Wyvale

A small town at the foot of Dragon’s wing it is connected to the network of tunnels known as Blackbridge. The town is home to a slightly polar nature, it focus on 2 things. Siege equipment and its monastery. The monastery dug into the edge of the mountain houses dwarfs attempting to find meaning to their lives through meditation and martial strength. Many of the best hand to hand combat fighters are developed within its walls, however their strength is limited by the fact that they do not leave

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The monastery is open to any dwarf to join, but they are warned that the secrets learned in the mountain must stay in the mountain and they will go to great lengths to keep it that way. Except in exceptional circumstances when the monastery is required to send an emissary for talks that may affect the monastery and the parts of the mountain that it holds dominion over.

Wyvale itself has vast fields of siege weaponry in various states of repair, preparing for the next dragon attack, after each attack the weaponry on towers are replaced to see that they stay in good working order. When a new weapon is made an old one is sold to one of the other dwarf kingdoms in pieces ready for reassembly. The master engineers spend as much time as they can making sure that only they can reassemble the equipment so that should one ever be stolen it cannot be used against them. While this has been attempted frequently in the past the dwarves have been able to either recapture them or destroy them before any real progress on reassembly can be made.

The town itself is run by a small council of elders, made up of the head Monk – Greyfeld, the head master engineer Tesab, the head trader Slov, and a rotating number of ordinary citizens that change yearly based on a draw from the latest census. Being a counsellor of Wyvale is not seen as something to aspire towards it is seen as a duty for the good of the people. Those that attempt to abuse their power are dealt with harshly. The latest example of this was Hogram the betrayer. He attempted to use his influence to push more trade towards his own workshops and funnel money to his business. All know the tale of his imprisonment in the temple where he has remained for the last 45 years but few know of how extensive the punishment goes. Rumours circulate of torture. His business was passed on to his daughter Helga who married. Little stigma exists for her based on her father’s actions as many believe that while he was wrong to do what he did Helga, had nothing to do with this and therefore should not suffer any consequences.