Redtooth

For another meaning of "Redtooth", please see Redtooth (person).

Redtooth is the provincial capital of the Irriseni border province known as the Verge.²

History

Redtooth was founded by Queen Jadwiga in 3314 AR following the Winter War to serve as the provincial capital of Wintercrux. When the province of the Verge carved out of Wintercrux in 3514 AR by Queen Urvalane, Redtooth became the capital of the new province and focused on its military mission.²

Former Queen Elvanna's second son, Arvanoff Elvanna, was the Duke of Redtooth as of 4713 AR.² His fate after Elvanna's removal later that year and the installation of Queen Anastasia is unknown.

Layout

Redtooth is not built on a major waterway as every other provincial capital in Irrisen. The city lacks walls and sits atop a steep hill, encircled with a ring of wooden towers which also serve as barracks for Redtooth's militia, known as the Red Claws. Duke Arvanoff's impressive stone castle, called the Keep of the Hound, is the center of the government and also the center of military operations. The Keep of the Hound is located in the center of the town. West of the castle are the army's storage silos and east of the castle are the permanent camps of the duke's elite units, known as the Queen's Storm. The bulk of the city's population lives in neighborhoods surrounding this military complex.²

Inhabitants

Witchwargs¹ in Redtooth have the power to assume human form. Every building in the town has its own gated entryway. By ancient agreement, necessary to keep the peace in town, a witchwarg may not open a closed gate without invitation. At night, the witchwargs take on their true animal forms, and howls fill the night air. Most of Redtooth's human residents barricade the doors at night when the witchwargs prowl its darkened streets.² Rogosh Vix, the captain of the Red Claws, is a fearful witchwarg although he usually uses his human form.²

Districts

Seven neighborhoods surround the military complex of Duke's Castle, located between the castle and the ring of wooden towers encircling the town. Nearly half of the town's witchwargs live in the Blue Fang district in houses like those of their human neighbors, complete with gated entryways. South of the Blue Fang is the Clawfoot Quarter district with a lot of rowdy taverns, some of which have a few rooms to let. Their common rooms host drinkers who dare not leave for home until the sun rises, Whitetail district and Houndsrange district are inhabited by Jadwiga middle class and city's armorers. Redtooth's wealthy residents live in the outer neighborhoods of Sunrose, Vastborough and Norborough. A number of very wealthy citizens, mostly retired military officers live in gated manors on the outskirts of the town. Redtooth hosts seven "market circles", where temporary markets are set up in the morning and disassembled before dusk five days a week.²

Notable locations

See also: Category:Redtooth/Locations

Witchwolf Pit is a small complex of caverns in the hill northwest of Redtooth, used by Redtooth's witchwargs as a meeting place.²

The Open Claw is the town's only inn, and remarkably is not surrounded by a gated fence. Few who spend the night here ever live to see the morning.³

The hill to the east of Redtooth has a pair of cave entrances. The caves are deep and the subterranean passages are unstable. The complex is known as "the Beast".²

Notable inhabitants

See also: Category:Redtooth/Inhabitants

Duke Arvanoff Elvanna, the governor of the Verge as of 4713 AR
Lady Shenen Betyrina
Rogosh Vix, the captain of the Red Claws
Stanislaw Balk
Emylla Grigovych
Hanska Greyfox
Darrag Fabaravych
Colonel Holgr Yelizaveta
Koloman Velikas
Karel Karina

Organizations

See also: Category:Redtooth/Organizations

References

Paizo published a section on Redtooth, including a town map, in Irrisen, Land of Eternal Winter.

For additional as-yet unincorporated sources about this subject, see the Meta page.

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Prior to the publication of Monster Core, Paizo referred to witchwargs as winter wolves.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Mike Shel. “Irrisen” in Irrisen, Land of Eternal Winter, 32–34. Paizo Inc., 2013
↑ James Jacobs, et al. “Irrisen” in The Inner Sea World Guide, 81. Paizo Inc., 2011

[winterwolf-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Prior to the publication of Monster Core, Paizo referred to witchwargs as winter wolves.

[irrisen-land-of-eternal-winter-32-34-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 ^2.8 Mike Shel. “Irrisen” in Irrisen, Land of Eternal Winter, 32–34. Paizo Inc., 2013

[the-inner-sea-world-guide-81-3] James Jacobs, et al. “Irrisen” in The Inner Sea World Guide, 81. Paizo Inc., 2011

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