Andergast

Population: 6500

Governance: King Wendelmir VI Zornbold, together with the city council of Andergast

Foundation date: 869 before BF

Derographical affiliation: Ingval Valley

Political affiliation: Barony of Andergast

Trade Zone: AND

Traffic routes: Prince’s Road, Bridge to the Sâlweg, Teshkalian Road, Ingval

“We are the bulwark against the orcs and the wretched Nostrians. Abiding and unbreakable, like stone oaks!”
— an Andergastan knight, 1039 FB

“Unkempt, very backwards, and hostile towards women. I don’t like it here.”
— a Horasian scholar, 1040 FB

Region: Capital of the kingdom of Andergast

Population: 6500

Governance: King Wendelmir VI Zornbold, who is advised by the City Council of Guilds

Temples: Hesinde, Ingerimm, Peraine, Praios, Rondra, Travia, Tsa; also, multiple shrines

Trade and Industry: trading center for wood (especially stone oak) and wood products, products from pig farming, coal, horses (Teshkalians), gateway for trade with Thorwal, Nostria, and the interior of Aventuria

Characteristic Features: Proud royal castle, Combat College of Andergast (mage academy; gray; produces classic combat mages), branch of the order of the alchemists of the Red Salamander Society

Atmosphere in the City: Insistence upon old traditions, distrustful of anything new, submissive to authority

Andergast lies within expansive forests on the estuary of Andra on the Invgal River. Its walls are dark, and the temper of its people is patriotic and traditional. The city’s alleys are usually dark due to the tall, peaked roofs, and so many pigs wallow in the omnipresent mud on the streets that many inhabitants leave their houses only while wearing special wooden shoes (the so-called pattens).

Older houses are primarily constructed with sturdy wood, such as stone oak. Since a disastrous fire in the smithy quarter, homes are now made from stone. King Wendelmir VI, a knight from the Zornbold family, rules his subjects from his defiant fortress within the city walls. The city bursts at its seams in the month of Rondra, the time of the popular knight’s tournament. It is busy at other times, too, but at a more leisurely pace. Most townsfolk fill their lives with artful woodcuttings, pig farming, and trade, and are certainly more worldly than Andergast’s rural population, but foreigners view them as conservative and resistant to progress.