The Giant's Wheel

The Otari Mill is known locally as the Giant's Wheel, as its towering 30-foot-diameter waterwheel is truly a sight to behold. The wheel's immense size is needed to generate enough torque to power the mechanized treadmill loading logs into the flume and keep the saws running within the mill. Much of the lumberyard's income comes from the town's two larger lumber families, who pay to have their lumber processed here. The mill is a noisy place, with the constant grinding and churning of the wheel itself competing with the whine of the saws and the clatter of the loading ramp.
The Menhemes Family  leaves the day-to-day administration of the mill to a heavily scarred Half-Orc foreman named Klorte Hengus

History

Completed in 4323AR, the Giant's Wheel is the main reason for the growth of Otari  as a thriving lumber town. Designed and commissioned by Maklanni Menhemes , granddaughter of Aesephna Menhemes, one of the town's founders it helped overcome one of the biggest issues confronting the town, transportation of timber from the nearby steep slopes and cliffs to the ocean.
Maklanni's solution was ingenious, she constructed a wooden flume that allowed for the easy transport of lumber from the woods to her mill, and from there down an astounding loading ramp that extended from the top of the 200-foot-tall cliff to the harbour below. The mill and flume made Maklanni  wealthy and revitalized Otari , although it made her an enemy of the Kortos Consortium , who, up till then, had a stranglehold on the island's lumber industry.

LUMBER MILL 5
Traits: Employer
Address: 10 Miller Road

Founding Date

4323AR

Type

Mill

Owner

Oseph Menhemes

Owning Organization

Otari Lumber

Characters in Location

• Klorte Hengus