Sandpoint

Sandpoint is a small trading town in southwestern Varisia. Known as the 'Light of the Lost Coast,' It owes its allegiance to the city of Magnimar to the south.

Key

 * 1) Sandpoint Cathedral
 * 2) Sandpoint Boneyard
 * 3) The White Deer (tavern and inn)
 * 4) The Way North (map library)
 * 5) Jeweler
 * 6) Junker's Edge
 * 7) Gorvi's Shack
 * 8) Brodert Quink's House
 * 9) Locksmith
 * 10) Sandpoint Garrison
 * 11) Sandpoint Town Hall
 * 12) Savah's Armory
 * 13) Risa's Place (tavern)
 * 14) Rovanky Tannery
 * 15) Red Dog Smithy
 * 16) The Pillbug's Pantry (herbalist)
 * 17) Bottled Solutions (alchemist)
 * 18) Cracktooth's Tavern
 * 19) House of Blue Stones (monastery)
 * 20) Sandpoint Glassworks
 * 21) Sandpoint Savories (bakery)
 * 22) The Curious Goblin (bookshop)
 * 23) Sandpoint Theater
 * 24) Carpenter's Guild
 * 25) Sandpoint Lumber Mill
 * 26) General Store
 * 27) Turandarok Academy
 * 28) Madame Mvashti's House (historian/seer)
 * 29) Grocer's Hall
 * 30) Vernah's Fine Clothing
 * 31) Wheen's Wagons
 * 32) Scarnetti Mill
 * 33) The Hagfish (tavern)
 * 34) Valdemar Fishmarket
 * 35) Sandpoint Market
 * 36) Sandpoint Meat Market
 * 37) The Rusty Dragon (tavern and inn)
 * 38) Goblin Squash Stables
 * 39) Two Knight Brewery
 * 40) Sandpoint Mercantile League
 * 41) Sandpoint Boutique
 * 42) Fatman's Feedbag (tavern)
 * 43) The Pixie's Kitten (brothel)
 * 44) The Feathered Serpent (curiosity shop)
 * 45) Hannah's (midwife)
 * 46) Sandpoint Shipyard
 * 47) Valdemar Manor
 * 48) Scarnetti Manor
 * 49) Kaijitsu Manor
 * 50) Deverin Manor

Geography
Sandpoint is 50 miles northeast of Magnimar on the Lost Coast, nestled among rocky cliffs on the shores of a natural harbor. A stone wall and a gatehouse guards the entrance to the north where the Lost Coast Road enters the town. A ruined lighthouse - the Old Light - towers above to the northwest. A small tidal island, Stoot's Rock - now known as Chopper's Isle - abuts the town to the north just beyond the Old Light.

The north of the town is loosely termed Uptown. The denser section below the bluff upon which the Cathedral now stands is called Lowtown.

Smuggler's tunnels run beneath the town. The longest tunnel runs between the basement of the Glassworks and a cave northeast of Sandpoint overlooking a narrow beach on the Varisian Gulf. From the southern half of this long tunnel two other tunnels branch off: one leads east towards the Turandarok River, though it blocked by a rockfall after 400 feet; another, once bricked off, leads 50 feet west before turning north for another 100 feet where it leads to a set of catacombs.

The town's hinterlands contain outlying farms, scattered freeholds, buildings and far-flung manors, as well as goblin-haunted woods and marshes.

Trade
Sandpoint's industries include fishing, lumber, farming, hunting, brewing, shipbuilding, tanning, and glassmaking. Its closest trading partners are the cities of Korvosa, Magnimar, and Riddleport.

History
Before the town's founding, the small peninsula was a traditional winter encampment for Varisian natives who gathered under the shadow of the Old Light.

Founding
The Sandpoint Mercantile League, a consortium of four noble families from Magnimar, was granted a charter in 4667 AR by the Magnimar Charterhouse to settle the area. The League arrived at the promontory and small bay that would become Sandpoint only to find it occupied by a large group of the nomadic native Varisians who periodically wintered in the region. The League began negotiations, hoping to come to an agreement that would allow them to found a town upon the natural harbor where the Turandarok River met the Varisian Gulf.

