New Roford

Overview
New Roford is a trade hub on the western coast of the continent Ash'Kur. It's the second largest town in Ferrakhia after Nerakis and has the highest growth rate of any city in the region. The city is built near the mouth of a river.

History
New Roford is a town founded in the year 1225 by Jasper Blackwood in order for the Crimson Covenant and the large official guilds to have a stronghold in Ash'Kur as well as to secure the leyline focus located in Ferrakhia.

The city is named after the town of Roford, a small settlement near in Fanosia that was destroyed when the Gonoth Ark left the world in 1225 and caused the decline of arcane magic.

Oldtown and Cliffside
The oldest districts of the city, used to consist of a small fishing village and a guard tower before the arrival of the Crimson Covenant in 1225. Nowadays Oldtown is mainly used for housing the various guilds while the richer folk of the city tends to live in Cliffside.

Mench Harbour and the Crimson Square
The two main trade hubs of the city, the harbour was built early in the founding of New Roford in order for it to be possible to quickly import and handle building materials for the town while the market square sprung up when the various journeymen arriving to the town needed somewhere to live.

The Pillar of Endrin and Eadric's Market
The Pillar of Endrin was the first large building project in the new city as the founders wanted a secure building around the leyline focus that lies beneath the tower. It is currently considered to be the best guarded location of the city, with it's gonoth-enhanced security measures and spellcasters defending it.

Around what is now called Eadric's Market a large amount of dwarven-style taverns, shops and houses was built soon after the construction of the Pillar of Endrin. This because most of the masons working on the tower were mainly dwarves.

Rivel's Crossing and Gorgonoth's Run
The two youngest town districts of New Roford where a large amount of people from Ash'Kur resides. The inhabitants had heard about the laws the new town had started to enforce in order to quell the bandit problem in the area and moved here in order to be safer. A few of the richer families that moved here has taken residence in the district now called Gorgonoth's Run.

Grey Island
The island that is located in the river that parts the northern and the southern parts of the city. It houses most of the Grey Men, a Fanosian assassin's guild working for the Crimson Covenant as their guard force.

Blackwood Manor
The private estate of Jasper Blackwood, where a lot of the city officials reside. It is also used as the Crimson Covenant base of operations in Ash'Kur.

Impotant people living in New Roford

 * Jasper Blackwood, one of the founders of the city, member of the Crimson Covenant and the guild of the Apostles.
 * Eadric Thriceborn, founder of the Crimson Covenant and member of the guild of the Apostles.
 * Seïna Derook, current mayor of New Roford.
 * Dinan Stokeswater, engineer and city planner.
 * Gwenth, watch captain and leader of the Grey Men.
 * Ferrekh Ferren Nesaam.