Forgotten Realms

Eveningstar is a modest yet vital village in northern Cormyr, nestled at the Starwater River’s ford along the High Road, where trade caravans, adventurers, and royal patrols converge. Though humble in size, it serves as a strategic waypoint between Suzail and the Dales, its peaceful fields bordered by the vast, mysterious King's Forest. Governed by a local lord under the Crown’s authority, Eveningstar thrives on its agrarian economy, producing wool, wine, parchment, and an abundance of livestock and vegetables that sustain travelers and nearby towns. A weekly open market draws merchants and pilgrims alike, while Purple Dragons stationed at Eveningstar Hall maintain law and order across the surrounding rural domain. While the village’s charm lies in its pastoral calm, adventurers often find themselves embroiled in local mysteries, goblinoid raids from the Stonelands, or strange happenings emanating from the forest’s edge or the nearby Haunted Halls.

Eveningstar is a picture of pastoral serenity: tidy thatched cottages rest beside blooming gardens, with stone walls draped in ivy marking gentle property lines. Chickens cluck and geese honk as they roam among vegetable plots and grazing sheep. The river glints beneath a sturdy wooden bridge, where fisherfolk cast lines and children skip stones. In the heart of the village, the Lonesome Tankard’s warmly lit windows spill laughter and fiddle music into the dusk. The scent of pipe smoke, baked bread, and manure hangs in the air, accompanied by the distant bleating of goats. Eveningstar Hall rises at the edge of the main square, a stout, timbered hall bearing the purple standard of Cormyr, flanked by an old watchtower and a modest jail. The mood is peaceful, if ever alert to the wilds beyond the fields.