Lupkówa / Alverosa

Lupkówa, later Alverosa was a small village on the northeastern coast of The Danderillon situated around a natural open-water harbour and a long, flat peninsula.
The iron-age town of Lupkowa was built in the -2100s or so around a natural harbour on a small peninsula. It was built near some rocky mounds that had amethyst-rich deposits beneath them. The pastures around the city were perfect for rearing cows and sheep, but the soil wasn't great for growing more demanding crops than potatoes. The architecture was notable - the houses were long and narrow, built between two trees for extra strength, with multiple large rooms. Its main attraction was a large temple within a hollowed-out geode mound, dedicated to the goddess of crystals, Lúp, from where it got its name. It was ruled by Clan Kálman, a clan of Orc lords, at their head was Imra Kálman. Also in town lived Dszełim, briefly. Many years before -1800, it suffered a small earthquake, which split the rock mounds and revealed the geodes. Many people also made a livelihood out of fishing. 
The Crew of the Klemmuvængválf landed near Lupkowa on their first foray to Ðanland, and gained the villagers' trust. On midwinter's eve, they raided the settlement, looting and burning it in its entirety 
It fell out of relevance as a burnt wreck in the mid-first millenium pre-DR, but remained sparsely inhabited. In the age of Lusken conquest in the first few centuries DR, it was incorporated into the ward of Datria as the town of Alverosa after the Battle of the Lupkowan Peninsula, a week-long series of skirmishes between Tarkas Vreigardts and the Empire. As Alverosa, it was named in honour of General Alverós, the leader of the Lusken troops. The Lusken empire mined out and got rid of the geode mounds to help supply Datria. 
In the 1120s, it was the site of the landing of General Mariana Escuella's forces during the retaking of Datria five years after Dead Man's Siege. 
It was heavily abandoned in the wake of the Violet Catastrophe in tandem with Talona's Wasting Blight for several years, but regained its status as a decently sized fishing town in the 1500s. 
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