Dasos
The Perspectives of the Dasos Forest
Dasos always smells of freshly cut trees, I can hear the dragging noise of horses hitched to cut logs, moving them into the stack. I am in charge of another part of the forest, the cleared patches, where I plant the saplings in neat rows, in 20 years they will be ready for the harvest again, their seeds starting a cycle over. I can feel the soft earth below my bare feet, people do find it strange, my refusal to wear shoes in the tree farm. They see a strange women left mostly alone with nothing but baby trees. They don't see the way my trees grow faster than most, 2x the growth over decades is not something easily seen. I'd grow them faster if I knew the bastards wouldn't work me or the trees to death, make them grow full size in a year and we would both come out of it wrong.
The stack of logs has been marked to be cut for the King's Keep winter firewood supply. I'm the youngest lead of a cutter crew in 40 years, but I earned my place after the old man stumbled his hand into the saw. Fascinating technology that saw, set on the river its water wheel moves the saw as someone feeds the log in.
I manage the dock and boats that brings the wood down the river into Derresi's trading district. Some boatmen who come up from Nyre expect easy work on the river compared to the sea but they change their tune pretty quick their first rainy season of rapids, the river swelling. You fall into the sea you might drown if they don't spot you, in the river you fall off the boat and your bodies gonna be tossed around the white water like a maid churning you into butter, nothing we can do for you after that.
Demographics
Dasos is comprised of its loggers and their families.
Industry & Trade
Logging is there main export with many of the non-labor workers making furniture and other woodworking crafts.
Infrastructure
Dasos has a large logging operation, will a sawmill, tree farms and a barge in the river leading to Derresi.
Type
Village
Population
40
Inhabitant Demonym
Dasi
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