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Loudman

Loudman is a very small city, perhaps a large town, at the southern tip of Caldonacia. It sits in current days as the front of the staging area for caravans heading south to Hebria and beyond, into the lands of the former Empire. It has a reputation for little else these days, it is a 'trading post' and an outcrop from the main Caldonacian population.

There is much to support this, although there are local industries. Farming seems to be resurging here - the lands are wet and seem particularly well suited to such endeavours. It also has large peat bogs in the rolling hills away to the east of the city, and these provide fuel for the fires of the locals and some of the water used in the other main local industry - that of kind of distilled, fermented grain whiskey. This stuff isn't the same as the top-notch Hebrian whisky that is available and imported in large quantities from the Imperial lands away to the south. This is a much more rough-and-ready drink, known locally as "Callech" (or 'Kallech', or 'Callek', or even - mostly to those who may have been enjoying it - as 'ghalleck'), and 'the brown one' to many visitors.

The town hasn't always been an outpost. Before the wars of unification, there was a thriving community away to the south, away towards the Golsandra peninsula. That land has long since been abandoned - it was the scene of much of the fighting of that time as the Empire invaded. There is a movement to re-populate that area, though - and already many small settlements have returned. This has, in part, driven some of the growth in local farming for Loudman, which provides food to many of those peoples. The local feudal rulers, of course, have promoted this behaviour, as it would benefit the town to no longer be an outpost to Caldonacia again, although the main feudal chiefs are less enthusiastic about a spreading out of the population.

The town has a population of maybe 10,000 people, but the true size is hard to gauge. As caravans are assembled, there is an influx of people that join with them, and make the town quite a bit bigger than it normally would be.


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ArtheaWiki: Loudman (last edited 2013-09-15 21:49:33 by DanielStevenson)