Alfield

Alfield is a small rural town, slightly smaller than Trostenwald, in the Marrow Valley in the Western Wynandir region of Wildemount. The town was under the rule of the Dwendalian Empire and overseen by Starosta Kosh [spelling?]. This trade stop town on the Amber Road between Trostenwald and Zadash suffered much loss of life and was severely damaged by fire during a gnoll attack.

Layout
The town was an open farm village with occasional waist to shoulder height partitions. With open fields to the south, the town was flanked by clusters of trees on the eastern and northeastern sides.

Two main streets bisected the village in its central square, one going from the northwest to the southeast, and the other going west to east.

Candleglow Inn
Located in the central square this building was ransacked and burnt down during the gnoll attack. Thadius Candleglow owned the inn.

Feed and Mead Tavern
Not the most comfortable establishment, this inn was where the party was put up by the crown's guard for their help in fighting the gnolls and would have their stay paid for as long as they were helping deal with the aftermath of the gnoll attack. Having two rooms for rent upstairs, the party was put up in one these that had four twin sized beds tightly jammed in.

The owner of the tavern, Passedon Tecroot "Croot", was an ornery, salty looking old dwarf with tousled white-grey hair and a single tuft of a beard that dangles down towards the bellybutton before ending in a ring of gold. He was noted for having poor sight, looking above or at a persons shoulder when talking to them.

Menu
For the cost of 3sp, the inn offered a top-shelf drink in a deep green corked glass bottle. Poured into a shot glass the liquid was a deep sea teal green, and when drunk it had a very smoky, oak barrel flavor on the tongue, though this was quickly followed by a very herbal and charcoal medicinal burning taste.

Broad Barn
Located on the western edge of town this store was where farming and basic supplies could be acquired.

On the Wind Stables
These stables were located in the northern part of town looked like it had taken some fire damage as a result of the gnoll attack. It was from these stables that crown's guard Reggie loaded a horse from for the party to use.

Gnoll Attack
When a crown's guard patrol reported seeing a small hunting party of gnoll to the south, watch master Bryce sent out a troupe making up a greater half of the town's guards to forth and slay them. This had the side effect of having left the town vulnerable, when not as a coincidence two hours later a large force of gnolls struck while they were unprepared and unguarded for such an assault.

At this point, approaching the town at night from the south, about half a mile from Alfield the party noticed several flashes of orange light and the curl of flames spreading from rooftop to rooftop. They saw a handful of buildings on the eastern side of the village that had already been consumed by flame.

Quickly making their way closer to within a few hundred feet of the western side of the village, the party saw a few hundred people running out of town into the fields.

Reaching the villages central square the party engaged the gnolls in battle. Though this brief battle ended when two of the party members went down, leading to the gnolls escaping back to an east-northeasterly direction. Smoke and fires of the easter quarter shielding their escape, the gnoll took three carts full of various loot, corpses of villagers they had slain, captives, and almost all of the village's meat supply.

Casualties

 * Rubin Cole, the town's former law master.
 * Village Straggler. 100 feet outside the village, while people were running out of town, this young human man with scrappy tattered brown hair, and a bit of blood dripping down his face was shot by a gnoll in the back by an arrow. A gnoll then proceeded to leap onto his back and bite and tear out a chunk of flesh from his shoulder before dragging the corpse back 200 feet into the depths of the burning village.
 * A crown's guard that had been hunkered down behind a wall with Watch Master Bryce Felid. They wielded a crossbow and had been exchanging volleys with the gnolls during the attack. They were killed when they took an arrow to the back of the head.

Villagers

 * A family of five halflings that had run out of the town during the gnoll attack.The family included a mother dragging two younger children and a father running beside his eldest daughter who was in her teens. The father wore simple farm clothing, a leather cap, and had a handlebar mustache.

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