Scywyk Bay (skew-wick)
I suppose that's enough - just the right level of drunkenness to hear me out on the founding of Scywyk Bay - the town, not the bay, the actual bay was founded by the Empyreans. That seems like a story that no amount of whiskey is going to make into a fun one, so I never learned it.
I told ya about Vain Eddie and how he was the one that founded the town. Well, he did, sure enough, although it most assuredly was not his intention. See, Vain Eddie had tried an awful lot of methods to get rich quick in his day, and I don't think any of it was strictly legal, and quite a lot of it was as criminal as could be. Every one of those schemes went bad in one way or another, but somehow, he could always find a new group of suckers willing to work for him to chase the next one.
Our Eddie was probably a pirate at heart, and he plied that trade for a while. Never made a big score, and would have been killed in a mutiny if he hadn't fled before they started it up - well, that's a different story, but a fun one. Anyway, the town.
Well, the town was the last thing that he ever did. He had a dream - really, one of his crew from that last job said the whole thing came to him in a dream. The dream was to take a spit of land in the middle of nowhere, convince the king of Corellum that the cliffs and hills around it were full of gold, and then sell them the town and abscond with the money. How anyone decided this was a good idea and went along with it is beyond me, but as you can see we sit in the town of Scywyk Bay, so there you have it.
Well, good old Eddie started by getting his people to build some docks here, because there had to be a way to get the marks here. Once the docks were built, he had to make a fake town so that the marks would believe that there was a boom in gold starting up. Now, the workers needed a place to stay, so they made houses that were a lot better than the slapdash stuff Eddie was expecting. And they really wanted a place to drink, so they built what is now the Night's Rest and started a brewery in it. And they wanted a place to worship, so they built that. They kept building, while Eddie was out making more preparations, and seeding the hills with gold.
Now remember, Eddie was a failure, so he wasn't exactly rich. But he had some skills, which he put to use robbing a pirate group that had given him trouble when he was a captain. Unfortunately, he didn't exactly get away clean, and that was on its way to bite him.
He placed some gold nuggets in various streams that fed into the river, and brought out the king's nephew to see the whole thing. Well, the king's nephew wasn't know for being particularly bright, and he was buying into it. It looked like, perhaps, Vain Eddie would have something work out for him. The nephew said he'd pay a generous finder's fee, and left to tell the family.
Except he didn't tell the family - he wasn't a close nephew, barely a lord, and not important in court, so he had designs of running the mines himself. Ideas of perhaps building it up and showing it to the king, and being made a count, or maybe even a duke. Some say he might have thought of building a power base to challenge the king, but surely he wasn't that dumb.
Well, he returned to Scywyk Bay, with the coins and a small contingent. Vain Eddie met with him in the freshly built courthouse, that his workers had put a lot of effort to really sell the con. Right about then, the pirates caught up with them. The pirates shredded the sails of the lord's ship on the way in, and stormed the docks. They entered the courthouse, and there, tales differ. Some say that the lord demanded to know what was going on, and discovered the ruse, and under the aegis of the king called for Eddie's execution. Some say a battle ensued, with the pirates and the soldiers killing each other off, until only the captain, the lord, and Eddie were left standing. Others say the pirates were an overwhelming force, ignored the lord and his men, and strung Eddie up on the spot.
The end result was the same, however. Whether by order of lord, pirate, or both, Eddie was hauled up into that gibbet out there. The courthouse eventually became this tower. The pirates took the coin the lord brought, and the ship, and set up shop on Blackrock. The lord may or may not have made his way overland back to Corellum, but he was never recorded in the history books in any capacity. And the workers who had built the fake town had found that they had ample lumber, hunting, and fishing, as well as scooping up the gold that Eddie had left in the rivers.
And so Vain Eddie failed his way into founding a town.
Demographics
| Species | Number | %Wealthy | %Middle Class | %Poor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dragonborn | 987 | 32 | 49 | 19 |
| Human | 762 | 19 | 25 | 56 |
| Daikini | 296 | 4 | 72 | 24 |
| Nelwyn | 258 | <1 | 47 | 53 |
| Other | 83 | 0 | 9 | 91 |
| Businesses | Number |
|---|---|
| Butchers | 7 |
| Inns/taverns | 6 |
| Clothing | 9 |
| Bakeries | 6 |
| Traders | 4 |
| General Stores | 2 |
| Crafters | 4 |
| Alcohol makers | 3 |
| Churches | 3 |
Government
Defences
Industry & Trade
They are also a major hub of trade of things Corellum bans or heavily taxes. Many ships come through the port to trade goods outside of the control of the kingdom. Much of the trade is in stolen goods.
Infrastructure
2 dry docks
1 lumber mill, 1 grain mill
3 bridges
Cobblestone streets
Districts
The docks are the heart of the town. Most trade is done within a short distance of the ships and warehouses. There are several taverns, including Vain Eddie's Gibbet and an inn.
The higher edges of town are residential, with the steeper cliffs to the north generally being more desirable.
Guilds and Factions
The informal organization of the merchants in the town are as close to a government as exists.
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