Hollenvik

Hanur did some research in Jurva and learned the following about the village:

It's a village of about six hundred people in the the northern part of the barony of Udvjor in Sormark. It has fallen on hard times after their Thane, Aesa Juulbro, died and the deed to the village disappeared. The Juulbro family had a long running feud with the Lonning family who own the village in the next valley; Forngaror. Ottar Lonning was murdered 27 years ago, his daughter Dagny succeeded him.

As the party enters town it is clear the bridge that crosses stream is in disrepair. The corn fields look poorly, the squash and beans have hardly grown. There doesn’t seem to be an inn, most of the buildings are residential, usually with their own garden plot and/or chicken coop. On the outskirts there are some other structures; a watchtower, a mill, a forge, warehouses, and farm buildings. There is something of a village center where a large General Store can be found.

The problems

There is no one to adjudicate as none of the three families will trust any of the others.

• Nergaards keep throwing rocks in the stream cause too much water is bad for their corn (“it’s not a gods-damned rice field”) but this way everyone else gets too little.
• Stahls run the only forge in town and deliver shoddy work at best to the others.
• Ternheims run the only mill and they deliver too little cornmeal for the amount of corn milled.
• Two members of the Stahl family have become very ill and no one has been able to cure them.
• Wolves have been getting close, snatching some chickens. (There used to be nightly patrols around the entire village, now the three families only guard their own dwellings, other families suffer.)
• Main well on village green is broken; something at the bottom stopping bucket and water level had been getting lower already, they lengthened rope.
• Old Fingal the hermit has taken little Sigrid Ternheim’s kite.
• Edvin Skarsgard has a problem; Silje, Fredrika, and Anna all want him.
• Fulbjorht Stahl and Thrand Ternheim have a secret relationship. "Some people like white wine others like red wine, you know?"
• Fjotra Ternheim has started worshiping Ancev She wants to be the new village cleric but knows that the other two families wouldn’t accept her.
• The bridge is only so-so.
• The watchtower is falling apart.
• Valter Nergaard has gotten Anja Westergren pregnant but isn’t taking responsibility. Mother Njorna comes to complain.
• Band of bugbears have set up camp not too far away about a year ago, so far they haven’t done anything but they can’t be trusted!