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Faetan

1. Temple of An’Gaia
2. Castle of Baron Zerecus

Short overview

Faetan is small town of about 860 inhabitants located aside a busy trade route in central parts of Alcandia. The town is located in advantageous place in the middle of fertile lands and therefore it is important grain producer in Alcandia. The buildings are mainly made of sturdy logs and the town doesn’t have any surrounding wall protecting it. Large garrison is thought to be suitable protection for the town. Trading is busy at summer and stream of incoming and leaving caravans, merchants and other travelers is nearly continuous. During summertime population of the town can be almost doubled.

History

From the first Faetan was a small garrison and outpost giving protection and scouting information for big towns located in coast. First rather small castle was built on place before the Age of miracles, but not until the Age of miracles its importance and size grew. Gradually people noticed that the castle was located in advantageous place and working as an excellent resting place in Alcandia where distances are long. The castle has always been self-supporting due the excellent and fertile farmlands and that was noticed also by first arrived settlers. The war of the Black sun brought destruction also to Faetan and practically the entire town was burned down. Because of its excellent location people decided to rebuild it and nowadays it has almost grown to its former measures.

Town management

The town is ruled by a baron Zerecus, who lives in a small castle at the edge of the town. At first the castle has been only a base of footmen. The baron has built a tower for himself inside the palisade. Zerecus is also leader of the garrison. Majority of the soldiers live also in the castle and rest are accommodated on the other side of the town in few small buildings. All in all people have rather neutral attitude towards the baron. He hasn’t done anything especially good, but not anything bad either.

Maintenance of law

The town has a large garrison where Alcandian soldiers service. In addition to patrolling in surrounding areas they also take care of the safety of the town. Laws are same as in most parts of Alcandia and the baron hasn’t legislated any changes or special paragraphs.

Livelihood

Citizens got nearly all their livelihood from trading and farming. The town is surrounded by fertile lands, which give good annual harvest. The harvest is usually big enough so that there’s supplementation also for other towns of Alcandia. Faetan is excellent resting place for trading caravans and also good additional change for bartering and restocking. At summertime when trading is busiest many kind of good are for sale even from a long distances. Fabrics, incenses, carpets from south and skillfully crafted wood handicraft and animal pelts from north are available for example.

Demographics

Nearly all inhabitants are Alcanians. The town has some half-elf, but not regularly members of any other race. Traffic via the town is busy and members of other races often stop by. Typical visitors are hill dwarves, wood elves, Paladries and from humas saagi and ceenal. The inhabitants of the town nearly only speak of alcean. Merchants usually speak also saage.

Written by : MoR
Translated by : MoR