Rosendale

From Gothpoodle

Calendar

This is the halfling calendar that was in place when humans first came to the valley. It was adopted by the human farmers and stuck. Months are 4 weeks, 28 days long. Seasons start on the equinox/solstice. New moon is the first day of the month, full moon is the 15th, half moons on the 8th and 22nd.

• Spring
  • Sugar Moon (March) - maple sugar, calving
  • Seed Moon (April) - spring crop planting, farrowing
  • Milk Moon (May) - cows back into full milk
• Summer
  • Honey Moon (June) - bees making honey, shearing
  • Hay Moon (July) - gathering hay, harvest flax and hemp
  • Harvest Moon (August) - harvesting grains
• Autumn
  • Apple Moon (September) - apple harvest, breed cows
  • Hunter Moon (October) - hunting birds, pannage, breed sheep
  • Wood Moon (November) - gather wood
• Winter
  • Blood Moon (December) - slaughtering
  • Wassail Moon (January) - wassailing, breed sows
  • Lamb Moon (February) - lambing, prune fruit trees

Traditions and Holidays

• Wassail Moon, singing to apple trees drinking mulled cider

Villages

• Fjord (west)
  • Fallsport
• Lower Valley
  • Cloverfield - Cattle and Cheese (human)
  • Mapledell - Lumber, Charcoal, and Maple Sugar (human)
• Upper Valley
  • Eel Gully - Eels and Farming (halfling)
  • Applebottom - Apple Orchard (halfling)
  • Sheer Hollow - Mixed Farming (halfling)
  • Gilliford - Mixed Farming (halfling)
• The Tarn (upper south hanging valley, between two great mountains)
  • Adders Bluff - Mining and Fishing (dwarf)
  • Hermit Tor - Quarry and Fishing (dwarf)
• Elf Wood (upper north side valley branching off into numerous wooded glens) - centaurs, unicorns, satyrs, treants
  • Otterbrook - Fishing and Furs (human)
  • Rowanwood - Woodcraft (elf)
• Troll Moor (east)
  • Snipe Island - Trout, Berries, and Grouse (halfling)
  • Edgemoor - Sheep and Honey (halfling)

Threats

• Frost Giants: Viking-style raiders from the fjord, come in winter
• Hobgoblins and Goblins: The mountains and valleys to the south are goblin infested, they were responsible for the fall of the dwarven kingdom
• Trolls: The moor to the east
• Bugbears: Forests to the north
• Orcs: Random bands raiding by land during the night
• Undead: The old dwarven city is riddled with undead
• Ogres and Hill Giants: Throughout the hills, often work for the goblins
• Griffins: A pride of griffins lives in a specific set of hills
• Kobolds: Under the mountains of the north and the elf wood
• Werewolf: Edge of elf wood
• Stone Giants: Tribe in the mountains to the north, enemies of the frost giants