Smoke Homes

Government

The Smoke Homes lodges are the primary lodges of the Fraue and is the seat of their tribe's chieftain. Smaller lodges dot the landscape around the center of Tailté na Gréine, often constructed in key places for agriculture. While other tribes' minor lodges might have unique names, all the minor lodges of the Fraue tribe are called the Smoke Homes. While largely independent, all the leaders of the minor lodges do swear fealty to the Fraue. Often they come together for war or some other calamity, otherwise, they content themselves crafting wines and rearing livestock.

Demographics

The lodges of the Smoke Homes cover an area of approximately132 acres, over a series of homesteads, with a total population of 8000 people. The lodge has 1 Unknown. The peace is kept by 12 warriors on average per lodge.

Tailté na Gréine forms something of a bread basket for the greater inisa. As such, many tribes have a vested interest in stewardship. While it remains firmly in Fwoarian hands, many tribes have moved in among the Smoke Homes. However, the regions seasonal upheaval means that many of these settlements are prone to simply collapsing or being washed away. Even the land makes the region unexpectedly difficult. Thus, even the Fwoarians of the Fraue Lodge continue their cultural maxim of living life in as difficult a way as possible.

Industry & Trade

Industry and trade are still secondary considerations to the Fwoarians of the Smoke Homes. But, they see their needs met for tools and skilled labor in exchange for royal sums of alcohol and food.

The region is a fertile land for wines, livestock, grains and various economic necessities which the Fraue openly trade with other tribes. Various types of aquatic, agrarian foodstocks do very well in these fertile lands. Additionally, hunting and herb-gathering are easily done here.

Districts

Many of the smaller Smoke Homes are built upon areas of importance, on stilts in the low grounds or atop the various hills in the region as to avoid the flooding. This makes each of the smaller Smoke Homes something akin to a city district. Although, many are miles from the main Smoke Home lodge-grounds. 

The name is derived from the Fraue's talent at pottery. Using large buildings to house clay furnaces that they then use to transport wine and Serpent's Ale to the wider inisa. Some of the larger settlements have as many as a dozen clay furnaces that do not look much different than a humble dwelling thus making it appear as if all the homes are constantly emitting tall columns of smoke.

Infrastructure

Unlike many of their kin, the fwoarians of the Smoke Homes take to industry, if in modesty. Constructing mills, granaries, wine cellars, vineyards and stables across the entirety of Tailté na Gréine. Simple, but well maintained wood and stone buildings. Delicately decorated and often placed as to enhance, not augment, their surroundings.

Geography

Tailté na Gréine is mostly settled farmlands and hills with a few, thick flatwoods seeded between them. The roads are fair when they aren't washed out by storms and the sunlight and weather leaves the land often in a perpetual state of fecundity that is difficult to locate anywhere else on the Inis. The many hills here are slow rolling children compared to the Ardenroot mountains and gently sloped compared to the vicious and often cruel looking rocks jutting from Tailté na Bearú.

Sunlight and fertile lands with access to the Crescent Bay and the eastern coast mean that trade is desired and accessible to the wider Inis with the Bulthron and Doan Toor protecting the peninsula from the Caern-Raths further inland.

The Smoke Homes first appeared just before the Battle of Mel Hagga was decided. From then on, the fertile realm of Tailté na Gréine has been under constant contention from both human and Fwoarian forces. Many times campaigns from Manannan Port or Six-Bridges have been pushed by the might of a collective, well-supplied Fwoarian front. Things have long since settled down and many people from many tribes now try their hand at the trade of farming among the green hills. Little is more exciting for a traveling merchant than the sight of sooty smoke rising up from the many drying rooms the Fwoarians use to make dried meats and from where the Smoke Homes draw their name.