Forgotten Hill (City)

**Forgotten Hill** is the fictional city that serves as the primary setting for the Forgotten Hills series of games. The city has a long, macabre history.

## Early History

### **Founding**

The city now known as Forgotten Hill was first colonized in the 17th Century, becoming large enough to be called a city in 1636. Pilgrims led by founding father Noah Bradwell ran off the native American population, dismissing them as savages, and took over the land leaving only the trees the natives worshiped. By the early 1630's Forgotten Hill was primarily a farming community with a market in its center, Bradwell serving as Chief of the City Guard and a heavily influential church, built by the Reverend Abraham McMillan.

### **The Witch**

In the late 17th Century one of the citizens - Ruth Norwood - settled on the edge of the forest. She gained a reputation as a sinister, solitary woman, and rumors spread quickly regarding dark unnatural abilities, including seeing the future and healing illnesses. Accompanied constantly by four servants - later dubbed her "Guardians" by Norwood- her intimidating reputation grew, but so did the townsfolk coming to her for medical aid and to ask their fortunes. Despite her reputation - and the locals finding mutilated animal carcasses around her home - it took the death of the baker's daughter for the townspeople to realize Norwood was in fact a genuine witch. A trial soon followed on charges of murder, witchcraft promiscuity with the Devil. Judge Richard Larson presided over her, and sentenced Norwood and her foul Guardians to death by hanging. According to local lore, Norwood cursed Judge Larson upon her death, prophesying her return and promising to seek revenge on Judge Larson's descendants.

### **Growth and Rise of the Founders**

By the beginning of the 19th Century, Forgotten Hill experienced a large population growth, rapidly reaching it's modem size and boarders. During this time 6 men, many being decendants of the original settlers of Forgotten Hill, rose to high influence due to their wealth and increasing contributions to the town. These Founders built a large Surgery Clinic, which became the primary health center for the town. The Founders continued to prosper and created many of the landmark businesses of Forgotten Hills until their influence was cut abruptly by an incident on October 31, 1891 where the majority of the Founders met their end in what was dubbed a massacre. Baxter Anderson was the only founder to survive that evening, and subsequently adopted the children of the others: Camille McMillan, her cousins Ethan and Nathan McMillan, and Theodore Ostergard on May 9th, 1892.

## Modern History

### A Dark Reputation

As the 20th Century came, Forgotten Hill gained an even darker and more dangerous infamy. Numerous unsolved missing children reports came about, while news on hideous human/animal hybrid spottings littered the local papers. Reports of entire missing families were not unheard of. Yet the town's amenities, including the Surgery Clinic, Theater, Library and many other buildings once erected by the Founders remained funded and in operation.

In the late 2010's, Jimmy Larson (descendant of Judge Richard Larson) and his fiancée Josephine Taylor were traveling to an unknown destination when their car broke down in the middle of Forgotten Hill.

## Notable Buildings & Locations

* The Church of the Saint Sinner
* Puppet Theater
* Surgery Center - 23 Agony Street
* Forgotten Hill Museum & Library
* The Workshop of Dark Mechanics (Formerly the House of Wonders and Gambling) - 17/H Harmony Road
* Newspapers
	+ The Forgotten News
	+ The Forgotten Hill Herald