Neiren
The village of Neiren is a quiet, prosperous town located on the southeastern edge of settled lands and within the demesne of Lord Kelvor Wrothe. Neiren is known for its extraordinarily bountiful farmland and its booming lumber trade. Newcomers to the village cannot miss the forty-foot tall stone tower that dominates its skyline nor the impressive manor house Lord Wrothe keeps atop a hillock overlooking the village.
Description
Most buildings in Neiren are simple wattle and daub structures with thatch roofs and no windows. They tend towards single-story homes with a small loft where the family sleeps. Many have gardens and a few have barns for goats and chickens. Within the village proper well-maintained cobblestone roads keep the mud and dirt down and beyond town limits these roads turn to hard-packed dirt that holds up well even in the spring rains.
Daily Life
Life in Neiren communal. They tend to three large fields as well as a sizable herd of sheep. Time not spent in these shared affairs is used for repairing their houses and tools or seeing to personal gardens. Most have only 1-2 hours of leisure time in any given day and at least part of this is spent in honor of the Goddess.
The rowdy, rambunctious lumberjacks sent to Neiren to work the timber trade strike a contrast to the quiet, friendly townsfolk. These men and women spend five days in work camps inside Zaran and then return to Neiren for two nights of drunken debauchery. Most locals avoid Greenbriar during these days.
Religion
Everyone in Neiren worships the Goddess. Their faith is unshakeable, helped along by the fact that the local Servant of the Goddess spends weeks every spring traveling throughout the region calling on the Goddess to bless the fields. Harvests were always bountiful in the rich farmland but since this began they exploded.
Religions from the outside world are accepted as a fact of life and a few missionaries have attempted to found temples in Neiren thus far to little success. Locals offer these outsiders and their gods differential respect but rarely much more.
Industry
When this land was gifted to the Wrothe family generations ago it was rich with mineral wealth but when the veins dried up Neiren was forced to remake itself, transforming from a busy mining village into an agricultural powerhouse. This success has come thanks in no small part to the efforts of Ardrinei Elorni, a Servant of the Goddess and resident of Neiren. Ardrinei spends most of her time during planting traveling from field-to-field using her magic to bless the land and ensure a bountiful harvest.
A booming lumber trade, mostly ignored by locals, also thrives in Neiren. Most of the forestry work is handled by outside workers hired in distant cities and sent to Neiren where they spend the spring, summer and fall months at hard labor before returning home for the winter. These rough-and-tumble lumberjacks ensure the Greenbriar stays busy and give both the sheriff and forester fits.
Neiren’s Activity
Autumn
- Harvest
- Thresh/winnow/dry/store
- Plant winter crop
- Livestock sales
- Winter prep
Winter
- Repair & rebuild
Spring
- Plant summer crops
- Work fallow fields
- Plant gardens
Summer
- Harvest hay
- Harvest winter crops
- Weed & fertilize summer crops
Places of Interest
Elbi's Images
Neiren’s jewelry shop and the only Glittergold Consortium storefront in all Eastdale.Greenbriar Tavern
The only inn and tavern in Neiren, Greenbriar maintains a large common room for the occasional town visitor.Melodies Roost
Neiren’s general store is a large, single-story building of wood with heavy locks and sturdy shutters.Wrathclaw Tower
This three-story stone building is the tallest structure in Neiren and home to the wizard Silion Tuldaril.Wrothe Manor
A large manor house sits atop a low hill overlooking the town.Personalities
Ardrinei Elorni
Ardrinei Elorni is a cheerful elf Servant of the Goddess who enjoys singing and playing in the rain.Elbi Glittergold
Elbi Glittergold is a gnome scribe and illustrator who loves to read and is working on her masterpiece, the complete illuminated works of Trilbi Trem.Elia Weaver
Elia is an energetic human weaver poised to enter her 60s who treats the children of Neiren as her own.Hamund Erlance
Hamund is a middle-aged human salt prospector looking to make it big and willing to follow any lead no matter how crazy.
Minendil Umbalin
Minendil is a self-important human aristocrat who enjoys falconing.Olbrador Greenroot
Olbrador Greenroot is a gnome oracle in his middle years who has an understated, yet granitic penchant for looking after the welfare of others.Orben Glittergold
Orben Glittergold is a gnome illusionist and master goldsmith who enjoys socializing and the politics of business.Selador Carn
Selador is a quiet, sad man in his late twenties who enjoys working with his hands and being under the open sky.