Shadycreek Run

Shady Creek Run is a town 350 miles northeast of Zadash past Nogvurot and the Quannah Breach, east from Rexxentrum and northeast of the Silberquel Ridge in the Greying Wildlands.

City Description
Shady Creek Run is a sovereign town, outside of the Dwendalian Empire and outside of the law. It used the Savalierwood to keep the Crown at bay. It is spoken of as a haven for criminals, thieves, murderers, but also described by The Gentleman as home to "the truly free entrepreneurs of Wildemount...and criminals, thieves, and murderers".

The city does not keep the normal cohesive shape of most, instead it is a long line built along the tree edge and some sort of river or creek that it has been constructed against. It is a weird, crooked, long town that vanished into the branches and leaves of the forest.

The main street heads north towards the Clover plaza, it is slick with mud and dirty snow. Ragged peasants clutters the alleyways, looking with their hands extended for some sort of alms they're hoping to find.

Clover Plaza
The open area of the plaza is dotted with log benches, and there is a four story tower of motley colored stones stands vigil over the area. It has two balconies and a top, housing crossbow and longbow wielding roughnecks Taskers. On the eastern side of the plaza is the Land Locked Lady.

Land Locked Lady
the Land Locked Lady is a very beautiful, two story complex that comparably seems ostentatious against the buildings immediately to the right and left of it which look to be in serious disrepair and rather rundown and colorless. Just bland woods, gray and brown. The second story above the main arch way, is a curved top arch, with a false bow of a ship that is emerging outward. This beautifully carved mermaid in the front that is clutching the piercing front of the ship. There it rests with a sign dangling from it, saying The Landlocked Lady. It is run by the Mardun Familly.

Society
Being outside the Empire, the city had no watch and had few regulations. While most of the population lived in squalor, many openly wore armor and weapons. Whether it be piecemeal hide, well-crafted chain, or simply bad intentions, the citizens of Shady Creek Run projected hostility.

Most of the people that lived in the city are in absolute squalor and are here out of necessity, are here because they came seeking some sort of fortune and failed, or they had come to indulge in vices that have slowly crushed them. The other half of the populace are usually armored to some extent, whether it be patchwork hides, chain, leathers. Almost everyone here is armed, even on a scale of poverty there seems to be a general sense of needing protection amongst the chaos. Some folks looked like they're trying not to be seen, many parade their thickened arms. It is a very unique and curious motley group of people that called this place home.

Notable People

 * Gustav Fletching: Gustav apparently came from Shady Creek Run.
 * Ophelia Mardun: An old friend of the Gentleman who had a base on the outskirts of the Shady Creek Run.
 * The Jagentoths: A crime family rivalling the Marduns and employers of the Iron Shepherds.
 * The Iron Shepherds
 * The Uteloch family: Controls the gates into the town

Points of Interest

 * Plaza Emporium: Is run by a pleasant but can be murderous dragonborn. She is not affiliated with any of the unseemly folks directly.
 * The Trench: is a place where the Iron Shepherds always hang out in.