Red Larch
Located atop a low ridge along the western edge of the Dessarin Valley.
Red Larch has been an important stop on the Long Road for two centuries now. Red Larch became a settlement in the first place thanks to a drinkable spring that fed a sizable pond ideal for watering horses, oxen, and pack mules.
An east-west trail meets the Long Road at the pond, running west to the logging community of Kheldell and east to Bargewright Inn and eventually Secomber. Another trail leads to quarries in the Sumber Hills and to ruins of stone keeps long ago left to monsters and outlaws.
In recent years, new quarries have been opened on the northwestern edge of town. So far these have yielded up great slabs of marble much prized in Waterdeep for facing large new buildings and repairing older edifices. Red Larch is also a center for stonecutters quarrying slate on the fringes of the Sumber Hills.
Demographics
Mostly Human, Elves, Half-Orc.
Defences
Around the Year of the Staff, 1366 DR, the town had a militia of around 100 skilled archers, mostly younger boys, who train by keeping predators away from the poultry farm, Mhandyvver's Poultry. This led raiding parties amongst the orcs to avoid the town.
Industry & Trade
- known for its nourishing, though otherwise non-noteworthy food, called Crumblecake.
- provides much stone for buildings in the local area and as far south as Waterdeep.
Infrastructure
Quarries.
History
The town was named after a small forest stand of larches that extended along the ridge. The trees, however, were felled by the first settlers in the region, who chose that particular location thanks to a natural water spring that fed into a small pond that could serve as drinking water for burden animals.
Points of interest
Natural Resources
Marble and Slate rock.
Maps
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Red Larch
Village Map of Red Larch
Type
Village
Population
~600
Inhabitant Demonym
Red Larcher(s)
Location under
Included Locations
- Allfaiths Shrine
- Butchers
- Chansyrl Fine Harness
- Dornen Finestone
- Drouth Fine Poultry
- Gaelkur's
- Haeleeya’s
- Helvur Tarnlar, Clothier
- Ironhead Arms
- Lorren’s Bakery
- Luruth's Tannery
- Mellikho Quarry
- Mellikho Stoneworks
- Mhandyvver's Poultry
- Mother Yalantha's
- Tantur Smithy
- The Helm at Highsun
- The Market
- The Swinging Sword
- Tomb of Moving Stones
- Vallivoe's Sundries
- Waelvur's Wagonworks
Owner/Ruler
Owning Organization
Characters in Location
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