Ayrie

Ayrie is a small township that sits atop the Draped Vale mountains. It consist of a main village with an attached temple, as well as a scattering of roosting towers used for spotting unwanted visitors (and nearly everyone is unwanted).

The population is around 400, primarily humans and dwarves, with one or two elves who serve at the temple. While they sometimes travel into the valley to obtain roots and seeds, the residents primarily sustain themselves on special thin air agriculture, only found in this part of the world.

The temple is dedicated to Saint Kaspar, the mysterious Dragon Knight who died under uncertain circumstances during the Age of Fallen Stars. Legend holds that upon being told of eir impending death by the Oracle of Hauser, Kaspar came to the ruins that predated the even that created the Draped Vale, part of a temple once dedicated to gods of air. Here e left a dozen dragon eggs, taken from the hatchery of eir regiment, so that the coming battle would not wipe the Dragon Knights from Kay Seif.

Many decades later a party of explorers investigating the valley would come upon the ruins and the perfectly intact eggs. They created a new order of dragon knights, and swore to protect those in trouble, while not pledging allegiance to any nation.