Mistaton

Mistaton is a village perched right on the seacoast. It is built within an old single earthwork, which has been augmented by a simple brushwood fence. The buildings are simple turf huts although a few have one or two walls made from stone and most have a stone chimney.

The area around the village is damp and boggy, there are water meadows where a few cows graze, paddy fields growing rice and a few raised terraces where a few other vegetables are found. There are plenty of streams and small ponds in the surrounding area and many of the villagers keep small flocks of ducks or geese that they graze locally. During the day they are watched by some of the young people from the village, and in the evening the ducks and geese are driven back into the village to spend the night within its protective confines.  There is a scroll in the Tas Bardon Library that describes Peter Gasgano's observations of the area in more detail.

There is one communal barn on the outskirts of the village and a small Inn, called The Cup towards the middle. The Inn has a couple of rooms that can be rented out and also lets travellers sleep on the floor in the common room. Accommodation, food and drinks are all very basic, and The Cup acts as a general meeting point area for all of the villagers, but is normally very quiet and closes at about 9:30pm. On a Monday afternoon there are a few desultory stalls set up around the inn, which acts as the local market.

Many of the villagers are human and wear the traditional Zacharan dolman and fez, however many of the other villagers are Halflings, and while some wear Zacharan garb most wear more traditional western garb. General and trade conversations are generally in common, although you often hear both Midani and the racial tongue of the Halflings spoken in private conversations.

Rami Ben Affah is recognised as the village Qadi, and Karim Bin Melmon (The halfling landlord from the Cup) and an elderly western farmer called Will Redman act as his council, but any thing important generally warrants a village meeting to discuss it.