Tiernan’s Roost (city of Pelmon Riverdan)

Steel Realms
Tiernan’s Roost is an ancient fortress city in the Riverdan of Pelmon that guards the major entrance to and passage through the Seagrass Valley. It was once a shining holdfast fortress built by the ancient Riverdan lords with the help of dwarven miners. Its renowned undercity, river passage and walls are crumbling now, a bare shadow of what it once was.

Undercity: The city was built atop a set of sewers and holdfast warrens with a river diverted and controled through it. It once emptied into a lake around which farms and a small town encircled. The undercity has fallen into disrepair over time and with several earthquakes. The river barely runs through it, and it is used only as a sewer these days.

The Town of Tiernan’s Basin: This once thriving town is a ghost town now. An ancient and crumbling inn and stables, and squatters are its only inhabitants. The lake around which was built is about half its size and subject to the floods and rains of the hills nearby – nearly going dry each summer.

Chronicle of Tiernan’s Roost

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Pervasive Knowledge / Very Easy Difficulty

Tiernan’s Roost is an ancient fortress city in the Riverdan of Pelmon that guards the major entrance to and passage through the Seagrass Valley. It was once a shining holdfast fortress built by the ancient Riverdan lords with the help of dwarven miners. Its renowned undercity, river passage and walls are crumbling now, a bare shadow of what it once was. The city was built on a leveled plateau in the foothills of the Blue Cardinal Hills . The walls suffered massive damage from the earthquake of CY 8844.

Rumors

  • It is rumored that the ancient paths of the undercity lead to old hold-outs of the nobility, filled with treasure.
  • It is said a beast or beasts prowls the ancient undercity – never coming up, but hunting those that seek the ancient warrens for treasure.

Undercity: The city was built atop a set of sewers and holdfast warrens with a river diverted and controled through it. It once emptied into a lake around which farms and a small town encircled. The undercity has fallen into disrepair over time and with several earthquakes. The river barely runs through it, and it is used only as a sewer these days.

The Town of Tiernan’s Basin: This once thriving town is a ghost town now. An ancient and crumbling inn and stables, and squatters are its only inhabitants. The lake around which was built is about half its size and subject to the floods and rains of the hills nearby – nearly going dry each summer.

Scarce Knowledge / Hard Difficulty

The Rat Plague: The lake nearby got a reputation for giant rats prowling its area. When the fort was built, and after an earthquake in CY 8844, they swelled out of the city and began eating a lot of local fauna. They were hunted and population decimated, but not before a disease outbreak and depopulation of game.

Rare Knowledge / Very Hard Difficulty

The ancient stone plateau the warrens and fort was built on was once a dragon ‘nest’.

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