West Midden

West Midden is a forested town in the Ostberg Valley Chain Administrative District, governed by a circle of guild elders: Vuey du Boire of the Vintners’ Guild (recently deceased), Pons Doigts of the Woodcrafters’ Guild, and Achille Hammerhauser of the Provisioners’ Guild. The walled town is known throughout the District as a producer of the fine apple ciders and fantastical woodcrafts that travel along the road to East Midden and High Ostberg for export to the central Grand Alliance lands, and there are a number of workhouses and breweries within the town walls, as well as a long main street lined with stores that cater to travelers and adventurers bound for Claykeep or the Far Reaches. The large inn at the town’s center, Mother Gala’s Travelers’ Rest, contains both a lively bar offering travelers local products, reasonable rooms for sleep or meditation, stables for traveling animals, a small library of books collected by the innkeeper, and a large upstairs meeting room where the guild elders of the town tend to meet to do their business. A retired wizard also lives in West Midden who runs a small day school for casual students of spellcraft and who is occasionally willing to scribe magical scrolls or perform minor divinations for townsfolk, and although there are no formal shrines to any deities, there are one or two small icon-carving shops producing wooden icons of deities to be sold to traveling clerics or parishioners for their personal devotions.