Introduction

 

Good evening traveller and welcome to Stonekeep.

I hope our humble tavern will meet your approval, even if the rest of the Keep's comforts are scarce.

You must understand the guardsmen who patrol and administer the area have decidedly spartan tastes.

I know, I know it is hardly the most welcoming scene to stumble upon but they would have it no other way you see.

 

Well, my father tells me that they were once only a handful of peasants dedicated to the defence of Yew. Yew was far smaller back then but a thousand times more dangerous. The lessons those rag-tag volunteers learned in the violent backwater that was once Yew allowed them to not only crush resistance within their borders but also to expand their territories.

 

You can vote and elect as many mayors as you like but they're the ones with the real power around here. They delegated authority by choice and they could take it back in an instant.

 

Oh yeah, they're a gruff bunch of bastards if ever you saw one, they're violent, narrow-minded and are motivated by a set of ideals few people can even begin to understand but I wouldn't trust my family's safety with anyone else.