TriboarTriboar is a proud town of 2,500 standing majestically and strategically at the Long Road and Evermoor Way intersection. It’s located due west of Yartar, the town’s traditional rival. It’s known as the marshaling point for a dozen human armies, hastily assembled at times in the last century to battle orc hordes that swept south along the Surbrin River from remote mountain fastnesses. Triboar’s name is thought to have come from a 300-winters’-old traveler’s tale of slaying three boars in one day. This tale is commemorated in the banner of the lord protector of Triboar that shows three black boars running toward the head of the banner on a blood-red field.
Triboar’s a bustling town; it’s busy night and day, hence its nickname the "Town Where Only Gwaeron Sleeps." Triboar has no walls. Instead, it’s surrounded by the paddocks and fenced workyards of two caravan outfitters, a horse market, stockyards, and two camping grounds. The center of Triboar, where the roads meet, is a huge open space used as a market by local farmers and visiting peddlers. The space is dominated by the two-story Tower of the Lord Protector, a simple stone keep that leans to the east.
Places of Interest
Most of the shops and service establishments in Triboar open onto the market.
Gwaeron’s Slumber: Triboar is said to be the resting place of a god named Gwaeron Windstrom, the Tracker Who Never Goes Astray. He’s said to sleep in this stand of trees just west of town. Rangers who venerate Mielikki often visit Gwaeron’s Slumber to pray, but there’s no shrine here. It’s said that worshippers of Mielikki who sleep in this wood receive hints in their dreams of what the goddess wants them to do. If the worshipper isn’t a ranger, the person gains a once-in-a-lifetime, day-long ability to track as a ranger does. To avoid angering Gwaeron, laws in Triboar forbid cutting any trees, and hunting in the woods. The local militia patrols the grove to prevent orcs, trolls, and other such creatures from camping there - but less intelligent monsters have never been seen in Gwaeron’s Slumber.