Town of Torquini
After being a very productive woodcutting town, with the ending of the natural wood resources it regressed and became a farming town. It now does not have a lot of use to the empire as a whole, but its self sustaining and baron Dorthon Torquini , grandchild of the original baron who was sent to govern the town enjoys his position and the privileges it provides. As the town developed so did its criminal underbelly. The Syndicate took that opportunity to expand into the town and dig its claws into the ruling family.
In response to the growing oppression of the halfing populations, the gang of The Fleetfoots was created to protect the halflings and take back what the Syndicate stole. This was exasperated by the indifference that The Empire showed towards the village, so long as it paid the taxes. This led to the Baron family becoming more and more mingled with the rapidly expanding crime organisation that was terrorizing the peasants and the slow merging of the Syndicate elements and the city guard.
Another major dividing factor is the Bloomsday Book which sits in the middle of Greenwood square, which is inside the halfling part of town ( named after the giant tree there ). While the story is interesting and more or less everyone in the city follows it, the humans do not know the start, as they arrived at the town after its creation, and while no halfling alive knows how it came to be there, the start of the story is a closely guarded secret.
The racial tensions were brought to a boiling point but then all unrest was quickly quelled with the arrival of Inquisitor Arminius, who swiftly put an end to all resistance and organized crime in the town. The fact that the leader of the Fellfinders, a well known adventuring group in the Torpin County is a halfling haling from torquini is also a point of pride for the town.
In later developments, Torquini is also facing problems as snowcorn that was stored has rotten much faster than expected so they are also having trouble feeding its own population, with some leaving for Drotha Thrak or Karak Drotha.
In response to the growing oppression of the halfing populations, the gang of The Fleetfoots was created to protect the halflings and take back what the Syndicate stole. This was exasperated by the indifference that The Empire showed towards the village, so long as it paid the taxes. This led to the Baron family becoming more and more mingled with the rapidly expanding crime organisation that was terrorizing the peasants and the slow merging of the Syndicate elements and the city guard.
Another major dividing factor is the Bloomsday Book which sits in the middle of Greenwood square, which is inside the halfling part of town ( named after the giant tree there ). While the story is interesting and more or less everyone in the city follows it, the humans do not know the start, as they arrived at the town after its creation, and while no halfling alive knows how it came to be there, the start of the story is a closely guarded secret.
The racial tensions were brought to a boiling point but then all unrest was quickly quelled with the arrival of Inquisitor Arminius, who swiftly put an end to all resistance and organized crime in the town. The fact that the leader of the Fellfinders, a well known adventuring group in the Torpin County is a halfling haling from torquini is also a point of pride for the town.
In later developments, Torquini is also facing problems as snowcorn that was stored has rotten much faster than expected so they are also having trouble feeding its own population, with some leaving for Drotha Thrak or Karak Drotha.
History
Many many years ago there was a halfling village in the forest. The halflings who lived there were a tight community where everyone knew one another and they lived in harmony with the forest, using what it gave them to survive. Then The Empire came, and as it was expending the halflings who did not wish to fight a bloody war with the Empire or risk having their forest burned surrendered and became part of her lands. Following, some humans were also sent there to balance out the populations and make sure the village favored the empire. Back then it was a small hunter and arbor providing village but as time went by it grew rapidly, and the empire sent more and more demands for timber because of this expansion. To the displeasure of the halflings the village grew into a town, and the forest started being cleared out. In the span of 10 years most of the forest surrounding the town had been cut, and what remained was not enaugh to sustain the demand of the local Empire needs, making the town redundant. In order to be useful again and sustain themselves, the Torquini family ordered the peasants to start growing the fields for crops as there was not enough game around anymore.
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Population
Around 5.000
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