Dondor

The former lumber town of Dondor is a small hamlet that has recently come under attack by beasts and monstrosities, particularly a group of wolves led by a sick-looking and abnormally large alpha. Led by the current Mayor, Bint Lunenson, Dondor is a central town of around 200 residents with around 50-75 additional citizens living in the surrounding hills, fields and forests of the area.

### History of Dondor

The town of Dondor was founded close to 125 years ago as nothing more than a temporary housing location for lumberjacks working in the nearby Reaching Woods to stay during the season, usually traveling home during the winter months. It was a hub for milling and logging for a little over 50 years, using a state of the art (for the time) mill located on the Reaching River. However, the lumber trade in the region dried up as more lumbermills closer to the larger cities on the coast popped up, leading to a large amount of the workers leaving one season to not return.

The men, women and families who stayed behind to continue working for the small amount of lumber they could sell locally had difficulties, especially following an increase in attacks by creatures and fey of the forest, a direct response to their continued logging efforts even if it had dwindled compared to years past. This all came to a head when Meliai the Ash Dryad led a group of quicklings and pixies to burn down, damage or otherwise destroy the main mill located by the Reaching River, permanently cutting off Dondor from the tools they needed to continue logging. The families who had stayed behind, some of them having grown up completely in Dondor, didn't want to leave the area and attempted to establish themselves as a farming town, though with little experience they had a few seasons of crop issues and more people left the town as rampant starvation began to spread.

Around this time however, a caravan of dwarven refugees stopped by the town while looking for someplace they could settle down and plant their roots. Seeing the plight of the citizens and not having a place in the world anymore, the majority of these dwarven families chose to stay and help the Dondorians with irrigation and other farming techniques they had experience with, something the former loggers had little knowledge of. Dondor, due to the efforts of the dwarvish families and the citizens who stayed behind, was able to turn things around and began to flourish as a farming village, mostly by sharing amongst the residents in a sort of farming co-op making sure that no one was ever lacking in shelter, food or protection. Bint Lunenson, Henrietta Lunenson and Nort Granholme were younger dwarves from among these refugee families, having now grown with the city and established themselves in its very loose government in recent years. Bint and Nort in particular are who brokered a truce between the fey in the area and Dondor, working with Meliai to build back up trust in the mortals who had pillaged the forests for decades. They knew they would need the fey on their side, as they would still need a source of lumber to keep the village in shape and growing. The compromise meant that the villagers mostly stayed out of the Reaching Woods, and would never harvest more trees than they planted, only taking from the edge of the wood as well.

## Current Status:

Bint has taken over as mayor in recent months, after being "head grower" over the co-op farms in the area for the past three decades. Nort, having always been more of a fighter, quickly rose up the town guard ranks and established himself as a fair and trustworthy captain. Henrietta handles the town's finances, and is usually who ran a caravan to the nearby Scornubel for supplies at least once or twice a year, selling off any excess grain, vegetables or fruits they had. Meliai's rage has tempered in the last few decades, and she has actually helped the towns folk when it comes to fey relations and healing, with her experience with alchemical concoctions being a major boon.

The town has been under attack for the past few months by a pack of wolves (among an increase in other monstrosities in the area) led by a sickly and large alpha wolf. Due to the most audacious and violent attack to date by the wolf pack (while Bint Lunenson was visiting Scornubel looking for help), Nort and Henrietta made the decision to set up a wooden palisade around the central town, so that Dondor would have a defensive position to fall back to if the pack tried to move into the surrounding farm lands.

The Group was able to defeat the Alpha and his wolf pack after they attempted another daylight attack on the populace of Dondor. The mutated beast was swiftly taken care of, and the town held a small feast in honor of the group's efforts to protect them.

Within a week of the Alpha and its pack's defeat, the town was attacked again, this time by the drow group working out of the northern Reaching Woods, seemingly in retaliation for what had happened at The "Temple" of Lathander. The Group at the time had left to travel to Hill's Edge and speak with Vernon Morrow about the happenings in the wood, so it was on Meliai and the citizens of Dondor to defend the town. Sadly, this was not enough with the overwhelming magical might of the attackers and the town was subsequently sacked and burned. Meliai was severely injured, barely escaping in time to go find The Group to warn them of what had happened.