Malphur

Malphur (Euluska: Malfë; Tarkas-Brackian: Mallpur; Old Rakki: Mólfr; Vrei; Pšov) was a small city in the south foothills of the Delling Mountains. 
It was the furthest northeastern mainland settlement in the Danderillon other than beyond Bracken or the Eldskar. It lay about eighty miles northwest of the coastal Alverosa. In antiquity, it was called Pšow or Pszczow by the Vreigardts who settled it first in antiquity. 
The small and clustered city was built upon grassy hills and rocky clearings, centred around several shallow waterfalls of the river known to the Vrei as the Łęd, and to the Euluska as the Wenda. The city itself consisted of squat and sturdy rugged pearwood and stone houses with tall roofs that leaned with the direction of the prevailing mountain wind. In ancient times, and still with some older houses, the dwellings were replete with ornate metallurgical, chronological and cosmological designs. 
The ancient Malphurians were Vreigardt people who spoke a slightly harsh dialect of Old Vrei. Many of them were miners by trade. The rocks in and around the mountain and its pits were heavily rich in silver and copper. The alloy sterling silver was probably first invented here - the Euluskan word for it, pexovlar, came from the Middle Vrei name of the town, Pšow. The town was ran as a duchy under the Euluskan Empire and its successor state locally of the Datrian/Violet Republic. The town was protected in modern times by Wildegard riders.
Back in the second millennia before zero there stood a grandiose building called the Tower of the Twenty-Hour Star, a tall and winding disjointed tower set into the rock at the side of the waterfall with several bridges across it and many many clocks, astronomical designs and friezes. It commemorated now long dead leaders named Zradołz, Urdari, Azcew and Tymotęsz. The Crew of the Klemmuvængválf visited here and delved into the mines, accidentally entering The Mantle - we know this because it was recorded in the Djévkus Old Rakki saga. The town in Old Rakki saga times was ruled by the Kingdom of Bracken, then independent, then became an Euluskan town and named Malfë in the seventh century. Its name probably came from a noble family or lord's name. Under the Euluskan Empire, it was split between two local palatinates owned by the Zeisjerpa and Lumurna families.
Near Malphur lay Withering Ridge, where Rhona Istrina Azoälda killed her father's betrayer, Weyloran, a few decades after the year zero. The sword Xánwyr rotted in the Malphur muskeg nearby for some time. Rychárd Dread and Crow Woman also duelled at Withering Ridge in 287 TE. It was also the birthplace of Viceroy Kalli Lúpvernag, millennia later.
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