Metropia

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Metropia is one of the most populated domains in the Mists. At the northeast end of the island sits the city of Shining Hills with a population of 100,000 halflings. The city is surrounded by a wall, twenty feet high, with a cannon and mounted muskets on top. Normally the walls are guarded only by the cannon, but during a time of emergency the militia will muster and man the muskets. The city is known for turning out wool clothing, furniture, cigars, pipes, and wood carvings in large numbers. Water wheels power the domain’s many clothing and furniture factories, as well as its ammunition and gun factories.

There is a large bat cave right on the shore of Metropia which, along with the sulfur deposits to the east, supplies the saltpeter for the ammo factory. There are large military outposts guarding both. Travelling further southeast, one can find mostly sheep pastures, tobacco farms and light woods, where the rural population lives. Sheep are raised for both wool and mutton, with mutton being a big part of the halfling diet; the halflings have dozens of recipes for mutton.

The further one gets from the city, the wilder the land grows; light woods turn into thick forests, where halfling foresters chop down trees by the hundreds and send them off to the nearby sawmills, which deliver the lumber to Shining Hills. On the Southwest side of the island is an area known as the Dark Woods, where fey are truly abundant; there are a number of undead treants along with the live ones, and here dwells the Darklord Adair Deepburrow in all his hatred. He is obsessed with burning down the city and forcing the halflings to “get back to their roots,” but always fall far short of that goal. The fae, worgs, and treants are unable to get closer than two miles to any halfling settlement of a population of 100 or more.

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