Vathirond (VATH-ir-rond)
Population: 3,100
The town of Vathirond, situated on the southern shores of the Brey River, serves as a watch post and trading center. It sits across the border from the nation of Thrane, and near the line that once separated Breland from Cyre. If a place in Breland suffered more than its share during the Last War, Vathirond would be that place. It constantly struggled against Cyre and Thrane at different times during the war, and even contended with river raiders from Karrnath once or twice over the century of fighting. Vathirond’s residents still hold grudges against these close foreign neighbors.
Now the town tries to put aside its hatred for Thrane as it works to honor the Treaty of Thronehold. With one eye kept toward the north, it turns another eye to the Mournland. Nameless horrors have begun to slip into Breland from the east at an alarming rate, and Brelish soldiers and adventurers stationed in Vathirond are usually the first to contend with these threats.
The Brey River provides the main transportation into and out of Vathirond, though an Orian trade road connects the town with Starilaskur to the west. The eastern end of the road stretches into the Mournland, disappearing beyond the mist as though beckoning travellers to visit the ruins and wreckage of Cyre. While the mist has not moved any closer since the Mournland came into existence, the presence of the dead nation eats away at the inhabitants of Vathirond. The town has lost more than a quarter of its population due to disease, rampaging horrors, or because the people have fled to find safer, less desolate ground elsewhere in the kingdom. Since the death of Cyre and the birth of the Mournland, Vathirond's population has dwindled from more than four thousand to its present level of just over three thousand.
Government
Feudal
Defences
Walled town and military garrison.
Industry & Trade
Fishing, trade hub, Cyran salvage collection.
Climate
Temperate
