Vintner's Keep

Cavatch, also translated as Vintner's Keep was a small castle village in the Western Danderillon. Founded as a military fort and re-settled after the fall of the Emperíja as a monastery and vineyard, it lasted for hundreds of years as a small rural bastion until it was emptied by hungry giants.
== Information ==
Vintner's Keep was located eight miles west of Bard's Crossing, on the other side of the Dvoryac River. It was an old 4th century TE Lusken Emperíja hill fort. It derived its name from the dense rows of yellow-green grapes grown inside the keep, which were used to make wine. Vintner's Keep's silhouette was fairly recognisable despite it only having a small rural population and being quite isolated, because a gold-etched image of it appeared on the bottles of Hillfort wine that it exported to Halcyon, Datria, Rakkimar, and the rest of the world.
Vintner's Keep was garrisoned by the Lusken Empire from its building in the 300s TE (when it was called Fort Dvórjak) until its abandonment in the 1500s when the Empire fell. It was then settled at the turn of the following century by monks and farmers who built a monastery and reignited the blooming vineyards.
Vintner's Keep was then inhabited onwards from c.1600TE and forward through the God Wars (where enchantments were put on it to conceal its location as a mountain) up until 251C, where it had a population of only a few hundred, Whilst the town was being attacked by 3 hungry hill giants and a hundred-handed-one, an adventurer named Emet unlocked the gates and allowed two giants inside - they killed some inhabitants and the rest fled, leaving the town and its monastery abandoned.
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