There is always some mining operation active in or around Moonfall. Rumors of azurite deposits in the area are a local tradition and that always draws some attention. However, when a second, and then a third mining outfit moved into the area, more people started to pay more attention to the rumors. Even more so when a tragic mishap cost a number of miners their lives and causes their company to close up shop and leave town. Not all of them, though. At least three and as many as double that number of miners from the company are, at the very best, missing or, at the worst, presumed dead.
Background
Steelhand Company has worked the the
Storm Reach Mountains for many decades, excavating rich deposits of many different, precious stones and metals, including gold and iron. Their products has been used to fashion magnificent smithy work and jewelry throughout the most northern reaches of the Kingdom of
Elysia.
The Steelhands were always a small company, and their minuscule numbers meant they had to work their mines far removed from one another, bringing the mines’ yields back to their small central hall. To protect both their far-flung mines and the miners who worked them, the Steelhands built defensive complexes atop each, using these redoubts as barracks for workers, storage for the products of their labor, and other mundane purposes.
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