Bridgerton (Bri-ger-ton)
A large village on a meandering section of the Elfsong river, the half on the western bank is primarily shepherds, and the half on the eastern bank is primarily wheat farms. The village is known for its oak houses painted bright white. The village has a small council that deals with most issues to arise.
Ruling Nobility
Sadon Truegust, The Right Honorable The Lord Truegust of Bridgerton and his wife Sylvie Truegust, The Lady Truegust of Bridgerton.Demographics
Primarily human and halfling.
Sylvie Truegust: Sylvie is similarly focused like her husband, caring little for the plight of the "lesser folk." She is a human in her late 30s with a narrow face and a constant look of judgement and superiority. She partly wishes to be in a more urban area with other nobles to socialize with, but she also enjoys being the "most important" person around. Vain and materialistic, Sylvie is the epitome of "snobby noble."
Tillus Merrion: Tillus Merrion is a proud, blustering Halfling who leads the Bridgerton Growers and Buyers’ Association. The Association – as it is known – represents the most powerful group in the village, and as its leader Tillus acts as a de facto reeve and head of the council. In his day job, he oversees the sale of grain, wool and other products outside of the village, negotiating contracts with merchants in nearby settlements and managing the shipping. He has a gift for trade and has helped to boost Bridgerton’s prosperity in a number of small but significant ways.
When he isn’t working, Tillus is usually beavering away at various schemes and initiatives around the village. He has a love for order, neatness and the rule of laws and contracts, and is quietly obsessed with making Bridgerton clean and well organized. This commitment can occasionally make him forget that many of the figures he moves about on his ledgers represent living, breathing people. This has become especially clear in the recent crisis, where his dread of missing a shipment lead him to try and sell crops that the people of Bridgerton may need to eat if they are to avoid starvation. Despite this, he is not a bad person. He desperately loves Bridgerton and will do anything it takes to see it grow and prosper. If this means making people go hungry in order to maintain their long-term credit rating, so be it.
Leanor Slatebeard: One of very few dwarves in Bridgerton, Leanor and her husband Banteth are cheerful, hard-working members of the community. She is well over 100 years old and has seen the community grow from a mere hamlet to the thriving village it is today. Despite her apparently minor position, Leanor’slong-running relationships with virtually every family in the village actually gives her a lot of quiet influence. She knows all the skeletons in everybody’s closets and has accumulated an awful lot of favors over the years. She is generally happy to help the party in their quests and may well be a powerful ally if they need a favor from the council or somebody in town.
Willum Merriksonn: The protector of Bridgerton, Willum spends his life keeping dangerous monsters and occasional bandit gangs away from his home village. Born with a link to the inscrutable forces of WildMagic that always marked him as an outsider while growing up, his brother Johan is his only real friend. Despite this, he is keen to show his worth to the people of Bridgerton and trained long and hard to increase his abilities. Befitting the source of his power, Willum is unpredictable and passionate, given to flights of fancy and wild laughter, though he is reserved in the presence of people other than his brother. He roams the lands beyond Bridgerton almost at random, seeking out threats before they approach the farms of the common folk. Despite his commitment to their protection, the folk of Bridgerton always view the sorcerer with a degree of suspicion. At times the presence of his brother may have been the only thing keeping some of the more superstitious and hot-headed members of the community from trying to drive him out.
He stumbled across the wolf pack while patrolling the moorlands. He didn’t plan to destroy them, but simply wanted to drive them off. While he was using his abilities, however, he was struck by a Wild Magic Surge, teleporting him far away and imbuing the nearby wolves with some of his intelligence and magical abilities.
Father Merriksonn: The local priest of Marian, Johan Merriksonn was born and bred in Bridgerton and loves both the village and its inhabitants. He is a human in his mid-50s with a kindly face and wispy white hair. He and his brother, Willum, were born to a family of reasonably successful farmers and are well educated by the standards of the region. While Willum found himself able to control the power of Wild Magic, Johan felt the draw of the church and was apprenticed by the local priest.
In many ways Merriksonn acts as the conscience and moral compass for the otherwise mercantile-minded village council. Recently he came into conflict with some of the more businesslike members over his desire to prioritize feeding the locals over meeting the terms of their export contracts. He is helpful to the party unless they show themselves to be evil, in which case he will condemn them.
Willen Featherock: A halfling shepherd, Featherock lived a mostly unremarkable life until he was injured in Bridgerton's attempt to deal with the wolves. Since his experiences at the hands - or rather jaws - ofthe intelligent wolves he has been jittery and plagued by nerves. He is of average height for a halfling and despite his time spent recovering inside he still has a ruddy, sun-reddened face from his days spent out on the hillsides.
