The Cave Town of Gerhnöl
The cavern home of the Preserver family and first of the giant’s cave settlements in the Roots of the Earth as the entrance originally served as the storage for the family’s vast stores of preserves. Once the center of giant life underground it now sits far from the Hall of seasons and other families. It stays active by way of its access to the surface, key for trade access to the north, one of the few caverns with inns for travellers and an outpost for excursions into the eastern field.
Population: 5565
Landscape: black Granite and Limestone, an underground river, Speleothem columns, rooms and houses made of brick and clay walls and shining glass like walls of polish granite
Local legends: The Slithering Geyser, Corridor of Wax, Raggity-bones the innkeep
Lost Lore: The Distilled Heart, Molten Gold
Leaders: the Preserver Family, led by Enfad Who Keeps Tomorrow with family leaders voted every 10 years
Amenities: Kilns, Cold storage rooms, Tunnel Seeker Supplies, Fresh water, and Inns
Rumours
The river in the eastern exit of Gworhollow has a bridge expertly crafted of stone over it in a massive cavern that looks as if the ground was split but only from below. A carving in old dwarvish adorns the ends of the bridge that states “The Slithering Geyser made this place and keeps it, tread with respect lest you anger our host”.
The Broad Pillow, the largest and well kept Inn of Gerhollow’s trade entrance, is well kept and comfortable for the traveller in need of a rest. However, guests who have a hard time sleeping might run into Raggity, the skeleton that cleans the halls and tends the entrance overnight. No one knows why Raggity-Bones is there but any attempt to get them to leave seems to distress the skeleton and they buy no means harm anyone, if anything they’re a great help to the inn. They rest during the day at the entrance of the inn, a waving hand at attention of a seemingly non animated skeleton.