Fireshear

Fireshear was a mining city in the Frozenfar in northwest Faerûn, on the coast west of the Iceflow river.

Geography
The city's location was chosen because of the rich copper and silver veins in the area that were exposed by a violent event, sometimes thought to be a volcanic eruption but in fact was a cataclysmic meteor impact in the distant past.

Government
The large city was ruled by a triumvirate made up of the heads of the three founding merchant houses. As of the late 1480s DR, the members and the companies they represented were Tharkus Gromm, shield dwarf leader of Hammaver House (based in Mirabar), Darva, dragonborn leader of the Silver Triangle (based in Neverwinter), and Zalaron Daska, a Tethyrian human leader of the Delvers of Brokenstone (based in Waterdeep). These merchants were responsible for the hiring of adventurers when patrols or information were needed. They served until they resigned or died. The triumvirate members were known to be accepting of bribes. The city's emblem was a crossed blade, pick, and shovel underneath an orange flame, on an ice-blue field.

Inhabitants
The city's miners were hired from the Sword Coast populace, and shipped into the city along with other workers such as healers. Miners were paid 100 gold pieces per month as of 1366 DR. For half the year, "lock-in" kept the city cut off by the ice.

Defense
Fireshear's miners made up the military, which numbered 10,000. Attacks from bears, crag cats, and orcs happened occasionally, and when the city kept sheep as an extra food source, this would attract wolves. Privateer shipping was hired in from Waterdeep in order to protect ships going to and coming from Fireshear from the threat of pirates, which were often suspected of being based in Luskan.

Notable locations
Fireshear had no inns and a single guest house, with a few rooming houses. Guests were watched closely. There were many banks in Fireshear, owing to the reduction in crime that was the result of keeping most of the city's coin locked away.

Inns and taverns

 * Singing Manticore
 * Drunken Dwarf

Streets and roads

 * Makepeace Street: A road in Fireshear where the Singing Manticore was located.

History
In the late 1480s or early 1490s DR, a greatship full of frost giant raiders from Svardborg attacked the town.

Appearances

 * Adventures:
 * Storm King's Thunder


 * Sourcebooks:
 * Volo's Guide to the North