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My home campaign is back in the mid-1300s, and no Time of Troubles has befallen (my players vote on major matters, and that’s their decision) so Jalanthar has only been raided by orcs, hobgoblins, and bugbears a handful of…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
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My home campaign is back in the mid-1300s, and no Time of Troubles has befallen (my players vote on major matters, and that’s their decision) so Jalanthar has only been raided by orcs, hobgoblins, and bugbears a handful of 2)
…times, and lightly.
Jalanthar was wiped out once in the past (the last orc horde), and no one clearly remembers who first founded it before then, but from the first it was a human hamlet, of subsistence farming and ranching, …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
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…that built up around a way-inn, the first Crowing Cockatrice. Local folklore says it was founded by Murthburt Jalanth, the innkeeper of the Cockatrice.
The inn was sited where it was because human prospectors kept camping 4)
…there as they sought mineral wealth in nearby tors and crags. That activity has always continued as Jalanthar was refounded and began to flourish. The secret of Jalanthar’s survival is that all Jalanthans (or “Jalant,”…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
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…either is correct, and both in use) aid each other when attacked or hungry or in need of medical aid, and traveling druids, clerics, peddlers, and adventurers all like the inn. The hamlet has springs of good drinking water6)
…and many edible plants flourish locally. Over time, Jalant spent their winters expanding their homes, underground, lining their diggings with stone and constructing many back ways out and sharp tunnel bends they could defend.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 14, 2020
