Fugue (settlement)

A map showing Fugue west of Bloodstone Pass in the Galena Mountains.
Fugue
Geography
Aliases	Fugue Plane
Type	Settlement
Region	Vaasa, Bloodstone Lands
Society
Population	2,000
History
Established	1469 DR

Fugue, also called the Fugue Plane, was a tent city near the Vaasan Gate. In the mid-to-late 14^th century DR, it was located on the Bloodstone Pass side of the Gate and was a temporary home to mercenaries and adventurers. In the late 15^th century DR, it was located on the Vaasan side of the Gate and was home to refugees fleeing from the Warlock Knights.

It was a place caught between the "hellish" dangers of Vaasa and the "heavenly" safety of Damara, hence it was named for the Fugue Plane.

Description

In the mid-to-late 14^th century DR, Fugue sat on a plane underneath the towering walls of the Galenas inside Bloodstone Pass. It was akin to a crowded campground for adventurers and mercenaries drawn to Vaasa by the promise of generous bounties placed on the regions monsters by Damara's king, Gareth Dragonsbane.

In the late 15^th century DR, Fugue sat on the Vaasan side of the Gate. It was a sprawling ramshackle camp of desperate, poverty-stricken refugees. The conditions in the tent city were crowded and filthy, and death was a common occurrence. Illicit goods were a big business in the camps, and this black market was run largely by a spriggan merchant from Deepearth named Grintalalch the Red.

Geography

The location of the tent city changed between the 14^th and 15^th centuries owing to the camp being formed by different groups for different purposes. In the mid-to-late 14^th century DR, Fugue was located around the base of the Vaasan Gate on southeastern side within Bloodstone Pass. In the late 15^th century DR, Fugue sat on the northern banks of the Beaumaris River to the west of the Vaasan Gate inside Vaasa.

History

When the Vaasan Gate was constructed starting in the Year of the Serpent, 1359 DR, it was intended to serve as a home base for adventurers and bounty hunters assisting in the pacification of Vaasa's monster population. However, within a decade, the steady stream of mercenaries and fortune-seekers far exceeded the fortress's capacity, and so they began setting up camp on the small plain just behind the Gate inside Bloodstone Pass. These adventurers would be the ones to dub this camp "the Fugue Plane." This version of Fugue would have been destroyed along with much of Bloodstone Pass when the invading horde of Sammaster conquered the Vaasan Gate on Mirtul 2 of the Year of Rogue Dragons, 1373 DR, and it is unclear if it was rebuilt afterward.

When the Warlock Knights seized Bloodstone Pass and sealed the Vaasan Gate in the Year of Splendors Burning, 1469 DR, Vaasan refugees fleeing from the Knights' war of conquest gathered nearby in hopes of being saved by Damara. By 1480 DR, no help had come and the population had swelled to approximately 2,000 desperate souls living in squalor.