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