Magmire

*“As I arrived in Magmire, I was struck by its sheer unremarkability. Having seen countless towns and villages, none of them were quite as unmemorable* *as this one.”*

*- Tours in the North by Naya Gamliel*

Magmire was a farming community located in northern Eithne, near Mt Oriel. It was completely destroyed in the eruption of the volcano in the fall of 1700.

## Village

Magmire was a small village more so than a proper town. Home to about 200 equines, it was extremely rural and featured only a small central village. The village center featured a single communal house for receiving guests, a simple local bar that was more of a gathering place than a traditional establishment, and the “Office”. The Office was a governmental building that housed the Magmire brig, acted as the mail office and aviary, and a courthouse for solving issues in the village. It was manned by a single Chevalier. There was also an open plaza - or more a stomped down grass field - where village gatherings and markets would be held. Magmire did not have a schoolhouse of any kind.

Surrounding the village center were countless farming plots, pastures and orchards, with family homes and outbuildings scattered between them. Magmire stretched out for several miles in this way, although most homes were within a comfortable walking distance of the center.

The village featured no particular points of interest, and rarely received travelers outside Chevaliers on patrol or Aodhian merchants delivering goods.

## Culture

A typical farming village where life revolved mostly around the yearly crop cycle and the unique challenges each season would bring to the village’s survival. They worshipped Ignacio as their primary patron, largely due to the closeness of Mt Oriel, although Kaia also received a healthy amount of praise.

Largely isolated from life elsewhere, Magmire deviated from typical Aodhian values in several ways. Theirs was a simple life, void of hedonism - although more so due to the inability to indulge, rather than any condemnation of such. As only common farmers lived in town, wealth differences were miniscule, and class divides largely non-existent. New arrivals or visitors who acted like they were “more-than” were generally met with sullen derision.

Magmire had significant Onean influence in its culture, partially due to its northern location - some say it was founded by some runaway clan or another. Although they still held the Aodhian beliefs of freely expressed gender, they tended to be a bit more prudish when it came to sexuality - partially out of pragmatism. Polyamory was common and allowed, but casual sex was generally not welcomed due to lack of access to contraception. Magmire families tended to have a single, strong “head of household” who lorded over the others - this individual was generally the matriach or patriach of the family.

Literacy rate in Magmire was very low, and most children never attended school. Whatever skills they needed were taught to them by their parents, with an emphasis on practical skills related to farming, building and repair. Their lives tended to be very local, with aspirations to travel or move rare. It was typical for people to be born and die here, or at best move to another nearby village in search of a spouse.

Magmire’s citizens owned no slaves themselves, but some individuals participated actively in the slave trade, often by hunting Vagabonds around northern Eithne.

## History

Magmire was a fairly young settlement, a splinter off of a larger town further south. It was formed by a group of villagers looking for new and fertile lands to farm, and despite the hilliness of the region, the volcanic ash made Magmire a prime spot for farming. The village was officially registered in the Crown’s taxbooks in 1531, but had presumably existed in some way for at least ten years earlier.

Like so many simple farming villages in Eithne, Magmire saw little change during its existence. It expanded slowly, and the lives of its citizens were rather far removed from the goings-on in the rest of Eithne - events like the Inquisition had essentially no effect here, so far away from the Crown’s influence.

The story of Magmire came to a sudden end in the fall of 1700, when Mt Oriel erupted violently. Although most residents were able to evacuate in time, the entire village was destroyed, and was never rebuilt.

## Notes

* Natives of Magmire tended to be on the drafty side, with some ponies in the mix. Typical light Aodhian types were a minority, but did exist. Styling was always convenience based, with little eye for aesthetics.
* Was inhabited entirely by commoners, and a single stationed Chevalier. Locals worked mostly as farmers, although the village also had a few slave traders and a blacksmith.