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Gwozdhjem

The largest village in the western area of the ????? Mountains

Geography and Surroundings: 

Gwozdhjem is a very northern village. It's located in densely-forested mountains, which are dotted with similar scarcely-populated villages. These villages are about an hour to four hours away by horseback. The area is usually difficult to access, as it's pretty inland and the rivers in the area aren't suitable to sail in so it's pretty isolated. However, one of the smaller towns about an hour and a half outside of Gwozdhjem has finally got a single transportalizer installed, this makes getting to the area easier, but still a chore and not worth it unless you have business up there. 

There isn't a large problem with daywalkers, but they're common enough in the area to make residents familiar with the proper disposal and handling methods. Oftentimes it’s too cold for them to be much more than an annoyance.

The winters are long, and snowstorms are common. The summer months get shockingly hot though. Gwozdhjem is in an area lucky enough to have a good enough climate to farm in, though there is also an abundance of wildlife to hunt. 

The nearest brooding cavern is far north, and there’s a near-impossible mountain range to the east that separates the entire area from the outskirts of the Winterlands. The two regions have similarities in language and culture, but have not been able to easily interact for hundreds of sweeps. It’s likely that there were ancient practices and values that got brought over from the Winterlands when trolls migrated to the west.

Demographic: 

The town may be the largest in the area, and a sort of hub for commerce, but it's still very small. There aren't more than 500 people, and the other villages around are lucky to have around 250 residents. With the exception of Autarc, Anndus, Minera, and two or three midbloods  who help watch over the outlying villages, the entire area is filled with lowbloods. The highest blood color of any resident is yellow, and even those have low numbers compared to the amount of rusts.

There’s a huge agricultural community, as well as specialized laborers such as blacksmiths and carpenters. Almost everything they need can be made in the area, or traded for with ease.

Residents will typically crowd, gawk, and try to be on their best behavior when "highbloods" (olivebloods and up) are around, and many of the trolls here haven't seen more than one or two highbloods in their lives.

Despite the high amount of lowbloods, the number of psychics is shockingly low, and most lowbloods will instead grow larger than the "average" lowblood to accommodate the amount of physical labor that is typically done. There are exceptions though, it's rare for a troll to be as large as Vulcan or Vittez, or as small as Vatrra. There are also a shockingly large amount of adult trolls.

Most of the trolls here speak Standard as their second language, only learning it because of it's usefulness in trade and because Autarc highly encourages it. The primary language spoken is a North-Western language that’s “very uncommon” in the modern world (just the old lowblooded dialect that’s used is considered uncommon, there’s a modern dialect that is more common but still unusual to find outside of the area).

Trivia:

90% of the buildings in the entire area are built by hand, not by construction drone.

There is electricity and some modern appliances, but neither are heavily relied on.

Despite the population being mostly fluent in two languages, 80-90% of the population cannot read or write, forgoing schoolfeeding in favor of apprenticeships and laboring.

There is a branch of the military that exists and runs, they’re Knighterrors, and though they play by some old-school rules, they are still listed in the imperial fleet as soldiers.

The only transportalizer in the area is in Nordgóra, and that’s most likely because it’s the easiest area to establish one for people trying to go past the eastern mountains. It’s still pretty ignored.

Gwozdhjem, Nordgóra, and Sydgóra are the only villages in the area with actual names. The other ones don’t have names in Standard, and aren’t named on any maps. In North-Western, they’’re referred to by their location relative to Gwozdhjem and their size and that’s sort of their name

While it is not taboo to leave town or move in from elsewhere, it’s unusual to see new faces and even more unusual to leave. Most of the residents are content to stay in their community and don’t see the appeal of travel.

Credit:

Thank you @activatingaggro and @anontrolls for the format.

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Gross. Honestly just gross. Widsth singing songs about Tooz, and Tooz absolutely eating that shit up. They flirt in public and sing together. When one/both of them gets sick of the relationship they might just end up friends with benefits. Vittez wouldn’t really see Widsth as a ‘forever’ matesprit anyways because he’s a highblood! Tooz just aint gonna live that long and he knows it! They stay amicable and neither one holds any lingering feelings. Plus then they’re DOUBLE-gross and would totes be wingmen for each other.

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Completely ineffective? Neither one really gets into ~emotionally deep~ talks and neither one really needs protecting. Vittez may send Widsth travel supplies and wish him luck on the road. Widsth may boost Vittez’s confidence and show his drafts to him. It’s certainly a happy relationship, but if they have Problems are they really gonna work it out? Maybe?

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See pale, only with 500% more stress on Widsth because if he has to drag Vittez out of a situation is he going to be able to? The man is a GIANT.

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