Crenbrook

The town of Crenbrook is located on the eastern side of the West River Proelium. Located between the two forks of the River Proelium the land is relatively marshy. Originally very similar to Latredale, Crenbrook’s fortunes took an opposite turn during the war with the majority of male peasants leaving the marshy farmlands to join the kings army in hopes of earning the money to move. Misfortune lead to a majority of these men dying in a last stand when an entire unit was cornered and slaughtered by the Yuan-Ti. Those that remained became fiercely protective of their land and the memories of those lost which lingered.

The town was relatively isolated and as such the church of Torm has only recently managed to gain a strong foothold, as many past attempts to build churches failed as the monumental stonework and inexperienced construction sunk into the marshy ground. Even now those who live in Crenbrook proper and the attached farmlands are not as loyal to Torm as their Latredale neighbors.

The surge in growth of Latredale and the loss in the fortune of Crenbrook led to an expansion as construction centered around the river and Latredale slowly overtook Crenbrook. While the land on the east side of West Proelium belonged to the Crentlys, all of the major trade and manufacture took place in the less marshy Latredale side while Crenbrook merely attracted hangers on to the iron trade who did not depend on cart or boat transport, such as whorehouses, gambling parlors, and criminal elements. The Crentlys tried to build up their military force to combat the swell in invasive criminal elements on their land, but the decimation of their fighting men during the war and relative poverty prevented them from gaining much quarter.