Mistfell

Motifs and Design of Mistfell

Design

Mistfell is intentionally designed as an antithesis to Gearford:

• Misttfell is nice to visit, but BORING to stay in. This point is critical as it is intended to drive characters out into the world!
  
  
• Gearford is an industrialized with a more traditional London with coal smoke and other air pollutants. Mistfell developed using water power instead. This allows Mistfell to develop with a more natural and harmonious in nature.  While there is some industry, the money makers of the area is in trapping, hunting, and forestry. When writing on the Mistfell area, This allows you to write in ideallic tones with hint of fairy tales  Seriously, watch Frozen and you'll get the right feel for Mistfell
  
  
• Mistfell is designed as a stable area within Antiford, mostly scarred by the revolution. Where Gearford fell into chaos, Mistfell royality,  House of Twyford,  were doing things right and was able to raise the Engineer family, The Wrathchilds, quickly.  For the average Mistfell resident, this was hardly much of a change as the Wrathchilds were in charge of every major royal operation as it was anyways. "Say hello to your new boss, same as the old boss".  With the Wrathchilds in a firm place of power, the worst of the revolution was kept out of Mistfell. 
  
  
• Because of Mistfell's location as a trade hub between Titiania and Antiford, it allows you to play with Yeti and Half-Yeti characters. Someone from outside the area should find it odd to see non-humans casually mix socially in Mistfell.  

Inspirations

Other material to consider referring to help draw inspiration when writing Mistfell.  

• Arendelle  (Frozen) 
• Helms Deep (Lord of the Rings) 
  
• Last of the Mohicans
• Rivendell (Lord of the Rings)
  
• Skyrim of Tamril (Elder Scrolls) 
  
  
• Game Of Thrones references perhaps?
  

The Characters from Mistfell

Gilbert Melker Wrathchild 
(Author's Cosplay Character)

The Head of the Wrathchild family and Author of pieces in the Antiford Libaray. Managing Partner of the Twyford-Wrathchild Mills. This corporation is a combination of the former royal family of Twyford and the intellect and business acumen of the Wrathchild family. Gilbert at heart is a tinker. This is a trait that runs in the family, and is apart of their success. Unfortunately, some of the things he's created has gotten him thrown out of Marx's Gadgets in Gearford. 

The Lady Jessica Marie Twyford -Wrathchild
(Author's Wife's Costplay Character)

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The Viscountess Doctor Maxwell Eva-Rose Twyford-Besswick

aka "Maxine", "Max", "Maxie"

Willoughby Wadewode Wrathchild 

aka "Will" or "Willo"

Willoughby has the family nack. And like many Wrathchilds of that age, he's extremely hit or miss and too tempting to tinker with a well oiled machine. For this very reason, Willo is kept out of the Mills. 

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Alaric Hobart Wrathchild
Younger brother to Gilbert, Married to Nora Divan
Father of Willo 
Accomplished Engineer

 
Nora Divan Wrathchild
Married to Alaric, 
Mother of Willo 

The Map of Mistfell

Mistfell Added to The Map of Antiford

Mistfell Map Overlaid on The Antiford Map

Location Details of Mistfell

Mistfell is named for the natural formation of mists that flow off the mountain into the city and surrounding area. Beautiful as the mists are, they are also a natural defense as it will constrain one's view to a short distance. Mistfell is used as the name for both area and the city proper, interchanged at will. 

On a map of Antiford, Mistfell can be found the Northern mountain range from approximately the 1/3rd mark on the rail line from Astam to White Haven. 

The city proper is settled a gorge in the mountain range formed by two rivers, The Elder and Younger Languda. These two rivers flow in a circular pattern from the mountain down through Titania in a manner similar to the structure of a fiddlehead fern. Heading through the range itself and carving out two easily defended natural passageways into the gorge on the southern side of the range. This provides the town with easy access to Titania and thus made Mistfell a hub of trade with the north. 

Between these two rivers in the gorge is where the city proper of Mistfell sits. Finally at the south of the gorge, the Languda rivers merge together into a natural opening. Over the many years and generations, a fortification has been built and extended over the river to the mountain on each side to protect the city.  Because of it's size and massive nature, it is known informally as The Giant. In surrounding the area to the south there are the Mistfell Forests. This is a dense area of trees which has been are maintained, harvested, and sustained over generations. This forest area supports several industries including trapping, hunting, and forestry. While a numerous types of trees can be found, the most prized are the tallest and straightest ones which are harvested for ship masts. 

Named for the ship masts harvested in Mistfell,  The Mast River is the Antiford name of the river leading out to the south of the city. The river then bending eastward along the mountain range out to the sea. Once past the Mistfell Forests, the land to the south of the river is naturally irrigated and then flattens out making it highly productive for farmland. While this is not a large farm area, the output of food supports Mistfell. The average harvest year might provide extra some coinage through export of surplus food. While the river is economically important, it has never been considered a water source for Gearford. This is due to the river's path drifting to the north of the capital and the shallow depth of the river results in a lower output of water.

A common site on the Mast River are several power powered mills. Over time this started with grist and saw mills. Overtime, paper mills and textile mills would be added to the mix. While majority of these mills are owned by the House of Twyford, the design and expansion of them over time has been due to the work of the Engineer Family of Wrathchild. This union between these two Royalty and Engineer families has been foundation of the area's wealth and stability in the area.  When the Gearford Revolution took place, The Twyfords quickly raised up the Wrathchilds in a stronger union and kept off the chaos saw in Gearford. 

One of the common practices in Mistfell is construction of Mast Barges. These barges are makeshift transports constructed from the mast size logs for the sole purpose to ship the masts and other products at the same time. When the products have been unloaded, the barge is deconstructed and masts floated to their ultimate destination. This practice emphasis Mistfell's ability to quickly ship items out. Over generations, the banks of the river have been straitened to make shipping commercial traffic easier. The result of this work is that today's river path only has 3 major bends.  While easy to ship items out, getting items into Mistfell is much lower and costlier as the only primary way in on within Antiford is a much slower dirt path on the south bank of the Mast River.