Failtey Map
Failtey currently consists of two buildings. There is a small roundhouse that serves as a local inn and a nearby hut that operates as a trading post.
The roundhouse is marked with a sign that says Failtey and is really the hub of the environment. It is run by an old couple and their sons, and provides lodging for most of the Failtey inhabitants.
The landlord, Brys, and his wife Ellylw (known as Elly for short) and their two sons, Garth and Nil, are recent immigrants attracted by the Earl’s drive for new people. They don’t own the building - but they manage it on behalf of the Treveri family. The old couple looks fairly frail - but the two lads both look sturdy and as if they could wield a shillelagh enthusiastically.
They have bed, food and ale to sell. The food is basic and is generally meat stew - whatever the hunters bought in today style. The bed is space in the common room to lay your blankets and the ale is just that - medium ale. Anyone can stay for a small contribution. The locals are expected to cough up a skin or an animal for the pot - travellers can donate something equivalent. No one is ever turned away though.
Most evening there will be about a dozen people in the Failtey. All of them are hunters or trappers who work locally - about half are assigned here from DinCaoc and the other half are immigrants. If you stay more than one night you will see that the people change on the following night and again on the third. You can work out that all together there are about 20 hunter trappers based out of this new village. And about a third stay out over night - to keep an eye on the roads here about.
A quick glance around the guests will show that some of them wear light armour although some appear to be unarmoured. They are generally armed with spear and sling or a short bow and dagger. They all look battle hardened and as hard as nails.
The other permanent inhabitant is Dond the Blind, who lives in a small shack behind the Failtey. Older than most of the other residents and clearly blind in one eye, he trades supplies with the trappers. He takes the meat they bring in and smokes it in the ovens behind his hut and then sells the dried and cured meat back to them as trail rations. In return they barter odd items with him.
He generally has a skin or two for sale, a few fletched arrow shafts but with out heads on, and minor carvings and crude leather work done by the trappers to amuse them selves while they are away from the settlement.
Current stock in hand: Smoke dried rabbit; Smoke dried venison; 15 short bow arrow shafts; a set of 10 almost perfect sling stones; a small carved wooden otter statue; a larger carved wooden statuette of a hunter standing dormant; 3 lightly tanned hide belts, with ties instead of buckles; 2 lightly tanned leather shoulder bags with ties instead of buckles; lengths of raw hide strip for tying and binding; 1 whole deer skin (treated); 2 rabbit skins (treated).
He is always keen to trade for metal items as they are rare here .
