Red Tree Valley

Introduction
Red Tree Valley was a town in the Imperial Archonate of Viodoxa. Formally founded in the then still independent Duchy of The Isren Draca by it's Minister for Construction ericthener, by whom it's cobblestone-clay-brick style of architecture was designed. This trend became the driving building style in the once growing mining town.

The town's motto was "Let the wine and gold flow"

The town fell into disrepair and was abandoned. It was then repopulated by a new group of settlers and was renamed into Fjörgyien.

Economy
The economy of the red tree valley itself was not very big, account to its small population. It's former status as a mining town nonetheless means that its potential was fairly high. It also held the "South Cymru Bureau of Cartography" a club of hobby cartographers whose main project was to map out a comprehensible map of the whole of Cymru. The map shop just under to this bureau was constructed.

Pit
The pit was a stair-like hole, dug deep into the world until a good depth for all important minerals was reached. The step like structure made it possible to effectively mine on multiple heights, making it more cost efficient and long lived. In the pit, it was common to have mine shafts that extended for thousands of blocks in all directions, with multiple on every level and on every side, to further increase the cost efficienty.

The Cymru Mining Bond
For the usage and the further construction of the Pit's was a specific branch of the local and regional ministery of construction needed, for which the C.M.B. was designated. It generally held the responsibility for a smooth running mining economy in the Red Tree Valley.

Politics
The flag and general symbol of the town were it's red berries and especially The Red Tree, so those symbols, and the bioms general colours had their influence on the flag design.

The mayor of the town was Eric von Atlantisch (IGN: ericthener)

History of the Valley
The Red Tree Valley, named after the corrupted pine tree growing in it, was first populated by villagers migrating into cymru. They built crude cobblestone houses with pine logs as their roofs and did not pave their roads. For a long period of time, the valley did not change, led by a cult of villagers praying to the Red Tree. This changed when the first players arrived who plundered the town, and the inept villagers were not able to do much against it. This was for a long time the rule in the valley: Rundown ruins and no soul in sight. By the time that ericthener came across the valley, it was deserted beyond any measure. It being fairly even and not far away from the Castle of The Isren Draca made it an ideal place to start a much needed source of stone and other material needed by the then young duchy. The first pit's quick construction was a testiment to that.

The town was eventually abandoned and months later, the town of Fjörgyien was founded on it.

The Red Tree
The Red Tree was the most striking feature of the town itself. A tall grown pine, with red leaves and big, orange glowing berries growing on it. The ground around it was turned into netherrack over time and even the tree itself was not only growing leaves as if it came from the nether, but the original wood had also grown grotesque and warped. It mostly resembled a thicker crimson stem.

One old commandment of the trees old cult reads translated as follows:


 * 1) As bloody as the tree shines ours blood,
 * 2) As red as the tree is the sun rise and dawn,
 * 3) As orange as the trees fruit are our clothes,
 * 4) As veiny as the trees bark is our pork,
 * 5) As thirsty as his throat is "the rock" (in reference to an old sacrificial table made out of stone)