Making a Village

By default a village is Poor, Steady, Militia, Resource (your choice) and has an Oath to another steading of your choice. If the village is part of a kingdom or empire choose one:

• The village is somewhere naturally defended: Safe, -Defenses
• The village has abundant resources that sustain it: +Prosperity, Resource (your choice), Enmity (your choice)
• The village is under the protection of another steading: Oath (that steading), +Defenses
• The village is on a major road: Trade (your choice), +Prosperity
• The village is built around a wizard’s tower: Personage (the wizard), Blight (arcane creatures)
• The village was built on the site of religious significance: Divine, History (your choice)

Choose one problem:

• The village is in arid or uncultivable land: Need (Food)
• The village is dedicated to a deity: Religious (that deity), Enmity (a settlement of another deity)
• The village has recently fought a battle: -Population, -Prosperity if they fought to the end, -Defenses if they lost.
• The village has a monster problem: Blight (that monster), Need (adventurers)
• The village has absorbed another village: +Population, Lawless
• The village is remote or unwelcoming: -Prosperity, Dwarven or Elven