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Daggerdale Campaign Daggerfolk are known to be hard, grim, and unforgiving, largely because Zhentil Keep has been trying to claim their lands for decades, seeking to rule this dale as a client state.
Daggerdale began as the happy community of Merrydale. The community�s peace and prosperity ended bloodily during an infestation of vampires. People forced to stake their undead children found little merry about the dale from that point, and over a few years the appellation fell out of use. Daggerdale � a translation of the valley�s original name in the dwarven tongue � eventually supplanted the name of Merrydale.
Daggerdale prospered for a long time as a trading partner to the dwarven realm of Tethyamar. When that kingdom fell, Daggerfdale came on hard times. Its bustling trade vanished, and Daggerdale became a rustic backwater, little troubled by events elsewhere in the Dalelands.
That changed in 1336 DR. Two decades after Teshendale fell to the Zhents, Daggerdale met the same fate. Randal Morn, the hereditary ruler of Daggerdale, was driven into exile in the hills. For years, he fought a grim campaign against Zhent forces occupying the dale�s biggest town, Dagger Falls.
They�re not pretty, but to the inhabitants of of Daggerdale, the stone walls of Dagger Falls are the surest haven in a troubled land. The walled town sits just northwest of Dagger Ford, where the Tethyamar Trail crosses the River Tesh beneath its falls. The stone construction and steep slate roofs of the town�s buildings allow them to survive heavy winter snows.
Dagger Falls began as a storage site for dwarven metals being shipped down from the mountains to the southern lands. After all these years it�s still a frontier town, a place where everyone wears weapons and occasionally has cause to draw them in the public good (as well as in the pursuit of private quarrels).
Updated: November 24, 2008. |