Alryn

**Alryn** is a small town known for its quality horses. It's located in the Hilllands of the Eastmarch region of Warkab, bordered by the huge skerrit forest to the north side and trough the town runs The Stalion road, which is the main road to the capital. The town falls under the rule of the Horsekingdom of Warkab and is overseen by Lord Léofred Stefan. Notably, Alryn also served as the place where the Demon Slayers adventuring party first took form.

On the afternoon of 20th of Barrakas 1121 AS, the south part of Alryn was attacked by a goblin raid party, luckily no lives were lost, though the temple of Epona was heavily damaged.

## **Description**

Alryn is a small town with no protective walls and with open hill biomes to the west, east and a little north, while south of the village it's mostly flatland. Further north of the village is the Skerrit forest where the old copper mine is located. The mine was closed due the catastrophic centaur incident.

Alryn is shaped like a weirdly formed circle, only a couple of miles across on all sides. It only has one main street, The Stallion Road that goes through the village from from west to east.

The old mine, bordering the Skerrit forest yielded a fair amount of copper, and quartz that supplemented the town's economy before it was abandoned.

### **Points of interest**

**Marys** is a tavern located almost in the middle of town. It was built by an old man who wanted to run a tavern but died of old age right before the opening. The newly build tavern stood empty for 4 years until Mary Ray came to town with some of her friends and bought it. Marys sell cheap liquor, beer and mostly just wheat porridge since not one of them knows how to cook.

**Stonetooth's Forge** is the towns only blacksmith. It’s located on the west side.

The **Flower Dream Deluxe** is a hut on the southeast side of Alryn. It’s secluded from the rest of the city by a wall of crooked, magically grown trees. A Half-Elf named Vex'Elia lives here.

The **House of the Horse**, is the place where all the citizens meet with the Lord of Alryn and talks or discuss about current events. In the basement of the building are the towns prison and a handful of guards. On the first floor is the office in which the red captain, works and has their important meetings. It is located in the center of town, right next to Kiri's Barracks.

The biggest non specialized shop is **Karolina's Fantastic Place**. It is owned by Olaf Forestroot a former citizen of Naian, before it was destroyed by the centaur horde. Olaf once asked his granddaughter, Karolina, who had escaped with him, for the stores new name. She named it the first thing she thought of. It is located a little south from Marys.

If anyone wants to get their clothes fixed or need something new, they can always go to the **Secrets Of The Thread**. The clothing shop is owned by a happy flamboyant man named Josef Gottfried who had escaped from the Slekya Empire and its anti-gay laws. It is located a little north from Marys

The **Church of Joy** is a temple of worship for Lliira, the Goddess of Joy and festivals. It is one of the two temples for worship in the entire town. The temple itself isn’t build yet, so they use a huge red circus tent with Lliira's symbol on top of the entrance. It is located in the outskirts of the southwest part of Alryn.

**Epona's Stable** is the second temple of worship in the town. Many people don't like them since they fanatically worships some horse god. But since they don’t do any harm to anyone, they are mostly left alone. The priests of Epona sell strong, healthy and trained horses to anyone for profit. It is located a few minutes west of Flower Dream Deluxe.

The new **Darkcrafts Arcane Workshop** is a gnome owned businesses and experimental weapons workshop. It is located far east on the outskirt of Alryn where a small explosion couldn't destroy too much of the town.

## Society

### **Demographics**

Alryn is a small town with a population of 5,900 as of 1121 AS, most of which are humans (93%). There is also some dwarfs, half-elves, gnomes and tieflings and a goliath. (7%).

### **Factions**

**The Green Cavalry** are stationed in the town, they also have a small station where they sleep and eat, but their most important task is to protect the stallion road from bandits or other kinds of natural or supernatural threats. They don’t really interact with the townspeople and leave it mostly alone. Luckily the crime rates hasn’t gone too much up because of Kiri's Fists, but it did let the corrupt Lady Seluna rise to power.

**Kiri's Fists** is the biggest security in the town who has been the true protectors of the city since 796 AS. They have always been a bit poorly trained and a been a small force of 50- 90 soldiers. In the year 1121 AS, a gang named the Power Clovers disbanded, but most of the members were quickly recruited as Kiri’s Fists because Uthrygg the former gang leader, became the Red Captain. They are now 160-200 members protecting this small town.

## History

Back when the humans first came to Warkab, a farm was founded here. It was founded by the Oldgader family, and it was the only farm around for miles. The man Holgar Oldgader was friends with some dwarves from Erast, so he had customers that wanted his crops. The family also settled here because there were large open meadows, very few trees to share, but a huge amount of hills with rocky areas. There was also a huge underground water reservoir where they built the Older well.

After a while, more and more people joined the farm and it expanded into a small village, the fields became larger and the skillful horse breeding of the Pureblooded Warkabian horse began.

In the year 696 AS, a man named Jacobus Stenskjald, a man from the small kingdom of Venith from the east, came to the village with an army. Jacobus was dressed in fine silken threads and spoke like a snake, he promised the village that if they joined his kingdom, he would protect this village from any danger. The village elder, named Marcus Oldgader, talked with the villagers and they chose not to join. Jacobus didn't take the news in the right way and had four children captured and hanged as punishment for saying no, and those who tried to protect the children were quickly slaughtered and hanged alongside the children. After this tragic day, the village agreed to become part of Venith.

Under Venith's rule, the city was suddenly heavily taxed, and those who could not pay were flogged in an open forum so that everyone could see what happened to those who didn't pay taxes.

But luck had struck in the year 710 AS, Venith was invaded by the kingdom of Icenaian, and Venith’s capital, Fallwind, was captured. Jacobus fled with some loyal soldiers to Alryn. The villagers found out that their dictator was in town, so they decided to hang his loyal guards and took Jacobus out to the flogging grounds and flogged him to death.

In the year 721, Icenaian was taken over by the great kingdom of Warkab. King Tohea Frydses of Warkab visited his new people. During the meeting with the King and the village elected representative, Marcus Oldgader, they decide together that all who was and would become leaders in the town now named Alryn, must be elected by the people. After a few days, Marcus Oldgader was elected as the new leader of the city, and the king gave him the title "Lord of Alryn".

In the year 773, many of the city's strong and fit men were gathered for the purpose of war; they had been summoned by the insane "Phoenix King" to fight under his banner. Four years later (777 AS), after the very unsuccessful war was over, some returned, but many who returned were missing different parts of themselves whether it be a body part or a piece of themselves. The following 50 years was difficult for Alryn as the men of the village couldn't work as they used to and many became violent. The town became really poor since it wasn't everyone who could work. That was until 831 AS, when the Stallion road was built a mile away from town. The businesses were booming because of the increased visitors, and new life filled the sad town. The town began expanding along the stallion road.

In the year 1117 AS, a woman was elected as Lord of the city; she was given the title "Lady of Alryn". She had so much support around her, that the king himself, Theoden Dunland, came to visit the newly elected Lady. He gave the town money to get a proper school and a better mansion for the current leader of the town and for the future projects.

In the year 1121 AS, early of Barrakas, came an adventuring party and revealed that the lady was corrupt and drew fiendish powers from a demon trapped under the graveyard. She didn't like to lose, so she attacked the adventuring party but died in the process. Two weeks later a new lord was elected. Lord Léofred Stefan, though he was mostly known as Lord Stefan.