Hawk’s Town
April 8, 2009
The largest independent village built since Ragnarok. Though Midgaard is larger in size by far, it is a remnant and it is not unified. Hawk’s Town boasts comfort and safety at an unparalleled level to the rest of the world. Nearly 2,000 citizens have found shelter in the hollowed out belly of the great giant Bure.
An active market district and a vibrant source of clean water create the center of this town. It serves as a major trade hub and travel stop for many of the outlying nomadic tribes.
Here the most prominent shrine to Freyja is housed and many faithful believe that if they pray diligently and their desire is strong enough, Freyja’s spirit will rejuvenate them.
The town is organized under the immense prowess of its sheriff, Hawk III, great grandson of the towns original founder. Though a mayor and several prominent citizens operate the central government, the power comes from Hawk and his reputation.
Several graveyards are clustered around the town, segregated by loyalty to a god or a creed. Those that follow Freyja are placed north of the town on the road to Midgaard, the followers of Odin are laid south of town towards the coast. The enemies of Hawk’s Town, the raiders and criminals, are cremated and their bodies fill several large containers at the towns entrances as a sanitary, but ominous warning, of the prowess and force that Hawk’s Town employs to keep itself free.
A family of skalds operates a library in the town. Medical information, old maps, and sometimes technological innovations are carefully gleaned by the family from the stories of the ancients.
A power plant provides somewhat steady electricity to the town which provides light and heat, further compounding the town’s prominence and eye towards safety. Steam rises eternally from the town, causing visitors to marvel at how its streets seem to appear suddenly from out of a fog.
There are rumors of an underground city of dwarves that keep the town operating, but everyone knows the dwarves were killed off with the gods long ago.
