V29: BRIDGETON
Allegiance: Dorgstyn
Population: 1285 Gnomes
Militia: 245 LFD
Maximum Garrison: 300
Current Garrison: Gnomes: HFCx30, Archer-C x45; Men (mercenary) LHDx20
Features: Stark River Bridge, Watch Tower, Stockade , Market Plaza
Description: Bridgeton is a wealthy Gnome village at an important bridge where the Coast Road crosses the Stark River. The now-dead Mayor Marvelous and his assistant Amazing! Provoked the Sinxth-Dorgstyn War of 1025 by stealing the Earl of Sinxth’s ancestral sword. They robbed Sinxth’s treasury during the war as well, and were rumored to have plundered the Dwarven sacred ruins at Old Delving. In May of 1025, the Bridgeton militia and garrison drove off a raiding force of bandits from Brant. Marvelous was put on trial by Earl Rockhard and exiled from Dorgstyn on pain of death and was killed by bounty-hunters later in the year. In August of 1025, an unknown Mannish mage destroyed a tavern called “Billy’s” and slew a squad of Gnome militia in the village, but was never caught.