Hornish

Hornish is in many ways typical of the many bustling trade and market towns and villages which have sprung up along road and river in these lands, linking Torrich with Kalstrand and Jalpa. The singular twist to this settle ment of 1,250 people is the canoemen's boating yards and sheds. While cogs are used on riverways farther south, northward these canoemen are used individually as scouts and collectively as escorts for smaller merchant vessels. They are very skilled, and DMs should give appropriate proficiencies: the men are fighters of levels 1-3, have Dexterity scores of 12+1d6, wear leather armor, and use throwing knives, short swords and buckler shields. They move at 25% faster than normal in their very well-designed and compact vessels (average speed of 5 miles per hour).