Trostenwald

Trostenwald is a small rural town in the Marrow Valley in the Western Wynandir region of Wildemount. The town is bordered by the blue waters of the Ustaloch. The town is under the rule of the Dwendalian Empire and is a trade stop on the Amber Road. Notably, Trostenwald also served as the place where the Mighty Nein adventuring party first met.

The town is most notable for its unique strain of grain and wheat, which led to a boom in breweries around the turn of the century. Of the initial glut of breweries, three brewer families have survived and prospered to this day. The town now primarily exports fish, crops, and ale.

Trostenwald also has a contingent of Crownsguard who act as law enforcement for the town. The Lawmaster (local Dwendalian leadership) is a dwarf named Norda.

Demographics
In the southern, more rural region of the Empire, especially near Felderwin, which is one of the largest, tilling and farming areas of the entire Empire, there is a very heavy halfling population. While this city is not the core of it, a larger 20–25% of the population in Trostenwald is halfling.

Notable People

 * Vosna: barkeep of the The Old Mud Hole Tavern, is a man in his thirties and an avid reader of the works of Samuel.
 * Rinaldo: a meek middle-aged man with kind eyes, an unkempt chin beard, and cracked calloused fingers.
 * Noah: owner of a large fishing vessel in the Loch Ward. A man in his mid-40s, he has a five-o’clock shadow and a small scar on the bottom left side of his chin. He wore a heavy knitted cap that is folded back on his shoulders and a long coat.
 * Davies: owner of the Natural Remedies - Herbs and Medicinal Things. Is a tan-skinned half-elf man in his late-20s with darker hair that is a bit ratty and clustered.
 * Sheenah: an older man whom rins the Hillsbrook Parchment and Binding.
 * Yorda: runs the Warm Dew Bathhouse.
 *  Oglen Hornsblower: owner of the Burnished Bibelots.

The Ustaloch

 * &rarr; Main article: The Ustaloch.

The Ustaloch is a kidney bean-shaped body of water that borders Trosrenwald's wards on their eastern sides.

Loch Ward
Bordered by the Ustaloch, the Loch Ward is the most eastern and central ward of the town and is where the docks and fishing village are. The five to six main dock structures of this ward protrude out into the lake from between ten to thirty or so feet and service the small fishing boats that work on the lake.
 * Rinaldo's House: This house belongs to Rinaldo, a meek middle-aged man with kind eyes, an unkempt chin beard, and cracked calloused fingers.
 * Jacklewere Smiths

The Old Mud Hole Tavern
A small dark tavern containing four tables, it was described as being like a dive bar and smelling of old wet wood, ale stain, and peanut. The barkeep of this tavern is Vosna.

Loch Ward General
This large wooden barn type building in the loch ward has a door that opened two ways and is run by an old woman named Harper Mince. Among the goods that lined the walls of this general goods store tools are tools for farming and building, packs of supplies, lumber, iron nails, maps of the empire (7sp), and healer kits (5gp).

Natural Remedies - Herbs and Medicinal Things
This shop is a small humble shack that has a strong musty pungent smell of fungi, which can be detected even while approaching from the street. It sells herbs, incense, medicinal things including means of tending to wounds and loss of stamina. Though many come in for 'performance-enhancing' fungus. The proprietor of the shop is Davies.

On the outside where the doorways open there are strings of herbs that are tied up and left to dry out. On the inside, there are shelves upon shelves of flora and fauna that are being cultivated in pots for various remedies and for sale. Some of the fungi have grown beyond their shelves. The store has basic health potions (60gp). The owner has a small satchel filled with Skein and was willing to sell it (1gp).

Hills Ward
Most of the money made by the surrounding rural farming community ends up in the center of this ward.

Crownsguard Stockade
The Crownsguard Stockade is a tall, single-story, rectangular building made of large stone. It is the main operating center for the Crownsguard in Trostenwald. Built for function, it is evidently made to be defensible rather than aesthetic beauty. The front of the building has two double doors flanked on each side by banners of the Crownsguard. The interior of the building is an open area with two central chairs for guards who are posted to watch the main gates of the front door. Beyond these chairs on the right is the lawmaster's office.

The Lawmaster's Office A simple darkened room with a stone desk in the far end of the room from the door. The room also containing crates filled with pieces of paper, gathered evidence and confiscated weaponry.