Corel: A human shepherd, Corel is lean and tough as old leather. He is a quiet, reserved man who is respected by everybody on the village council. He does not speak very often, but when he does the entire room listens and carefully weighs his words. He is reasonably successful as a farmer and shepherd and runs his own operation on the hills near the western woods. Much of his flock was taken by the wolves, but he was quick to recognize the threat and drive his sheep into town, where they would at least be safe.
Corel is more than happy to help the party and act as their guide if needed. He has been working on the hills surrounding Bridgerton for most of his 50-something years and is an expert on the local geography. Despite his losses to them, Corel will support any negotiation with the wolves once he realizes they are intelligent, sentient creatures.
Flame and Bolt: The alpha pair of the wolf pack, for most of their lives Flame and Bolt were simple beasts. Both cunning and fierce, to be sure, but not intelligent. This all changed when the pack brought down Willum Merriksonn, and were infused with much of his intelligence and power during a Wild Magic Surge.
Both are fiercely protective of their pack and are worried that their intelligence will cause men and other sentient races to hunt them down and destroy them. At the same time, however, they are now bright enough to be able to think of a great many ways in which they will be able to improve their lives and those of their pups.
Flame, the alpha female, was granted the ability to produce and control flames. She is much more aggressive than her partner and believes that killing other intelligent beings to drive them away from the pack’s territory is the only way she can keep her people safe.
Bolt, the alpha male, has gained the ability to roar with the fury of a storm and shoot blasts of lightning from his mouth. He is generally more cautious and kindlier than his partner and prefers the idea of breeding sheep and moving into remote areas where other ‘civilized’ races won’t bother them. Tension had been brewing between the two ever since they were gifted with intelligence. Both are willing to die for the safety of the pack and deeply care for each other. However, if nothing had changed, they would probably have fought to the death within a matter of weeks, each believing that the other is leading their people to their doom.
Both Flame and Bolt are very, very large wolves with dark grey fur. Flame’s eyes glow with a constant orange flame and thin strips of red light run across her body, as though her skin is cracked rock sitting on top of a burning pool of magma.
Bolt’s eyes and skin pulse with a crackling blue light. He always speaks softly, for if he raises his voice it rumbles with the power of thunder, shaking the ground around him.
Important Residents
Sadon Truegust: He is a human in his mid 40s and was appointed to his station in Bridgerton following the death of its previous baron who died of old age without an heir. Sadon is a sleazy man focused on money, not the well-being of the town. in the absence of a higher local authority Sadon's greed began to attract less-desirable elements to Bridgerton. His guards are little more than thugs and enforcers, who exist more to ensure taxes are paid on time instead of maintaining order.Sylvie Truegust: Sylvie is similarly focused like her husband, caring little for the plight of the "lesser folk." She is a human in her late 30s with a narrow face and a constant look of judgement and superiority. She partly wishes to be in a more urban area with other nobles to socialize with, but she also enjoys being the "most important" person around. Vain and materialistic, Sylvie is the epitome of "snobby noble."
Tillus Merrion: Tillus Merrion is a proud, blustering Halfling who leads the Bridgerton Growers and Buyers’ Association. The Association – as it is known – represents the most powerful group in the village, and as its leader Tillus acts as a de facto reeve and head of the council. In his day job, he oversees the sale of grain, wool and other products outside of the village, negotiating contracts with merchants in nearby settlements and managing the shipping. He has a gift for trade and has helped to boost Bridgerton’s prosperity in a number of small but significant ways.
When he isn’t working, Tillus is usually beavering away at various schemes and initiatives around the village. He has a love for order, neatness and the rule of laws and contracts, and is quietly obsessed with making Bridgerton clean and well organized. This commitment can occasionally make him forget that many of the figures he moves about on his ledgers represent living, breathing people. This has become especially clear in the recent crisis, where his dread of missing a shipment lead him to try and sell crops that the people of Bridgerton may need to eat if they are to avoid starvation. Despite this, he is not a bad person. He desperately loves Bridgerton and will do anything it takes to see it grow and prosper. If this means making people go hungry in order to maintain their long-term credit rating, so be it.
Leanor Slatebeard: One of very few dwarves in Bridgerton, Leanor and her husband Banteth are cheerful, hard-working members of the community. She is well over 100 years old and has seen the community grow from a mere hamlet to the thriving village it is today. Despite her apparently minor position, Leanor’slong-running relationships with virtually every family in the village actually gives her a lot of quiet influence. She knows all the skeletons in everybody’s closets and has accumulated an awful lot of favors over the years. She is generally happy to help the party in their quests and may well be a powerful ally if they need a favor from the council or somebody in town.
