beneath the abandoned keep on the hill above it which the stone from the quarry was used to build.
8. The old Keep is far more sturdy than the crumbling mudbrick monstrosity known as Clayface Keep. Its made of stone rather than mud brick. There is a well shaft that drops into subterranean caves- originally used as a disposal.
9-14. The farms rotate crops producing mostly grain and beans.
9. Janko's Farm is a timber cabin with earthen cellars full of potatoes. While he ships his wheat and potatoes to the mill to supply the fortress, he is the supplier of potatoes to Esther's Dock where its used to make alcohol.
10. Karlea's Farm is rotating barley and beans, but he is secretly lifting potatoes from Janko's Farm during crop season and storing them to survive.
11. Arov's farm is growing corn and bean simultaneously allowing better cropping than wheat and bean rotation. Arov sells his corn to the Black Dog Tavern to make alcohol.
12. Quinto's Field is a goat grazing field owned by Harlan Quinto, a villager who turns goatmilk into cheese. He doesnt live outside the village, the timber building on his field has a tun used to store milk as it is turned into cheese.
13. Hel's Altar is an ancient altarstone in the ruins of a long crumbled five hundred year old monastary. There are crypts somewhere beneath the ruins.
14. Karde's Farm rotates wheat and beans. Karde likes to avoid folks as much as possible.
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