Valcomte

Traders on the Dorne River will tell you that Valcomte is a sad place - many think it should have been left to rot decades ago. Notorious for its appaling weather and trapped in the Valcomte River Valley, Valcomte lies beneath continually lingering clouds that drop buckets of cold rain upon the southern foothills of the Piarran Mountains. Truly, the residents of Valcomte have cause for their humorless reputation. Once Valcomte was an important trading town frequented by merchants traveling between Millechutes and Sumelle. When the Coreune National Rail was built between the two cities, a route was chosen to go through Fermont instead of Valcomte, and much of the town's economy was lost. Almost a third of its buildings stand empty, many in utter disrepair.
Some families have remained despite the town's decline; they are too stubborn or poor to move. They work as loggers, boat crews (at knockdown rates), fishermen, or hunters in the region's forests. Of course Valcomters do not venture deep into the forests, as ghosts are commonly reported. Indeed, the stockade is the town's sturdiest construction, not so much because of ghosts but because of the vicious creatures that stalk the woods. The gates are closed at dusk and manned by drab-looking guards. It was no great surprise when the former mayor vacated his post in 1509 and nobody took it up. Since then, the town has been under military rule.
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