Ebonbed

Ruler: The High Overseer Lady Rhessajan Ambermantle, the “Old Vixen” Economy: mutton, wool, medicines, merchant services, wagon repairs, moneylending and a barter fairs, trading, training, and doctoring of mounts and beasts of burden Militia: The Watch and Militia led by the Red Shields Mercenary Company Points of interest: Ebonbed Hall, The Red Shield Offices, The Healing House, The Fair, The Free Traders of Ebonbed Caravan Offices, The Four Taverns; The Dusty Hoof, The Far Anchor, The Jaded Unicorn and The Raging Manticore
Ebonbed is a sprawling place of warehouses, paddocks, and stockyards. It is a city of traveling merchants with a steady population of nearly 14,000 which increases during most traveling seasons. It has no walls and is a place of ready swords and watchful residents famed for The Four Taverns of Ebonbed and a tradition of entertainment consisting of mock battles between humans and monsters, monsters trained to dance and perform, or monsters participating in comedy or spellcasting. This form of entertainment comes with a little risk as it is not unheard of for these monsters breaking free and turning on the audience if not handled correctly. There have been more than a few raids on it by bugbears, hobgoblins, and the like, particularly in harsh winter weather, when the game is scarce. This rough-and-tumble place is the closest thing some caravan merchants have to a home. It sprawls along the northern bank of the Dubglas River where the Trade Way meets the waters. From Ebonbed’s docks, a ferry crosses the river. Many skiffs, narrow boats, and barges make runs along The Blackwaters as far upstream as Bardusk, where rapids prevent travel onward, as far downstream as Citadel, and as far up the river as Silverpass and the few rancher’s docks downstream of it. Old, sharp-tongued Lady Rhessajan Ambermantle rules the city from Ebonbed Hall as it’s High Overseer, assisted by three Lord High Advisors, all are retired merchants, who in turn consult with a council of local merchants. Her tongue and world-wise stratagems have earned her the title the “Old Vixen”, but she is generally loved or at least respected among the people of Ebonbed. She can whelm a mounted militia, scouts headed and equipped by the Red Shields Mercenary Company, and has a watch of well-trained and well-equipped soldiers assisted by both priests and mages. The city has many shrines and visiting clergy, but only one temple, the Healing House, which is much called upon to heal injured travelers of all faiths. It’s been said the goods and riches of half of the world pass through Ebonbed, but the city itself is known as the source of much mutton and wool, medicines concocted by local artisans, merchant services such as wagon repairs, money lending, and a barter fair, and the trading, training, and doctoring of mounts and beasts of burden. Businesses and the buildings that house them change from season to season or even more rapidly, and Ebonbed has few permanent landmarks. One never need pay for a night’s rest unless one wants a bed, bath, or stables, even in cold winter weather you’ll see folk burrowing into hay piles to hollow out warm beds and on hot summer nights many folks lie down amid their stock in the paddocks, surrounded by saddles and saddlebags to keep the beasts from stepping on them.

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City

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Ethigoviel