Gadprig

**Gadprig is a nation in Maligon**

fishing to the south, hotly contested mountains to the north, dwarves and humans in a parliament

Fishget, Lowerhold and goldsreach

Gadprig boarders the ocean and a small section of the Merec wilderness, protected from envious eyes of the warlike forces Labremulyor by the mountain range that houses Goldsreach. Its largest town is fishget, supposedly named due to an early misunderstanding of the common language and it’s use by the golddwarves of the region. After the coalition of shorter lived mortals failed to contain rebellion in the empire, humans from the nations bordering gesurb fled to the far corners, creating the first great human diaspora. The dwarves of goldsreach had dug deep into fresh territory, and rarely left the mountain halls. A small village was set up without the knowledge of the Bornfelld clan of dwarves that held power. When the first scouting party of mine soldiers headed by Arienlla Bromfelld found the human infestation they asked, in dwarvish what the town was called. The human man they found (whose name has been sadly lost in the mists of time) replied ‘fish. Get.’ as a broken common way of explaining his presence on their land. Bromfelld continued the conversation in common, but the name stuck.

Fishget lacks the mastery of the sea that its coastal neighbours have, but it contains an impressive dwarven built sea wall, the largest in the known world that makes getting fish much easier in fish get. While there is no major docklands for import, there are wooden boat houses along from the coasts that the longships are maintained within. The majority of flat land has become part of fishget’s expanded town area.

Lowerhold is the exact meeting point between the mountain range and the land taking the position of a permanent base camp for a never-ending expedition. what Lowerhand occupies on a drawn map belies its scale, as the town is arranged more vertically than horizontally. Great bronze and stone lifts and platforms carry supplies up and down, to be then carried by hand by delivery porters to Goldsreach. Fresh food and worked tools are carted too, and the brave humans and dwarves cart back the immense amount of raw materials and precious goods that make the north west mountain ranges a blessing. Lowerhold has a seasonal working staff as the colder months make it impossible to find the trails for all but the hardiest ranger or most foolish of explorer. Lowerhold has one of the more open attitudes for dwarves to make their commerce direct from the source. Lacking a jeweller’s guild, families of smiths set up individual jewellery shops, and will often employ a salaried enchanter. While it’s blacksmiths and weaponsmiths are competent, the dwarven craft nature often makes them expensive beyond their worth. However, famed across maligon is the lowerhold ammunitions manufactor the Mosstand company. While it lacks the tinkerers charm of a gnome concocted firearm, many perfer Mosstand’s work for shot firing blunderbuss or powerful explosives.

There are no pubs in lowerhold in a traditional sense, but there is the enormous Bromfelld hall, named for the first family to establish their clan in the area. Staffed all hours of the day and night, this impressive longhouse with elaborately carved roof beams is the canteen, ale house, meeting hall

and houses Gadprig’s parliament. Standing on a lower plateau, it serves as a reminder of the blessing of the mountain and the sea at once. It also serves ale and hot dinners, provided you have various coupons for services provided to those in the workers and traders guilds. It is rare to find a Gadprigite who will trade the coupons for gold, so travellers are encouraged to take small jobs for the privilege of taking sustenance or to bunk at Bromfelld hall. The constant need of porters to goldreach has more lucratively lined the pockets of many travellers and adventurers over the years though.

Goldsreach is very rarely visited, expect by the porters who can make handsome trade simply by delivering small parcels. In spite, or perhaps because, it is extravagantly decorated by the dwarven clans that make their home there. The mine workings have become as complex as a termite hive, and a title of great honour is the undirkartagervir, literally ‘under map maker’ in an ancient dwarven tongue. The majority of the Goldsreach central compound within the mountain peak known as the horn because of its bizarrely sloping precipice. Tiny hardened hamlets sit exposed on the mountain sides themselves, farming goats or searching for elusive veins the orthodox mining patterns have somehow missed. Within goldsreach sits the traditional clan throne, that gave way to the elected parliament of landowners shortly before the last war.

The flat lands contain thousands of the black winged Gadprid gull, of course named for the region. Elk live alongside small, naturally occuring rock elementals in the lower hills of the goldreach mountains. Further into the peaks large brown bears are known to make enormous dens from the less successful mines of gadprigs past. Rock elementals become more frequent along with the more imposing Galeb duhr.