Marshford¶
Marshford is a town of the Kingdom of Arnyr in the Fourth Age, the home of the Marshford campaign. It "began as a fishing village, with a population around 250" (S361) and had grown to 1,500 before the plague (S359). At the campaign's end King Aderik Tugard means to make it "the Ducal seat" of "the newly formed Duchy of Westmarsh", with "funds to erect as suitable castle and temple for the growing town/city" (S359). It is not the Westmarches of far western Numenia.
The town¶
Marshford has a mayor, who issued a writ of authority for the priest Orrias to act as its diplomatic representative (S359), and a Temple of Kalar whose High Priest is Orrias (S359); the Kalari priest Gandry also serves there (S359). The druid Dingly keeps a druidic circle outside the town (S359); the nearest other circle is the Circle of Ruendor by Lauthdun, ninety miles away (S361). The lich pirate lord Koltric, "one of the 7 lords of Azmeran", "now resides in Marshford" after the party's hunt for his treasure (S361). A teleportation circle links the town to the Dragon's Lair, the Pits of Turis and the party's other haunts (S359).
The plague¶
The Pig-Pox cost Marshford 150 dead of 1,500 (S359). The first to sicken had been "selling silver goods in Dueneport", saw "a brief pulse of light, greenish colored" in the market, and fell ill "a day after I got back to Marshford" (S359). Dueneport is two weeks by horse, a week flying (S359). The plague and its cure are told on the Arnyr page.
Journeys¶
The Marshford Campaign began with a Shahaugin invasion, a shipwreck and a young kraken, hunted a pirate lord's treasure through Skullport, dealt with the elves of Elarin'Thalas and the green dragon Orphux, and rode 600 miles west to the Imperial Mint town of Vaal'dunak and the Pits of Turis on the strength of an Amarin trade ledger (S361). Four days of that road, 240 miles, lay inside Arnyr (S361).
Gap
The sources do not name the mayor, say where on Arnyr's coast Marshford stands, or describe the town itself beyond its temple, its circle and its size.