Alba-Turnovo

## Overview

Alba-Turnovo consists in two towns separated by half a kilometer of paved road. Turnovo is a small walled village (pop. 400) consisting in a harbor over the Saha river and its auxiliary buildings (shipyards, warehouses, etc...) as well as a couple of inns, a small guard post and a tiny temple consecrated to Mael. Some clay-made houses host the few permanent inhabitants of the population. The only gate of Turnovo's walls is in its northern part and from there the mountain road to Alba departs. The road itself is a 500 meter paved way that goes through the Forest of Alba until it reaches the walls of the homonym town.

Alba is a city nestled in the mountains of the Sickle Range. An impressive wall five meters high and two meters thick surrounds the city on the south side. The rest of its fronts are protected by cliffs cut perpendicularly against the mountain slope. Inside the walls, the city is built with stone. To compensate for the limited available surface area, the government mandates that buildings have a minimum of two stories, with three and four-story buildings being the most common. In general, it is a well-maintained town with a high standard of living. Outside the walls are farms, unaffiliated workshops, and cabins for the less fortunate population, typically unskilled workers such as miners or farmers.

The wealth of Alba has attracted warbands of humanoids, orcs and giants during generations which has forced a constant presence of the army of Elloth in the area.

In the innermost point, surrounded by a secondary wall, there is an octagonal stone building with four floors that serves as the local government headquarters.

## Geography

The geography of the region is dominated by the river Saha on the south and the Sickle Range in the north. Between the two populations there is a dense forest called the Forest of Alba abundant in hunting species where the elite of Alba hunt mostly cervids and bears during the summer.

## Economy

Alba is a mining town and all of its economy is generated through the mines in the Sickle Range. The product of this activity, been this raw materials or crafted tools, is afterwards exported via the Saha river to Eperium and Isaha. The army of Elloth has its main armament provider in the city. There are several mining companies in Alba but the three more important ones are:

* Bloodhammer Mining. The biggest company in Elloth, owned by the Bloodhammer dwarven clan. They produce raw materials but then they craft all type of tools and luxury articles mostly for internal consumption in the kingdom.
* Sickle mining. They produce and sell raw materials mostly for the government and for the army.
* Alba exports. Almost all of its raw materials production is exported outside of Elloth.

## Government

The local governor for both Alba and Turnovo is Syah Owl, an extremely intelligent halfling who is a personal friend of the king Kiriel Blagovast, who appointed her to lead Alba a few years ago. As one of her first measures, Syah hired a mercenary unit called "The Box" consisting of about 20 halflings, whom she used to ensure that no one bothered her while she took control of the city. She then proceeded to purge the most obvious cases of corruption and established a tribunal of competition to settle internal disputes among the various metal empires. Up to ten companies have their headquarters in Alba, and confrontations were frequently escalating to violence (and knives).

There is also a big presence from the army. Around 200 soldiers are permanently stationed here to discourage attacks from the tribes of humanoids of the Sickle Range.

## Factions

Turnovo is mostly a human town. There are a few exceptions but most of its inhabitants are humans. On the other hand, Alba is an extremely cosmopolitan little town. There is a big presence of dwarves, halflings, elves, semi-elves and even a clan of dragonborn. Humans are around 25% of the population.

## Personalities

* Syah Owl - Female Halfling. Civil governor of Alba-Turnovo.
* Wilcas Grada - Male halfling. Leader of *The Box*.
* Balin Bloodhammer - Male dwarf. Head of the Bloodhammer emporium at Alba-Turnovo.