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Overview
Illanon is a fortress-city perched on the edge
of the Ilper basin. It's a rough city, set deep in the
Northern Forests at the mouth of the pass to the
dangerous Ilrathur Plateau. Illanon is the primary point
of trade between Correllendor and the Dwarven Mountain
near Ilrathur. See the 'History' below for what further
details exist at present.
Contents:
History
The question posed by Illanon's hard living is
"why is Illanon even there, if this is such a
wilderness?" The easy and main answer is: Dwarven trade.
There is a Dwarven Mountain north and/or east of Illanon,
on one side of the pass and the Ilrathur Plateau. Illanon
is the community that serves (among other things) as a
meeting ground for the Dwarves of the Mountain and the
humans of Correllendor.
That was the seed that set Illanon's physical
location. A keep, essentially a fortified market, was
established by a leader of one of the 'pioneer'
communities upon striking the first official trade pacts
between the dwarves and the (then) Pas Ilrath district of
the (then) Seraken gov't. The name "Illanon", or "High
Gate" was set as the community was seen as a trade
'gate'way to the dwarves and to the distant communities
of the high plateau. Illanon grew quickly as the lone
homesteaders (and even entire small communities)
gravitated to the protection of the city's fortifications
and organizations. There were wars with the orcs... and
the goblins, who would at times swarm from the peaks,
valleys, and the very sewers of the city itself. Leaders
were made and broken against the stone visages of the
peaks and the claws, teeth, and steel of their denizens.
Illanon gained another wave of settlers as refugees from
Seraken and Midrao fled the wars that joined Correllendor
as a political entity.
In this tumultuous environment, the city could not
stand alone, could not face alone the sieges that would
eventually have cut it off from the other distant cities;
during one particularly protracted siege, a man named
Garrenon Rathken ran the siege lines and over the course
of a week gathered the fighting strength of the
surrounding forests into a small force of skilled
mountain men and women known as the Rangers - people too
wild to comfortably join in the urbanization of the
valley's populace; people known in the remaining
'frontier' communities for their knowledge and love of
the wilderness and the people who live within it. The
Rangers cut the enemies' supply lines, and wore away the
beseiging force from the shadows of the forest itself.
When the battle was done, the leaders of Illanon asked
the Rangers to stay on as a sort of elite (and unusual)
militia, "The Strength of the Forest"; they asked
Garrenon to stay on as the representative of the Rangers
in Illanon.
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