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Restwell Keep

The eponymous “Keep on the Borderlands” has a number of details.

Geography

Restwell Keep is located roughly five days ride north northeast of the city-state of Bizancio. It is situated on a defensible promontory along the road to the guild-held city-state of Thumlin.

History

The keep was founded over a hundred years ago by Macsen Wledig, a successful adventurer who having reached the stage in his career when he had begun to attract followers, decided to retire and build his own stronghold with the proceeds of his exploits. He chose this defensible promontory for his keep, and then got to work clearing the area of preparing the region for settlers to create his very own barony far from any greedy city-state.

At first he found that retirement agreed with him. Things remained this way for twenty years until the threat of Corvax threatened the entire continent of Radavan. Macsen could not stand by and watch helplessly, so he gathered all the troops and resources he could from his growing estate and marched away to fight. He was never seen again. Once Corvax and his forces were defeated at last, word of the disaster finally reached Restwell Keep. The castellan at the time long held out hope that the rumors were false, but at last had to admit that his master and almost all of his own comrades were dead.

Fortunately, Macsen had chosen his castellan well. While the keep has not thrived, over the past forty years it has managed to attract heroic figures ready to take on the challenges to this small settlement. Rather than abandon the keep, the people of Restwell have done their best with what little they have. The professional garrison has been replaced by a handful of trained guards supported by peasant militia. Three times the keep has been attacked or besieged by humanoids or bandits, and each time it has held out and overcome its foes. However, the keep could never survive a concentrated attack from a trained army and it is only a matter of time before it collapses when a mistake is made.

To address this deficiency, the people of Restwell Keep have recently pledged their allegiance to the city-state of Salt Temple, located to the West. The Prelate of that state has sent a templar to assume the castillian’s duties. That templar, Lord Drysdale has seen Restwell Keep as an opportunity to bring order to these lawless lands. However, many of his policies are unpopular, such as increased taxation and religious oppression.

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