Cranberry Brook

Cranberry Brook was a small village in the Western Danderillon region, situated on a flooded bog.
== Information ==
Cranberry Brook (Euluska: Kranbodžuka) also called 'Cran' affectionately by locals, was a village founded around 30 Collapse Era or so. It was located in the southwestern Danderillon. The village was a few days SE of Bard's Crossing, and Prior's Gap was a few days SE of the village. Cranberry Brook was located in the midst of Prior's Muskeg, a huge marshy floodplain that fluctuated with how flooded it was. Cranberries were grown in the waterlogged bogs around the town, which is where it gained its name. The town made preserves and jams from them. The only inn in town was called the Floating Lily, which housed the rare travelers who passed through.
The folk of the town were a unique admixture of Western Danderillon humans and Central Danderillon halflings, culminating in taller halflings with long legs. They were peaceful, good-natured and isolationist, rarely venturing outside of their town for hundreds of years. They held interesting local legends, such as deifying the moon because it brought the tidal swell of the Dvoryac (they called the river the Nara, from the Lowland Euluska for 'moon,' since they were not aware of its Vistu-derived name in modern common parlance). The Cran people also believed in the Bog Beast, a folk legend.
=== Ransack ===
In summer 251 C, the Wildecards were passing through, when they took offense to Mercury, the Father. Mercury, an orphan from Halcyon, had moved here to become a shepherd and sort of cult leader for the people. He would kill nosy adventurers who overstayed their welcome, and he outlawed the wearing of all metal lest it lure the Bog Beast, except for his mask which he was allowed to wear of course. Anyway, the early Wildecards found his demeanour suspicious, and spurred by his newly acquired sentient blade, Caricc of the group used Xánwyr to murder Mercury. The townsfolk tried to fight back, but tens of them were slaughtered by Octavian and Vishara di'Romila, the group's vampire employers. The remaining townsfolk fled the peat bogs to Accipiter or beyond.
=== Retake ===
Lucrezzia Reeves pieced together what had happened and connected the dots to the Wildecards, who also burned down her Halcyian Oil depository in Accipiter, for which they were arrested. Lucrezzia then ordered the building of a new operation near Cranberry Brook, called the CDO Cranberry Brook Peat Refinery, which refined peat and fracked for oil deposits in the nicely abandoned region.
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