Bluelode

Bluelode's three linked and walled keeps defend this village of 900 people and the vital gem resources of the Thelly riverbed. Harnnad's personal elite plate-clad Steel Squadron are the guards here and constantly watch over the panning. A mage employs a wand of metal and mineral detection to meet the quarterly quotas Harnnad lays down to keep his coffers full. And any form of theft is punished by immediate execution. The keeps, with their very strong walls and elite troops, are also said to contain dungeon-prisons where Harnnad incarcerates political enemies or those he suspects of treachery. And there are rumors of a drow torturer with fine interrogation skills dwelling below the central keep.