Shelleton

Just within Celene, Shelleton is a mixed community of 120 human farmers and trappers, 60 gnomish miners, and 40 wood elves, with a handful of high elves who administer the village’s affairs in Celene’s name. This administration really comes down to making sure that a small tithe of gnomish gem produce and crops comes Celene’s way. The settlements of the folk are scattered around the valley at the source of one tributary of the Serault, with both crops and livestock faring well. There is healthy trade downriver to Caltaran and on to Dianrift, within Furyondy.

This seems idyllic, but there are tensions within the community. The elves are aggressively isolationist, tactlessly so, and this irritates the humans. They resent paying tribute to Celene when many have relatives to the east, a few of whom fought in the Greyhawk Wars as volunteers in Furyondy, and others of whom feel keen- ly the threat from the Pomarj. The gnomes try to smooth over disagreements, but many secretly side with the humans, disliking elven arrogance.

What has brought matters to a head here is the recent (Fireseek 585 CY) disgrace of one of the elven rulers, discovered to have been corrupt and having kept for himself a portion of tithes due to Celene. The humans feel angry at this, and the elves feel threatened, so they retaliate by berating Greyhawk (“everyone’s a thief in the Free City”) and becoming more dictatorial. Shelleton is an unhappy place, and things will only get worse (see Tales and Whispers).