Three Mills

A small, industrious farming town that sits on the Watchtower Tributary, Three Mills is so named for the two watermills, one for lumber production and the other for flour, and a windmill, also for flour. The town is under the distant rule of Bridgton, the magisterial seat of the Directorate in the region and home to the ruling human family. While Three Mills has no formal leadership, the three mill owners make up an informal council residents turn to in times of crisis.

The town is made up of a number of farmsteads and a couple of lumber mills, but a small town proper is located around a town square, just outside of the local Pentacle Temple. The square is used as a market, and is also where residents draw water from a large well and meet to gossip or celebrate.

Three Mills is notable for having a Dwarven blacksmith, known simply as Silverstone, one of the few in any human settlements. Because of this adventurers and military leaders in the area will travel to Three Mills to do business with her. Three Mills is also one of the few places nomadic halflings from the Red Wanders will stop to trade with humans, because of the lack of Directorate representation, and farms in the area will sometimes (warily) hire itinerant halfling labourers during harvest season. There is also a collection of Elven inhabitants who have set up cabins on the lakes in the area as a very distant retreat from the intrigues and politics of Elysium.

Over the past decade the region has been experiencing increasingly hard times. Erratic weather has produced a number of bad harvest seasons, and animal and monster attacks have been on the rise, which is unusual in the area. Times have gotten so bad for some farmers and tradespeople that they’ve packed up, boarded up their houses, and moved on looking for better opportunities elsewhere, although the tight knit community survives.