Phandalin The Nerath Campaign & The Nerath Timeline The current year for our Nerath campaign is set during the year 103AE. Inspired By Gary Gygax

Phandalin is a settlement in Nentir Vale that enjoys much prosperity in the last decade. It was raided by orcs in 41AE and subsequently abandoned. It was eventually resettled in 61AE as a frontier settlement of farmers and prospectors. Phandalin is a modest and quiet town of farmers, woodcutters, trappers, and miners built atop the ruins of old Phandalin. The settlement quickly grew to about fifty well-maintained structures built of stone, lumber and flagstones with three deep wells providing water.

The town is dominated by an apple orchard on the west side and a ruined manor atop a hill to the east. The townsfolk congregate in a small town square and an adjacent town green. Phandalin is located in the southeastern region of Nentir Vale, nestled at the base of the southern Dawnshroud Mountains. It is southeast of Fallcrest where the road that ran from the Trade Road faded into the Triboar trail. This is a region rich with both natural resources and adventuring opportunities and is also quite dangerous.

The climate is temperate with an average yearly rainfall of 18 inches (46 centimeters). It does see snowfall during the winter months but not in abundance, the temperature does drop well below freezing through the colder winter months. For the most part, the settlement of Phandalin is a quiet, quaint and peaceful settlement. The inhabitants of Phandalin are very welcoming to outside traffic and especially adventurers looking for work.

When Phandalin was first reestablished, it had no real functioning government, and the Phandalin Miner's Exchange began acting as a center of records-keeping for local mining claims. It did eventually elect a sherrif and an administrator but Harbin says they both left town without giving any notice at all.

Now the townsfolk annually elect a "townsmaster" who serves as a judge and mediator as well as keeps town records who can be re-elected from year to year. In 101AE, Harbin Wester was elected as the townmaster. Harbin welcomes to Redbrands into Phandalin, telling the townfolk they are protecting the settlement and are a good thing for Phandalin. He gives them free rein in Phandalin and firmly believes they are what is best for Phandalin even though the settlements residents think otherwise.

After diminished faith in the abilities of a single townmaster to address threats to the settlement in the recent years, the townsfolk instead elected a three-member town council, consisting of Harbin Wester, Sildar Hallwinter, and Halia Thornton.

The local guard barracks and jail are located on the eastern side of Phandalin and is where the local militia are housed. Phandalin is a mostly self-sufficient town: it has enough small farmhouses to provide farming for the settlement and a few miners giving the residents everything they need to survive. Phandalin exchanges their surplus of goods for luxuries, trading with other communities of the vale.

Phandalin is adjacent to land which is good for farming and ranching, and is near enough to Winterbole to support a woodcutting and logging industry. Most of the wealth, however, is from mining in the nearby Dawnforge Mountains for gold, platinum, and cold iron. Phandalin was originally a farming community and a member of the Phandalin Pact, giving them access to the Forge of Spells and the mining operations in Wave Echo Cave to the east. However, when the orcs of the vale had destroyed all game in their realm, they went in search of food and turned on the human settlements in the area, raiding them. Phandalin was the main settlement that was attacked, and it was overrun and then abandoned.

The settlement remained abandoned for years. Roughly fifty years ago the area experienced an influx of tourists and adventurers. Beginning around 61AE, settlers from Fallcrest and Winterhaven began resettling the ruins of Phandalin, and the rebuilt town was well-established by the year 71AE.

Around this time, challenges befell the town. One was a group of bandits known as the Redbrands, or the Redbrand Ruffians, who settled in Phandalin, making their lair under Tresendar Manor. They were said to have committed several terrible acts, such as racketing local businesses, kidnapping over a dozen travelers to sell into slavery, killing the woodcarver Thel Dendrar for his defiance, and later kidnapping his family but none of this has been confirmed as fact, since no action has been taken by the townmaster. Unimpressed with how the townmaster, Harbin Wester, handled these challenges, the townsfolk restructured their government to include a town council which doesn't seem to be doing much better.

During 102AE, much of the mineral wealth that was expected to flow into the town failed to materialize. The town could go for months with no new income from the mining operations, and efforts to open the ancient mine at Wave Echo Cave were abandoned.

Notable Locations
• Stonehill Inn
• Smithy
• Phandalin Patisserie Shoppe
• Barthen's Provisions
• Phandalin Miner's Exchange
• Temple of Avandra
• Shrine of Luck
• Moneychanger's Shop
• Danley and Sons Inn
• Townmaster's Office
• Woodworker Shop
• The Sleeping Giant
• Lionshield Coster

• Tresendar Manor
• Edermath Orchard
• Phandalin Cemetary
• Alderleaf Farm