Gilgan

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## History

1230BE - Gil called Giant's Paw a legendary figure of immense size and strength claims the mountain dell and builds his town there. He walls it and defends it from other tribes creating a small mountaintop kingdom. Centuries later these warring tribes would still look to Gilgan as their capital.

460BE - Prospectors discover the gold mines of Gilgan. This become public knowledge soon thereafter and provokes several minor and major wars.

420BE - Wars finally result in a stable coalition of dwarves and humans founding the nation of High Grange with Gilgan as their capital and gold as the basis of their trade economy and strength.

350BE - High Grange, Gold Fist Matrin Coldbone breaks the cairen of the Fangrock Clan and enslave the survivors as servant workers. Their land is added to High Grange.

298BE - Discovery of Talium deposits near the borders of High Grange lead to a declaration on war on the wild giants. Gilgan becomes known as a place that offers bounties on greenskin and snouter kills. High Grange is successful.

150-140PE - some time in this decade Gilgan violently splits from High Grange. High Grange retains a warlike mountain man culture. Gilgan emerges as more human dominated and focused on commerce and specifically mining.

18BE - First trade envoys from Auria arrive.

2BE to 2PE - Gilgan supplies Auria with loans to support its moves in the First Commerce Wars.

6PE - The 'Cellen Faction' argued that Gilgan should join the growing Aurian Empire. Talks are begun with negociators. However at least one of the talks in ended by the neighbouring armies of High Grange descending on the talks and killing everyone present.

22PE - the dwarvern/human mountain nation of High Grange is conquered by the Aurian Empire. this preempts the consumption of Gilgan itself.

44PE The Mining Campaign by Lorn Hunter results in the taking of Gilgan. Many of its subsidiaries had thrown in already as it used the cellan and was based on its gold trade with Auria as its major partner.

## Geography

Gilgan itself is in a protected dell on a plateau in the Gilgan Mountains. It is a very large walled city that is naturally defensible and has caverns running underneath it which allow for extensive basements and sewers. It also has a underground river and lake running beneath the city.

Not far from the city are the mines and there are three separate and large gold mines all within a half-day's journey of the city,

## Economy

Gilgan has a booming economy that is entirely reliant on the gold trade. If the mines should run dry it would become a ghost town within a year.

## Demographics

Gilgan holds about 8000-9000 people, the majority of which are human miners on low to reasonable pay. Few are destitute except the cairen and Visks, who live as slaves but these make up less than 10% of the population. Miners and lower class workers in general make up almost 80% of the population with about a quarter of them being dwarves. High level bosses, nobles, business men and high level craftsmen on good money make up just less than 10% and maybe one in ten of them are dwarves. The rest are visitors or don't fall into these categories.

### Religion

Gilgan unsurprisingly favour Knowledge highly in his aspect as Celer god of money and trade. He is also worshiped as Talon the world smith. Other religions struggle in Gilgan. The dwarves here are known to be particularly devout.

## Politics and Government

The governor of Gilgan is its nominal head and Gilgan is large enough to have a permanent senator to vote for them in the senate. However it is the owners of Ingot Industries who holds the true power in Gilgan. The mines and trade avenues work along his designs and that determines the real life style and workings of Gilgan.

## Military

Gilgan could be considered the obvious choice for the centre of the Black Protectoran but it is not. However a sizable Black Protectoran force is found here. The Horizon Guard units have Gilgan as their base of operations as do the dwarvern only Mine Marks that ride ponies. At any given time there will be several legions (a minimum of five) in or about Gilgan protecting the trade convoys and escorting crown gold.

## Culture

Gilgan is a major city of the Aurian Empire known for its golden-lighted mines. Its buildings are almost all made of baked clay brick or stone. Though it is the centre for gold production on the continent its people are not generally affluent. It has a large slave workforce as well as a paid Aurian one.

There is a small select area of Gilgan called the Cash Quarter in which only the privileged mine owners and those of their class may have their estates. It is rarely troubled as those who run the mines and profitable trading market of Gilgan line well the pockets of the Black Protectoran, which keeps them highly protected and in some cases above them law.