Dougan's Hole
Dougan’s Hole is the smallest and most insular of the ten towns. Its residents aren’t fond of visitors, and inbreeding has caused the population to dwindle in recent years. It also has given rise to often-seen physical deformities, including but not limited to small, misshapen ears and slightly pointed teeth.
The town is a small cluster of dwellings perched on the edge of Redwaters that is too small to support any industry—not even scrimshaw. Ice has buckled the shorter of its two piers, rendering the dock unsafe. The longer pier has two icebound keelboats tethered to it, though they’re immobile because of the long winter has frozen the surface of the lake for hundreds of yards around them. Local fishers have hauled their smaller boats onto the shore and resorted to cutting holes in the ice to catch knucklehead trout, which they depend on for survival. Visitors to Dougan’s Hole are often struck by the eeriness of dark, humanoid shapes out on the ice, remaining silent and still as the wind howls around them.
Dougan’s Hole is beset by winter wolves that stalk the outskirts of town.
“Don’t know how many, but them wolves are big as horses!” says a local with small, misshapen ears.
“They know words an’ got a mighty vocab’lary!” says another with pointed teeth.
“By Thruun’s Stones, they caught fair Sil and her lovely brother Finn th’ other day,” says a third, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the other two.
A fourth who looks like their sister chimes in. “Dang winter wolves say they ain’t givin’ ’em back till the town coughs up a king’s ransom in food and gold. This town barely got enough to feed its own, and there ain’t no gold. Ain’t no one allowed to leave town. Dem wolves vow to kill anyone who tries!”
The townsfolk urge characters to meet with Speaker Edgra Durmoot before trying to help the town with its wolf problem.
Speaker's House
The home of speaker Edgra Durmoot.
Twenty Stones of Thruun
Triangle of megaliths
The only truly interesting feature in Dougan’s Hole is the ring of megaliths known as the Twenty Stones of Thruun. Standing at the southern edge of town, nineteen of these crudely fashioned granite menhirs are arranged in a rough triangle, with a single stone at the formation’s center. No one knows who built this structure or why; the townsfolk maintain that the stones were there when the town’s founder, a Chondathan named Dougan Dubrace, first happened upon this fishing spot. Scholars have tried to research the origin of the structure’s name, but all they have found are allusions to a creature named Thruun in the oldest legends of the northern folk. Some speculate that Thruun was a god, while others believe it’s a destructive elemental spirit bound to this location by ancient druidic magic.
THE WINTER WOLF BROTHERS, KORAN AND KANAN
The town is a small cluster of dwellings perched on the edge of Redwaters that is too small to support any industry—not even scrimshaw. Ice has buckled the shorter of its two piers, rendering the dock unsafe. The longer pier has two icebound keelboats tethered to it, though they’re immobile because of the long winter has frozen the surface of the lake for hundreds of yards around them. Local fishers have hauled their smaller boats onto the shore and resorted to cutting holes in the ice to catch knucklehead trout, which they depend on for survival. Visitors to Dougan’s Hole are often struck by the eeriness of dark, humanoid shapes out on the ice, remaining silent and still as the wind howls around them.
Dougan’s Hole is beset by winter wolves that stalk the outskirts of town.
“Don’t know how many, but them wolves are big as horses!” says a local with small, misshapen ears.
“They know words an’ got a mighty vocab’lary!” says another with pointed teeth.
“By Thruun’s Stones, they caught fair Sil and her lovely brother Finn th’ other day,” says a third, who bears more than a passing resemblance to the other two.
A fourth who looks like their sister chimes in. “Dang winter wolves say they ain’t givin’ ’em back till the town coughs up a king’s ransom in food and gold. This town barely got enough to feed its own, and there ain’t no gold. Ain’t no one allowed to leave town. Dem wolves vow to kill anyone who tries!”
The townsfolk urge characters to meet with Speaker Edgra Durmoot before trying to help the town with its wolf problem.
Speaker's House
The home of speaker Edgra Durmoot.
Twenty Stones of Thruun
Triangle of megaliths
The only truly interesting feature in Dougan’s Hole is the ring of megaliths known as the Twenty Stones of Thruun. Standing at the southern edge of town, nineteen of these crudely fashioned granite menhirs are arranged in a rough triangle, with a single stone at the formation’s center. No one knows who built this structure or why; the townsfolk maintain that the stones were there when the town’s founder, a Chondathan named Dougan Dubrace, first happened upon this fishing spot. Scholars have tried to research the origin of the structure’s name, but all they have found are allusions to a creature named Thruun in the oldest legends of the northern folk. Some speculate that Thruun was a god, while others believe it’s a destructive elemental spirit bound to this location by ancient druidic magic.
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