Good Mead

Founded by immigrants from the far south, Good Mead is nestled between Redwaters and a nearby pine forest. The town's dwellings are adorned with carvings of great behemoths and strange animals never-before seen in Icewind Dale. Standing in the center of town and towering above the houses is a two-story, glass domed building that acts as both the town hall and apiary from which the honey that makes Good Mead indispensable among the isolated towns famous. The town literally buzzes with the droning of bees.
Every tavern in Icewind Dale is accustomed to receiving regular shipments of mead, and the town can barely keep up with demand as the winter lengthens. All deliveries have halted, as the role of speaker for Good Mead is currently in dispute after the death of the previous speaker.

Demographics

Majority: Human
Minority: Half-Elf and Elves

Defences

Good Mead has no wall, but can muster 20 fighters for an emergency, with two Veterans as leaders.

Points of interest

Mead Hall

Good Mead's famous Mead Hall put an end to the town's obscurity and reliance on subsistence fishing nearly 40 years ago. The honey mead quickly became the most popular indulgence in Ten-Towns, and Good Mead was finally put on the map. 
The Mead Hall is a large, multiple fire-warmed building dedicated to bee husbandry and the nurturing of hives. The buzzing of the bees can be heard throughout the town, though the locals have become so accustomed to it, they can't even notice the droning anymore.

The Shrine of Flaming Sword

This curious building has a grotesque-haunted steeple protruding from the center. Unlike the Mead Hall, which is well cared for, the ancient shrine's painted icons of some forgotten hero and his flaming sword are chipped and faded. Its spacious interior sits mostly empty, save for a long table on which rest the covered body of the former Speaker. Kendrick Reilsbarrow, a giant of a man in his fourties, died from three stab wounds to his chest.
The shrine itself was build over a century ago, when the town's rivalry with Dougan's Hole was so fierce that the lake became known as Redwaters for all the blood it washed away. For a time thereafter, nearly all the residents in Good Mead paid homage to heroes and a god of war, but that time has long past.

Architecture

Good Mead's buildings are made of nearby pine wood, decorated with intricate carvings and were once painted with bright colors. The colors have faded to near non-existence since the endless winter began, and only flakes of their former splendor remain.

Population

100