Fort Gryphon

Geography

• Lake Mavoinic is a 60-acre gem surrounded by steep mountain slopes and piney forests studded with massive oaks. The dimensions of the lake changed to 60 acres in Spring 808 after some storms damaged the retaining walls and flooded a nearby valley before the retaining walls were repaired and reinforced by Henric and some friends. The lake has been stocked with trout and other highland fish each season since Autumn 808 and it is hoped that fishing on the lake will be possible once stocks have been built up by around Summer 812. The rocks used to dam the area around the lake and build retaining walls have been recovered when clearing land and through the aid of a passing earth mage who enjoyed his dwarven hospitality immensely and has fishing rights whenever he is at the Inn.

• Gryphon Gardens There has been a few crops of vegetables grown in the area beside the walls of the fort and this has over the last few decades provided a few fresh vegetables for the residents of the fort. More area has been cleared over the recent years (since 807 and the building of The Gryphon Inn)) to increase the supplies grown in this and other nearby areas with some success. Now a good crop of root vegetables and seasonal vegetables are grown using a rotating crop system which provides a good supply of fresh consumables for the residents of the Inn and visitors. A few of the nearby shallow caves have proved to be perfect for mushroom cultivation and other such lichen. The gardens have had small walls built around them using the rocks recovered when clearing the nearby land.

• The Gryphon Orchards is the area of land cleared by the Henrikson family over the seasons and planted in Spring 808 with 100 fruit trees of hardy varieties and these will enable the fort to have its own fruit supply in the coming years although according to their gardener/herbalist the fruit won’t be ready until around 812 when the plants and trees have grown large enough to sustain picking of the fruit. The orchards have had walls built around them using rocks recovered when clearing the land.

Buildings

1. The Gryphon Inn

People of Note

1. Bodric Henrikson
2. Henric Henrikson
3. Mavric Henrikson
4. Lyric Henrikson

History

Summer 811

The Lord of Novadom has sent despatches that he is recalling the guards from here and passing responsibility for the Fort to the Henrikson clan. His troops are needed elsewhere and he has agreed with the Castallen of Brastor that they will each send mounted patrols along the trail to help keep the bandits down or will send troops if asked for a specific mission, but otherwise the security of the fort is in the hands of the Henrikson clan. The last troops will leave 7 days before the end of the Spring 811 season.

Autumn 807

The pass and Fort Gryphon are cleared of Goblin bandits and trade is able to resume between Brastor and Novadom. The Henriksons start work building a new Inn here called The Gryphon Inn

Bodric Henrikson and Henric Henrikson have started to rebuild the fort in the pass with the blessing of the Lord of Novadom. They have taken a load of supplies and started making the fort more solid and will be expanding the facilities once they have enough supplies and clement weather.