Treeknife

Treeknife (Euluska: Lavarož, Tarkas: Láhrus) was a small hamlet and logging camp in south Gildegra, at the base of the Eldskar peninsula, the Indrateran continent's most northern reach.
== Brief History ==
The nomadic Ælk people, native to the lands a few hundred miles to the west, sporadically passed through the vague area. They usually did so to find warmer hunting grounds and head toward the coasts. Here, they used the local woodlands to resupply on game and materials, including using the toxic sap of the local black gnarled savrin trees to make poisoned arrows and spears. 
Unbeknownst to later settlers, a train line once ran through the town, just before the switch points that would take an iron ore train from Adzvolta to either Felonil (now Halcyon) or Datria. The line was covered in years of snow and savrin tree growths after it was abandoned in the late 1510s.
The modern hamlet was settled fairly late, in the early Collapse Era (50s C, so early 1700s TE), by Datrians. It was named Treeknife because the only signs of human activity when they arrived were lots of flint-knapped knives used to extract the poisonous sap from the savrin trees. 
== Modern Times ==
It was one of the countless logging settlements of the Alver Timber Company, and one of the twenty or so that logged for the local savrin trees - gnarled black ancient trees which, despite their poisonous sap, made light-yet-strong wood for gun handles. The locals generally spoke the Tarkas language, a close relative of Euluska. In the Collapse Era, it was only home to a mere 200 permanent residents plus 100 or so timber company workers. It was home to a small wooden church, a town hall, a butcher's, a trading post, a foreman's office, a bunch of store cabins, tents, and houses, and that was literally it. Beneath the town was a village of Cacklers, Wylie.
It was located upon a small lake called the Elk Basin, named after the once-native inhabitants.
Notable people of the town and below included Warden Hjola Landohr, White Tiger, and Slashzah.
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