Last Rock

Last Rock is a small frontier town in the Tiraan Empire, roughly sixteen hundred miles to the northwest of Tiraas, at the rim of the space-altering magical prairie dubbed the Golden Sea. It has a Rail connection with Calderaas, and might have been rather uninteresting if not for its most prominent feature - the huge rock that juts out of the ground, atop which sits the Unseen University. The town itself sits at the base of the rock.

Since 1178, there have been several new building and business additions to the town, mostly due to the various side-effects of the Unseen University students. For example, Trissiny encouraged the building of a Silver Mission outpost in the town, aimed at poor or otherwise in-need women.

Description

Lying in low, rolling scrubland, fading into the Golden Sea, the huge and very magical stretch of prairie occupies the heart of the continent. The town itself was a small and rather sad cluster of buildings dwarfed by the mountain from which it drew its name; rising straight up from the plain with not so much as a hill within sight, the Rock itself was tall enough to be taken seriously in most mountain ranges, and seemed utterly colossal in its flat environs. Wedge-shaped, it formed a rising prow cutting into the Golden Sea itself, falling sharply in rocky cliffs from its highest edges, but sloping up gently from the other side, in an incline that was no steeper than the average staircase. It resembled a long, narrow plateau tilted up with one edge sunk into the ground.

Now, a path ran from the town of Last Rock up toward its peak, and the upper quarter of the mountain was covered with the spires and terraces of the University.

Buildings

Ale & Wenches, a tavern

Rail Station

Scrolltower

Sheriff's office and Jail

Temple of Vidius

Silver Mission

Known Residents

Akers : Local doctor in town

Cleese : Current Mayor

Cratchley, Mabel : crotchety and extremly opinionated resident

Crete, Jason : former Imperial Army soldier

Crete, Silas : Scrolltower operator

Laws, Father : cleric in town

Lowery : owner of the  Ale & Wenches tavern

Sanders, Samuel : Sheriff

Taft, Hiram : owner of Last Rock’s bank

Tarvadegh, Val : priest of Vidius (1183)

Whipportwill, Ox : deputy to the sheriff

Wilson : citizen of Last Rock