Rustmoor (Rust-more)
Demographics
Roughly 700 Humans 50 Dwarfs, 29 Gnomes, 3 Half Elves and 1 Goblin inhabbit Rustmoor.
A small number of the disolved Iron Blood Artificer Clan remain and run the key managerial roles of the key enterpizes that keep the mining town functioning.
Government
Meritocracy. The most intelligent and educated people oversee the the mining settlement, various departments run by reminants of the Iron Blood Artificers compose the governing bodies, each responsible for an aspect of managing the local infastructure. These department heads serve on the council.
Industry & Trade
The Iron Blood Mines have continued to run since Rustmoors first founding, and continue to remain the settlements key factor in maintaining economic relevence and with the construction of the Ironbloodworks even more so. This mining network today is the largest iron mining operation on the continent of Umon.
The JMRC train station.
In times past the Iron Blood Artificers sold invention and service to nobility.
Infrastructure
The key point of infarstructure is the recently founded Ironbloodworks, which has allowed the refining of iron to take place in Rustmoor along with its extraction from the mines. The Ironbloodworks along with the Iron Blood Mines remain the key focal points of economic infrastructure.
Districts
Beggers Square. The name "Beggers Square" comes from the time after the destruction of the Iron Blood Artificers Clan. A number of the remaining members of the clan with nothing gained after the destruction of the clan and end of the war resorted to begging in the town sqaure for the for a few years until the Church of Illumination took them in and the JMRC built the train station leading to Gypsumthorn. Now they ocupie key positions in the town again having embraced the mantra of the Church of Illumination.
Now "Beggers Square" is a hub of activity sporting a few market stalls, as well as the train station from which nessesitys are imported into the town, and both slag iron along with pure iron exported out.
Miners quarter. Home to the Iron Blood Mines as well as the Ironbloodworks.
Guilds and Factions
History
The first settlers in Rustmoor were Half Elves and Humans led by Shalleth Drustii who settled in the The Iron Peaks boardering Middengoth in 7731 A.C.
The founding of the Iron Blood Artificers in 7873 A.C.
Rustmoor and was the key point of advancement for the Bavarian Empires military into Southercombe between 8064 - 8067 A.C.
There was a time when Rustmoor was a place innovation and led by a guild of innovators and inventors until the war against the Middengoth Confederacy and the annexation of Southercombe. The guild hall was a place of pragmatistic secularism founded in 7873 by the settlements founder Shalleth Drustii. This Clan bore into the studies of medicine and the natural world without magic, however by the time of the war its members were conscripted by the Bavarian Empire to fight on the front lines under the guise of field doctors and while doing so, encouraged to use their knowlege of anatomy to create leathal weapons of war. The Warcrimes commited by the amoral members of the clan led to its disolvement and destruction by the townsfolk and miners, a number of whom along POWs became test subjects in this twisted science. Shalleth Drustii (Elf, Female, Clan Head)
"Good" Ones-
Eth Sharplight (Human, Male, Student) (Deceased)
Prem Grisk (Human, Female, Teacher)
Wila Grisk (Halfling, Female, Student) (Deceased)
Mairenn Hermina (Dwarf, Female, Teacher) (Deceased)
Faldrid Albertus (Half-Elf, Male, Teacher)
Connla Fatima (Human, Female, Student)
Vad Ston (Half-Orc, Male, Teacher) (Deceased)
Smug Ston (Goblin, Male, Teacher)
"Bad" Ones-
Garkas Hermina (Halfling, Male, Student)
Pohik Sue (Gnome, Male, Teacher)
Jagger Sue (Human, Male, Student)
Thordir Grinov (Dwarf, Male, Student) (Deceased)
Tamia Salt (Gnome, Female, Teacher)
Qinris Rarkav (Half-Elf, Male, Teacher)
Byra Rod (Goblin, Female, Teacher)
Korurk Wood (Half-Orc, Male, Teacher)
Victorina Caka (Human, Female, Teacher) (Deceased)
Vlorak Caka (Human, Male, Student)
The Iron Blood Artificers
There was a time when Rustmoor was a place innovation and led by a guild of innovators and inventors until the war against the Middengoth Confederacy and the annexation of Southercombe. The guild hall was a place of pragmatistic secularism founded in 7873 by the settlements founder Shalleth Drustii. This Clan bore into the studies of medicine and the natural world without magic, however by the time of the war its members were conscripted by the Bavarian Empire to fight on the front lines under the guise of field doctors and while doing so, encouraged to use their knowlege of anatomy to create leathal weapons of war. The Warcrimes commited by the amoral members of the clan led to its disolvement and destruction by the townsfolk and miners, a number of whom along POWs became test subjects in this twisted science. Shalleth Drustii (Elf, Female, Clan Head)
"Good" Ones-
Eth Sharplight (Human, Male, Student) (Deceased)
Prem Grisk (Human, Female, Teacher)
Wila Grisk (Halfling, Female, Student) (Deceased)
Mairenn Hermina (Dwarf, Female, Teacher) (Deceased)
Faldrid Albertus (Half-Elf, Male, Teacher)
Connla Fatima (Human, Female, Student)
Vad Ston (Half-Orc, Male, Teacher) (Deceased)
Smug Ston (Goblin, Male, Teacher)
"Bad" Ones-
Garkas Hermina (Halfling, Male, Student)
Pohik Sue (Gnome, Male, Teacher)
Jagger Sue (Human, Male, Student)
Thordir Grinov (Dwarf, Male, Student) (Deceased)
Tamia Salt (Gnome, Female, Teacher)
Qinris Rarkav (Half-Elf, Male, Teacher)
Byra Rod (Goblin, Female, Teacher)
Korurk Wood (Half-Orc, Male, Teacher)
Victorina Caka (Human, Female, Teacher) (Deceased)
Vlorak Caka (Human, Male, Student)
Points of interest
The Iron Blood Artificers Clan Hall. Its nought but ruin now, once a guild hall then a stronghold baring a militerists motif. It is said that sightings of spectors can be seen amoungst the rubble at night and during white outs in winter. Some claim adventurers have delved into its cursed halls, many have not made it out, those that did would not speak of what they saw.
Architecture
The oldest buildings in the town appear to be of Elven design of a pointed and refined architecture. The laters designs are more for function than form, cobbled stone intwined with crude iron along with the occasional wodden shacks. Old iron walls guard the northern entrance followed by a stone bridge over a river.
Geography
A rocky and scarred lanscape thats seen its far share of warfare, cliffaces cut with the wounds of battle and a smattering of broken dead trees.
Climate
Prone to heavy snow and white outs, due to the mining town sitting high into The Iron Peaks.
Natural Resources
Iron and a few other precious metals from the The Iron Peaks that have been bored into ever deeper over generations.
Founding Date
7731
Founders
Alternative Name(s)
Iron Town
Type
Village
Population
783
Inhabitant Demonym
Rustmen, Ironblood
Location under
Owning Organization
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