Fith'Hagen

Nestled on the south shore of Silver Lake between Whitehorn Wood and The Blackcaps, th e Town of Fith'Hagen predates the Empire of Galifar.

When Karrn the Conqueror rose up 2,000 years ago, Raliyeh Fith, a renowned warrior, and Iayah Hagen, a fearsome caster, were at his side. Like Karrn, both came from common backgrounds and had served in the Blademarks. As senior officers in Karrn's army, both Raliyeh and Iayah are chronicled in Karrn's //Analects of War//, jointly credited with defeating the Goblins at Skullreave and routing the last organized Metrol army outside Vathirond. However, at the critical moment when Karrn mobilized his armies at the borders of Daskara (now Thrane), Raliyeh and Iayah defected and swore allegiance to the Queen of Wroat. Their reasons are no longer known, and the //Analects// make no further reference to them. What is known is that, after Karrn's assassination and the rise of the stable Five Kingdoms, Raliyeh married into the ir'Kembles and started a family, while Iayah took a member of the ir'Klarn clan as her consort. Soon the Fith and Hagen families separately claimed adjacent territories on the south shore of Silver Lake, asserted control over the locals, and petitioned for noble status. Their petitions were granted in -993 BGE, and soon the ir'Fith and ir'Hagen clans became accepted members of the Wroat nobility.

The villages of Fith and Hagen developed on the east and west banks of the Blank River where it broadens before emptying into Silver Lake. The lake's south shore is broad and sandy, forming dunes up to 200 feet tall, often covering whole trees that, in turn, stabilize the dune while fast-growing beach grasses minimize wind erosion. At first the villages depended equally on fishing and farming, but there were also convenient forest groves that were quickly logged, during which time two sawmills and a paper mill opened. Soon, logging crews traveled further up the river, sending timber floating downstream and providing near-permanent work for the mills; the villages became towns, and then the towns merged, becoming known as Fith'Hagen. The two noble families squabbled and intermarried but remained separate, as both had equal standing in Wroat and generations of stubborn ir'Fith and ir'Hagen lords refused to be the junior partner in a merged family. Meanwhle, the sawdust and chemical by-products from papermaking were dumped into the lake, ravaging the fishing industry. To this day Fith'Hagen has fewer fishing boats than most communities around Silver Lake, and locally-caught fish caught generally sell for less and have a poor reputation.