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Evolving Settlements Week 1 - The Town of Ismouth & The Mayor’s House 🏰🌊
🕑 Added 2025-05-08 16:26:52 +0000 UTCHi all!
This month, we’re diving deep into the theme of Evolving Settlements, and what better way to explore that than by tracing the growth of a single town through time?
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📍 Introducing Ismouth – a once-humble fishing village nestled at the mouth of the River Isa, now transformed into a thriving trade port. This release includes four detailed phases of Ismouth’s development, allowing you to drop the town into your campaign at any point in its history—or show the consequences of time, growth, and darker forces at play.
🔹 Phase 1 – A quiet riverside hamlet, connected by an old stone bridge and watched over by the newly restored Ismouth Castle (released last week).
🔹 Phase 2 – The town begins to expand, spilling across both banks of the river as prosperity beckons.
🔹 Phase 3 – Defensive stone walls are erected around the ‘Old Town’ while the New Town continues to grow unchecked across the water.
🔹 Phase 4 – A bustling port and wooden palisade now define New Town. Ismouth is no longer just a village—it’s a rising power on the coast.
🏛️ New Location Map: The Mayor’s House
Alongside the town map, we’re releasing a standalone battlemap of one of Ismouth’s key locations: the Mayor’s House. On the surface, it’s a symbol of civic success—grand, refined, and proudly overlooking the town he helped build. But beneath the polished stone and fine tapestries lies a terrible secret.
Mayor Aldric Vann has guided Ismouth through years of prosperity, but only through a pact with a demonic patron of avarice, Gildabrix. What began as a prayer to a minor god of abundance has twisted into a dark bargain sealed beneath his home, in a hidden summoning chamber marked with infernal runes. As Gildabrix’s demands grow more sinister, Aldric teeters on the edge of ruin—and with him, all of Ismouth.
Whether your players come to seek an audience, uncover corruption, or banish a growing evil, this map sets the stage for high-stakes roleplay and intense encounters.
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