History of Stormvale

Stormvale was originally a small farming village just west of the Tsalagi Mountains in the time of Chaos.  Every year simple farmers would live, die and grow their crops.  Sometimes they would be robbed by ogres, other years there would be plenty.  It was a meager existence, but one that a person could live with.

When Peter, one day to be High King, was born there, there had been a happy peace for nearly three generations.  But Peter and his friends wanted to see action and thus set out on their adventure which led to the creation of Tridon.  When Peter did become High King he made Stormvale his capital because he loved his boyhood home.

Stormvale the city doesn't actually sit where the village was, but a little to the south of it.  (The Temple to the Gods actually sits where the village was.)  Most of the families who were originally from Stormvale became important figures in Stormvale itself and have a long history intertwined with the city.  Many of the public officials come from the original Stormvale stock, though all were displaced for awhile during the time of the Chosen.

The very heart of Stormvale is the original, small capital and many of the stone buildings bare some, if not all, their original architecture.  Peter had aqueducts and sewers put in, as well as magical stone lamps and wide lanes in the hopes his city would grow.  A wall originally went around the city, but as the city grew the wall couldn't keep up.  Thus the inner city has a wall around it, but each generation has tried to build a wall around the entire city and has yet to do so.