Spinify Village
A small, primarily hunting, fishing and trapping community concealed in the forests of the cloak against the Dragonbone Mountains. The river forms where a waterfall pours down from the mountains. Homes are made of wood, generally with stone floors. Some buildings are half-timbered. The main means of access is the river, which can be navigated downstream of Lake Meralde spring-summer when the waters are high enough, and various trails that ascend into the mountains or the surrounding forest.
Demographics
The community is small enough that there isn't much class distinction. There is a village reeve, who deals with disorderly conduct, but not much else is needed. The population is mostly families and older couples or widows and widowers whose children have left the village.
Industry & Trade
Brew beer from barley harvest.
Grow and harvest linen.
Trap or hunt animals for meat and furs which are traded downriver at Teller Town.
Spin goat hair, mostly local use, but some is traded.
Harvest and spin bast fibers from flax, nettles, and linden trees
Natural dyes from leaves, nuts, berries.
Dried fish
Some logging.
Hunt and harvest and dry mushrooms and berries.
Basic ironwork from easily accessable native iron and coal deposits
Panning for gold that comes down the falls from the mountains in small quantities.
Geography
Built in the forest up against the Dragonbone Mountains on Egg Island, the village is built on both sides of the river which forms here from the waterfall coming off of the mountain. Along the banks of the river the trees have been felled both for building timber and to open the area up to sunlight for crops.
Natural Resources
- Wood, deer, elk, bear, salmon, rabbits, beaver, fox, wolves, mushrooms, berries.
- Linden trees for fibers, carving, other construction
- Stinging nettles for food and fibers
- Flax for fibers.
- Stone, some ores,
- Goats, pigs, chickens.
- Barley, cabbage, peas, apples, pears
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