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The date of [[Fort Vehl]]'s founding is lost to time, but as with many places in the world, the location always seemed to be used for something. Submerged remains of huge dock pylons litter the bay's bottom, scattered like sticks in the hand of an overactive child by the strong undertow. From a study done by [[Layonara]] Surveyors, Inc. in 1437, at least five different types of wood are represented and the decay and location of the pylons indicates a spread of around six hundred years. Occasionally even older items are unearthed from the silt of the bay by a particularly violent storm. | |||
What records exist of Fort Vehl are contained in twenty-one thick volumes secured in the temple to [[Rofirein]], next to the temple's own four hundred years of recorded history. The eclectic collection includes [[wills]], deeds, several volumes of legal decisions from a fastidious judge two centuries dead, a sea captain's journal, news sheets and flyers going back several centuries. Also included are a sheaf of letters from a town gossip circa 1070 that laid waste to every reputation of the day with such erudite bloodthirstiness that even today they remain a thing of legend and have been reprinted twice ("Letters from Home, or Gossip in the Age of Law", 1344, publisher unknown, and "Peony Lamplighter; A Tongue Mightier Than a Sword", 1408, Brelin House Publications). One interesting bit of history revealed by this massive collection of miscellaneous parchment is that Fort Vehl was, for at least two centuries, an oasis of lawfulness in a sea of self-serving desperation thanks to one place: the [[dragon]]-carved Temple of Rofirein. | What records exist of Fort Vehl are contained in twenty-one thick volumes secured in the temple to [[Rofirein]], next to the temple's own four hundred years of recorded history. The eclectic collection includes [[wills]], deeds, several volumes of legal decisions from a fastidious judge two centuries dead, a sea captain's journal, news sheets and flyers going back several centuries. Also included are a sheaf of letters from a town gossip circa 1070 that laid waste to every reputation of the day with such erudite bloodthirstiness that even today they remain a thing of legend and have been reprinted twice ("Letters from Home, or Gossip in the Age of Law", 1344, publisher unknown, and "Peony Lamplighter; A Tongue Mightier Than a Sword", 1408, Brelin House Publications). One interesting bit of history revealed by this massive collection of miscellaneous parchment is that Fort Vehl was, for at least two centuries, an oasis of lawfulness in a sea of self-serving desperation thanks to one place: the [[dragon]]-carved Temple of Rofirein. | ||