Town Overview
In the distance, one can see a wooden tower standing against dark mountains with skirts of green vapor. The Falwur Fen stretches in all directions, its bubbling surface belching clouds of green gas into the ever-present pall. The distant calls of jungle animals echo through the olive mists, an endless chatter that fills both day and night. The corduroy road ends at a small island of rock and dirt, shored by timbers driven deep into the marsh’s bottom. The first of two gates, the structure is abandoned to flowering moss and moving vines. Beyond the old entrance, the road becomes a pier which winds its way around ancient trees and across deeper waters. After a time, one finally comes to the old palisade which keeps the town separate from the wilderness around it. A number of piers radiate from the wooden post wall, attached to a tottering wharf that surrounds the town.
The pier’s length is interrupted by two drawbridges that must be lowered by porters high in the trees. Each of the trees is crowned by a crow’s nest of sorts, where laborers crank a heavy-handled winch. The men working the bridges groan and complain as they go through the motions that are their only job and duty. At the day’s end a boat is rowed to the bottom of each post and the porters slide down slick ropes, abandoning their posts until morning. As the last porter returns to town, each gate along the palisade is closed, barred, and locked. No one enters and no one leaves until morning.
Miríngor itself is a small town ringed by a wooden wall. The wall is supported by five scouting towers with stone foundations. A larger tower peers over the treetops from the town’s center. There is little plan or order to the layout of the buildings inside the walls. The houses and stores are built against one another, appearing to lean and huddle against the next for support. Due to this strange construction, the town is comprised of eight building clusters, each radiating out from an original stone structure. Nothing is built against the town walls or towers, some small evidence of law in this backwater outpost.