Session One: The Valelands & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Valelands campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

Dardun The Valelands & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Valelands campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

Surrounded by apple orchards, grain fields, and vineyards, Dardun is known for mild white wines, cheeses, and (of course) apples. Dardun’s elder is a proud half-elf woman named Madera Lirr, the matron of an old family of orchardists and cider-makers. Dardun’s population is about 140 inhabitants.

Notable Locations
• Dardun Inn
• General Store

Settlement of Harken The Valelands & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Valelands campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

The Village of Harken is a small village nestled near the White River, along the old King’s Road in the southeast corner of the Nentir Vale. It has a population of 212; another 100 or so live in the countryside around the village. The people of Harken are mostly humans with a few dwarves, and halflings.

The human noble Jonn Stockmer is the baron of Harkenwold. He oversees justice, defense, and laws within the six villages and surrounding countryside that makes up the Harkenwold. The baron appoints village elders to help with the daily governing of the Harkenwold. One of the town elders is called Old Kellar, an ancient and respected dwarf. Harken village has no standing defences, but 30 or so able-bodied warriors can be raised from the population relatively quickly.

If the need arises, the baron can call up 150 militia at need from the whole of Harkenwold. Being the largest settlement within the Barany of Kardkenwold, it gets far more traffic in and out from traders and merchants.

Harken Keep is the home of Baron Stockmer and his family. It stands on top of a short, steep-sided hillock overlooking Harken Village and the King’s Road. The trees and ground cover on the hillside are cut back at least 100 feet from the walls, leaving a bare grassy slope. The hill rises precipitously on the eastern side. The other approaches are more gradual, but none flatten out until about 100 feet above the village. A causeway of hard-packed dirt climbs around the hilltop to the castle’s front gate, exposed to archery fire from the towers and walls for most of its length.

Soldiers built the great tower and upper bailey 200 years ago to guard the King’s Road and the White River valley against monsters attacking from Thunderspire or the Dawnforge Mountains. When Jonn Stockmer became baron 45 years ago, he embarked on a decades-long rebuilding and expansion of the stronghold, adding the lower bailey and repairing the rest of the castle (sorely needed at the time).

Old Kellar from Harken was the chief stonemason of this work, and knows the castle like the back of his gnarled hands. Under Iron Circle occupation, the castle will be renamed Iron Keep, and is the stronghold of Nazin Redthorn and his Iron Circle soldiers.

Notable Locations
• Nonnie's Place
• Cliffside Brewery
• The Broken Goal
• Harkenwold Trading Station
• Harken Temple
• The Tower of Green Flame
• Harken Jailhouse
• House of Faith
• The Broken Gaol

Mistwatch The Valelands & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Valelands campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

Huddled against a hillside on a stony shore, Mistwatch has an exquisite view of Lake Wintermist’s cold water. A sleepy town of 565 citizens, blessed with riches from timber cut from the Winterbole Forest, and well fed on trout and salmon drawn from the clear, mist-covered water, Mistwatch has long known peace and prosperity until recently.

After Lord Cadimus Zaspar "the lord of Mistwatch" castle was completed, stone buildings replaced the wooden shacks and piers grew out across the water to meet the burgeoning fishing industry’s needs. The crude hamlet became a thriving town, a trade partner for nearby Winterhaven, and an important stop for merchants bound west from Fallcrest, Hammerfast, and Harkenwold. Even though Winterhaven has authority over Mistwatch, the settlement still has a local ruler whos name is Lord Cadimus Zaspar of House Zaspar who rules from his castle Widower’s Watch which ironically was the very first structure built when Mistwatch was founded. Lord Cadimus Zaspar lost his beloved wife to sickness the first year after claiming his land.

Its people are simple folk. They make few demands on Lord of Winterhaven Ernest Padraig and are content with the lives that has been given to them, finding peace and accord with their neighbors in spite of all that is happening to Mistwatch. The trade that comes through Mistwatch "not so much these days" helps the town keep up with goods they cannot acquire themselves.

Over the last year a thick mist has slowly developed that now covers Mistwatch. The mists have grown thicker and darker with the passing of each day and the settlement seems to grow more sinister the thicker the mists get. Within the last year, this settlement has gone from a peaceful, civilized location to a dark and gloomy place.

The overall population has also dropped as well due to people just packing up and leaving . . . some moving to Winterhaven while others as far as the city of Fallcrest. Many rumors are starting to circulate concerning this settlement, whispers of folk disappearing in the middle of the night. Some even believe that Mistwatch is slowly transforming into a domain of dread.

Notable Locations
• Beacon Inn
• The Baited Hook
• Temple of Three
• Mort’s Supplies
• Smoke on the Water Inn
• House on the Rocks

• Lake Wintermist