Alamon Scarnetti, impatient with what he saw as the natives' unreasonable recalcitrance, organized an armed band of family members and raided the Varisian camp under cover of night, intending to slaughter the Varisians totally and make the massacre appear like a goblin attack. Fortunately the raid was a disaster - the Scarnettis were drunk and overconfident, and while they killed five Varisians, three Scarnettis lay dead before the rest fled in defeat.

The League returned in disgrace to Magnimar, where the city's Varisian Council demanded justice from all four families. Finally, the city's High Court mediated a peace agreement between the aggrieved Varisians and the League, due largely to the measured diplomacy, sensitivity, and humanity of the young bard, Almah Deverin. The agreement called for the official incorporation of the worship of Desna into the town's religious institutions, as well as regular payments for 40 years to the Varisian Council from a tax levied on Sandpoint's mercantile activities.

The period called for by the compact has passed, but Mayor Deverin pushed for the extension of the agreement by another two decades, a decision unpopular with a minority of the town's wealthy residents and merchants. Varisians and former Chelaxians/Magnimarians live in relative harmony, though the town's older Varisian residents have not forgotten the Scarnetti family's brutality.

The Late Unpleasantness
In 4702 AR, Sandpoint was rocked by a series of brutal murder/mutilations and a disastrous fire. Belor Hemlock brought the insane killer known as Chopper to justice, but only after Chopper took the lives of 25 of Sandpoint's residents, including then-Sheriff Casp Avertin. The fire utterly destroyed the chapel and damaged many of the surrounding buildings, claiming the life of then-priest Ezakien Tobyn.

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Goblin Raid on Sandpoint
In 4707 AR, a large band of goblins from all five local tribes attacked Sandpoint during the yearly autumnal Swallowtail festival. One group attacked the market square, while a small second band made a raid on the boneyard, making off with the remains of Father Ezakien Tobyn. A motley but nameless band of local heroes helped turn back the attack.

Plans detailing the raid were found in Tsuto Kaijitsu's hideout beneath the Glassworks.

Exploration of the smuggler's tunnels beneath the Glassworks revealed an ancient complex beneath the town, an ancient Thassilonian complex, partially collapsed. The complex was ruled by an insane quasit who summoned terrible, deformed monstrosities from a well glowing with collected energy.

Following a lead in Tsuto's journal, a small band of heroes, the same motley crew who turned back the goblin raid, attacked the goblin stronghold of Thistletop in a daring sea-borne raid, destroying the Thistletop goblin tribe. The heroes also subdued and captured Nualia Tobyn, who had planned to release the demon Malfeshnekor and destroy the town of Sandpoint as an offering to her goddess, Lamashtu. Though Nualia's ally Burthazmus was also captured, Nualia's confederate Orik Vancaskerkin negotiated a release for himself and for Lyrie Akenja.

The Skinsaw Murders
In late 4707 AR, soon after the defeat and capture of Nualia Tobyn, a series of murders plagued the town. Three notorious con men and swindlers from Galduria - Tarch Mortwell, Lener Hask and Gedwin Tabe - were slain in Bradley's Barn on Cougar Creeek. Their hired muscle, Grayst Sevilla, went mad after witnessing their slaughter and was dispatched to Habe's Sanatorium to recover his wits. Two days later, Banny Harker and Katrine Vinder were slain mid-tryst at the Sandpoint Lumber Mill. Harker's partner Ibor Thorn and Katrine's father Ven were early suspects. An investigation revealed that the victims had been ritually sacrificed, a sihedron rune carved upon their corpses, and that a ghoul or ghast was likelty the perpetrator.

Following up on the only surivor of the attack at Bradley's Barn, the heroes of Sandpoint traveled to Habe's Sanatorium to question Grayst Sevilla. Sevilla relayed a message from the Skinsaw Man that led the heroes to Foxglove Manor, where they finally confronted the Skinsaw Man.

Notable Inhabitants

 * Kendra Deverin, Mayor
 * Belor Hemlock, Sheriff
 * Abstalar Zantus, town priest
 * Titus Scarnetti, noble
 * Ethram Valdemar, noble
 * Lonjiku Kaijitsu, noble
 * Ameiko Kaijitsu, owner of the Rusty Dragon
 * Shalelu Andosana, ranger and scout
 * Brodert Quink, scholar and sage