Barrowton

Barrowton is a bustling, ancient city at the base of a mountain named Koriyat. Originally built by a mixture of dwarves and humans, and then abandoned by the dwarven inhabitants nearly one thousand years ago, it is now home to approximately ten thousand beings of the sort of heightened variety that is to be expected from a metropolitan environment. It is a city of mysteries, as the dwarven architects designed the city to exist on multiple levels, both above and below ground. Many of the underground portions and passages are difficult for anything larger than a dwarf to traverse with any comfort, and tunnels connect a great many buildings, some of which have proper basements and storage areas, others are merely a door into the hewn stone of the earth, and a network of branching ways than can only be truly understood by those who excavated them. This maze of basements, sub-basements, passages, and surface buildings is boggling to those not well-familiar with it, and it's not uncommon for someone to get lost below ground, only to resurface in a neighbor's basement or under a local business.

The Barrow river is incorporated into the mysteries of Barrowton. A mighty river, that rises from somewhere in the depths below Koriyat, no one has ever been known to have located the true source of the river, but it flows out from the mountain through a cave just about a mile west of Barrowton. From there, the rivers flows to the south and east, eventually, over the course of hundreds of miles, it collects other small tributaries and joins the Hope river, before finally meeting the sea. Along along this route, the Barrow is necessary for the survival of these lands and the inhabitants of it. The river is used to ship goods and irrigate farmland, rendering what would otherwise be a dry grassland with rocky soil into arable and productive soil.