Willum Merriksonn: The protector of Bridgerton, Willum spends his life keeping dangerous monsters and occasional bandit gangs away from his home village. Born with a link to the inscrutable forces of WildMagic that always marked him as an outsider while growing up, his brother Johan is his only real friend. Despite this, he is keen to show his worth to the people of Bridgerton and trained long and hard to increase his abilities. Befitting the source of his power, Willum is unpredictable and passionate, given to flights of fancy and wild laughter, though he is reserved in the presence of people other than his brother. He roams the lands beyond Bridgerton almost at random, seeking out threats before they approach the farms of the common folk. Despite his commitment to their protection, the folk of Bridgerton always view the sorcerer with a degree of suspicion. At times the presence of his brother may have been the only thing keeping some of the more superstitious and hot-headed members of the community from trying to drive him out.
He stumbled across the wolf pack while patrolling the moorlands. He didn’t plan to destroy them, but simply wanted to drive them off. While he was using his abilities, however, he was struck by a Wild Magic Surge, teleporting him far away and imbuing the nearby wolves with some of his intelligence and magical abilities.
Father Merriksonn: The local priest of Marian, Johan Merriksonn was born and bred in Bridgerton and loves both the village and its inhabitants. He is a human in his mid-50s with a kindly face and wispy white hair. He and his brother, Willum, were born to a family of reasonably successful farmers and are well educated by the standards of the region. While Willum found himself able to control the power of Wild Magic, Johan felt the draw of the church and was apprenticed by the local priest.
In many ways Merriksonn acts as the conscience and moral compass for the otherwise mercantile-minded village council. Recently he came into conflict with some of the more businesslike members over his desire to prioritize feeding the locals over meeting the terms of their export contracts. He is helpful to the party unless they show themselves to be evil, in which case he will condemn them.
Willen Featherock: A halfling shepherd, Featherock lived a mostly unremarkable life until he was injured in Bridgerton's attempt to deal with the wolves. Since his experiences at the hands - or rather jaws - ofthe intelligent wolves he has been jittery and plagued by nerves. He is of average height for a halfling and despite his time spent recovering inside he still has a ruddy, sun-reddened face from his days spent out on the hillsides.
Corel: A human shepherd, Corel is lean and tough as old leather. He is a quiet, reserved man who is respected by everybody on the village council. He does not speak very often, but when he does the entire room listens and carefully weighs his words. He is reasonably successful as a farmer and shepherd and runs his own operation on the hills near the western woods. Much of his flock was taken by the wolves, but he was quick to recognize the threat and drive his sheep into town, where they would at least be safe.
Corel is more than happy to help the party and act as their guide if needed. He has been working on the hills surrounding Bridgerton for most of his 50-something years and is an expert on the local geography. Despite his losses to them, Corel will support any negotiation with the wolves once he realizes they are intelligent, sentient creatures.
Flame and Bolt: The alpha pair of the wolf pack, for most of their lives Flame and Bolt were simple beasts. Both cunning and fierce, to be sure, but not intelligent. This all changed when the pack brought down Willum Merriksonn, and were infused with much of his intelligence and power during a Wild Magic Surge.
Both are fiercely protective of their pack and are worried that their intelligence will cause men and other sentient races to hunt them down and destroy them. At the same time, however, they are now bright enough to be able to think of a great many ways in which they will be able to improve their lives and those of their pups.
Flame, the alpha female, was granted the ability to produce and control flames. She is much more aggressive than her partner and believes that killing other intelligent beings to drive them away from the pack’s territory is the only way she can keep her people safe.
Bolt, the alpha male, has gained the ability to roar with the fury of a storm and shoot blasts of lightning from his mouth. He is generally more cautious and kindlier than his partner and prefers the idea of breeding sheep and moving into remote areas where other ‘civilized’ races won’t bother them. Tension had been brewing between the two ever since they were gifted with intelligence. Both are willing to die for the safety of the pack and deeply care for each other. However, if nothing had changed, they would probably have fought to the death within a matter of weeks, each believing that the other is leading their people to their doom.
Both Flame and Bolt are very, very large wolves with dark grey fur. Flame’s eyes glow with a constant orange flame and thin strips of red light run across her body, as though her skin is cracked rock sitting on top of a burning pool of magma.
Bolt’s eyes and skin pulse with a crackling blue light. He always speaks softly, for if he raises his voice it rumbles with the power of thunder, shaking the ground around him.
Infrastructure
The center point of the village is a large stone bridge that spans the Elfsong river. It was the creation of this bridge that led to the founding of the village.
Districts
The western side of the river is home to mostly shepherds, while the eastern is mostly farmers. This isn't by official design, but because the sheep roam the western side while the farms are located on the eastern.
Guilds and Factions
Growers and Buyers Association
Fleecer's Hall
Grower's Hall
Natural Resources
Sheep and Grain
Founding Date
3A. 440
Type
Village
Population
520
Ruling/Owning Rank
Owning Organization
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