Jail Bypassing the lawmaster's office is a staircase that leads a heavy locked door, that opens from the other side into a subterranean basement area used for holding prisoners. Consisting of a long hallway, the length of holding area is flanked on both sides by ten iron-barred cells. The bars of each cell being two inches apart, and there is a general smell of mildew, compost, and urine that permeates the area.

Judgement Chamber A large chamber with a stark barren stone interior with benches. In the center of the chamber, there are four or five steps leading down into a pit where prisoners are kept during the trial. Above the pit is a desk where the lawmaster sits in overseeing trials and rendering her judgement.

Hillsbrook Parchment and Binding
This shop is a boutique laid out like a cross, with windows at the ends and a door at the back. The shop contains lots of books on farming technique, as well as books on how to grow and care for different types of vegetation, plants, and various beasts of burden. There are also books on the different seasons on what's best for different types of grain and wheat. There are a couple of books that deal with discussion on the Menagerie Coast, that talk about the Clovis Concord, and a discussion on the political structure that maintains the city states there. The shop is run by a man named Sheenah.

Warm Dew Bathhouse
This bathhouse serves upper-class clientele, this small bathhouse is seen as a bit pricey, a single bath cost 5sp, and adjoining baths for two hours is charged 8sp. The bathhouse is run by Yorda.

Layout In the entryway, there are marble busts and tapestries that are pulled back over the windows on either side which led into a hallway with the smell of lavender and the sound of soft music played by a resident violinist. This hallway leads to two adjoining bath chambers separated by a low wall that came up to eye length, allowing for conversations but preserving privacy.

Sunlight is beaming in through glass fog windows that obscured any details, these chambers each have two central basins filled with freshly steaming water. These basins are designed with a hinged desk piece that folds over the water so that books, food, and drinks could safely rest while the guest bathes. Guests are also provided with linens, towels, and a pitcher of cucumber water.

North Ward
The general work around the water in this ward consisted largely of individuals moving crates around.

Market Area
A small market street where simple wears, vegetables, meats, and handcrafted goods can be purchased.

Burnished Bibelots
This store is located on the southern portion of the North Ward by where it borders the Loch Ward on the outskirts of the market street. Looking like a closet or a sort of storage shed has been pushed up against or bolted onto another building, it is made out of driftwood-looking, heavily weathered wood, has one door leading in, and the windows are blocked out by materials stacked up against them. There is a general dusty and moldy smell to the shop due to water damage in a far corner. It was described as a cluttered, crammed mess, with every space being taken up by stacks of knick-knacks, small stuffed animals, toys, books, art pieces, glasses, and goblets. Open for business at any hour, this book and trinket shop is owned by Oglen Hornsblower, who had bought, traded, and found the various items in his collection. He uses his smell to determine the values of the books.

Items of Interest
 * Old spell book, a note and sketchbook written in a strange language, that didn't radiate any magical aura, containing Arcane Lock and Unseen Servant. (10 gp)
 * "Fiends of Folklore", a book written in Zemnian (3gp)

Baumbauch Family Brewery
Beauregard spent a night learning the Way of the Cobalt Soul from Expositor Dairon and Archivist Zeenoth in one of this brewery's warehouses.

The Nestled Nook Inn

 * &rarr; Main article: The Nestled Nook Inn.

Post Office
The post office have fast horseback courier services that run all along the roads in the empire and with approval outside the empire to the south and west. They have a courier that is a young boyish girl with shortish brushed hair, freckles and a bit of dirt on her cheeks, she wore leather armor.

Notable Houses

 * The Baumbauch House
 * The Husseldorf House
 * The von Brandt House

When the party arrived in the town, there was a new visiting carnival called "The Fletching and Moondrop Traveling Carnival of Curiosities". This carnival was the site of a zombie attack that the new adventuring party—later known as the Mighty Nein—helped stop.

Trivia

 * The town was originally spelled "Trostenwold" by Kelly Knox in a Geek & Sundry article, but the name is spelled "Trostenwald" on the official map by Deven Rue. The Geek & Sundry article's spelling was corrected to "Trostenwald", so this wiki assumes that the map has the correct spelling.
 * The name Trostenwald loosely translates to "comfort forest" in German.